StarCraft: Brood War/Zerg Mission 5: True Colors


 * Location
 * Korhal


 * Difficulty
 * 7 out of 10


 * Mission Objectives
 * 1) Destroy the enemy bases.
 * 2) Kill Duke.
 * 3) Kill Fenix.


 * New Unit
 * Zerg Lurker


 * New Enemy Unit
 * None


 * Special Units
 * Norad III (Duke's enhanced Battlecruiser)
 * Fenix (enhanced Dragoon)

Walkthrough
You will start with a large base surrounded by Protoss and Terran Bases. Build as many units as you can and send them to destroy as many structures and units as you can. Attacking the Terran Structures are easier than the Protoss because Terran Structures burn down if their health reaches the Red Points.

You may need to deploy up to 15 Scourges as you can before 6 minutes is up. You'll need them for the Battlecruiser counter attack. This may not be essential, as the enemy may instead use Ghosts with nukes (although they do not cloak early on.) In either case, be sure to have a supply of sunken and spore colonies while building up forces. Now you need to kill time for six minutes.

For those six minutes, you should tighten up your base's defense, launch an attack on the Terran's north side base with all your initial forces (12 Zerglings and some Hydralisks). Wipe out whatever you see except the Terran's command center (make sure you clean up the whole base, or else computer will send up and SCV to rebuild the base). Then, build a queen's nest and spawn a queen. Capture the command center with your queen, then move it to your own base. Time's up when you fly your infested building on the way to your base. Make good use on the suicide guy by either attacking or defending your base. Burrow the guy outside of your base on the west help a great deal in taking out the siege tank in an assault wave.

After six minutes have passed you should be prepared for the combined Protoss and Terran counterattack and Duke and Fenix will arrive at the battlefield. To kill Fenix use the Spawn Broodling ability to kill him in one attack and to deal with Duke use up to 15 Scourges as you can to destroy his battlecruiser. After killing the Special Units attack both Terran and Protoss bases with many units as you can. From here, you are on your own.

Blue Protoss base
For the Protoss, about 36 Hydralisks fully upgraded focused on few Reavers in their bases. Make sure you are paying attention and looking out for those Reavers and Archons, to avod significant losses. After destroying all of their base and Fenix, you can build an expansion of a few hatcheries to set up as a staging point for the Terran base.

Red Terran Base
If you defeated the Blue Protoss base first, you can use their former base as a staging area for attacking the Terrans. Rally all hydralisys and mutalisks in the area; you will need a very large army, including 12 guardians and 48 hydralisks (and overlord support to detect cloaked units). They can be attacked from behind to eliminate most of their infrastructure.

Do not forget that there is a Turret in the middle of the map guarding a single geyser.