help with brutal mission:engine of destruction

What do you guys to do finish engine of destruction on brutal?

atm I'm thinking of redoing the campaign so I have different tech during this specific mission; wraiths just don't work at all.

for example, on brutal the bc's have 5 armor...so the wraiths are only doing 5 dmg to it per missile. in other cases where i send the wraiths ahead stealthed to take out priority targets (medivacs, siege tanks)- the ground attack makes them very inefficient at it. pressed on time and resources makes it vital what units I make or weapon/armor upgrades I research.

would a combo of viking/banshee work better?

Hey give me a moment ima run through it (the way i did last time) and give you a lay out or replay to show how it went out. It was pretty easy last time i did it.

Man i forgot how annoying that mission was...ok so here is the lowdown for what i did When you first start out it is pretty straight forward now when he gets into the odin this is where it becomes fun. Wraiths have 2 missile's per atk so when they do 10 dmg vs armor per attack they are doing 20 dmg as a whole now since the BC has 5 armor in the brutal campaign they only do 10 dmg per volley at a rather fast rate also. What i had done was get a bunch of wraith/viking combo for air support. As for the ground i threw in alot of mercs and marine, rauder, medic. That worked really well vs most targets and it is pretty spammable with just 2 racks though 3 is recommended and always keep your economy up and going as since you need the minerals all game. Mercs are life savers though as since they do additional dmg as compared to thier regular counter parts and can tank quite a bit.

You will want a healthy amount of wraiths though for stealth ground/air support and about 6-8 vikings did me fine so dont spend to much and 6 of them where the merc vikings. Always keep at least 3 scv's nearby so once the odin gets low you can repair him quickly as they will try to beat him down as much as possible but dont be afraid to use him as meatshield. His attack is extremely powerful so dont be afraid to sit back and watch him do some carnage just keep him supported and kill any flanking units. In the last base it gets fun because they start hitting you with stuff that hurts I.E. the yammota cannon this is where all those wraiths (at least 12) and viking's come in handy. Also you only need 1 starport but 2 helps a bit.

As for base defence, the bunker and 2 siege tanks will do just fine as since they do alot of dps as a combo and just keep 2 scv's nearby to repair dmg'd units and dont forget to use mules!!

When I beat this mission I didn't use wraiths at all but its possible. I used 2 bunkers at the front with 3 siege tanks to stop attacks which some to come by air. I primarily made science vessels and supplemented with vikings and banshees. The only real problem is the last run threw on the final bases which is hard because the odin's health drops really fast, so I go ahead sometimes and clean up the ground with banshees and swing in with vikings to snipe individual bcs.

Hope this helps :)

Mass wraiths... it was easy. :/

Just had a tank, bunker and a few spider mines to hold the base and had SCVs to repair both wraiths and the Odin. Spent the extra minerals on marines.

mass wraiths...how do you deal with scv's being targeted by the comp? do you send in wraiths first to snipe stuff?

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mass wraiths...how do you deal with scv's being targeted by the comp? do you send in wraiths first to snipe stuff?

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Basically used the wraiths to snipe key targets before the Odin even engaged, tanks etc. And the Odin killed the rest. After a while (since you haven’t lost any wraiths) you hit a critical mass of wraiths and they along with the Odin kill everything. I just replaced lost SCVs (I did take the northern expo too).

I don't think i ever reached a "critical mass", but I managed to beat the mission.

had to dance around the map counter attacking teams of ravens, banshees and vikings...THEN take out bc's before they yamato odin; I just sent everything i had defending the base to assist as well.

I would go banshees and vikings. I haven't played this on brutal yet, but every time I can't get through something, I go Vikings and Shees, and it usually clears up.

that may have made this mission easier, but I played this mission really early on, so I did not have access to vikings, banshees or fusion reactors yet. Wraiths work surprisingly well in large numbers. also pairing them with banshees makes an interesting combo.

not that i think wraiths are awesome; vikings perform better

I had fusion reactors but didn't have vikings yet I don't think. If you don't you can float a starport over to the first area that Odin attacks and sometimes get lucky and attack it to one of the fusion reactors that the CPU had. I found I had a ton of minerals so I built a couple of barracks w/f.reactors and spammed the fuck out of marines. They ate up a lot of initial damage while Odin owned shit. I tried using vultures a few times as well since I could spam spider mines all over the place.

Make sure to have a command center ready to take the expansion as soon as you clear it. It makes a huge in the production rate. It did take me several attempts at doing it on brutal though. I did it once with banshee / wraith combo as well but it felt a lot harder doing it that way since it was so gas intensive.