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terran is hard D:

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Alsar
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States130 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-21 11:50:22
August 21 2009 11:48 GMT
#1
so I normally play zerg, but after sucking a ton for awhile I decided to switch to terran for a bit just for something new and to see if maybe I was somehow magically amazing at it.

It was pretty fun, mostly because it was something new. But after awhile I realized that I sucked terribly at it :D I have absolutely no ability to keep marines alive vs lurkers, and every tank I ever create early game in tvp is lost to dragoons. I'M PRETTY AMAZING AT TERRAN GUYS.

Then after a bit of that, I decided to switch back to zerg to play a few zvp games and OWNED BITCHES YEAHHH. So after being conflicted with deciding whether or not to actually switch races for good, I've come to the conclusion that I cannot ever give up zerg. ^_^

And I have a newfound respect for people who can make marines not die to lurkers. It was seriously really bad lol. I'd look away for a second and like 2 control groups of them would just explode to 2 lurkers or something ridiculous.


The highlight of my journey into terran playing though was definitely nuking the natural of a protoss before I pushed in to roll him over. :3333

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stanley_
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States816 Posts
August 21 2009 11:57 GMT
#2
there are micro maps that can help you with your problem. try protoss yet?
hoorah
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
August 21 2009 12:09 GMT
#3
I'm also a Z player who recently tried out TvZ to improve my knowledge of the MU.
And I agree it's hard ^^ I find it so damn difficult to keep my mineral count low and microing is a bitch too.
Why isn't every MU as relatively easy as ZvP? :p
beep boop
ScoutWBF
Profile Joined April 2005
Germany640 Posts
August 21 2009 12:14 GMT
#4
On August 21 2009 21:09 7mk wrote:
I'm also a Z player who recently tried out TvZ to improve my knowledge of the MU.
And I agree it's hard ^^ I find it so damn difficult to keep my mineral count low and microing is a bitch too.
Why isn't every MU as relatively easy as ZvP? :p


Play Mech. I've been playing Terran for 4 years now and I switched to Mech in every MU some months ago. I hate Marines. Mech just makes the MU much easier to play for me, so give it a try I guess. ^^
drug_vict1m
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
844 Posts
August 21 2009 12:20 GMT
#5
well i find playing terran and zerg quite easy but i just can get any grasp of protoss match ups..i just get steamrolled everytime...
One must feel chaos within, to give birth to a dancing star.
HeaDStrong
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Scotland785 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-21 12:26:35
August 21 2009 12:25 GMT
#6
i find mech much more difficult. first of all the vulture part is quite hard as it requires a lot of micro and then i have a huge pile of minerals.
and for mech imo you need really good macro. because you win by outmacroing your opponent, with MnM however you can harass the zerg with small amounts of units and dont have confront the whole zerg army at once
also mech sucks if you cant secure a 3rd gas easily.
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so basically my point is that i suck really badly with mech \(^o^)/
Sprite
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1015 Posts
August 21 2009 12:36 GMT
#7
Y'all should do SK Terran lol
Firebathero is still the best!
RoieTRS
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States2569 Posts
August 21 2009 12:43 GMT
#8
zvp is easy? Try PvT. lol
konadora, in Racenilatr's blog: "you need to stop thinking about starcraft or anything computer-related for that matter. It's becoming a bad addiction imo"
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
August 21 2009 12:53 GMT
#9
Terran is hard? Not kidding?-_____-
CommentatorPolt | MMA | Jjakji | BoxeR | NaDa | MVP | MKP ... truly inspiring.
ven
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany332 Posts
August 21 2009 13:11 GMT
#10
The other day I thought it might be fun to offrace a bit despite never having played another race than Terran. The ease of winning without even knowing proper build order blew my mind.
You can reach the rainbow. I'll be there to help.
duckett
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States589 Posts
August 21 2009 13:11 GMT
#11
I used to think the same way about marines vs lurkers, and then i just decided to go sk every game to get more and more experience with marines (well unless the situation absolutely calls for tanks). If you can exercise some early-mid game map control lurkers are not that much of a problem (just dont get caught with them on the other side of your bridges on desti, for ex)
funky squaredance funky squaredance funky squaredance
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
August 21 2009 13:28 GMT
#12
On August 21 2009 21:14 ScoutWBF wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2009 21:09 7mk wrote:
I'm also a Z player who recently tried out TvZ to improve my knowledge of the MU.
And I agree it's hard ^^ I find it so damn difficult to keep my mineral count low and microing is a bitch too.
Why isn't every MU as relatively easy as ZvP? :p


Play Mech. I've been playing Terran for 4 years now and I switched to Mech in every MU some months ago. I hate Marines. Mech just makes the MU much easier to play for me, so give it a try I guess. ^^


I hate mech, it's so boring to play against and just out of ethics I'm not gonna do it, ever.
Plus I wanted to get better vs Bio Terrans.
beep boop
Neivler
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Norway911 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-21 13:42:25
August 21 2009 13:41 GMT
#13
Play terran. With mech they are the new Protoss. Just a-move and macro ok of 2 bases

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I hate mech
I pwn noobs
stk01001
Profile Joined September 2007
United States786 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-21 13:54:29
August 21 2009 13:53 GMT
#14
On August 21 2009 22:11 ven wrote:
The other day I thought it might be fun to offrace a bit despite never having played another race than Terran. The ease of winning without even knowing proper build order blew my mind.



your so awesome cause you play Terran, you actually have skill huh? compared to those zerg & protoss noobs who don't even know proper build orders but win all the time since their races are so much easier!!

dude get over yourself.. yes Terran micro is hard but zerg and protoss also take skill. it blows MY mind that you beat a noob playing an offrace and now you think your hot shit and go and make a statement like this.. try playing a skilled player using zerg & protoss not knowing any build orders.. then get back to me lol..
a.k.a reLapSe ---
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-21 13:56:01
August 21 2009 13:55 GMT
#15
I play terran when i want to be nice with people.
Guess why.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Foucault
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden2826 Posts
August 21 2009 13:57 GMT
#16
Yeah, Terran is a hard race. I wish some arrogant protoss newbs would try to play Terran and acknowledge this
I know that deep inside of you there's a humongous set of testicles just waiting to pop out. Let 'em pop bro. //////////////////// AKA JensOfSweden // Lee Yoon Yeol forever.
wiesel
Profile Joined September 2008
Germany727 Posts
August 21 2009 14:00 GMT
#17
On August 21 2009 22:57 Foucault wrote:
Yeah, Terran is a hard race. I wish some arrogant protoss newbs would try to play Terran and acknowledge this

Hm it seems like there aren't many arrogant protoss newbs. More like a lot of arrogant terran and zerg users
REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1904 Posts
August 21 2009 14:01 GMT
#18
hehe i'm terran and when i offrace ZvT i find hiveplay fucking hard too. Burrowings lurks, consuming stuff, casting dark swarm, scourging vessels....
It's just a very skillful matchup
FranzF1
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Chile1710 Posts
August 21 2009 14:18 GMT
#19
I suck at terran big times.... but its fun to play Bio TvZ.
But for me its easy to win doing gay things with terran... always works, like:
8 rax vs Zerg
Lift a Factory into zergs main (1 vulture ftw)
2 port wraith (I win against C Zergs doing this and Im a D+ Zerg/D Terran lol)
Or Mech against zergs on maps like Destination (bridges... u have to love them)
And vs Toss:
Dont know its hard to say its easy to play against toss but I think that pushing with 2 facs and building supply/turret outside toss base is autowin lol

PS: Always talking about D/D+ Lvl (im not good at SC)
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