EPTOn May 25 2008 08:27 ThatGuy wrote:
I'm going to post because I actually have a tournament coming VERY soon, and it contains these maps:
Lake Shore:
![[image loading]](http://www.battle.net/images/battle/scc/LP/bw04/ls.jpg)
Hot Zone:
![[image loading]](http://www.battle.net/images/battle/scc/LP/bw04/xhz.jpg)
Any ideas on Terran strategy?
I'm going to post because I actually have a tournament coming VERY soon, and it contains these maps:
Lake Shore:
Hot Zone:
Any ideas on Terran strategy?
This is advice from someone rather shitty but who has a lot experience playing Terran in LANs against randoms that are completely shitty players and don't follow progaming:
Lakeshore has cliffable mineral lines at the mains. You don't even need dropships.
Lay mines on the ramp exit from the base or wall it in somehow, and get siege tanks on top of the cliff over the mineral line. If this is a local tournament this will probably work wonders against newer players, they won't even see it coming.
Now, I'm not sure how this'll work against someone like an ICCUP D or something. Probably not that well.
On Hot Zone if your opponent in the bottom right, dropships will be able to put tanks in places where they can attack some enemy buildings.
If your opponent has drop tech in either case, support your tanks with golis/mnms stationed around them.
Use the foothold given by cliffed tanks to drop tanks further inside the bases.
On both maps, set up tank contains, lower level players don't know how to break them very well and they just turtle up and mass battlecruisers or something stupid like that. Keep scanning them. If they start getting carriers or bcs then just go for Flash-esque mass goliaths and 3/3 upgrades on them. If they mass guardians go for mass science vessels, SK-Terran and irradiate/stimrine them to death.
During the contain expand expand expand. Newer players on local LAN events like that don't know how to deal with expansions like that. And when they expand just be like lol@u and run in 4 vultures (or marines in tvz) or cliff the expo with tanks.
Also: Don't fast expo. Expect cheese. If it's a zerg player, chances are he's heard of the dreaded "zerg rush" sometime in 1998 and maybe he even used it from time to time on oldschool blizz ladder games. Proxy builds will be unlikely however. Laugh when they wonder "zerglings must have been nerfed or something".
). If I had even stepped a little to the left before his main I would have seen his other expo (undefended) with his spire there, and that probably would have given me the victory. Regardless, I suck against Lurkers and it only took 5 to take me down :/
