Starcraft Tutor

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Interested? I don't know any cheap tricks. I'm not going to rush you as soon as I have four marines, or go the opposite and just turtle up until I have battlecruisers or anything. I attack when I'm ready, which may or may not be when you're ready.

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I would recommend that you visit the SC2 thread in this section and ask for help there as well as posting your replay as well. We'll be able to take a look and tell you what parts to improve, etc....

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lol, I can only guess you won against him?

I'm probably the only actual dedicated Terran player on this board. Post some replays in the SCII thread and I'll watch / give you pointers. I'm 1350 Diamond to give you an idea of where I'm at .

I just played an hour and a half long game with BenRK, TvT on Agria. I can't figure out how to post replays and it's late, so here's a summary.

I beat him because he turtled. He walled himself in early on. He made one sneak attack with reapers, but instead of trying to wreck my economy he just tried to take out my barracks, and failed. I then built three vikings and wrecked his economy, killing six of his dozen SCVs (I believe I had thirty at that point). I feinted and scouted and expanded and built an army of marines, marauders, medivacs, and siege tanks. He built two Thors and some marines, then tried to knock on my front door, and got his infantry killed by banshees and his Thors killed by a siege tank and my marauders. While he was doing that I took my army and knocked his door down. Then flattened his base.

Then I spent the next hour trying to break through his shell on that island in the upper right. A few failed drop attacks, some harrassment with nukes and crying wolf (marines and ghosts both look the same to a sensor tower). Finally took two nukes and battlecruisers to break through, but break through I did.

I hope that gives an idea of my overall strategy. I know for a fact that my micro is crap, that my economy management is spotty at best, that I had no real build in mind, and that if I'd been playing against someone who didn't turtle I'd be dead in ten minutes.

Let me know how to upload replays and you can do fine critiquing.

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That's true. I noticed that I was further up the tech tree then you, I just can't get units built fast enough.

I mean, yeah, build a second base, but when I do that online, I tend to mess something up and both the new base and my first one get destroyed from a rush. So I'm either focusing of defense or my economy, but in either case I'm screwed.

Hence why I play custom maps that don't allow for rushing.

REGARDLESS!! I am actually glad you saved the replay. Forgot to save it my self.

OK well I'm not watching that whole game... but here you go ( Watched first 20 min in 8x ):

Both super late orbital commands.

Both not enough SCV's. Esp ben

Both not enough unit producing structures or money being too high.

Ben: You don't need a critical number of Reapers, and you should generally go for the workers / try to avoid engaging. 3 reapers 1 shot workers.

Ben: way too fast EB / sensor tower.

Phae: EB wasn't needed yet. Would have been better off with more barracks.

Ben: Why build starports and not use them for 5 minutes? Wasted money.

Both: Not even scouting

Both: Watch more replays ( hdstarcraft, husky, day9 ), lack of understanding of the game from what I can tell.