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Best Strats in the Official Starcraft Compendium

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Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-26 05:36:18
June 16 2010 00:07 GMT
#1
You might be able to tell what inspired this. But I'm not talking about our beloved Prima official strategy guide but rather The Official Starcraft Compendium. Here, I will go through the greatest strategies ever created. By greatest, I don't mean "capable of winning anything ever" but just general badassery.

+ Show Spoiler +
This ended up being pretty long, proceed with caution. Don't want anyone's mind blowing up from the great strategies.


Starting with terran "basic strats."

"It's usually a good idea to build at least two Armories (they are very cheap) and you might want to build three to upgrade faster."
We've all been there. Upgrading our tank force with our two armories and thinking "Well fuck, my Battlecruisers will be weak and unupgraded when they pop out." What we should have been doing was just building a third armory, presumably off one gas.

"In island maps, [...] You can also fly Barracks over early in the game and build a few Marines on different islands to secure them before the enemy is able to transport troops to them."
I guess this is why island maps were removed from pro play. Zergs would have their mutas out and keep getting owned by random barracks with about 4 marines beside them. What could anybody really do when there are marines on an island?

"You can even use buildings to scout the map if you have enough time on your hands, or send them over the enemy's town to confuse or annoy them."
Pretty understandable. You're in your base making probes and such when an engineering bay flies in. I'm sure it would be pretty hard to avoid having an aneurysm here.

"Sometimes you might want to use one building and switch between add-on buildings. This can be handy if you're trying to save some money and, for instance, want to alternate between building Ghosts and Battlecruisers."
As we know, saving money is our main concern when we're pumping out Battlecruisers and Ghosts for nukes.

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Ideal building placement. As we know, it is important to manner depot/bunker yourself so that gas is tighter for your ghost/BC build that usually transitions from the standard "3 bunker in main" build.

Moving on to Terran Advanced Strategy (!!!)

"A devastating strategy if not defended against is the air drop. Take a Dropship full of 8 Firebats [...]"
No jokes here, this sounds fucking awesome.

"Build a Barracks. Build another Depot, and a second Barracks. Continue making more SCVs, Supply Depots, and build another two Barracks to bring the total to four."
Blizzard advocating an incredibly filthy cheese. Also, you need to keep building SCVs and upgrade stim, range, and +1. All while pumping marines from four barracks. Is this Fastest Possible Map?

Now let's learn how to play the different match ups.

Terran vs Terran

"Use Ghosts to Lockdown enemy Tanks, Defensive Matrix your own Tanks to make them last longer against enemy Tanks"
With this you need to be careful. If your opponent is as gosu as you, they will be doing the same thing. Their vessels will detect your ghosts and the tanks will shoot them before they can lockdown. Or the vessel can emp/irradiate you.

"If you get attacked by Cloaked Wraiths, move Marines into the area, StimPack them and use ComSat to reveal the cloaked Wraiths."
Frankly, this is the only way to stop wraiths. Make sure you get your stim nice and early so you can defend. Also, " it's very important to have several Bunkers protecting your SCVs mining."

"When fighting other Siege Tanks, it's VERY important to have range on them, meaning you can see and fire on them before they fire on you. This means using the ComSat Station or other units such as Dropships to reveal the enemy for your Siege Tanks to fire. Quite often Terran vs Terran games become Tank wars. It is up to you to have MORE Tanks than the enemy and use them more effectively by taking advantage of high ground, and further sight/firing through the use of spotters."
This is just silly, blizzard needs to stop messing around.

"They might have wanted to Irradiate some Marines or Ghosts or Reveal and EMP them"
Called it.

Terran vs Protoss

"On SCV #7, build a Barracks.
With SCV #8, build a Supply Depot.
Build a Bunker that will cover your SCVs mining Minerals and all your other buildings. (Building a very tightly packed town is important here)
Fill up your Bunker with 4 Marines then continue on with a normal building order."

This is how to defend early zealot pressure. Be careful not to over react though. Also note that this is the "offensive" way to deal with zealots. The defensive way is identical.

"A great way to surprise the enemy is to send a group of cloaked Wraiths to attack enemy Probes"
Genius. It goes on to mention that you should cloak your wraiths if the toss is a hacker and somehow has dragoons.

"If the Protoss send Observers to detect your Wraiths, quickly ComSat the area, find the Observer, and kill it with the Wraiths."
Hiya?

"Lockdown the Reaver if you can."
Only use this if your wraith fleet didn't manage to stop the reaver on time.

Terran vs Zerg

"Make use of Bunkers for both offense and defense. After you win a battle, move outside the enemy town and build Bunkers. Bunker your way into your town."
I thought this was standard? Do you really need to tell us that?

"[Y]ou are going to need 5-7+ Barracks to build enough Marines to stop them"
ARE YOU SHITTING ME? To be fair, I think this one might be two base. I hope so anyway.

"With Terrans it's easy to sit back and do nothing"
Fuck you Blizzard.

"Use Wraiths against Queens, as Battlecruisers are often too slow"
Good thinking. Trying to counter their queens with BCs would just be silly...

"and once you have a fleet of Battlecruisers Mutalisks will quickly fall before you."
Battlecruisers are clearly for Mutalisks.

" Destroying the Drones is also an option, but if the enemy has multiple towns, it will be more damaging to lose the Hydralisk Den as the other Hatcheries at other resource spots can still bring the money in."
Zerg doesnt really need drones. Just target the hydra den, much more important.

"The ultimate offense against the Zerg is a large fleet of Battlecruisers. To pull this off you need 2-3 Starports building Battlecruisers (3 or more is preferable), and build 2 Armories to upgrade both Ship Weapons and Armor at the same time. You will also need 2-3 Gas geysers. You can get by on only one if you do not spend any Gas at all except on the two Marine upgrades at the Academy and on buildings."
Thats right, one base, 3 port Battlecruisers. Everyone get on US East right now and enjoy.

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Blocking one of your mineral patches will help keep your mineral/gas ratio closer.


Well there we go, that's how you play terran. I'll do the other races another time because it turns out that blizzard had a lot more amazing strats than I thought they did.

Edit FROM THE FUTURE: Guide for Protoss is up - June 25

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Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5912 Posts
June 16 2010 00:11 GMT
#2
Nice find.

On June 16 2010 09:07 Bibbit wrote:
"A devastating strategy if not defended against is the air drop. Take a Dropship full of 8 Firebats [...]"
No jokes here, this sounds fucking awesome.


Reminds me of a TvZ on Neo Medusa where T got about 8 Firebats, splashed the temples to death and bypassed the wall of sunkens. So kinda like that without a dropship.
[゚n゚] SSSSssssssSSsss ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Marine/Raven Guide:http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=163605
Lucktar
Profile Joined July 2008
United States526 Posts
June 16 2010 00:17 GMT
#3
<3 Prima. I eagerly await their starcraft 2 guide.
NaDa, much, ZerO fighting!
tube
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1475 Posts
June 16 2010 00:17 GMT
#4
pretty much the most hilarious post i have ever read on teamliquid
Two in harmony surpasses one in perfection.
Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
June 16 2010 00:18 GMT
#5
Linking this to everyone that asks me for a tutorial on beginning starcraft =)
FlameSworD
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States414 Posts
June 16 2010 00:19 GMT
#6
ya skyhigh did that u get like 4 firebats and break temples down before mutas
skyhighftw on iccup
vlaric
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States412 Posts
June 16 2010 00:24 GMT
#7
You forget to mention the most important part to the awesome 1 Base BC Build:

The key to this strategy is conserving Vespine Gas.


Also:

Use Yamato on Overlords to slow down Zerg production and blind your opponent.


You're always gonna want to kill those overlords so that the nukes accompanying your Battlecruiser fleet won't get detected!
Wannabe zerg player
jgju
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States454 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 00:25:37
June 16 2010 00:24 GMT
#8
Haha I definitely remember being really proud of myself when I first got the game and I read their guide to base layout and then beat my friend by having a million bunkers in my really tightly packed base.

There's something magical about bw when neither player knows what they're doing
"For you biting zealots, here's a quote" - Lauryn Hill
Zamkis
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada114 Posts
June 16 2010 00:25 GMT
#9
Brilliant, loved the ending
Thats right, one base, 3 port Battlecruisers.
Destruction is a work of an afternoon, Creation is a work of a lifetime.
jgju
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States454 Posts
June 16 2010 00:35 GMT
#10
Also, lest we forget the most gosu strat in the guide- surrounding your bunker with a bunch of shit:

[image loading]
"For you biting zealots, here's a quote" - Lauryn Hill
ella_guru
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada1741 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 00:36:57
June 16 2010 00:36 GMT
#11
this is awesome, I'm going to resist reading ahead so you have more blog material ^_^
Each day gets better : )
sluggaslamoo
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Australia4494 Posts
June 16 2010 00:36 GMT
#12
On June 16 2010 09:17 Lucktar wrote:
<3 Prima. I eagerly await their starcraft 2 guide.


PvT

If the Terran builds tanks make sure you build immortals.

If the Terran builds marauders make sure you build immortals.


I'm so glad a lot of thought went in to flexible gameplay for SC2.
Come play Android Netrunner - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=409008
coltrane
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Chile988 Posts
June 16 2010 00:40 GMT
#13
you are really wrong, even while blizzard's ideas are not the best answer, there is much true about every they said, and not so mcuh in your comments about them
Jävla skit
bjornkavist
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada1235 Posts
June 16 2010 00:41 GMT
#14
Lol, Terran can sit back and do nothing, this makes me chuckle
https://soundcloud.com/bbols
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
June 16 2010 00:46 GMT
#15
Ahahahah, amazing OP.

I actually had the prima guide, and I had all the unit stats memorized. >.>
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21242 Posts
June 16 2010 00:51 GMT
#16
The TvZ tips is exactly what the pro scene is.

...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFU
TranslatorBaa!
mucker
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1120 Posts
June 16 2010 01:02 GMT
#17
Bunkers in the min line were standard play back in 1999. You laugh now but try playing on a map with wide open mains and 150 pools...
It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 01:04:14
June 16 2010 01:03 GMT
#18
Hahaha, this is hilarious. But on a more serious note, it's amazing how far this game has come from this... This used to be taken seriously back in 1998... (At least the advice from the info pack that came with the game).
Hidden_MotiveS
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada2562 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 01:57:58
June 16 2010 01:55 GMT
#19
General thread PLOX!
edit: don't be hating on dmat in tank vs tank.
FiBsTeR
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States415 Posts
June 16 2010 02:04 GMT
#20
On June 16 2010 09:07 Bibbit wrote:

"With Terrans it's easy to sit back and do nothing"
Fuck you Blizzard.


In all honestly, this may be the only true statement you quoted.
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