Waking the Ancient | Zerus missions SC II: HotS Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Primary Objectives:

Feed the Ancient (7)

Brakk can't destroy 7 units of Quillgor matter

Kill Brakk

Secondary Objective:

Absorb the primal essence (3)

Reward for the completion of the Primary Objectives:

New unit: Mutalisk

Reward for the completion of the Secondary Objective:

+3 to Kerrigan's level

Start the mission as usual - by building up your base: create as many drones as you can, send some of them over to mine for vespan. There is a new unit that you are going to have access to - the mutalisk. This creature is what will form the hard core of your army - you should keep creating new flying units at all time. When it comes to troops, you will well do with a small group of hydralisk and zerglings (10 and 20 units respectively should be enough). They will be protecting the drones as mutalisks are exploring the map.

Once you secure for yourself a constant influx of new units, you can turn to Quilgors [A]. you will encounter the first group at the beginning of the mission - you only have go there, kill the animals and order a drone to go there and gather the meat. Remember to protect the defenseless zerg at all times. After the drone is done, it will automatically take the meat to the Ancient one [X].

You will receive the whereabouts of further Quilgor [A]. Your task now is to gather the meat from all six animals and protect the carcass from Brakk's soldiers. I recommend that you leave small defense group in the base (you can also create spine crawlers) and Kerrigan accompanied by hydralisks and zerglings should start gathering meat. Mutalisks can focus on the map exploration and countering Brakk's attacks.

In order to complete the secondary objective you need to harvest the primordial essence. It is located in three heavily guarded locations [B] - you will have to send mutalisks to each one of them and have Kerrigan pick up the collectible then. In the meantime, you can also complete the mission necessary for the Rude Awakening achievement. Originally, the hives start the game in locations marked as [C], but they are self-propelled and it is possible that you will have to comb through the entire map to find them.

Before you collect the last hunk of meat, you should restore your army and save the game. You are going to need at least, 20-30 mutalisk, 30 zerglings and 10-20 hydralisk. You will be attacked by Brakk - just send your entire army against him and watch your army defeat the primal zerg. . In case of any problems, you can use your kinetic blast against the enemy - this inflicts enormous damage and you can use it exceptionally frequently. Brakk's death means the end of this mission.