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I started playing iccup to improve. There will be 2 LANs in April, the Hungarian Infinity LAN and the Czech Rymarov Spring.
....and my goal is to win these! (this is probably impossible but I don't care)
From now on, I start mass gaming, and I'll try improve my terran tremendolously. I will update my blog regularly with my improvements/standings. Honestly, till now I never practiced hard to get anywhere at BW.. I wonder how much a guy like me can improve under about 3 months.
About my skills:
-about 150-170 APM ----> i wanna raise this without too much spamming, goal is 250-300 range with 35-40% hotkey
-TvP : I am struggling
-TvZ : I have holes in my game, but I am not that bad till later stages of the game
-TvT : I have no idea about this
I play BW/watch progames for 5 years, so I think I have quite good strategical understanding of the game- from outside. Being inside the match, and doing the decisions from there is much harder for me.
My nick on iccup is ezterran. Feel free to add me, if you are interested in practicing OR if you would be nice enough to mentor me a bit.
Probably I will flood the strategy forum asking for help with replays, just like this blog.
PS.
Thanks Naruto for the replays and help (he's a nice guy, you know)
  
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change your icon to terran plz.
i could tvt w/ you sometime if you want (i suck). pm me if you want.
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On January 09 2009 10:37 Nitrogen wrote:
change your icon to terran plz.
i could tvt w/ you sometime if you want (i suck). pm me if you want.
yay thx for the advice, I became a vulture which is my favorite unit 
pm is being sent
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Good luck man. Keep us updated on your progress.
By the way, is this your first LAN event?
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To give you a quick, brief breakdown of the match ups and how to play:
TvP: it really boils down to a macro war. Tanks and Vults and if you see anything that flies (carrier/arbiter/shuttles) get some gols. Gols don't do so well against the dragoon/vulture army. Upgrades are very important. A 3-3 ball is what you want to achieve. When you push out, bring 3 scvs to make turrets to ward off obs, drop and stasis. Float ebay/rax in front of tanks for extra vision. Oh and mine around you. Very key. Oh and if you contain, feel free to build supplies and or land your ebay and rax in front of their army so that when they break, the zealots have to walk a bit of extra to squeeze through certain points.
TvZ: My favourite match up. The norm is to go MnMs. I rarely use mech so I am not going to elaborate on that. If you are going to go SKTerran (Vessels with Irradiate) I usually get about 9 rax to replenish your army. This requires a high amount of micro and the ability to multitask "well." Oh and please, two Starports for SKTerran. Before SKTerran, I mixed a tanks in my army to deal with lurkers, with one or two vessels. Dropship play is very, very important. It does two main things: Destroy tech, and denies expos. The order of killing tech should be in the strategy forum. Once you have your vessels out and about, use your comsats to constantly scan for expos. Don't let it sit there and accumulate 200 energy. Once I see a hatchery in construction or a brand new hatchery (with two or three drones) I immediately scoop up 7 marines and a medic to take it down because if they sunken up and add lurkers, it will be a bitch to take down.
TvT: erm...uh...I don't know XD.
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Im sure you can get to 300 apm in a couple of days. + Show Spoiler +without increasing your actual skill at all
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On January 09 2009 10:47 redtooth wrote:
Good luck man. Keep us updated on your progress.
By the way, is this your first LAN event?
thank you
these wont be my first lans, i have taken part in about 5-6 Hungarian LANs before, playing as Protoss. I wasn't too bad
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On January 09 2009 10:53 Cloud wrote:Im sure you can get to 300 apm in a couple of days. + Show Spoiler +without increasing your actual skill at all
that'd be great
+ Show Spoiler +
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On January 09 2009 10:51 [Fin]Vittu wrote: + Show Spoiler +
To give you a quick, brief breakdown of the match ups and how to play:
TvP: it really boils down to a macro war. Tanks and Vults and if you see anything that flies (carrier/arbiter/shuttles) get some gols. Gols don't do so well against the dragoon/vulture army. Upgrades are very important. A 3-3 ball is what you want to achieve. When you push out, bring 3 scvs to make turrets to ward off obs, drop and stasis. Float ebay/rax in front of tanks for extra vision. Oh and mine around you. Very key. Oh and if you contain, feel free to build supplies and or land your ebay and rax in front of their army so that when they break, the zealots have to walk a bit of extra to squeeze through certain points.
TvZ: My favourite match up. The norm is to go MnMs. I rarely use mech so I am not going to elaborate on that. If you are going to go SKTerran (Vessels with Irradiate) I usually get about 9 rax to replenish your army. This requires a high amount of micro and the ability to multitask "well." Oh and please, two Starports for SKTerran. Before SKTerran, I mixed a tanks in my army to deal with lurkers, with one or two vessels. Dropship play is very, very important. It does two main things: Destroy tech, and denies expos. The order of killing tech should be in the strategy forum. Once you have your vessels out and about, use your comsats to constantly scan for expos. Don't let it sit there and accumulate 200 energy. Once I see a hatchery in construction or a brand new hatchery (with two or three drones) I immediately scoop up 7 marines and a medic to take it down because if they sunken up and add lurkers, it will be a bitch to take down.
TvT: erm...uh...I don't know XD.
Thanks
I know more or less these things, but I am looking for the little details which cant be seen by watching outside 
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I'm switching to terran as well!
This shit is difficult though, so much general mousework.
While I believe that mentally it is easier than zerg (at the lower levels anyway) it is definitly more mechanically demanding
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Terran is incredibly hard to get used to.
Mass games on ICCUP and of course, see what you did wrong. That's what I somewhat did. I tried not to repeat my mistakes and make sure my macro/basics had no holes. My scouting has also increased tremendously.
I did that over many period of games and I feel like it's a part of me now and I can do it naturally.
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I'm switching out of Terran now.
Deciding what race to pick up. So hard to choose
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On January 09 2009 11:46 kNyTTyM wrote:
I'm switching out of Terran now.
Deciding what race to pick up. So hard to choose
why do you switch?
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Hey! Good luck!
Well, last I checked Effort over at Gosugamers is looking for some Terran students, and I hear he's around B skill level. Might be worth looking into.
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On January 09 2009 11:54 Zozma wrote:
Hey! Good luck!
Well, last I checked Effort over at Gosugamers is looking for some Terran students, and I hear he's around B skill level. Might be worth looking into.
thx!
it was a long time since i logged in last time on gosugamers, i check this out asaply
edit:
he wrote he wants his student be at least c+
I found that strelok wrote here, he would teach for money, he already gave a 3 month course for a guy! I am considering this.. Is it worth paying for leaning BW ~
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Russian Federation386 Posts
Just a comment about your APM goal.
Its very hard to get from 170 to 250-300 in 3 months... But a general advice that allowed me do have 240+ every game is DON'T FORGET. Don't Forget to add supplies, Don't Forget to make units, Don't Forget to scout, Don't Forget about the dropship you've just built, Don't Forget to upgrade ASAP, Don't Forget to make SCVs, Don't Forget to scan tech, Don't Forget to lay mines in your main if you see an Arbiter, Don't Forget to move your army, Don't Forget to space your tanks in a push, etc, etc, etc
If you remember all that stuff with time the speed you execute these actions will increase "magically" ^^
BTW, what is your current rank on iCCup?
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last season i had d+
now D with 10-18 or something like that ~
i know i suck
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Russian Federation386 Posts
I'm about the same level as you then ^^
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