I will try your ideas on ICCup! - Page 15

- Open up UpMagic style, barracks then ebay and academy as fast as possible, going +1 armor and marine range + bunker to block initial dragoon/zealot attacks, expanding before factory this way.

- Alternatively to upgrading range to defend, get flare first and use it from 2 barrack's medics on as many initial goons as possible (preferably at all of them). I think this is possible (timing wise) but I'm not 100% sure. The academy needs to start as soon as the barracks finish.
(I would personally like seeing this opening as it's much cooler XD).

- Make just one factory and all tanks just from this one. Have a max of 3 tanks with your m&m at all times, no more than that, defending them with defense matrix when needed, and focus instead on teching quickly to ghosts and lockdown to stop important targets, like shuttles/reavers, carriers, arbiters, and if none of those are present, use it on goons. When teching, make sure to have two ebays constantly upgrading (time the second one to finish as soon as the science facility finishes), and prioritize armor if a choice has to be made.

- Do not research EMP and use all the vessels' energy to dmatrix targets being attacked during battle. Protecting tanks and ghosts is a must here, and targeting the ones being focus fired on is preferable.
Get all dropships and vessels from a single starport also (meaning there wont be many of them most of the time, yes).

- As soon as you have 3 tanks with your army, starting making only vultures (only making tanks to replenish the dead ones). Upgrade only mines for the vultures and use them (mines) as a scouting tool for preemptively countering drops and recalls.
Do not use them offensively at all (this hurts m&m quite a lot anyways).

- Use bunkers extensively to counter templar abuse during attacks and inside bases, and make various firebats with the marines to counter mass zealots near the tanks and to take out shields faster (maybe you realized yourself how effective they were in that wraith game). This is very important to counter what happened in some of your attacks in the wraith m&m replay for example.
When attacking, order some nearby SCVs to build 1-2 bunkers and a turret to stabilish a position, sieging the tanks alongside and holding a ghost or 2 in that position.
Position the tanks in a way that they are always somewhat protected by firebats either from a bunker or on the ground. Bring the SCVs in the medics group maybe?

- Drop m&m with a SCV and a pre-cloaked ghost on expansions (this could be done on more than 1 base simultaneously, although it would require quite a bit of micro). Use the scv as soon as it lands to build a bunker on a difficult to reach location, stim, and nuke the entrance of the base to stall units coming to defend as soon as you suspect them. Most likely, the opponent will not suspect the location of the nuke and you will end up killing everything and the expansion itself. (you could try the firebat drop here and blend the two projects). When doing this, scan and flare any nearby observers.
Alternatively, use a vessel alongside 2 dropships and bring a tank, more ghosts for lockdown and maybe 1 more scv for a fast turret with the bunker, or 2 tanks, building a small but mixed and efficient task force.
Use this same approach to instantly block an important but unpopulated choke point on the map.

- Mid to late game, whenever only medics are left (happens a lot after a lost battle), and there is no way to save them, waste all their energy flaring every unit near them, or when you see an open opportunity use the flare ability (like on nearby observers/shuttles/arbs, since making them unusable is better than actually killing them because of the supply cap).