Can You Beat StarCraft: Brood War Without Losing A Unit? 

45:00 "I think in the chaos, Orange doesn't set his own base... as his base." Thanks Brood War AI, very cool!

Wait, Patreon members didn't understand the Overmind cannon rush?! That crucial piece of Grant lore? Preposterous!

"Age of mythology deathless doesnt seem that bad now" The mummy: We'll see.

"Hello everybody and welcome to pain." That's how you know this gon' be good.

Had to say outloud, as you got to Return to Char "Is he going to cannon rush the Overmind AGAIN?"

The solutiom for True Colours is honestly briliant. Didnt think it was actually possible to completely gut a base in the sneak mission. Legendary.

Have you considered simply not losing a unit? Much easier

gotta love how every mission in brood war is actually super creative and unique, even the missions where you just have to eliminate the enemies have some fun twists to them (like the sneak attack in true colours or being surrounded on three fronts in omega)

That one marine with red hp passing by an army of zerg, just booking it to press ESC on the self-destruct.exe without slowing down because there's a zergling on his ass. I feel for Maurice the Marine

Love seeing how the Zerg campaign takes over half the video. This is going to be good

7:40 "OOOOR" You're not a protoss player if you don't cannon creep. Wonderful stuff, Grant.

Cannonrushing the overmind, a scandalously good sneak attack route, completely breaking the AI, and completing all of starcraft. A Giant accomplishment, if you will. Now if only the SC1 vid was in the deathless playlist, that would be perfection.

Ahh brood war. The campaign where the computer opponent just ACTIVATES and starts getting good

This video is more than a challenge run. It's a celebration of an achievement and persistence. Well done on the insane run!

"I hope Microsoft makes a starcraft 2" absolutely killed me well done this video was incredible

7:40 No....he can't be. There's no way he's doing that agai- You absolute madlad. It's a shame the early access peeps didn't get the bit at the end of the Terran mission.

Mengsk getting actively senile as each mission rolls around is so funny to me for no apparent reason.

40:50 Grant taking pleasure of the only time he can use a Zerg Queen to kill the last unit.

@17:01 I love the Dr. Seuss tribute

Fun fact about the second mission, Dunes of Shakuras: The trigger for the Zerg AI to begin is triggered by owning both a Nexus and a Pylon. You can mine out your entire base as long as you only build a Nexus.

I love how you literally invented new speedrun tech because the old tech wasn't working for you.

12:55 I cannot believe you even CONSIDERED using your last drone to make a building!

Fun fact about Cerebate killing: The triggers _can not_ actually check who does the killing blow. Instead, there is a simple trigger that respawns the cerebrate building. It is disabled if a Dark Templar is roughly in the area. So no reason to hold back the rest of your forces. Once the DT are hugging it, the Cerebrate is dead. You could do a "no melee" challenge and still beat the Cerebrates both times.

Zealot: My Life For Aiur! GiantGrantGame: Stay in the shuttle, it’s not safe buddy

Age of Mythology deathless you have my condolences may the RNG gods favour you because the in-game-gods will try their best to destroy whatever is left of your sanity after this run e.g. fighting against Zeus with the Lightning Bolt spell/miracle

The old Protoss waddle never fails to bring a smile to my face. Look at them go!

My God dude, did you just completely debunk and create a brand new speedrun route just to beat the game deathless on True Colors? This is the 2nd time you’ve done this too, with the discovery of the Trigger Break from no production SC2 all that time back. Mad respect. You are an absolute legend Grant, you got me back into StarCraft after quitting the game years ago and I thank you for all the creativity and innovation you continue to bring to this aging dinosaur of a franchise. Please keep doing more of this. I still want you to make Merch tho, I’d kill for a punny GGG’s t-shirt

Fenix: " You won't find me easy prey..." Zerg Queen: Hold my beer 🍺

19:45 "Sir, what are your orders!" "All weapons on that Battlecruiser!" "Sir he is retreating, should we target a new enemy with the armada?" "No, send everything to attack that single ship!" "Sir, I don't think that is a good idea, there are 18 battlecrusers firing against us!" "I will not be stopped, not by you, the confederates, the protoss or anyone, now kill that singular ship!" "But sir, why that one in particular?" "...He stole my sandwich..."

OH MY GOD I was just rewatching your deathless sc1 playthrough and lamenting that there wasn't a brood war one, I'm so glad to see this, thank you!

The literal disrespect to the overmimd with that second cannon rush.

i love your commitment to the static defense rush against the overmind

Yup, that's two campaigns done! Surely the video is close to an end? Right? ...R-right? It's always a good day when Grant uploads these videos, I can't get enough. Also, loving the little detail of mission info getting shown on those "consoles" that are similar to the current campaign faction.

**blows through terran and protoss campaigns** Oh, that's looking good. **Zerg comes up** Alright. **there's still another half hour left** ...oh no

54:22 *Microsoft makes a SC2*. I didn't even notice that when I heard it and it took me a bit to get that perspective rollercoster. Well played

for what it's worth, i got your reference to the AMAZING "i canon rushed the overmind, he ragequit and didn't even gg" from the previous video! ... however, having never played starcraft 1 with anyone else (i legit didn't even know it was a pc game for 10+years, i grew up playing it on n64) I didn't even know you could static rush with anything but photon canons... so i missed that part of the joke >< It was super cool to hear you in the gdq run! I thought you guys all did a great job, and the run was fun! (i may still be telling my friends about the new canon of kerrigan being the nicest person ever... "abusing power' indeed ^^)

"Age of mythology deathless doesnt seem that bad now"] Gargarensis: You will regret that.

you know it was hard when he starts thinking about age of mythology deathless XD

Goddamn that sneak attack routing... magnificent.

I hate to be one of those guys, but I think Grant made the Countdown harder for himself than it should've been. As an upstanding Random Person on the Internet™, I loaded the game and tried it myself. In the end I could beat the mission without losing a unit with the following composition: 24 scouts, 3 corsairs, 200+ photon cannons. As much as people like to meme on scouts, they are actually quite good in a couple of situations. First, they take 3 scourge hits to go down, and with their speed upgrade, they actually outrun the scourge and provide plenty of room for micro, being also able to return to base to refill on shields. On top of that, a control group of scouts with +3 attack is fairly decent at focus-firing any hydras, spore colonies, queens, mutas and guardians, struggling really only with ultralisks, which fortunately never learned to jump and chew on the Golden Armada's hulls. 3 corsairs also can disable up to 6 spore colonies or other high-threat targets if needed. Otherwise, they are not very useful since scouts are still better at dealing with air units. But the meat of this strategy is, of course, the photon cannons. Grant for some reason refused to get and fortify more bases, which I think was the biggest mistake, and also most of his minerals went into scarab production. The one and only thing that can threaten a base surrounded by photon cannons (even more exposed ones), is guardians. And besides the fact that often guardians are stupid and fly into cannons on their own accord, you may have guessed this already - scouts absolutely pulverize guardians. So, I used scouts and corsairs to defeat Red, surrounded all my bases with copious amounts of cannon, sniped any guardians with scouts, and the zerg couldn't even get close to the temple or any of my other units. ... ... ... And I still had to reset a couple of times because of defilers.

31:08 I still love internet explorer jokes 🤣

I like how you, despite having beaten all of SC2 deathless, and then WOL again with everything you'd learnt, and gone through much of SC1, still find ways to improve. Though its unfortunate your soul had to suffer so much to accomplish it. I'm willing to donate my soul if you need a transplant.

I think for Zerg Brood War mission 6, holding up the Player 5’s (Orange) Zerg Wave until they despawned (and maybe killing the Lurkers too) messed with all the switches in the mission’s triggers for Player 5. Normally, Orange destroys the northern towns, then an Area Town trigger for the northern towns that is ALSO paired with the Main Town AI Script activates through series of switch triggers (this holds true for Brown Player 6 for the southern towns). Some switches normally clear, some are set, some are cleared by others being set, and others set by being others being cleared (there’s so many for both Players 5 and 6; Orange and Brown respectively). This is probably what broke the Orange Zerg’s AI behavior for Fury of the Swarm from functioning normally and seemingly going ballistic lol.

6:11 I love this mission, this and the second UED mission and the first Zerg Mission were such a breath of fresh air! 39:01 Damn that strategy is so satisfying!

Thank you a lot, Grant, for your content. Enjoy watching it. Also thanks to your 100% streams got 100% in sc2 myself. And now me with my friends playing ffa on sc1 because we were inspired by your runs. Thanks a lot

27:00 I got the joke when you did it with protoss earlier in the video and "The Overmind is bronze league" has badly infected my vocabulary.

Can I just say that the commentary is top-notch? Really, really well done. And sorry for the pain deathless Brood War has brought you. Judging by how many red health bars I saw, I think your units were in just as much pain.

I was JUST rewatching all of your SC1 videos because I love them so much, this is amazing!

You have done a lot of challenges I thought were impossible and you proved me wrong. I still think Broodwar deathless can't be done. I look forward to how you prove me wrong again.

Ah I've been looking forward to this one for ages! Brood war has so much nostalgia for me and this released the day I had a boring train journey, perfect : - ) I was glad to see you going for the command centres and SCVs on True Blood, my strategy was always to go snipe the Nexus/Command Centres and SCVs/Probes, always took a few tries but if it works the enemy can't do anything (to the extent that the mission becomes kinda boring). Heart-breaking to see you spawn broodling on noble Fenix, that poor guy. Also it's hilarious how much you consistently hate the Kel-Morian Combine, I used to love that one but the frustration is understandable and funny. Really enjoyed this one, especially the parts where the voiceover drops out and we just hear the diagetic BW music and sound effects, they're really effective (on that point, why use the SC2 music in the background of the voiceover when SC1 has such good music!). I'd love to see more SC1/BW vids but I'm excited for whatever comes next!

I will never get to the point where I've had enough of Grant's humor. It's actually impossible. Every minute of every one of these videos is incredibly enjoyable 😆😆😆

"Poor" Mengsk got that Reed Richards treatment😅 Explains some of his choices in SC2 though.

Never thought this would be achievable. I dropped the run on the Zerg campaign because sciense vessels can kill everything below Devourer's HP (250) by just casting Irradiate, Overlords being a common target. Incredible video and amazing out-of-the-box thinking. I enjoy watching this, every single upload you make there is something new to learn

I remember playing these as a kid. I couldn't beat them without cheats. Well done!

6:02 Remembering the forcefield goliath from the stream that blocked kerrigan for like 6 whole seconds.

Never had seen any videos of your channel before, found this in my suggested videos. So glad I did- absoultely magnificent content!

I was looking forward to this for a long time. Thank you for taking up this challenge and making the video about it ^^

Ha yes, fresh, pure content, thank you, Grant, love your style. Also, that gag with static defense rush, it's gold. Now you are need tower rush Titans in Mythology

In Dylarian Shipyard, Duke has all his risqué pictures in one of those battlecruisers so he orders his fleet to destroy it at all costs.

I was just rewatching the older ones of these over the last few days. Amazing work, keep crafting those stars!

Darn! All the strategies that you came with is simply astonishing! Thanks for the video, Grant!

I absolutely *_adore_* just how much lovingly/doggedly researched and developed Jank goes into this cheezetastic accomplishment. and since making comments about the original version of the game that I have NO idea whether or not apply to Remastered seems to be my trend here here's one related to gloriously janky cheeze and AI abuse: if you can get a firebat into a position where the pathing/targeting lets them fire at the _start_ of their range instead of the end of it they can kill an infinite conga-line of cracklings running straight at them until the game crashes (probably the reason they are a mele unit to begin with despite having a ranged AOE attack, smart firebats are OP as heck). I can't remember if that requires an upgrade advantage or not though, I rather doubt it since every time I remember doing that was during campaign missions as a cheeze method since they will keep spawning zerglings infinitely to attempt to deal with the problem if they are 1: out of units and 2: still have the agitating unit in vision range despite zerglings being the worst unit in the game to deal with firebats, possibly because they spawn the fastest and it's only 1 unit? anyways! they might not actually need resources to build things but they DO need larva so this can pretty much just hard-pin an AI faction with 1 unit on hold position in a surprising number of places.

Boy do I like to get surprised by a video of yours once every couple of months, it's always great quality and entertaining to watch. Love the crazy challenges and some of the crazy things you need to do to complete them, keep them coming, great work man

YES IT'S HERE!

I was enjoying this greatly…And then the rhyming narration begun - and I started Loving this. So good

When i saw the title of your video, I said "no!," and i thought the hour long video was going to be you showing why. I'm dumbfounded. Nice job, you absolute legend!

Was really excited for this one. Amazing job!

This is a work of art. I appreciate your monument to frustration and perserverence.

I just wanted to say that I appreciate the jokes in the mission objectives

Yaaaaaay I'm so excited! Been waiting for this. Happy to see a new main channel video. Love the archive stuff though. Amazing work as always Grant I'm 9:25mins in and already laughed so hard I needed to pause twice. Perfect ♥️

Great video Grant, thanks for all the effort you put into these

I'm amazed you were able to get through this challenge given how unbelievably broodling happy the AI is with its queens in BW. We appreciate the deep pain you go through to complete absurd challenges like this. Thank you for the incredible content.

It's awesome to see you still doing this stuff! You have such a talent, grant

"Can You Beat StarCraft: Brood War Without Losing A Unit?" Uh, no. No I can't. But I'm glad you can!

You are a triple G gamer man!, love your videos, all sort of challenge runs and especially if they were old games!.

haha, I speculated that the broodwar video was delayed because bw without losing a unit would be super crazy hard! havent started watching yet, but I am hyped af

The RTS version of "Just don't get hit bro"

You're an absolute mad man. Glad I found this channel, subbed.

Thank you so much for making this video. I've been trying to figure out how to beat all of SC1 without making workers and "True Colors" was genuinely impossible without destroying the terran in the sneak attack phase. Using your strategy I was able to beat the mission and now I can confidently say that there is a CHANCE the run is possible.

Congratulations that couldn't be easy! And congrats again for your appearance in GDQ that was awesome!

I love your poem to the first UED Mission. Finally a full mission explained by one. :D

Yay finaly another challenge run, been really enjoying your modded playthroughs but i live for these challenge runs. Would love to see more warcraft challenge runs like only footmen/ghoul/archer

Man I love listening to you. Great job once again 😊

It's the long awaited video that's taken grant's power for the last few months. Can't wait to watch the mad lad do it, God I hope he does it. That rhyme slapped That nuke hurt, only 200 minerals to go Your script writing is so good, and the delivery is timed so well with the video. Let's fing goooooo!!!!!!!!!

I love these types of videos! When I saw it in my feed I was very happy!

The canon rush you did to the supermind will be something I will never forget

6:12 I was expecting to hear your catch phrase: 5 power generators each guarded by a progressively stronger group of enemies 😅

Didn't think you'd manage, but you never cease to amaze with your skill and tenacity. GG

OMG YOU DID IT!!!!! I LOVE ALL OF YOUR CRAZY Challenges! RIP VS Reapers!

Love your content Grant, Great stuff.

Always cool to see these challenges. GG!

Heck yes, love that you took out the Terran's Command Centers! I figured that SC1 AI genuinely needs to mine minerals in order to produce, so, whenever doing that mission I've ALWAYS taken out both the factions CCs/Nexuses and Probes/SCVs. Rest of the mission is a cakewalk from there.

God damn it I love your work. I really hope you will inspire other creators so we will see more of your vibe on the web. I wish you all the best, thank you for your videos.

Nice job Grant! That was an amazing thing to see!

I attempted some of this after your SC base game video. On the first mission, I had to slow the game speed down to complete the micro before one of the zealots died. Great run!

What a fantastic video! Cheers to the man who sometimes seems to hold up the RTS genre on his sole shoulders! No wonder the Grant had to be Giant!

I was waiting for this for sooo long! It's finally out! What a great day!

Damn, how I missed the deathless challenges videos. I know it causes pain without end for you, Grant, but I love these kinds of videos. Can't wait for the next challenge run!

Another great video GGG. It's videos like these that make me wish I had your level of patience and determination.

Damn dude... GG. Wildly talented to pull this off.