amazing work! Saved me hours of trying to desperately survive off one base MMraven. I do have to say, the fast expand plus the specific order of capture was vital, the unit comp really doesn't matter. I did it first with siege tank goliath but I did it a second time with MMR (my go to comp when I want to be braindead) and it worked out fine enough, the only issue is that I had less minerals to repair, but that really didn't matter.
Great video. I can't stress how long I avoided this achievement due to its difficulty. And all other videos were just too hard. I got the achievement easily following your walkthrough. Well done, Sir. And thank you.
I saw a small issue with this. You had a bunker defending your expansion & you didn't remove units from that. The marines might have killed one or two units. Other than that everything else seems fine.
Logan Velez yes that is a very good point! Well, a good edit would be to remove those marines first. I did get the achievement still on the previous round of playing with the same strat atleast so hopefully it is helpful for everyone! 👍👍
This is exactly what happened to me and those Marines in My bunker accidently killed one of their units that I had accidently lured to The expansion.... Wasted so many hours on this just trying to figure out where the Hell that mistake had happened, but finally managed to find that right save file....so ye anyone who is still going for this should pay very close attention that at no point Taldarim units that passes by your expansion (just lure them away with SCvs or with some other units ) do not get killed. So far I have to say I was propably annoyed by this achievement More than any other in SC2 since its so easy mistake to happen...
good tip, i did this on a clockwise manner from your starting point, free 1st base, 9 oclock 11 and 12 before ending in the middle, had to repeat 5-6 tiomes, because of stray stalkers and zealot hahah
Can confirm that you don't need maxed army. I did it with ~140 supply in 25:12. Your forces will die but the extration process will end before the infested can kill the extractor.
I tried 3 other video strats the others were high maintenance and required perfect timing yours gave so much room and was so easy to do I almost forgot how hard it was.
I had an issue where my base died, and a few taldarim rushed my army while I was doing the last objective... I was pissed. Also, you can wall the beginning of the attack using other buildings, meaning scv can repair the wall until taldarim send the second wave (second wave targets repairing scvs). my army was goliath based, so I will try again with a compo closer to yours. Do you know if this achievement is possible with marines only? (lower cost) edit: fun fact, you can stall the protoss waves to the extractors indefinitely, if you do not expand and do not kill the nydus worms. if their route crosses the b2, they will try to attack indefinitely the zergs, which will always respawn.
i did it in brutal and i had to distract protoss units with ~100 depots to not attack their destination. also on brutal you are only allowed to lose 3. it was one of the hardest achievements in starcraft 2 combining every campaign. i also did it in 20 minutes 30 seconds game time. also if you play it on brutal build 5 nukes so you can fastly roam through the enemy holds. you need to clear them VERY FAST. i played it mainly with ravens and falcons, didnt play goliaths. for base defense, i used marines and bunkers. after the protoss attack i moved every marine out of the base so i don't kill the attacking protoss forces. the last two terazin stations were the most intense. if you really want to win on brutal you need to bait the protoss into getting the terazin station on the top left. depending on what you extract, the protoss will move to DIFFERENT locations! keep that in mind. it took me 4 hours...
Man, this timing thing is my pain in the ass. In the end I've tried countless times with every possible combination. What worked was stalling the protoss with buildings long enough for my mass goliath and few siege tanks to clear the areas and hold them. Upper left gas extraction was especially infuriating. My macro as well as micro is utter garbage.
This achievement was TERRIBLE. Thank you for your advice. After dozens of saves, and much frustration, I finally got the achievement, seconds before my last structure was destroyed.
Spent 10 hours trying to do this on brutal, got pissed one shot it on hard. Then went back to brutal and annihilated that bitch protoss base with 10 nukes. great times
i'm not as good as you so i had a really hard time for the last time because i lost firepower along the way.. i built a eng bay, and send all my scv to build turrets around the last terrazine, was able to get it.
î really did not enjoy this campaign. The balance and mission descriptions were so odd. You had to reload so often and play and play and play missions over and over again. One time so you actually know what to do. One time for bonus objective and normal difficulty. One time to fullfill the hard difficulty achievement, since most of the time they were exclusive to the normal one. I dont know what blizzard was thinking. I beat every campaign on brutal, did most of the achievements. But i quit playing this pack in this mission, as i dont have the nerve to do it over again. Also weird that the "themed" unit for the missions are most of the time just bad. After realizing how bad banshees were, "what mothership" was really easy after i switched to full goliaths. I dont like this normal>hard>brutal replaying stuff. Either a mission concept allows to do it inclusive bonus objevtice and all achievements on highest diffculty or not. Thanks for the guide though.
yeah i know what you mean , some campaigns like Heart of the Swarm the difficulty is a joke compared to WOL but then again i beat WOL several times on brutal but these covert ops time achievements are super annoying , especially when her healing abilities are quite limited.
@@gubbica99 agreed so far I have found these covert op achievements on hard to be most annoying ones....like here Its dl freaking easy to accidently kill one of the Taldarim units If you are not paying attention....I accidently had lured one of them to My expansion and Marines in bunker killed IT.....had to use quite lot time trying to find the right save to fix this..... Also the Mothership one was also annoying but eventually got it by building several nukes that helped immensly, not just with clearing bases of detection but at the end with weakening Mothership. Anyhow this annoyed me most of all, cause it was such small mistake that cost me so much Time trying to find where things had gone wrong.... Anyhow the main campaignd had mostly much better designed achievements, although both Hots and LoV felt somewhat easy compared to WoL.
@@Balnazzardi Blizzard changed owners over the years , you can clearly see how each SC 2 expansion plays and somewhere in 2016 Activision took most of Blizzard. I gave up on SC 2 and we wont see any decent campaign in the future from Activision.
amazing work! Saved me hours of trying to desperately survive off one base MMraven. I do have to say, the fast expand plus the specific order of capture was vital, the unit comp really doesn't matter. I did it first with siege tank goliath but I did it a second time with MMR (my go to comp when I want to be braindead) and it worked out fine enough, the only issue is that I had less minerals to repair, but that really didn't matter.
Great video. I can't stress how long I avoided this achievement due to its difficulty. And all other videos were just too hard. I got the achievement easily following your walkthrough. Well done, Sir. And thank you.
Thank you! And great to hear, glad this video was able to help you!
Brillant. I Finals made it.
I saw a small issue with this. You had a bunker defending your expansion & you didn't remove units from that. The marines might have killed one or two units. Other than that everything else seems fine.
Logan Velez yes that is a very good point! Well, a good edit would be to remove those marines first. I did get the achievement still on the previous round of playing with the same strat atleast so hopefully it is helpful for everyone! 👍👍
Wish I would have saw that earlier lol! 😂
This is exactly what happened to me and those Marines in My bunker accidently killed one of their units that I had accidently lured to The expansion....
Wasted so many hours on this just trying to figure out where the Hell that mistake had happened, but finally managed to find that right save file....so ye anyone who is still going for this should pay very close attention that at no point Taldarim units that passes by your expansion (just lure them away with SCvs or with some other units ) do not get killed.
So far I have to say I was propably annoyed by this achievement More than any other in SC2 since its so easy mistake to happen...
Thank you! Finally got it
No problem, I’m glad you got it!
good tip, i did this on a clockwise manner from your starting point, free 1st base, 9 oclock 11 and 12 before ending in the middle, had to repeat 5-6 tiomes, because of stray stalkers and zealot hahah
Can confirm that you don't need maxed army. I did it with ~140 supply in 25:12. Your forces will die but the extration process will end before the infested can kill the extractor.
Nice!
I tried 3 other video strats the others were high maintenance and required perfect timing yours gave so much room and was so easy to do I almost forgot how hard it was.
That is awesome!! I’m glad I could help 😄👍👍
Thanks for this guide!
I had an issue where my base died, and a few taldarim rushed my army while I was doing the last objective... I was pissed.
Also, you can wall the beginning of the attack using other buildings, meaning scv can repair the wall until taldarim send the second wave (second wave targets repairing scvs). my army was goliath based, so I will try again with a compo closer to yours.
Do you know if this achievement is possible with marines only? (lower cost)
edit:
fun fact, you can stall the protoss waves to the extractors indefinitely, if you do not expand and do not kill the nydus worms. if their route crosses the b2, they will try to attack indefinitely the zergs, which will always respawn.
Ooh interesting tactic
Thanks! I finally get this achievement
i did it in brutal and i had to distract protoss units with ~100 depots to not attack their destination.
also on brutal you are only allowed to lose 3.
it was one of the hardest achievements in starcraft 2 combining every campaign.
i also did it in 20 minutes 30 seconds game time.
also if you play it on brutal build 5 nukes so you can fastly roam through the enemy holds. you need to clear them VERY FAST.
i played it mainly with ravens and falcons, didnt play goliaths. for base defense, i used marines and bunkers.
after the protoss attack i moved every marine out of the base so i don't kill the attacking protoss forces.
the last two terazin stations were the most intense.
if you really want to win on brutal you need to bait the protoss into getting the terazin station on the top left.
depending on what you extract, the protoss will move to DIFFERENT locations!
keep that in mind. it took me 4 hours...
Dang!!! You beat this mission on Brutal?!? That is crazy, good job! Haha 4 hours, but what matters is that you did it :D
lol 4hrs. It'll prob take me 4 days if i'm lucky
Still counts!
Damn, thats dedication.
Man, this timing thing is my pain in the ass. In the end I've tried countless times with every possible combination. What worked was stalling the protoss with buildings long enough for my mass goliath and few siege tanks to clear the areas and hold them. Upper left gas extraction was especially infuriating. My macro as well as micro is utter garbage.
3:37 wait you actually can stack the depos ????????? :o
This achievement was TERRIBLE. Thank you for your advice. After dozens of saves, and much frustration, I finally got the achievement, seconds before my last structure was destroyed.
Spent 10 hours trying to do this on brutal, got pissed one shot it on hard.
Then went back to brutal and annihilated that bitch protoss base with 10 nukes. great times
i'm not as good as you so i had a really hard time for the last time because i lost firepower along the way.. i built a eng bay, and send all my scv to build turrets around the last terrazine, was able to get it.
I think there is a bug in this achievement. I am extremely confident I did not kill any of them and I still do not get it
I believe it, bugs are so annoying..
Still working after 4 years !
WIth expo on start it's soooo easy ;) 200/200 in 13th minutes ;)
Nice, I bet that worked great!
@@Unrated7 but Blizz servers are down :D what a bad luck. I did save :) I hope it works
@@vartanpl Oh shoot! Yea I hope so too!
Lol imagine doing this but not noticing ur on normal haha couldn't be me
I did it without expanding I just floated buildings and let them kill my base :)
Smart move!
It’s a tight composition of Goliath, libs and ravens for the bio heals but it worked!
î really did not enjoy this campaign. The balance and mission descriptions were so odd. You had to reload so often and play and play and play missions over and over again.
One time so you actually know what to do. One time for bonus objective and normal difficulty. One time to fullfill the hard difficulty achievement, since most of the time they were exclusive to the normal one. I dont know what blizzard was thinking. I beat every campaign on brutal, did most of the achievements. But i quit playing this pack in this mission, as i dont have the nerve to do it over again. Also weird that the "themed" unit for the missions are most of the time just bad. After realizing how bad banshees were, "what mothership" was really easy after i switched to full goliaths.
I dont like this normal>hard>brutal replaying stuff. Either a mission concept allows to do it inclusive bonus objevtice and all achievements on highest diffculty or not.
Thanks for the guide though.
yeah i know what you mean , some campaigns like Heart of the Swarm the difficulty is a joke compared to WOL but then again i beat WOL several times on brutal but these covert ops time achievements are super annoying , especially when her healing abilities are quite limited.
@@gubbica99 agreed so far I have found these covert op achievements on hard to be most annoying ones....like here Its dl freaking easy to accidently kill one of the Taldarim units If you are not paying attention....I accidently had lured one of them to My expansion and Marines in bunker killed IT.....had to use quite lot time trying to find the right save to fix this.....
Also the Mothership one was also annoying but eventually got it by building several nukes that helped immensly, not just with clearing bases of detection but at the end with weakening Mothership.
Anyhow this annoyed me most of all, cause it was such small mistake that cost me so much Time trying to find where things had gone wrong....
Anyhow the main campaignd had mostly much better designed achievements, although both Hots and LoV felt somewhat easy compared to WoL.
@@Balnazzardi Blizzard changed owners over the years , you can clearly see how each SC 2 expansion plays and somewhere in 2016 Activision took most of Blizzard. I gave up on SC 2 and we wont see any decent campaign in the future from Activision.