Mission 2 - Ghosts in the Fog | Prologue - Whispers of Oblivion SC II: Legacy of the Void Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Main objectives:

• Destroy the entrance to the temple.

Side objectives:

• Destroy 3 rock formations.

Reward for completing main objectives:

• New mission unlocked.

Reward for completing side objectives:

• Additional gas income.

You start with a small base, modest army and a complete lack of gas sources. The latter will appear regularly in [X] locations marked by the game in the quantity from one to few hundred pieces. Sometimes gas will appear in one place, other times in few places at once. Most of it will be guarded by enemies. If enemy units are not to be found in the location, then it means sooner or later they will appear there. Enemy cannot collect the gas, so you don't need to hurry with obtaining it. Resources that are thrown once will be waiting for you to collect them. What's important - only land units are able to gather the gas. You can combine them with the aerial ones, but the latter will be acting only as support.

Limitations in the gas supplies can seem to be troublesome, but due to the lack of time limit for completing the mission, you don't have to worry too much about that. Focus on upgrading the base and mining resources while creating a small army. When an eruption occurs, send the army for the gas and destroy all enemies on your way. Gather the gas, return to the base, use the resources you collected for improving. Repeat until you gather strong enough army to attack the temple[1]. Enemy attacks will be rare and weak, so your army will take two roles - of the attacking group and a mobile defense of the base. This will save you the trouble of placing turrets. You can place few photon cannons at both entrances to the base, but during most of the time they won't have who to face. If you worry about the safety of your base, leave few units there, for example 10 stalkers and zealots. They should deal with most dangers.

The further away from the base you are, the greater the enemy strength will be. But if you have focused on upgrading the base and gathering gas whenever you had the chance, you will be able to destroy any enemy group no matter what size is it. Just remember that your army should consist of at least few units able to attack aerial targets, you will be facing them from time to time.

Around the sixth minute you will receive information about 3 rock formations [2-4] scattered through the mission territory. They are protected by small enemy groups, including few sentries. After destroying them, you will be receiving gas supplies. The supplies will be small and not frequent, but regular. It is a good idea to collect the one closest to the base in first order and the remaining ones can be collected while clearing the map of enemy bases and units. The formation on the east [3] is behind a cliff and will require you to use stalkers or aerial units.

You will find many Tal'Darim outposts on the map. They consist of turrets and small unit groups. You will also find single bases of various strengths [5-9] and the main one protecting the entrance to the temple [1]. In some bases ([5][6]) the enemy is mining resources, other ([7-9] consist only of production buildings. The further away from your main base, the defense of these bases will be stronger. But it will not be strong enough to be a problem for your armies. If you are be gathering all of the gas available on the map and mine as many minerals as possible, you will always have an army that is stronger than anything the enemy can use to attack you.

The main enemy base [10] will welcome you with solid fortifications and large number of scattered units. The turrets can be found both at the entrance and deeper inside. You can take care of them, but the mission requires you only to destroy the entrance to the temple. You can destroy the fortifications at the entrance, ignore the production buildings, make your way to the temple and destroy its entrance.

In this mission you have access to almost all protoss units, so it would be a good idea to mix cheap zealots and stalkers with dark templars, colossuses and carriers. Thanks to that you will create an army capable of dealing with any threat. Don't forget also about regularly upgrading weapons and armor of your army. The mission can be completed while having only one base, but in case of depleting the resources in the main base you can gather resources in points [5] and [9]. Don't worry about the gas, its sources on the map are unlimited.