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Emperor of the Dominion

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Commander Summary

Mengsk uses an army of conscripted workers and soldiers to bolster his defenses backed up by powerful units from his Royal Guard and Artillery fire from the large distances.

Level Unlocks

Highlighted rows denote large power spikes for the commander.

Achievements

The commander-specific achievements for Mengsk are:

Calldowns

The calldowns for Mengsk, at level 15, with no mastery points added are:

Sub-Ascension Leveling

Difficulty: Moderate

Prior to gaining access to Earthsplitter Ordnances, Mengsk levelling can be extremely difficult, as it makes it impossible for him to take engagements without losing his army. Once Ordnances are unlocked, they should be used to weaken enemy bases and attack waves before pushing in. Shock Divisions should be used to provide damage, with Troopers in the front to keep enemy units off them.

Masteries

Below are the three Power Sets for Mengsk with the recommended point allocations for each. Note that these are meant to serve a general, all-purpose build that is effective across all maps with no Prestiges selected. You are highly encourged to change these masteries to suit your playstyle and particular challenges you face (e.g. Weekly Mutations).

Power Set 1:

Given the varied playstyles, the Laborer mastery is a better pick here because it provides a benefit regardless of the playstyle used, allowing the commander to be effective on all maps.

Power Set 2:

If the player chooses to use the Dogs of War ability frequently (and potentially in fast expands if they struggle with the multitasking), the Terrible Damage would be a more beneficial pick for them. Otherwise, the Royal Guard Cost is the better choice here as it allows you to directly strengthen your army.

Power Set 3:

The Starting Imperial Mandate is the better choice here because it provides Mengsk with access to two Supply Bunkers at the 2 minute mark, allowing him to fast expand and build his economy.

Prestiges

Below are the prestiges for Mengsk. Note that 'Effective Level' is the level at which the prestige achieves it full effect.

Cricut design room. All of Mengsk's prestiges are viable, depending on the player's preferred playstyle. However, for general play, Merchant of Death offers Mengsk the versatility in being able to deal with a wide variety of situations. While upgraded troopers are slightly more expensive, they pay back in dividends by increasing your overall effectiveness in trading with Amon.

Recommended Army Composition

The recommended army composition for Mengsk is below. Note that this assumes no Prestige talent selected and recommended Mastery Allocations. This is a basic recommendation for your army framework. It is recommended to gain an understanding for each of the units in the Units section and further add tech units so that you are able to better handle the situations you face.

A mix of different trooper types is important. Assault Troopers deal damage while Rocket Troopers handle air units with ease. The ratio of each will depend on the enemy composition and map objectives. Use Aegis Guards to tank for the troopers and Imperial Intercessors to heal damaged units. Tech up to a Pride of Augustgrad for powerful wave-handling abilities. Remember to put Imperial Witnesses into Patriot mode for extra buffs to your army.

Combat Units

For more information on Mengsk's unit stats, comparison between units and upgrade calculations, visit the Data Tables page.

Mengsk's combat units are listed below:

• The most basic unit available to Mengsk.
• Can be equipped with one of three weapons to increase its stats and damage bonuses.
• Useful for defending the first attack wave on most missions if loaded into a Bunker.

• Good all-round damage output.
• Has double the damage output of a regular Dominion Trooper.

• Has much more HP than other Troopers and starts with 1 armor.
• Useful for dealing with clumps of Light units like Zerg.

• Has a very powerful anti-air attack that deals bonus to Armored air targets.
• Still uses the same unupgraded weapon as Trooper for anti-ground attack.

• Useful for tanking for other units on the frontline.
• Damage against Armored targets is great, especially with the High-Grade Stimpacks unlocked.
• Rank 2 upgrade enables them to be highly effective against waves with many low HP units like Zerg and Classic Bio.

Skills:

Upgrades:

Rank Unlocks:

• Tactical Missile Strike is not a very useful ability due to its small size.
• Pyrokinetic Immolation can be used to deal with small Biological waves, such as Zerglings.
• EMP Blast is important when dealing with high damage output Mechanical unit compositions.
• Multiple Royal Academies will allow Ghosts to have several Nukes available to launch.

Skills:

Upgrades:

Rank Unlocks:

• Useful when being placed behind Bunkers to deal with ground-based attack waves.
• Can be used as an anti-air option when loaded sieged onto a Medivac.
• Damage output in a Medivac is out-performed by much better anti-air options, such as Blackhammers and Prides of Augustgrad.

Upgrades:

Rank Unlocks:

• Good tank unit for the frontline with decent anti-ground damage.
• Overwatch mode is a great way of dealing with large numbers of low HP air units.

Upgrades:

Rank Unlocks:

• Too expensive given its role, which is overshadowed by other Mengsk units.
• Can be used to deal with Massive targets after reaching Rank 1.
• At Rank 2, it's DPS increases when its mode is changed for 5 seconds, which can be used to provide bursts of damage.

Upgrades:

Rank Unlocks:

• Important unit for keeping Troopers alive in battle.
• Both upgrades are very useful to improving the effectiveness and survivability of the Intercessor.

Skills:

Upgrades:

• A critical unit for Mandate generation for Mengsk.
• Players should try to rush this unit and place it in Patriot Mode over their own mineral lines.
• Should not be placed on ally mineral lines as it does not generate Mandate, and movement speed increases do not raise resource income after saturation.
• Can be put into Patriot Mode in the battlefield over areas you will be fighting in to take advantage of the movement speed and attack speed buffs.
• Provides 20% Attack Speed and Movement Speed buff when in Patriot mode.

Upgrades:

• Great unit for dealing with clumps of enemy units in attack waves.
• Yamato Cannon will retarget units once Rank 3 is reached, preventing overkilling a unit.

Skills:

Upgrades:

Rank Unlocks:

Build Order

Below is the standard economic build order for Mengsk. For more information on how to read and construct your own build orders, please check the Build Order Theory page.

13 Bunker Calldown at Expo
24 Bunker keeping 16 laborers on Main
25 Unload expo bunker + clear rocks
28 4 Laborers -> Expo
30 Enlistment Center with 4 Laborers
32 Troopers to Laborers to fast-build expo
32 Bunker Calldown, Unload to Laborer
38 Refinery with 3 Laborers
38 Refinery with 3 Laborers
39 Refinery with 3 Laborers
41 Refinery with 3 Laborers
45 Barracks with 8 Laborers
50 Factory with 8 Laborers
53 Starport with 8 Laborers
56 Imperial Witness

Gameplay Guide

Playstyle Traps

Weapon upgrades for Troopers may seem expensive, but they can greatly increase the unit's performance in combat. Make sure to utilize any floating minerals to upgrade Trooper weapons where possible.

Finally, it can be very tempting to try and build many of the Royal Guard units. Doing so means that the experience you get from kills is split among more units, slowing down their levelling up through Ranks. While for smaller units (such as the Aegis Guard), it might not be too impactful, it can be very problematic for larger units such as the Pride of Augustgrad. These units gain a significant power spike at Rank 3 and is potentially the rank where they become invaluable. Having several Prides of Augustgrad, combined with their high levelling experience can prevent a player from reaching the rank which makes them important units.

Unit Ranks

Mengsk's Royal Guard units have a Veterancy mechanic that allows them to level up as enemy units are killed around the map. Once a certain amount of experience is reached, the unit ranks up, gaining access to additional skills or bonuses. The leveling up mechanics works as follows:

• When an enemy unit is killed, 100 experience per supply cost of unit killed is 'dropped'.
• If the unit is a non-Heroic unit with 0 supply cost, it will drop no experience.
• If the unit is a Heroic unit with 0 supply cost, it will drop 800 experience.
• Dropped experience is equally split among all eligible units (Royal Guard, not at max rank) within 15 range of the unit killed.
• If there are no eligible units within 15 range of the unit killed, all eligible units on the map get an equal split of the dropped experience.
• Once a Royal Guard unit has reached maximum rank, it is removed from the pool of eligible units so as to not waste experience.

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Fast Expanding

With 30 points into the Starting Mandate Mastery, Mengsk has access to one of the following listed combinations of calldown usage once he hits 50 Mandate, which is when double-Bunker expands begin. Single bunker expands can be done at the start of the game.

• Two Bunkers
• One Bunker, One Level 1 Dogs of War
• One Level 2 Dogs of War

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The most optimal expands (shown below) will require the player to use the Bunker calldown as much as possible, while shying away from using the Zerg calldown. This is because the Bunker calldown provides the player with extra Troopers which can then be converted back to Laborers for saturating the expansion. However, if the player finds these expands difficult, a Zerg calldown instead of a Bunker may help (although they have not been tested).

Below are pictures that show how to fast-expand on maps. These require a lot of practice to pull off, but can put you ahead economically.

*Due to how lightly this mission is contested, only one Bunker is required, allowing you to place your second Bunker at your main, unloading, and converting the Troopers to Laborers to further saturate your main mineral line.

Earthsplitters

Earthsplitters are a key part of Mengsk gameplay. They are used to soften attack waves and enemy bases, allowing Mengsk's more fragile army of conscripts to take more favourable engagements. Mengsk's Earthsplitters have the following upgrades available to them:

In addition to upgrades, loading conscripts (either Troopers or Laborers) into Earthsplitter Ordnances increases the number of artillery volleys by one per each loaded conscript in every 30 seconds. The table below summarizes this information:

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Mengsk's Royal Guard units have a Veterancy mechanic that allows them to level up as enemy units are killed around the map. Once a certain amount of experience is reached, the unit ranks up, gaining access to additional skills or bonuses. The leveling up mechanics works as follows:

• When an enemy unit is killed, 100 experience per supply cost of unit killed is 'dropped'.
• If the unit is a non-Heroic unit with 0 supply cost, it will drop no experience.
• If the unit is a Heroic unit with 0 supply cost, it will drop 800 experience.
• Dropped experience is equally split among all eligible units (Royal Guard, not at max rank) within 15 range of the unit killed.
• If there are no eligible units within 15 range of the unit killed, all eligible units on the map get an equal split of the dropped experience.
• Once a Royal Guard unit has reached maximum rank, it is removed from the pool of eligible units so as to not waste experience.

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Fast Expanding

With 30 points into the Starting Mandate Mastery, Mengsk has access to one of the following listed combinations of calldown usage once he hits 50 Mandate, which is when double-Bunker expands begin. Single bunker expands can be done at the start of the game.

• Two Bunkers
• One Bunker, One Level 1 Dogs of War
• One Level 2 Dogs of War

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The most optimal expands (shown below) will require the player to use the Bunker calldown as much as possible, while shying away from using the Zerg calldown. This is because the Bunker calldown provides the player with extra Troopers which can then be converted back to Laborers for saturating the expansion. However, if the player finds these expands difficult, a Zerg calldown instead of a Bunker may help (although they have not been tested).

Below are pictures that show how to fast-expand on maps. These require a lot of practice to pull off, but can put you ahead economically.

*Due to how lightly this mission is contested, only one Bunker is required, allowing you to place your second Bunker at your main, unloading, and converting the Troopers to Laborers to further saturate your main mineral line.

Earthsplitters

Earthsplitters are a key part of Mengsk gameplay. They are used to soften attack waves and enemy bases, allowing Mengsk's more fragile army of conscripts to take more favourable engagements. Mengsk's Earthsplitters have the following upgrades available to them:

In addition to upgrades, loading conscripts (either Troopers or Laborers) into Earthsplitter Ordnances increases the number of artillery volleys by one per each loaded conscript in every 30 seconds. The table below summarizes this information:

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Earthsplitters have an element of randomness to them. Upon selection of an area of bombard, an Earthsplitter will randomly select one area of 3 units radius that is within 7.5 range of the selected area. Before the strike, vision of 4 radius will be provided. The Earthsplitter will deal 100 damage in that area on impact. The image below shows the approximate sizes involved:

The areas denoted in the picture above are as follows:

• Red Area: The area over which a bombardment will be randomly selected, assuming the Pylon was targeted as the center.
• Yellow Area: The area over which the artillery can deal damage, assuming the bombardment center was selected at the edge of the red area.
• Green Area: Size of the bombardment. All enemy ground units within this area will take 100 damage.

The table below provides calculated data on various probabilities of the Artillery bombardment with different numbers of Earthsplitters. The measured parameters are:

• Earthsplitter Count: The number of Earthsplitters in play.
• Chance of Overlap: The chance that there will be at least two shells that have some common overlap in area.
• Expected Overlap: The expected number of shells that will overlap in one volley.
• Average Bombardment Cover: Percentage of the total area (Red and Yellow zone) that is covered by the bombardment.

The table below shows probabilities and expected number of hits on targets of various sizes per volley. For reference, the following objectives' radii are provided:

• Extraction Device (Mist Opportunities): 3.50
• Gatekeeper Construct (Cradle of Death): 1.75
• Moebius Hybrid Experiment (Part and Parcel): 0.75
• Void Rift (Mutators): 1.00
• Void Shard (Rifts to Korhal): 4.50
• Void Sliver (Scythe of Amon): 4.50
• Void Thrasher (Temple of the Past and Void Thrashing): 2.50
• Xel'Naga Construct (Lock & Load): 0.75

Note that if a unit's radius is 4 or above, the artillery is guaranteed to hit it with each volley.

If you are interested in learning more about how this data was generated, you may watch the video below:

Mandate Generation

Mandate is the Mengsk equivalent of energy that some of the Protoss commanders have. It is generated by increasing your 'Imperial Support'. The amount of total Imperial Support, divided by 240, gives your Mandate generation per second. Imperial Support is created in three ways:

• A base amount: 40
• Royal Guard units: Base of 100% of supply cost. Increases by 50% per rank gained, for maximum of 250% of supply cost at Rank 3.
• Indoctrinated Conscripts: Indoctrination occurs under a Witness in Patriot mode at 1 per supply, or 2 per supply if Amplified Airwaves is researched.

With the Trooper Mandate mastery and Amplified Airwaves, the approximate Imperial Support for two fully saturated bases is 154 (0.6 Mandate/second). Without the upgrade, the Imperial Support is 64 (0.27 Mandate/second).

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Playstyle Tips

• Try to rush the Imperial Witness as quickly as possible, as the Mandate generation it provides will allow you to spam your calldowns more frequently.
• When playing on a mission that requires pushing deeper into the map, salvage Earthsplitters and move them closer towards the front line.
• Units loaded into structures (e.g. Bunkers and Earthsplitters) do not generate Mandate from the Imperial Witness.
• When loading Troopers into Earthsplitters, ensure that the Troopers do not have weapons equipped. Equipped weapons do not provide any benefits to Earthsplitters.
• Make sure to upgrade Troopers' weapons before loading them into Bunkers to take advantage of the increased attack damage.
• Troopers can build combat structures. Use them to build Bunkers or Earthsplitters in the field, fast-building them with multiple Troopers.
• Aim to have 3-4 Enlistment Centers in the mid-late game to quickly reinforce Troopers after taking engagements
• If a Trooper with a weapon is killed, the dropped weapon will remain on the ground for 300 seconds before despawning and refunding 120 minerals.

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Video Guides

The below videos demonstrate the various fast expands explained earlier. Note that as of patch 4.11.3, Mengsk's Starting Mandate Mastery has been modified which means the two Bunkers cannot be dropped at the start of the game. For double Bunker expands, you will need to wait (~2 mins) before both Bunkers can be placed. For single Bunker expands, the mineral line will not be saturated at the start of the game.