StarCraft/Tutorial: Boot Camp

Tutorial

Welcome to the Terran Walkthrough

Before the campaign actually gets under way the game provides an optional tutorial at the beginning of the Terran campaign. After the briefing in which the 'secretary' relates the details there appears an extra button near the button labelled 'Skip Tutorial'. If the player chooses that option the tutorial is bypassed and the first actual mission of the Terran Campaign begins. The requirements of the tutorial are quite simple and designed to simply get you familiar with the basics of unit movement, resource gathering, and construction. The objectives read: Construct 3 supply depots and Construct a Barracks. It is very difficult to lose the tutorial and you will never do so from being attacked by the enemy. Indeed the enemy consists entirely of scattered Zerglings around the map which in this case is a space platform.

When the game starts you will notice that you have a small number of SCVs and eight marines. Get to work immediately gathering the provided minerals with the SCVs and begin construction of a few more. Continue putting the SCVs to work mining as they appear. To pass the time until you have sufficient resources to construct the three supply depots and barracks select the marines and go Zergling hunting. You will likely lose a few marines doing this but as you will not need to worry about home defense there is no need for concern about this. The marines during this mission will occasionally talk to you and give you hints as to how best to direct them.

As you get past 100 minerals pull one of the SCVs off of mining in the mineral field and send it over to begin building a supply depot. You can build it anywhere around your base although to avoid clutter it is recommended you try to build it away from your SCVs working. In order to construct a supply depot select your SCV and click on the basic build button at the bottom of the command selection screen in the bottom right corner. The Supply depot will then appear in gold in that same window for you to select and place. Two more Supply Depots will be required before you will fulfill that requirement. After you have the supply depots wait for 150 minerals and construct the barracks in a similar manner wherever you like. Once the Barracks are completed you will be greeted with the mission completed screen. Congratulations on completing the tutorial.