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Today I tried taking on the Hard difficulty AI and eventually surrendered. I used my usual Stalker spam strategy but by the time I actually launched an attack the AI had a stronger force and could defend itself pretty easily. It didn't strike back right away and I tried building Immortals, Void Rays, and eventually Colossi to get back into things. It led to a pretty stalemated game where each of us kept repelling the other's attacks but lost so many troops in the process that we couldn't really capitalize on it. One mistake I made was not using any troops that don't take Vespine Gas, which caused me to have a lot of extra minerals in comparison.

In the campaign, I did one mission where you're on a planet that's completely overrun with Zerg and have to use Medivacs to fly around the bulk of the enemy forces and take out your objectives. It was a little difficult to control the Medivacs well enough to land troops close to enemy anti-air without putting them in range, and I lost my medivacs at bad times on one or two occasions. I also used Vikings to defend them against enemy fliers.

There's another mission where you race the enemy team to 6,000 minerals. It introduces the Vulture bike unit, which is a classic from the first game. It's a ground-to-ground unit with high movement speed and burst damage. It can also drop mines, but I didn't really use that. I liked the premise of racing another player to a set amount of resources, though, especially since one strategy is just to charge in and destroy the enemy's mining operations.

I finished up with Zeratul's third mission, on the now-abandoned Protoss homeworld. I guess it was the site of a big climactic battle in the first game. The corpse of something called the Zerg Overmind is lying there and Zeratul's goal is to communicate with it psychically. That one was pretty cool. I liked seeing the hidden observers come to life to help Zeratul out, as well as the idea of Colossi that hid underwater and emerged to fight with him. I failed the mission once by losing my hero unit. I just wasn't paying attention to his health because he seemed so overpowered. You have to alternate between pushing into enemy territory and defending against big attacks, but since the enemy incursions are highly telegraphed (there's even an exact timer telling you how close the next one is,) I just marched my whole army out and then pulled back when there was about a minute before the next attack.

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