Mar Sara Mission 2: The Outlaws

In this mission, you'll be expected to maintain an economy capable of producing units.

Still, it's not too difficult of a mission, and you don't have to worry too much. Even the achievements are reasonable.

Achievements:
The Outlaws: Complete all mission objectives in "The Outlaws" mission.
Cash Reward: Collect all Mineral and Gas Pallet pickups in "The Outlaws" mission on Normal difficulty.
Be Quick or Be Dead: Complete "The Outlaws" mission on Hard difficulty in less than 10 minutes.

Of the three, the last one is probably the only one you should have trouble with on Brutal. The Dominion forces will assault your base pretty aggressively, so you will want to build up your forces quickly.

In addition to the marine, you now have medics at your disposal.

You will start the game with some SCVs by your command center. Get them to mine minerals immediately. I personally like to split them into 2 groups, one for the top and others for the bottom. (Rather than letting them auto-mine.) I like to think it gives me a couple extra seconds of mining. :) Queue 2 SCVs in your command center, and direct it to minerals as well. (Right-click on the minerals)

With the marines you have above your base, immediately start heading up. There will be a couple pallets that give you 100 of each resource. Score!

Start building a techlab on the barracks you start with. A techlab costs 50 minerals and 25 gas, leaving you enough to produce a medic as soon as it is finished.

You want to end up with at least 15 scvs on minerals to maintain your army growth. Try to have 1 SCV queued until you get there.

Don't get supply locked. For this mission, try to stay at least 5 supply above your current count at all times. Before the tech lab finishes, pull a SCV off your mineral line and build a supply depot. Each depot provides 8 supply for additional units.

After the techlab finishes, you want to queue a medic immediately. Once your supply depot is done, send your SCV to build a barracks.You'll want to have 4-6 barracks producing marines constantly, once you get your economy rolling.

Pull another SCV off your minerals and start building a Vespene Refinery. He will start harvesting gas as soon as the structure is finished.

 

Now, the key to building your army efficiently is to create more units without queueing more than a single one at each building at a time. Otherwise, you are wasting minerals that may be better spent on additional barracks, or increasing your rate of mineral gain by making more SCVs.

If you have the money for it, stay on top of your supply, and build more barracks for additional troop production. Around this time, 6 or so Dominion marines will attack your base. Keep an eye on your medic, and you should be fine. On brutal difficulty the computer AI places a high priority on healing medics and repairing SCVs. After you fend off the attack, send your forces North of your base. You will find a few marines and a medic guarding some mineral pallets.

After you kill the Dominion forces and collect the minerals, you will want to make your way down the path. Don't forget to queue more units while you do this. It is essential that you maintain your troop production. Queue them to your current location, or better yet- queue them to one of your medics. This way, reinforcements will always come directly to where your army is. Don't forget to maintain your supply depots!

 

You will be alerted of a rebel base that is being attacked by the Dominion. Rescue them, and you'll get some extra troops and another barracks to produce out of. There are two groups of marines blocking your way.

It's inevitable that there will be troop losses, but if you try to pull back the ones that are injured, it will make a very significant difference, especially with medics. Rescue the rebels and they will join you. Collect the 4 resource pallets in this area. You will most likely be hit by a Dominion assault of a medic and some marines around now.

Move your army forward, and they will be greeted by 4 Dominion Hellions. You should not have too much trouble with them, as long as you have 10+ marines with medics. (Are you remembering to produce units?)

If you are playing slow, you may be hit by an Dominion assault while you are moving forward. If it looks like you'll lose, pull back to the rebel base. The higher ground grants you an advantage.

After the hellions, you want to have at least 15+ marines in your group before you tackle the bunker. Otherwise, you'll take too long bringing it down, and you'll most likely lose more troops than you want to.

Once you bring down the bunker and the marines inside, approach the Dominion base. You should notice that the Dominion forces are rallying at the opening of their base. To make the battle MUCH EASIER, initiate the attack, but right after that, pull back a bit. The Dominion marines will follow you, but their annoying medics will stay behind, allowing you to pull them down with ease.

After that, you want to destroy the buildings as fast as you can, starting with the barracks on the left. Each enemy unit that is produced will slow down your attack. But beware: There is a siege tank on the right side of the base, above their factory. It will do a lot of damage to your clumped army. Either stay out of range, or attack it head on and deal with it right away.

Clean up any remaining buildings and you're done with mission 2!

This game I played rather lazy, and I got 10:02 on brutal. If you decide to play more carefully than I did, getting the under 10 minute achievement is very doable. You can always replay the mission later on a lower difficulty to get any unclaimed ones.