EPTWant to play Brood War. Help me pick a race!
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Leffigi
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No0n
United States355 Posts
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ImbaTosS
United Kingdom1688 Posts
You would probably benefit from finding some people at a similar level to you. I'm not sure if there's any particular mechanism in place for this at the moment, but if you go into the ladder channel and shout for someone to play games with, you may well have some luck. Anyone who you enjoy playing with can go straight onto your friends list. And have fun! That's the number one tip I've got for you after many years of playing. | ||
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Probemicro
3708 Posts
yeah zerg definitely. plenty of aggressive builds for all matchups which allow you to hold the initiative and control the tempo of the game. not to mention they are viable even at the highest level of the game most popular is 2hatch muta for ZvT 3hatch hydra bust for ZvP (there are variations on those and also other aggressive builds like 1 base lurker, 4/5 hatch hydra, even 5pool etc.) frankly although toss is usually known as the cheese race it isn't really that good as an early game race tbh. earlygame PvZ you can't do much outside of zealot based allins/pressure, which is usually utterly predictable and most good zergs are wise to your tricks. You need excellent mechanics and multitasking to do the bisu corsair/DT build properly. overall zerg is the favored race in this matchup. PvT is much nicer for cheeses but at higher levels Terrans are very solid and resilient, you won't be able to do much damage much less outright kill them unless you are lucky they forgot or delay in building ebay/scan/turrets ...at least in the lategame theres arbiters and carriers though  | ||
c3rberUs
Japan11286 Posts
Go watch some JulyZerg or [NC]YellOw games for lots of aggression ^_^ My 2 cents | ||
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Piste
6177 Posts
On October 12 2015 16:25 Leffigi wrote: Hello I'm trying to play Brood War to get some nostalgia but I don't know what race to play right now. I'm a toss player in SC2 but toss doesn't feel right to me in Brood War. I'm basically looking for a very aggressive race that can strike easily. I favor micro but macro works too. I tried Zerg but there pretty hard to learn. So anyone reply could help me! Each race is hard to learn, but if you're not planning to be good at this game and only need a bit progress, then I'd suggest playing protoss. It is the easiest among low levels. | ||
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B-royal
Belgium1330 Posts
The hardest thing about protoss will be using the P key to place pylons or build probes. Their macro is substantially easier due to long building times and streamlined production (cycle through gateways every X seconds). At low levels you'll be the one with the initiative: versus zerg: - 1 base protoss build (corsair, reaver, dragoon all-in, etc) - 2 base protoss (speedlot attack, mass corsairs, fast dark templars,..) versus terran (I don't play pvt but from what I know): - 1 gate tech (fast reaver, dark templar) - 3 gate goon - cheese (1 gate, 2 gate,...) Controlling a max protoss army is also manageable as opposed to a max zerg army (or bio terran). | ||
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TelecoM
United States10673 Posts
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
managing the zerg larva is too complciated. Terran mech is slow while bio is too difficult. | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
Terran: TvZ: 9 min push. It's all about optimizing that attack and microing it. Multi pronged attacks and dropships are great, too. Bio is generally aggressive. TvP: 3 base doom pushes, 2 base 4 - 6 fact pushes. 1 Base 2 fact (If he goes DTs, you have to defend). Vulture harassment in general. TvT: You can't really just straight up shove an attack down your opponents throat in this match up, but you can aggressively secure areas on the map. Contain your opponent or take and hold more than 50% of the resources on the map. You can also play a style that revolves around doom drops Zerg: ZvT: 2 hatch muta. Keep making mutalisks non stop. Attack constantly, microing down marines. At the same time, expand and get more gas, so that you can make even more mutalisks. Eventually switch in to guardians, or in to standard lurker / defiler play. ZvP: Hydralisk builds. You can do fake hydra busts, 5 hatch hydra, 4 hatch lair in to mass hydra, etc. If he under reacts, he dies. If he over reacts, he is behind economically. If he reacts perfectly, just keep playing in a more or less even game and transition in to normal ZvP. You are the one in control, he is the one reacting. Or, you can rush to 4 bases, lots of drones, spam hydra lurker ling, and just attack with that. ZvZ: The standard way to play this match up is muta scourge vs muta scourge micro battles. It also naturally favours the aggressor. You can come in and snipe his drones while his mutalisks are out of position. Watch Sziky vs TrutaCz ISL to see an example | ||
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outscar
2832 Posts
Beginner level: P Amateur level: Z Advanced level: T Go Terran! Go real, go hard. One wrong move at early game like bad wall and you're dead. You need to count every move, need to know common build order against each race and make proper early defense against both toss ground army or zerg muta's. But I suggest you playing random for a while before switching to get used for each race. | ||
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ArmadA[NaS]
United States347 Posts
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riotjune
United States3393 Posts
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
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Probemicro
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idegelchik
Russian Federation382 Posts
(typical situation for p: omg! mutalisk killed my high templars and now 50 hydras atack me! or why i lost 100 units and killed only 1 tank?(say hello to 3-2 terran)). choose terran/zerg. 0sh9sh8sh7sh6sh5sh4sh3sh2sh1sh, 1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a0a. 1a2a3a4a5a, 1o2o3a4a5a, and nothing else  | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On October 13 2015 11:45 Probemicro wrote: doubt he likes terran tho, OP post feels like he doesn't even considers it. That is a classic mistake by aggressive players. They have misconceptions about Terran. Edit: All races are not equally hard when you are a beginner, that is simply not true. It becomes even when you get better, but there's no way a complete beginner is going to have the mechanics to play Terran bio as quickly as he'll pick up, for example, basic Protoss vs Protoss. | ||
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idegelchik
Russian Federation382 Posts
That is a classic mistake by aggressive players. They have misconceptions about Terran. Edit: All races are not equally hard when you are a beginner, that is simply not true. It becomes even when you get better, but there's no way a complete beginner is going to have the mechanics to play Terran bio as quickly as he'll pick up, for example, basic Protoss vs Protoss. pvp hard mu for beginner, coz too much strategies(fe, proxy gates, 2gate, 1gate->dt, gravity, obs, cheeses). | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19239 Posts
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Leffigi
3 Posts
I didn't mention terran just didn't mention him lol. Although I played a lot of random recently and I've gotten the highest success with terran and lowest with zerg. | ||
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