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"Mission Overview:
It's nearly time to take out the Confederate base at Tarsonis, but to break through defences you must plan carefully. General Duke has devised a plan to attack the central of the three primary orbiting platforms. These platforms serve as staging areas for the Confederate fleet, so a sufficent attack on one should cause enough of a panic to allow a small force of troops to penetrate to the planets surface.

Mission Objectives:
-Eliminate the Confederate Forces
-Duke must survive

Special Unit:
-Duke (Battlecruiser with Yamato Gun)

New Unit:
-Battlecruiser
-Ghost
-Nuke

Battle Strategy:
As this mission begins, all your units are craammed onto a small platform, along with all your buildings(which are hovering). Load your SCV's adn Marines into Dropships. Then group the Wraiths with Duke and move them left to the deserted base. Once there, have your air force take out the Confederate Marines and Firebats dotting the area. It shouldn't take much to clean them up.
Move your structures to a new base, placing your Command Center in between mineral fields and Vespene Geysers. You can land you buildings beside add-on buildings such as Machine Shops and Nuclear Missile Silos for instant upgrades. Immediately get your SCV's gathering while you create Siege Tanks and Marines.
After you've sorted out what buildings go where, move your air units to the raised area above your base. You can also add a few Bunkers and any Siege Tanks you create, so they'll be in place for your slow, grinding assault across the central portion of the map.
Tip: Yamato Gun
The Yamato Gun on Dukes Cruiser is a devastating weapon that can take out a Missile Turret in one hit. It can also do enough damage to a building with one hit that the building, if Terran, will burn down and eventually explode. It's an impressive weapon that can make your life much easier. Manny use the Yamato Gun as just a Turret killer, but it can be much more.
Build up forces as you did in the last mission, three large groups of Siege Tanks, Goliaths/Marines, and Wraiths. Move these groups up the central and left portions of the map where you can capture vast Mineral and Vespene deposits. If you build Command Centers near these new deposits, you can speed up your defeat of the Confederates.
This is the first mission where you get to use Nukes, and if you build plenty of Command Centers around the extra Mineral deposits, you can have extra silos. Several Confederate installations on this map have closely grouped buildings, Perfict targets for the awesome power of a nuclear device. Use a cloked Ghost to get in close with a target, then let nukes go. If you can follow up with a mop-up force, you can take out the entire base in a short period of time. Still you dont need to use nukes to win the mission. A slow assault with Siege Tanks and aupport forces works just as well.
Note: Using Nukes
Use a Ghost to move close to a target, then select the Nuke and you'll notice that target is "painted" with a laser beam (a red dot). It takes about 10-15 seconds for that Nuke to hit, so keep your Ghost cloaked.
After you capture other mineral deposits and knock the first Confederate base on the platform, the others will fall with help of Siege Tanks and Nukes. This mission can take quite awhile, but you'll have fun. After you take the base just above your own, most of the Confederate Forces lie entirely along the right (East) side of the map.

Resource Management:
The key to winning this mission is to secure the Mineral Fields and Vespene resource pools above and on the left (West) side of the map. Building Caommand Centers near these areas to rake in more Minerals is critical if you want to win by overwhelming the Confederate Forces."