It's been a while since I've played SC2, but with HotS out, I've reinstalled. My old save games were lost to a hard drive crash, but it's my understanding that save games are stored in the cloud.
I have successfully logged into my character, it shows the campaign achievements I'm expecting, and says I've completed 16 missions on hard difficulty. However, when I choose to continue my current campaign I see the opening cinematic, and Raynor is in the bar.
I'd like to set my canonical choices without playing through the entire campaign again, so is there something special I need to do to pull my saves down from the cloud?
Best Answer
Your mid-mission saves are not stored in the cloud. They are stored locally on your computer's harddrive. The Battle.net blog post Campaigning on the Go* explains how Star Craft 2's campaign progress cloud storage works.
The post details the following about what is stored online:
Below is a compiled screenshot of how you can replay completed missions from Wings of Liberty:
As far as what is stored locally on your machine:
So there's a definitive answer if you still had access to your save files you could transfer them between machines.
* Currently the blog post has a WordPress error so read Google's cached version.