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Advantageous
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
China1350 Posts
March 21 2014 14:22 GMT
#21
are bw build orders viable in starbow? just curious because starbow is technically the unofficial expansion to broodwar.
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Iplaythings
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Denmark9110 Posts
March 21 2014 14:41 GMT
#22
Never played Starbow but just go ahead and try it man, "#yoloing" buildorders is allways alot of fun.

I don't think I've done the same variation of 4 hatch hydra zvp or opening pvz twice in a row lol
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Tufas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Austria2259 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-21 20:14:26
March 21 2014 20:13 GMT
#23
On March 21 2014 23:41 Iplaythings wrote:
Never played Starbow but just go ahead and try it man, "#yoloing" buildorders is allways alot of fun.

I don't think I've done the same variation of 4 hatch hydra zvp or opening pvz twice in a row lol


My ZvT 4 hatch 4 base defiler ultralisk rush also turns out different every game (obv lurker do defend)
Just remember at least ninja 2 of those bases and build the occasional trollspire
Where is my ACE flair
pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2503 Posts
March 21 2014 23:26 GMT
#24
On March 21 2014 23:22 Advantageous wrote:
are bw build orders viable in starbow? just curious because starbow is technically the unofficial expansion to broodwar.


whaaa? what is starbow? never heard of it
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
March 22 2014 03:21 GMT
#25
On March 22 2014 08:26 pebble444 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2014 23:22 Advantageous wrote:
are bw build orders viable in starbow? just curious because starbow is technically the unofficial expansion to broodwar.


whaaa? what is starbow? never heard of it


It's an SC2 mod, wouldn't call it an unofficial expansion.
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
March 22 2014 09:05 GMT
#26
On March 21 2014 23:22 Advantageous wrote:
are bw build orders viable in starbow? just curious because starbow is technically the unofficial expansion to broodwar.


The question you wrote is a good one, but no, I can't say these exact build orders will work in Starbow because there are units like the Sentinel that the Protoss possess that are not present in Brood War.

The sentence afterward makes me want to insult you personally, but I'm trying to be a nice person lately.
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L1ghtning
Profile Joined July 2013
Sweden353 Posts
March 22 2014 13:46 GMT
#27
On March 21 2014 21:46 Cryoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2014 08:42 MaRiNe23 wrote:
On March 21 2014 03:00 _Croc wrote:

What is the best way to respond if you get your gas stolen? How many workers do you use to kill the Assimilator(if any)?


It depends on your style and how early the probe got in but the best way to respond is to just 1 rax FE and take gas at natural and send 13 scvs to the gas to get 100 gas all at once to immediately put up your factory. The reason why I say how early the probe got in is sometimes the protoss will get first scout and will be in your base before your first supply depot is even done. You don't wanna just grab the gas before the rax when you haven't even scouted what the protoss is doing yet.

If the protoss did a proxy gateway and you take your gas first, then your rax will be incredibly late + he may even constnatly circle around the location with his probe where you need to build ur rax to complete the wall and constnatly attack the scv making rax and if u get that rax delayed even slightly (when your rax is alrdy late since you took ur gas first) then your gonna have a hard time fending off the stream of zealots and he's also gonna probably pylon your wall so that you can't complete your wall.

But if you still don't wanna 1 rax fe then you can send 4-5 scvs to attack the gas and when it's about to die, WATCH WHERE THE PROBE IS, if it's close to the assimiltaor then stop attacking the assimilator because he will just make another gas..wait until it goes away(make sure to send one scv to constantly chase probe this whole time) then immedately make your gas. Keep making marines and get your fact up when you get 100 gas and just go from there. Your gonna have more marines than usual.

Pretty much as MaRiNe23 said, I usually do the latter, because first you don't know if he proxys, second he is protoss and will probably try to block your natural with a Pylon too and if he does you are really behind. Happened to me more than once.
It is also usually hard to chase away the probe from the assimilator. But you can usually retake it before him, if you are building the refinery with an scv that attacks the assimilator from the top. Right before it dies just spam the build command on it and you are good to go.

Show nested quote +
On March 21 2014 08:48 puppykiller wrote:
Hey how did you make this? I want to make one too!

I used the method OBS and Uscreencapture explained by Fold here.

Show nested quote +
On March 21 2014 18:21 endy wrote:
Hi,

I'm a protoss who hates PvP and enjoys playing TvP once in a while. What is the real benefit of siege expand? Is it only safety? It is usually not that difficult to scout 2 gate goon, and siege expand is only really good against 2 gate goon obs / dt rushes.

As a protoss, I usually double expand off 1 gate every time I see siege exp. (I also love to take the third at an unusual place to confuse the terran) and get a considerable economic advantage (especially with the 3 turrets terran systematically builds when ebay is done).

I'd say that walling-in can make the protoss believe it's a 2-fact or 1 fact starport build, but most terrans are dumb and build the CC at the edge of the cliff so the scouting probe can see it and know it's not a 2-fact.

Thanks!


Yeah if possible, you shouldn't build the CC in sight range to keep him in the dark.
Siege Expand is mainly for safety, yes. You are a bit more economical as you don't cut scvs, so a midgame push is faster than with an FD but you cannot react well vs early game greediness. That's probably why almost no better players do it, only if they either scout a 10/15-build and improvise one or they know that they will win in a macro game, even if they get a little behind economically early on like in Hiya vs. Sky in SSL for example.

The way I've understood it, Siege Expand mainly went out of favour because Protoss players started expanding off 1 gate, which FD could take advantage of by putting on pressure.
Is there really a reason to do FD over Siege Expand, if you predict some variant of a 2 gate (goon) opening though? At D ranks and lower, 1 gate openings are non-existent, and even at C, 2 gate openings seems very common.
Cryoc
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany914 Posts
March 22 2014 15:55 GMT
#28
On March 22 2014 22:46 L1ghtning wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2014 21:46 Cryoc wrote:
On March 21 2014 08:42 MaRiNe23 wrote:
On March 21 2014 03:00 _Croc wrote:

What is the best way to respond if you get your gas stolen? How many workers do you use to kill the Assimilator(if any)?


It depends on your style and how early the probe got in but the best way to respond is to just 1 rax FE and take gas at natural and send 13 scvs to the gas to get 100 gas all at once to immediately put up your factory. The reason why I say how early the probe got in is sometimes the protoss will get first scout and will be in your base before your first supply depot is even done. You don't wanna just grab the gas before the rax when you haven't even scouted what the protoss is doing yet.

If the protoss did a proxy gateway and you take your gas first, then your rax will be incredibly late + he may even constnatly circle around the location with his probe where you need to build ur rax to complete the wall and constnatly attack the scv making rax and if u get that rax delayed even slightly (when your rax is alrdy late since you took ur gas first) then your gonna have a hard time fending off the stream of zealots and he's also gonna probably pylon your wall so that you can't complete your wall.

But if you still don't wanna 1 rax fe then you can send 4-5 scvs to attack the gas and when it's about to die, WATCH WHERE THE PROBE IS, if it's close to the assimiltaor then stop attacking the assimilator because he will just make another gas..wait until it goes away(make sure to send one scv to constantly chase probe this whole time) then immedately make your gas. Keep making marines and get your fact up when you get 100 gas and just go from there. Your gonna have more marines than usual.

Pretty much as MaRiNe23 said, I usually do the latter, because first you don't know if he proxys, second he is protoss and will probably try to block your natural with a Pylon too and if he does you are really behind. Happened to me more than once.
It is also usually hard to chase away the probe from the assimilator. But you can usually retake it before him, if you are building the refinery with an scv that attacks the assimilator from the top. Right before it dies just spam the build command on it and you are good to go.

On March 21 2014 08:48 puppykiller wrote:
Hey how did you make this? I want to make one too!

I used the method OBS and Uscreencapture explained by Fold here.

On March 21 2014 18:21 endy wrote:
Hi,

I'm a protoss who hates PvP and enjoys playing TvP once in a while. What is the real benefit of siege expand? Is it only safety? It is usually not that difficult to scout 2 gate goon, and siege expand is only really good against 2 gate goon obs / dt rushes.

As a protoss, I usually double expand off 1 gate every time I see siege exp. (I also love to take the third at an unusual place to confuse the terran) and get a considerable economic advantage (especially with the 3 turrets terran systematically builds when ebay is done).

I'd say that walling-in can make the protoss believe it's a 2-fact or 1 fact starport build, but most terrans are dumb and build the CC at the edge of the cliff so the scouting probe can see it and know it's not a 2-fact.

Thanks!


Yeah if possible, you shouldn't build the CC in sight range to keep him in the dark.
Siege Expand is mainly for safety, yes. You are a bit more economical as you don't cut scvs, so a midgame push is faster than with an FD but you cannot react well vs early game greediness. That's probably why almost no better players do it, only if they either scout a 10/15-build and improvise one or they know that they will win in a macro game, even if they get a little behind economically early on like in Hiya vs. Sky in SSL for example.

The way I've understood it, Siege Expand mainly went out of favour because Protoss players started expanding off 1 gate, which FD could take advantage of by putting on pressure.
Is there really a reason to do FD over Siege Expand, if you predict some variant of a 2 gate (goon) opening though? At D ranks and lower, 1 gate openings are non-existent, and even at C, 2 gate openings seems very common.

If you know for sure, he is going 2 gate then siege expand should be better as it is more economic and safer. The only drawback is you will scout his follow-up later and might not have the best response and lose some of your advantage. Whereas with an FD you can sneak vultures out to see, when is he expanding or when does he have obs.
2 gate is probably a common opening at lower levels, because it is pretty much the safe opening for them to stop any 2 fac and has the potential to do damage vs. 1 fac expand builds.
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L1ghtning
Profile Joined July 2013
Sweden353 Posts
March 22 2014 18:59 GMT
#29
On March 23 2014 00:55 Cryoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 22:46 L1ghtning wrote:
On March 21 2014 21:46 Cryoc wrote:
On March 21 2014 08:42 MaRiNe23 wrote:
On March 21 2014 03:00 _Croc wrote:

What is the best way to respond if you get your gas stolen? How many workers do you use to kill the Assimilator(if any)?


It depends on your style and how early the probe got in but the best way to respond is to just 1 rax FE and take gas at natural and send 13 scvs to the gas to get 100 gas all at once to immediately put up your factory. The reason why I say how early the probe got in is sometimes the protoss will get first scout and will be in your base before your first supply depot is even done. You don't wanna just grab the gas before the rax when you haven't even scouted what the protoss is doing yet.

If the protoss did a proxy gateway and you take your gas first, then your rax will be incredibly late + he may even constnatly circle around the location with his probe where you need to build ur rax to complete the wall and constnatly attack the scv making rax and if u get that rax delayed even slightly (when your rax is alrdy late since you took ur gas first) then your gonna have a hard time fending off the stream of zealots and he's also gonna probably pylon your wall so that you can't complete your wall.

But if you still don't wanna 1 rax fe then you can send 4-5 scvs to attack the gas and when it's about to die, WATCH WHERE THE PROBE IS, if it's close to the assimiltaor then stop attacking the assimilator because he will just make another gas..wait until it goes away(make sure to send one scv to constantly chase probe this whole time) then immedately make your gas. Keep making marines and get your fact up when you get 100 gas and just go from there. Your gonna have more marines than usual.

Pretty much as MaRiNe23 said, I usually do the latter, because first you don't know if he proxys, second he is protoss and will probably try to block your natural with a Pylon too and if he does you are really behind. Happened to me more than once.
It is also usually hard to chase away the probe from the assimilator. But you can usually retake it before him, if you are building the refinery with an scv that attacks the assimilator from the top. Right before it dies just spam the build command on it and you are good to go.

On March 21 2014 08:48 puppykiller wrote:
Hey how did you make this? I want to make one too!

I used the method OBS and Uscreencapture explained by Fold here.

On March 21 2014 18:21 endy wrote:
Hi,

I'm a protoss who hates PvP and enjoys playing TvP once in a while. What is the real benefit of siege expand? Is it only safety? It is usually not that difficult to scout 2 gate goon, and siege expand is only really good against 2 gate goon obs / dt rushes.

As a protoss, I usually double expand off 1 gate every time I see siege exp. (I also love to take the third at an unusual place to confuse the terran) and get a considerable economic advantage (especially with the 3 turrets terran systematically builds when ebay is done).

I'd say that walling-in can make the protoss believe it's a 2-fact or 1 fact starport build, but most terrans are dumb and build the CC at the edge of the cliff so the scouting probe can see it and know it's not a 2-fact.

Thanks!


Yeah if possible, you shouldn't build the CC in sight range to keep him in the dark.
Siege Expand is mainly for safety, yes. You are a bit more economical as you don't cut scvs, so a midgame push is faster than with an FD but you cannot react well vs early game greediness. That's probably why almost no better players do it, only if they either scout a 10/15-build and improvise one or they know that they will win in a macro game, even if they get a little behind economically early on like in Hiya vs. Sky in SSL for example.

The way I've understood it, Siege Expand mainly went out of favour because Protoss players started expanding off 1 gate, which FD could take advantage of by putting on pressure.
Is there really a reason to do FD over Siege Expand, if you predict some variant of a 2 gate (goon) opening though? At D ranks and lower, 1 gate openings are non-existent, and even at C, 2 gate openings seems very common.

If you know for sure, he is going 2 gate then siege expand should be better as it is more economic and safer. The only drawback is you will scout his follow-up later and might not have the best response and lose some of your advantage. Whereas with an FD you can sneak vultures out to see, when is he expanding or when does he have obs.
2 gate is probably a common opening at lower levels, because it is pretty much the safe opening for them to stop any 2 fac and has the potential to do damage vs. 1 fac expand builds.

Yeah that's pretty much what I thought. About scouting his 3rd, what I do is I always try to make sure my scouting scv gets out of their base alive, and then I use it to scout for proxies and their 3rd.
JMave
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Singapore1806 Posts
March 23 2014 22:54 GMT
#30
On March 22 2014 22:46 L1ghtning wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2014 21:46 Cryoc wrote:
On March 21 2014 08:42 MaRiNe23 wrote:
On March 21 2014 03:00 _Croc wrote:

What is the best way to respond if you get your gas stolen? How many workers do you use to kill the Assimilator(if any)?


It depends on your style and how early the probe got in but the best way to respond is to just 1 rax FE and take gas at natural and send 13 scvs to the gas to get 100 gas all at once to immediately put up your factory. The reason why I say how early the probe got in is sometimes the protoss will get first scout and will be in your base before your first supply depot is even done. You don't wanna just grab the gas before the rax when you haven't even scouted what the protoss is doing yet.

If the protoss did a proxy gateway and you take your gas first, then your rax will be incredibly late + he may even constnatly circle around the location with his probe where you need to build ur rax to complete the wall and constnatly attack the scv making rax and if u get that rax delayed even slightly (when your rax is alrdy late since you took ur gas first) then your gonna have a hard time fending off the stream of zealots and he's also gonna probably pylon your wall so that you can't complete your wall.

But if you still don't wanna 1 rax fe then you can send 4-5 scvs to attack the gas and when it's about to die, WATCH WHERE THE PROBE IS, if it's close to the assimiltaor then stop attacking the assimilator because he will just make another gas..wait until it goes away(make sure to send one scv to constantly chase probe this whole time) then immedately make your gas. Keep making marines and get your fact up when you get 100 gas and just go from there. Your gonna have more marines than usual.

Pretty much as MaRiNe23 said, I usually do the latter, because first you don't know if he proxys, second he is protoss and will probably try to block your natural with a Pylon too and if he does you are really behind. Happened to me more than once.
It is also usually hard to chase away the probe from the assimilator. But you can usually retake it before him, if you are building the refinery with an scv that attacks the assimilator from the top. Right before it dies just spam the build command on it and you are good to go.

On March 21 2014 08:48 puppykiller wrote:
Hey how did you make this? I want to make one too!

I used the method OBS and Uscreencapture explained by Fold here.

On March 21 2014 18:21 endy wrote:
Hi,

I'm a protoss who hates PvP and enjoys playing TvP once in a while. What is the real benefit of siege expand? Is it only safety? It is usually not that difficult to scout 2 gate goon, and siege expand is only really good against 2 gate goon obs / dt rushes.

As a protoss, I usually double expand off 1 gate every time I see siege exp. (I also love to take the third at an unusual place to confuse the terran) and get a considerable economic advantage (especially with the 3 turrets terran systematically builds when ebay is done).

I'd say that walling-in can make the protoss believe it's a 2-fact or 1 fact starport build, but most terrans are dumb and build the CC at the edge of the cliff so the scouting probe can see it and know it's not a 2-fact.

Thanks!


Yeah if possible, you shouldn't build the CC in sight range to keep him in the dark.
Siege Expand is mainly for safety, yes. You are a bit more economical as you don't cut scvs, so a midgame push is faster than with an FD but you cannot react well vs early game greediness. That's probably why almost no better players do it, only if they either scout a 10/15-build and improvise one or they know that they will win in a macro game, even if they get a little behind economically early on like in Hiya vs. Sky in SSL for example.

The way I've understood it, Siege Expand mainly went out of favour because Protoss players started expanding off 1 gate, which FD could take advantage of by putting on pressure.
Is there really a reason to do FD over Siege Expand, if you predict some variant of a 2 gate (goon) opening though? At D ranks and lower, 1 gate openings are non-existent, and even at C, 2 gate openings seems very common.


I feel that it isn't so much about the ease of expanding as protoss but rather that your vulture scout in siege expand is much slower as compared to FD.

And yes you can still continue with your FD after your scout a 2 gate. The only difference is that you will probably need to use your second vulture to reinforce your mine defense at your natural. One key important thing is that you must start your command at your natural before you start siege. If he keeps up his goon production, you should be ahead economically.
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Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-29 20:57:10
March 29 2014 20:55 GMT
#31
On March 22 2014 05:13 Tufas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2014 23:41 Iplaythings wrote:
Never played Starbow but just go ahead and try it man, "#yoloing" buildorders is allways alot of fun.

I don't think I've done the same variation of 4 hatch hydra zvp or opening pvz twice in a row lol


My ZvT 4 hatch 4 base defiler ultralisk rush also turns out different every game (obv lurker do defend)
Just remember at least ninja 2 of those bases and build the occasional trollspire

i cant contemplate how you can call a 4base defiler/ultralisk build a "rush" just blows my mind

On March 23 2014 00:55 Cryoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 22:46 L1ghtning wrote:
On March 21 2014 21:46 Cryoc wrote:
On March 21 2014 08:42 MaRiNe23 wrote:
On March 21 2014 03:00 _Croc wrote:

What is the best way to respond if you get your gas stolen? How many workers do you use to kill the Assimilator(if any)?


It depends on your style and how early the probe got in but the best way to respond is to just 1 rax FE and take gas at natural and send 13 scvs to the gas to get 100 gas all at once to immediately put up your factory. The reason why I say how early the probe got in is sometimes the protoss will get first scout and will be in your base before your first supply depot is even done. You don't wanna just grab the gas before the rax when you haven't even scouted what the protoss is doing yet.

If the protoss did a proxy gateway and you take your gas first, then your rax will be incredibly late + he may even constnatly circle around the location with his probe where you need to build ur rax to complete the wall and constnatly attack the scv making rax and if u get that rax delayed even slightly (when your rax is alrdy late since you took ur gas first) then your gonna have a hard time fending off the stream of zealots and he's also gonna probably pylon your wall so that you can't complete your wall.

But if you still don't wanna 1 rax fe then you can send 4-5 scvs to attack the gas and when it's about to die, WATCH WHERE THE PROBE IS, if it's close to the assimiltaor then stop attacking the assimilator because he will just make another gas..wait until it goes away(make sure to send one scv to constantly chase probe this whole time) then immedately make your gas. Keep making marines and get your fact up when you get 100 gas and just go from there. Your gonna have more marines than usual.

Pretty much as MaRiNe23 said, I usually do the latter, because first you don't know if he proxys, second he is protoss and will probably try to block your natural with a Pylon too and if he does you are really behind. Happened to me more than once.
It is also usually hard to chase away the probe from the assimilator. But you can usually retake it before him, if you are building the refinery with an scv that attacks the assimilator from the top. Right before it dies just spam the build command on it and you are good to go.

On March 21 2014 08:48 puppykiller wrote:
Hey how did you make this? I want to make one too!

I used the method OBS and Uscreencapture explained by Fold here.

On March 21 2014 18:21 endy wrote:
Hi,

I'm a protoss who hates PvP and enjoys playing TvP once in a while. What is the real benefit of siege expand? Is it only safety? It is usually not that difficult to scout 2 gate goon, and siege expand is only really good against 2 gate goon obs / dt rushes.

As a protoss, I usually double expand off 1 gate every time I see siege exp. (I also love to take the third at an unusual place to confuse the terran) and get a considerable economic advantage (especially with the 3 turrets terran systematically builds when ebay is done).

I'd say that walling-in can make the protoss believe it's a 2-fact or 1 fact starport build, but most terrans are dumb and build the CC at the edge of the cliff so the scouting probe can see it and know it's not a 2-fact.

Thanks!


Yeah if possible, you shouldn't build the CC in sight range to keep him in the dark.
Siege Expand is mainly for safety, yes. You are a bit more economical as you don't cut scvs, so a midgame push is faster than with an FD but you cannot react well vs early game greediness. That's probably why almost no better players do it, only if they either scout a 10/15-build and improvise one or they know that they will win in a macro game, even if they get a little behind economically early on like in Hiya vs. Sky in SSL for example.

The way I've understood it, Siege Expand mainly went out of favour because Protoss players started expanding off 1 gate, which FD could take advantage of by putting on pressure.
Is there really a reason to do FD over Siege Expand, if you predict some variant of a 2 gate (goon) opening though? At D ranks and lower, 1 gate openings are non-existent, and even at C, 2 gate openings seems very common.

If you know for sure, he is going 2 gate then siege expand should be better as it is more economic and safer. The only drawback is you will scout his follow-up later and might not have the best response and lose some of your advantage. Whereas with an FD you can sneak vultures out to see, when is he expanding or when does he have obs.
2 gate is probably a common opening at lower levels, because it is pretty much the safe opening for them to stop any 2 fac and has the potential to do damage vs. 1 fac expand builds.

i feel like siege expand is always gonna be safe, you can get fast turrets, a reasonably fast cc and be able to defend any sort of non shuttle based aggression without much trouble.

once you have 3-4 tanks you can cut and make a vulture or three and go out for a scout or something too, or grab a faster scanner or a quick dropship or something maybe.
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puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3137 Posts
March 29 2014 21:17 GMT
#32
A way I like to make up for bad scouting with seige expand is by not only running my first scv and checking in later, but also making only one marine behind my wall. This not only gives me a super fast expo timing but also I can scout with this rine if the protoss doesn't make any zealots.

With this much scouting it's easy to see if you can skip an ebay which can put you ahead economically.

Also like arb said, a fast acad and second factory with vult speed being upgraded shortly after seige is a really good way to get more scouting in. I win a lot of games versus protoss who think they can take a third on like 1-2 gates and very little tech vs my opening.
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radley
Profile Joined August 2008
Poland582 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-19 08:32:27
April 19 2014 08:31 GMT
#33
Greet Tutorial Cryoc. However, the best away to achieve victory as terran vs protoss, is to switch also to protoss and beat this scumbag with his own weapon! It's particulary easy, indicating that you must have relatively good micro skills, whereas main protoss players don't have it at all.
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puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3137 Posts
April 19 2014 10:31 GMT
#34
On April 19 2014 17:31 radley wrote:
Greet Tutorial Cryoc. However, the best away to achieve victory as terran vs protoss, is to switch also to protoss and beat this scumbag with his own weapon! It's particulary easy, indicating that you must have relatively good micro skills, whereas main protoss players don't have it at all.


I can personally verify this as true :D
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Cryoc
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany914 Posts
April 19 2014 11:10 GMT
#35
Unfortunately they will probably never play Terran then if I look at my iccup-profile with 60% TvP.
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United States1578 Posts
April 21 2014 05:34 GMT
#36
Nice guide, Cryoc. Thanks for posting it, I think it'll help me.

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McRatyn
Profile Joined January 2013
Poland901 Posts
April 26 2014 21:46 GMT
#37
Hi Cryoc I have a question. Is walling off a "requirement" of the build or a safety option? The reason I'm asking is because when I watch Snipe there are hardly ever walls in TvP so it got me thinking, why don't they do that?
1)They don't Siege-expand, derp (not sure, probably they do, but I think FD is most popular)
2)They're confident in their micro and have preapared responses of holdng off agresion and further transitions
3)They hope agression does not come, or only one iteration thereof

The last part is my problem mainly, you would think that if P harass did some dmg he would want to lay back and build his econ, instead I have DT's in my base and multiple small packs of shit at constantly streaming to my base.

Sorry for the wall of text, would be great if you could shed some light on that
puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3137 Posts
April 26 2014 22:18 GMT
#38
Walling isn't required for seige expand. A lot of terrans make 3 marines and camp them the ramp to hold off the early goon. If you don't wall 3 is a good number of marines to make and if you do wall I recommend making only one marine and using it as a scout if the protoss made no zealots that you need to keep away.
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McRatyn
Profile Joined January 2013
Poland901 Posts
April 26 2014 22:33 GMT
#39
Thanks for the reply! Yeah a lot of time the first agression is actually a zealot or more and i go into holy-fucking-shit panic mode. My thought process is now I need Vults to counter the Z's but he'll come with Goons in a sec and I won't have Tanks, but if I build tanks I'm dead right now.
I've been making my peace with the idea to stop bitching and just start walling every day, but I'm just jealous and curious how I'd be able to hold those attacks, so thx for bearing with me for a bit ;P
puppykiller
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States3137 Posts
April 27 2014 02:15 GMT
#40
Of course . And don't forget about the simple questions simple answers thread.

So versus zealot you may have to make more marines depending on how well the micro goes. One option you can try if he is sending lots of zealots (and only do this if it is a 1 gate opening) is making a vulture before machine shop to drive away the zealots and then making a bunker at your natural and a command center behind it. This opening is called vulture expand and it is either done naturally or it is done as a reaction to a protoss who is streaming zealots at you before he makes his first dragoon. The idea is that you nullify any zealots with the vulture and threaten a backstab to the protoss's base with the vulture to dissuade him from sending many goons at you. Also like a 1 rax expand, you repair the bunker versus ranged goon fire until the tank comes out .

Of course if you are fighting something like a 10/12 gate or 9/9 gate zealot rush you want to just focus on staying alive and you can save expanding for later.
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