Lab Rat | Umoji missions SC II: HotS Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Primary objectives:

Select a drone

Mutate a hatchery

Mine for minerals (300)

Mutate an overlord

Mutate a brooding pool

Mutate Zerglings (6 units)

Destroy gas turrets (3)

Destroy the exterminator

Secondary objectives:

Free zerglings from the enclosures (3)

Reward for the main objectives:

New Unit: Zergling

The initial mission of the Heart of the Swarm campaign is a tutorial of a kind that allows you to brush up on the basics of how to control units and build bases. You need to mutate the only drone at your disposal into a hatchery. After you are done here, you will receive another six zergs that you should immediately dispatch to mining for some minerals - you need to collect 300 units, in order to complete this mission. This is enough to mutate a larva into an overlord, and mutate a brooding pool. The final task is to create at least six zerglings - I recommend that you use up all of the resources available to you to create your first army.

It's the time for the newly created units to prove their value in the battlefield. The first enemy group [1] consists of five Sentry Bots. Since the robots are not too big, it is a good idea to divide your army into two groups and order each of them to attack a different target - thanks to this you will be able to eliminate the enemies without sustaining too heavy losses. Those players, who are a bit more lazy, may issue the command to attack and press onto the ground; this way zergs will finish out the enemy themselves. Regardless of the strategy you chose, you will be granted reinforcements after killing the robots. If your loses are too high, you can create new ones in your base.

In the meantime, you will receive your first secondary objective: you need to free zerglings from enclosures. In order to avoid loses, you should eliminate the Sentry Bots first, and then destroy the generator - additional units will soon come in handy during the encounter with the exterminator. In the lab, there are three enclosures that have been marked as [A] on the map.

In point [2] your further passage will be cut off by a cloud of poison gas. In order to get further, you will have to destroy three gas turrets - only then the door opens and you can proceed. Again, you can put zerglings into smaller groups and launch an attack on all three at once: if you attack as a one big group, most zerglings will not be able to reach the target and you will sustain unnecessary losses.

After you gather the entire party, you will be up for the last challenge in this mission - destruction of the exterminator [3]. It's a good idea to divide the units into three groups - with two smaller groups attacking the Sentry Bots, and the larger one attacking the boss straight away. After you destroy the exterminator. After you eliminate the guards, you can well strike, with the remaining groups, at the exterminator - it is the last enemy whose killing will complete the mission.