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On June 10 2019 16:37 La.911 wrote:
How do i check my eapm in bw remastered?

On June 11 2019 09:10 outscar wrote:
I discovered that lately while I'm playing I'm starting to sweat excessively and overheat. I used to have that feeling when I played around 180-200 APM but nowadays even when I'm relaxed afterwards gaming session I'm wet and need shower lol. Only BW makes me wet (well, in both ways ^^) not any other game. Any suggestions?

On June 12 2019 17:43 Highgamer wrote:
Sorry for the wall of text, take from it what helps you.

1) You need enough stuff to even rival his army, that's why we do timing-pushes (if Protoss is maxed for example, you need at least 170/200 or 180/200 supply; midgame-pushes can get out-numbered very quickly so that all good engaging wont help).
2) You need to siege up in time so that all of your tanks hit with their first volley at full range.
3) You need a good positioning:
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3.1) For that you need good intel (scans, mines spread across the map, vultures roaming ahead).
4) If you can lay mines in time in between him and you, good for you, but not always necessary/possible.

From my experience, if you're not A-rank, then you could have done better at one or two of those things in 90% if your engagements ^^

Additionally:
5) Make sure that your vessels use their energy (for EMP or DM) and that they are far enough forward to un-cloak against arbiters
6) Don't have your goliaths die in the first row but have them in the middle of your army, sniping shuttles/observers.
7) Depending on the point in time you need good upgrades. With your regular 3-base-push you want to have +2/+1 upgrades finished.
8) When the zealots have reached your forward tanks, it's oftentimes better to manually tell your tanks to fire at (clumped up) goons so that the tanks don't splash each other while firing at the zealots. This is somewhat situational though, because sometimes, if there are few vultures around, you can clear up the leftover zealots at the cost of 1-2 tanks.

In smaller, mid-game engagements, it's very important to preserve all of the few tanks that you have, slowly advance, and zone out his army with mines.
In these small-scale-fights it should be easier to lay mines, too. You can even push back goons with vultures alone if the ratio is roughly 1:1, you sacrifice the vultures to lay mines right among the goons.

One more important thing:
Many pushes are lost because Terran moves up to fast after the first, good or acceptable engagement. And many pushes are lost because of bad reinforcing.
Oftentimes you want to be extra careful with your tanks after the first engagement went well (because zealots will come). And you don't want to miss a beat on reproducing vultures and bringing them to where your tanks are.

It's one of the hardest things to engage well in TvP, and it's very unforgiving because for you, your army is your lifeline and you have to win fights decisively, whereas Protoss' lifeline is their superior economy and late-game-tech. They can oftentimes live with a mediocre or even bad engagement if the rest is intact. For Terran a bad engagement is generally lights out sooner or later.

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I forgot one thing: You should always move out with a plan where you want to go (Protoss' natural or expansions), with the knowledge where Protoss' army is, and with an idea how you react if Protoss tries to circumvent your army and counters. If you've set those things straight before you roll out, that helps a lot to make the right decisions and moves before/during engagements.

On June 13 2019 06:02 Highgamer wrote:
One question: do you know how to use the magic-box to make it so that each vulture of your current selection lays a mine? That skill is essential to quickly lay big mine-fields.

Theoretically none of your vultures should die without having planted all their 3 mines at some useful place on the map, but yes, it's a tough call sometimes if it's a good idea to lay mines right in front of your army.
If you plan to push forward somewhere then it might be better to not lay mines or not too many, unless you think that you need them to survive the engagement. In that case definitelly defuse them (by attacking them) before you move on.

As for the goons, I'd say that most of the time it's worth it to lay mines in front of approaching goons, even if the goons will just clean up the mines, because this will buy you precious time to set up your tanks correctly or to move your army in another direction.

It's never a bad idea to lay big minefields wherever your army is not, to kill or delay big or small counter attacks.

On June 15 2019 09:06 Anc13nt wrote:
how do you deal with +1 zealot timing at 7:30 in ZvP? i try making hydras 35/35 but it doesn't feel like i have enough to hold

On June 25 2019 05:44 XenOsky wrote:
Ladder rankings is not getting updated for the last 4/5 days for me... is this happening to anyone else?