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Since what little gas you have must go primarily towards building attack units, Sunken and Spore Colonies will have to handle the defense. Fortunately, these only cost you minerals, and it's not like you'll run out of those anytime soon. The Protoss do attack in fairly large waves (expect Carriers and Reavers from the very beginning), so you need a dense defense network. By the end of the mission, you should have about 50 Colonies defending your base(s); again, you need this many because you need to save the units for attacking. When building static defense, make sure the Colonies are in positions to defend each other—for example, don't build three Sunken Colonies in a location where they can't be covered from air units by Spore Colonies, and try to ensure that any enemy attacking one of your Colonies is fought back by both the one under attack and at least two additional Colonies. | Since what little gas you have must go primarily towards building attack units, Sunken and Spore Colonies will have to handle the defense. Fortunately, these only cost you minerals, and it's not like you'll run out of those anytime soon. The Protoss do attack in fairly large waves (expect Carriers and Reavers from the very beginning), so you need a dense defense network. By the end of the mission, you should have about 50 Colonies defending your base(s); again, you need this many because you need to save the units for attacking. When building static defense, make sure the Colonies are in positions to defend each other—for example, don't build three Sunken Colonies in a location where they can't be covered from air units by Spore Colonies, and try to ensure that any enemy attacking one of your Colonies is fought back by both the one under attack and at least two additional Colonies. | ||
Luckily, the yellow Protoss will usually only attack you with air units, namely Scouts and Carriers. This should make your defense network easier; once you take out the teal bases on the east and the west, you will only need to worry about Spore Colonies. Any ground attacks can be dealt with your existing units. Build them all around your base and any expansions you secured. | |||
[[Image:SC Full Circle Static Defense.png|thumb|right|All this is only a part of the defenses you'll need.]] | [[Image:SC Full Circle Static Defense.png|thumb|right|All this is only a part of the defenses you'll need.]] | ||
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==Clearing the lower half of the map== | ==Clearing the lower half of the map== | ||
Two Protoss bases lie to each side of your base, and this is where most early attacks originate from. Whacking them will give you a significant amount of breathing room. But more importantly, they have gas geysers! Even if they're depleted, that's still more than what you would be otherwise getting. | Two Protoss bases lie to each side of your base, and this is where most early attacks originate from. Whacking them will give you a significant amount of breathing room. But more importantly, they have gas geysers! Even if they're depleted, that's still more than what you would be otherwise getting. | ||