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Mission 5: The Battle of Braxis

Overview
You must efficiently manage a limited number of units, including Dark Templars, Zealots, Dragoons, and Scouts, and later, High Templars, Reavers and Arbiters, to work through a puzzle-like Terran installation in an effort to destroy five increasingly well defended Power Generators.

Possible Expansions
You have no base for this mission, although you will receive unit reinforcements at your starting position whenever you eliminate a Power Generator.

Key Points
Carefully scout as much of the area as you can with your Observers, making sure not to get caught by the abundant Missile Turrets. Don't worry if you lose some units over the course of this mission; you'll be reinforced. At the same time, this mission can be managed such that you suffer little or no casualties. It is important to micromanage your forces here. If they wander off even slightly, they can get themselves killed.

Brute force can see you through this mission, but careful tactics can see you through it with no casualties at all.

Walk-through
Place your Zealots in one Shuttle and your Dragoons in the other. Deliver your forces near your westernmost Observer, where you can deploy them safely in the absence of Missile Turrets. Advance slightly north with your Dragoons and Zealots and eliminate the Turret there, then use your Dragoons to kill the two Turrets on high ground along the eastern wall by spotting it with your Observer. Two Bunkers lie ahead, but you needn't attack them. Now that you've cleared the ridge, use your Shuttle to drop your Dragoons where those two Turrets used to be, and move them east. Don't even bother to attack the Missile Turrets along the way, ignore the Bunkers on low ground, and go straight for the first Power Generator, which you'll be able to hit from high ground without fear of retaliation. Once it's destroyed, all nearby Missile Turrets will power down. One down, four to go.

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