Starcraft: Remastered - Episode I - Terran - Mission 10: The Hammer Falls (Perfect) [4K 60fps]

[@davidcerutti8795]

I've made a lot of attempts at this one since I got back into SC I recently. I've gotten as far as one structure lost (couldn't find the Ghost fast enough and a nuke got through to destroy a Missile Turret). What I do is expand very fast, taking advantage of the long lag time before the enemy begins to attack. I immediately begin making a new Command Center, which is finished about the time the supply cap is first reached, and I don't stop building workers for some time. I send the new Command Center northwest to the central expansion, with a Barracks going down in its former place in my home base. I levitate the Barracks and send it north up the far eastern edge of the map to the ridge expansion. Once it lands I begin to build troops while I've got a second new Command Center (three so far) in the works which will follow the Barracks and land near the geyser, making an SCV when it first lands. The SCV will build a bunker to house the troops, then a Missile Turret or two, then venture a little further out to provoke the loitering Battlecruiser and have it attack the hardened base. With two SCVs to repair the turret or bunker, the Battlecruiser will die. Meanwhile I arrange for a Dropship through a Starport, Siege Tanks for defense, and construct a few Science Vessels and the Battlecruiser fleet like you did to smash red. Probably what I should do is make some feints against white first to provike his Ghosts into counteratacking against a fortified line of Siege Tanks. If I venture too far with my SCVs at the central expansion, one of red's Science Vessels may pay a visit with Irradiate to kill it. The counter is to have plenty of Missile Turrets ready to block that from happening, but it's dicey. If an SCV does get zapped the only chance is to Defense Matrix it and then Defense Matrix a second SCV to conduct repairs, but it can be saved with perfect micro. Then, one really just needs to be ready for the nuclear strike that white will inevitably launch. Often works very well, and I've done it with no units lost, but I haven't quite scored a perfect yet.

[@ChaoticKey29912]

"It appears that General Duke activated Tarsonis's primary defensive weapon the Ion Cannon." To bad it doesn't do anything.

[@cruzjohnalexandert.2254]

Well, it's better for the cannon to function like that rather than to have a countdown timer before it destroys your entire base or at least some of your units. Duke's men are already a pain in the butt to begin with. Hell, I can't even get all the achievements in Starcraft 2, ESPECIALLY ON TIMED MISSIONS.

[@shawnrichards8865]

Great job Master KD I always enjoy watching your strategies on this

[@timeytimes]

Nicely done. I've always struggled with this one, but I was able to apply some elements of your general strategy for this mission, and have had a much easier time since. I still stay the hell away from the white base though!

[@jgatchaljgatchal8350]

I like the sneaky second base. I would have thought the red battle cruiser would have seen you.

[@Phineas5580]

I remember I always nuked by ghosts during this XD

[@TheThundercool]

good memories, it took me a while to realize how to deal with that.

[@deleny7850]

Se ve de puta madre, es una lastima que ya casi ni queden jugadores online :'( Gracias por subirlo en 4k, y una ultima pregunta, aparte de las 2 misiones ocultas, hay otras mas?

[@vincently1995]

Awesome!

[@grandace2]

"Who called in the fleet?"

[@shadowprince4482]

Now I know why I struggled with this level so much. It's because I'm a terrible player. 😅

[@Falchion1984]

After much diligence and thorough painstaking analysis, I have found the one flaw in this game: Mengsk says "sewn" when it should be "sown". ...hey, it's classic StarCraft. That's was the only flaw I could find. Damn, but I loved this game when I was a kid.

[@shawnrichards8865]

Can ghosts be helpful for this and battle cruisers too

[@whicked_stone7566]

Nukes. Lots of nukes

[@NicoMartok]

Ghosts are annoying as hell. I'm glad you ended this with a mass Yamato Cannon.

[@MasterKD]

I almost botched that. Didnt expect the BCs to bring the ion cannon's HP down so low

[@shawnrichards8865]

Oh and for a recommendation should you bring tanks to help with the big waves

[@MasterKD]

You really don't need to. Mass BCs is already invincible and enough to crush everything

[@shawnrichards8865]

@@MasterKD thanks I enjoy your tips and recommendations the campaigns in brood war also teach you which units are the best to crush everything too like counters

[@shelteringmars391]

Very well done, MasterKD! Much better than your first walkthrough, in the SD version of StarCraft. This is the exact way developers wanted this mission to be professionally played. The usual players tend to build a whole army to attack and take the red base (Elite Guard) first. However, that's actually what is NOT meant to be done (it's a waste of time, resources and, usually, units), since the recommended path is to take the much safer and strategic expansion located at the 3 o'clock position. That 3 o'clock expansion is so good that if you take good control over its platform/ledge, you can prevent the white base (Alpha Squadron) from attacking you at all: to the opposite side of the vespene geyser, there are minerals. What I do is build six to seven tanks, siege them near the mineral crystals, and put a Science Vessel at the northern extremity of the ledge, to permanently watch that path to the lower bridge of the white base. When the horde of terran ghosts and tanks pass through that area to attack our main base, they are destroyed by my tanks and can't attack or nuke any of my structures. The Science Vessel is a necessity in the expo, since it sentinels that area and can matrix-defense my tanks, in case they are attacked by any of the white base units over the ledge.

[@jmdusk4492]

He MasterKD why dont u use Ghosts to Target Nukes

[@nguyengiakhanh5381]

i forgot howw much dame the yamato gun does :))

[@drake565]

I hated this mission, still do.