Mission 7: Drawing of the Web

Conditions for winning

• Get Duran to each beacon
• Duran must survive

Conditions for losing

• All your structures are destroyed
• Duran dies

In this mission, defend your main base from attacks with Colonies, but send a small strike force to each beacon to scout or secure it. If you need minerals, there are minerals to the immediate northeast and southwest of you, and these should be enough to build up a solid force of Zerglings, Hydralisks, and Mutalisks.

Send them around the outer perimeter of the map, destroying Protoss establishments, but don't venture into the main Protoss base in the center of the map, as that place has a lot more defense. Once you've secured a beacon, transport or move Duran to it, keeping in mind that he can cast Lockdown and Cloak, so use those to your advantage against Dragoons.

When you've cleared all five beacons, a charge will be set and will explode. The key to this mission is playing defense until you have a large force to launch against the beacons in one fell swoop.