[BR] First TvP BW win!

On May 17 2012 11:59 zimp wrote:
I'm a hotkey expert. My suggestion to you:

Terran:

4 main command center
5-6-7-8-9 factories / barracks
0-9 (8-7) scan later
1-2-3 (4-5-6) units
F2 natural CC and later 4th base
F3 main CC then change to third base when you take it and later 5th
F4 rally point
(of course F keys can be changed. example: F3 nat F2 main and later 3rd F4 rally point)

in case of mech:
barracks 8 (doesnt conflict with units, and other factories in early game when you use it)
machine shop 7 for max efficiency
starport(s) 6 and/or 7 later
dropships 3

M&M usage
1 medics (this way you don't have to change if you use more/less marines)
2-3 (4-5) marine
4 or 5 (depending on marine amount): tanks
5: tanks/vessels
6: vessels / dropships / vults for mine
academy at start: 7/ 8 (so you can see + hit fast stim/range)

Why is this good:
- you cover 3 bases + production facilities + rally with hotkey in a way that no hotkey is wasted
- 4S is comfortable + by the time you have 4-5-6 groups of units, you don't really need to make more scvs, so you can change the CC
- you can maintain perfect scv production on 1 base while doing crucial micro (double tap 4 to send scv to work. you can also add your nat cc to a hotkey like 3 or 8 or 9 in situations where you want to focus 90% on micro so this way you can still produce scvs from 2ccs without going home at all - idle scvs are still better than no production).
- otherwise F2nat+F3third will force you to remember to actually send the scvs to work.
- you can pull workers very fast from stormdrops/reaver/lurker drop etc. anywhere it happens since you always have 2 F key spots where u see minerals.
- F4 is needed for rally point so you can jump very fast to your reinforcements and send them to battle in later game.
- you don't need F key for macro. Early-mid game, you can macro perfectly only from hotkeys. in late game, you just double tap 7 to go back to production facilities. this way you also see production rate if you spam 7 so you know when to macro. if you don't have 6 group of units at that moment, you can also set a starport to 6 and this way you will not forget to make vessels.
- you can use 3 factory with addon from hotkey while having 3 scans on hotkey and 4 groups of units on hotkey. quite good for tvp.
- hotkey usage is mobile (for example if you make a build like 6 fact allin where u cut scvs, you can put your 6th fact on 4. or another example is 5 rax build with terran, you can add 5th rax to 9 and use your natural scan from F2 only for scouting thech so you still have 0 for fast scanning)
- you can set rally very fast by assigning your lastly built production facilities to 5-6(-7-8) then F4 then 5rightclick 6rightclick etc.