Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough Mission 8: Cutthroat

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Mission 8: Cutthroat

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 87

This mission is like "Devil's Playground", you need a bunch of minerals and there's a bunch of them everywhere, but it is timed.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 88

Build a reactor and 2 medics or just go for 2 medics and then attack the marines here. You can completely skip making SCVs this mission.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 89

You will get 4 vultures ~2 minutes into the mission.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 90

With a few marines, the vultures and the 4 medics you should be able to take out the command center over here.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 91

Make sure you also pick up the protoss artifact over here.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 92

The command center drops 400 minerals when destroyed.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 93

Go around the map picking minerals up and make a few marines but don't spend your money too much.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 94

You can go around your base as shown on the minimap and when you reach the other entrance to your base, where your vultures were left off you will find the other protoss research, make sure you get that.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 95

Go south and destroy the other command center.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 96

That should allow you to get the minerals required, but unlike "The Devil's Playground" the mission does not end here.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 97

Another artifact here.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 98

After you've gotten the minerals, you will be given control of this quite large base.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 99

Grab your army and start moving out. Make sure you continue building marines/medics/diamondbacks from your base while continuing.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 100

Be careful as the AI will launch a nuke over here.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 101

After the nuke has landed, you can slowly start going forward towards the command center. After it is at ~10% HP, you will complete the mission.

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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough - Starcraft 2-Wings-of-Liberty 102

After the mission, you should get the vespene speed upgrade.

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