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    Terran Campaign: Episode I
      1. Wasteland
      2. Backwater Station
      3. Desperate Alliance
      4. The Jacobs Installation
      5. Revolution
      6. Norad II
      7. The Trump Card
      8. The Big Push
      9. New Gettysberg
      10. The Hammer Falls
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8. The Big Push
Prepare for a grueling battle. Fly General Duke's Battlecruiser and your Wraiths from your starting position a short way's to the west to find an ideal location for your base. Land each structure beside the appropriate upgrade and fly in your troops with your Dropships. There are plenty of resources at this base, and you have two Command Centers at which you may collect them, so get to work building SCVs and generating revenue. Begin upgrading infantry and vehicle weapons and watch for enemy strikes. General Duke will be instrumental in dealing with the enemy in this mission - his mighty Norad II Battlecruiser is incredibly powerful. Send it back for repairs after every sortie.

Position Bunkers on high ground on either side of the ramp. Fill them with Marines and station Siege Tanks behind them. Place Missile Turrets beside the Bunkers. Use Vultures to mine the area in front of this choke point and position SCVs in the area to repair anything that takes damage. General Duke should oversee this choke point and help deal with any enemy strike forces. Meanwhile, position Missile Turrets along the rim of your base to deal with any enemy Wraiths. Build another Factory, an Engineering Bay, and an Armory and begin upgrading your weapons. Research every available upgrade from your Science Vessel's Covert Ops and train several Ghosts. Place them in Bunkers to protect them. Research Cloaking Field and Apollo Reactor from your Control Tower and build fleets of Wraiths. Hold your position and scout the immediate area with General Duke's flagship, using its Yamato Gun regularly to destroy enemy Missile Turrets. Prioritize the ones southwest of your base. Escort the Norad II with Wraiths to provide support fire. When resources allow, prepare a nuclear bomb at each of your Nuclear Silos.

 
General Duke leads a small but deadly strike force as it prepares to destroy the remains of the Confederate outpost
There is an enemy base to your immediate west, just past your Bunkers. This will be the first to fall. You may either attack it directly with Siege Tanks, Marines, and Goliaths, or use your Ghosts to bring it down with Nuclear Strikes. So long as you eliminate any Missile Turrets in their immediate vicinity, your Ghosts will always succeed in dropping nuclear bombs on the opponent. Make sure and eliminate any Missile Turrets in the enemy base by any means necessary, then clean up with your Ghosts. Watch out for enemy defenses on high ground; Cloaked Wraiths are useful in dealing with these, but the enemy will use a Scanner Sweep to reveal them (you'll see blue sparkles on the screen to indicate a Sweep). When this happens, simply pull them back and attack a new target. Continue using hit and run tactics with your Wraiths until the enemy runs out of energy for his Comsat Stations, at which point you can attack without fear of retaliation.

Once you've razed this base, establish your own and gather the remaining resources there. Build a Comsat Station and use it to identify a small enemy presence to the northwest. It guards a huge patch of resources, but you will not necessarily need to expand to that point. Set up a Bunker, a Missile Turret, and Siege Tanks beside the Vespene Gas geyser to seal off that choke point. Line this new base with Missile Turrets and continue spreading outward, destroying enemy Turrets and using hit-and-run tactics with your Wraiths. You'll eventually find the remaining enemy presence at the northeast corner of the map. Nuclear strikes will prove effective once again as well as using a squad of Siege Tanks. Send the General and a fleet of Wraiths along to defend your tanks from enemy Battlecruisers and use your Siege Tanks in siege mode to rain death on the base from high ground. Bring SCVs along to conduct repairs. Use the Norad II to crush any Missile Turrets, then eliminate the remainder of the base with nuclear bombs. Use Scanner Sweeps to reveal the remainder of the map and systematically eliminate any remaining enemy structures.



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