Oh, and crossing the T. Originally a naval term to describe the same maneuvere, it's basically when you create a situation where their fleet is attacking as a column into your line of ships. It's a critical micro technique in bw for the same reason, to minimise their fire output while maximising your own.

Also, concave defensive formation. When you set up a concave line of units around a choke (like below a ramp) to maximise the unfairness of any attack.

fanatacist

10319 Posts

October 27 2007 02:34 GMT

#82

Never heard of either of those terms used, ever.

knyttym

United States5797 Posts

October 27 2007 05:16 GMT

#83

i just thought of one. I saw someone call it chafing but I like to call it a vulture hop or marine crush . It is when you lift your rax or whatever and land it to push your units through a mineral wall.
Protoss have pylon hops.

Also Marine pacing is a pretty basic term.
Lastly, 4 hatch hydra

fanatacist

10319 Posts

October 27 2007 05:53 GMT

#84

That's not a seperate terminology... It's a strategy build... No need to define the obvious xD

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

October 27 2007 12:29 GMT

#85

On October 27 2007 11:34 fanatacist wrote:
Never heard of either of those terms used, ever.

yeah me neither..
i think those are too general to be SC only terminology things...anyone would understand them i'd say

fanatacist

10319 Posts

October 27 2007 15:34 GMT

#86

Thief Vults? Like, when you lay mines around your enemy then run away as their ball explodes.

LosingID8

CA10829 Posts

October 27 2007 17:26 GMT

#87

"control" is the korean term for micro

also, maybe "vulture control" or something like that to refer to the patrol-vulture where it shoots without stopping.

Chill

Calgary25993 Posts

October 27 2007 17:26 GMT

#88

Whats with all these terms that I don't think are real terms?

Crossing the T?
Marine Pacing?
Marine Crush?
Thief Vultures?

I've not heard any of these terms a single time. Are you guys making them up?

fanatacist

10319 Posts

October 27 2007 17:46 GMT

#89

I heard thief vults in another thread of TL...

Never heard the others.

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

October 27 2007 18:08 GMT

#90

Bay Float-putting an engineering bay or any other floating building over a turret so DTs cannot target it directly.

also, using Hold position on a lurker group with an ovie doesnt work im pretty sure. What you do is select your lurkers then attack a building of your opponents that is in fog of war, they wont attack until you attack the group or press stop.

Mortality

United States4790 Posts

October 27 2007 18:09 GMT

#91

A term that should be defined that has not been (unless I am a blind monkey): sense of star. Can't think of any others.

This thread should have been posted a long time ago (years ago). But, better late than never.

GrandInquisitor

New York City13113 Posts

October 27 2007 20:49 GMT

#92

I've heard of thief vultures, the name being how your vultures don't attack the dragoons, so the P hopefully doesn't notice at all before he finds out one of his control groups turned into a lot of blue goo

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

October 27 2007 20:59 GMT

#93

On October 27 2007 09:52 Chill wrote:
Charlie did you even read my list?

Yea, I did. You are lacking some of these definitions and some of them are alternative slangs like vanilla zerg, manner gas. They deserve their credit.

And the stacking definition is pretty vague. It should be more specific like: grouping a trapped or stationary ground unit with a group of air units to allow them to move around as 1 unit and attack at the same time etc.

Same with hold lurker. It should be more specific.

intotherainx

United States504 Posts

October 27 2007 21:01 GMT

#94

has anyone ever heard of "infinite psionic storm" or "infinite dark swarm"? that just sounds silly =/

KwarK

United States43654 Posts

October 27 2007 21:12 GMT

#95

Crossing the T is hundreds of years old, a basic naval term. I only mentioned it because it occurs a lot in Starcraft. Moving your army so they are a vertical line and yours is a horizonal cross to it.

azndsh

United States4447 Posts

October 28 2007 06:28 GMT

#96

I think they call that "spreading your units into an arc. The person with the bigger arc wins. It's even better than an e-penis." The only actual strategy in Evolves really

I should start telling people to cross their Ts though, see what their reactions are

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

October 29 2007 12:16 GMT

#97

Also for general:

AV-Allied Victory
SV-Shared Vision
AC-Allied Chat
Rig(ged)-using a map created in your favor
Stack(ed)-Using a premade team in public games or putting the best players on your team based on records/stats.

Divinek

Canada4045 Posts

October 29 2007 13:22 GMT

#98

On October 27 2007 11:19 Kwark wrote:
I think we out to make up a name for +1 speedlots (or speedlots with 1 more attack than zerg armour) simply because they're so pivotal in PvZ. They're like auto map control for the protoss.
Speedlots for speeded zees and cracklots for 1 more than ling armour plus speed lots?

Manlots?

XaI)CyRiC

United States4471 Posts

October 30 2007 23:01 GMT

#99

I think people need to realize that this list of definitions is primarily aimed at providing new players with definitions of terminology they will encounter while learning the game on this site. We're not really out to define terms that may be used while talking about the game in general but rarely in strategic discussions (i.e. "AV", "SV", "rigged", etc.), we're not aiming to list terms that have never or very rarely been used but might useful if someone decided to use them (i.e. "crossing the T"), and we're definitely not here to come up with new terms, even if they may be very useful (i.e. "manlots" or whatever other term is made up for +1 speedlots).

While it may be cool to have a list of all terms that are used when SC regulars discuss the game, I think our efforts should initially focus on terms that will apply to the Strategy forum and the discussions that will take place in it.

XaI)CyRiC

United States4471 Posts

October 30 2007 23:05 GMT

#100

On October 28 2007 03:08 Hypnosis wrote:
Bay Float-putting an engineering bay or any other floating building over a turret so DTs cannot target it directly.

also, using Hold position on a lurker group with an ovie doesnt work im pretty sure. What you do is select your lurkers then attack a building of your opponents that is in fog of war, they wont attack until you attack the group or press stop.

"Floating" could be defined as using the lift off function on certain Terran buildings, but it's not only used to describe doing so to cover a turret. It's more general than that.

Please confirm your facts when trying to refute what others have said. Selecting an Overlord with a Lurker or group of Lurkers does provide the whole group with a Hold command, thereby giving the Lurker(s) a Hold command that they normally wouldn't have. I believe that's the most common method by which Hold Lurker is accomplished.