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Go straight to work building up your base. Fortunately, it is already well-established, and there's plenty of room for you to work. As resources allow, set up Sunken Colonies at all three choke points leading into your territory, and build still more Spore Colonies, if only to slow the enemy. Climb the technology tree, research your choice upgrades and technologies, and as soon as you can afford to, expand to the south using a Drone and an escort of Hydralisks and Overlords. Be ready for enemy attacks from predictable directions. DuGalle likes to attack with his air force, Mengsk prefers to use a loathsome combination of infantry (including nuclear-capable Ghosts) and tanks, and Artanis will send all manner of ground and air units against you. Still, your Hydralisks and Sunken Colonies can stop them all, and you'd be especially wise to quickly hatch several Defilers, whose Dark Swarm can be of great benefit as you defend.

Use Hydralisks and clusters of Sunken Colonies to defend your position as you build up.

Hatch some Queens and use them to explore. You should expand again to the north when you can, again by sending Hydralisks with your Drones. Then you may wish to expand east of that location. Your four bases should provide you with plenty of resources, but they will be difficult to defend because you'll have to spread your forces thin. It is imperative, then, to use Sunken and Spore Colonies to do most of the work.

You need to attack in huge numbers, so that you can compensate for the opponent's impeccable reflexes with sheer numbers.

Link your bases with Nydus Canals, then organize a force at your first expansion to strike the Protoss first, after which you will move counterclockwise around the map, destroying DuGalle's base, and finally Mengsk's. Executing this order is, of course, rather difficult and very deliberate. You may not need to expand again. You may not have trouble defeating your enemies. You will encounter nothing in this mission that you haven't seen as you fought your way to it. The only difference is that demolishing your enemies takes longer here than it might have in the past.

Try to work your way steadily into the enemy base rather than charging right in, and force his units to come to you.

Nevertheless, if you proceed shrewdly, scouting your enemy before you attack him and using combinations of ground and air forces with your Overlords, Queens, and Defilers for support; and if you accept that you will suffer substantial losses, but will have enough resources to make up for them; and if you know that the enemy will not concentrate his defenses as well as you concentrate your attack, then your victory, in this final show of your military superiority, is practically assured. Note that you will not need to destroy every enemy structure on the map, but merely the core of your enemy's bases. When all three of your foes are defeated, you will have won the Brood War through a hard-fought battle.

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