EPTThere is one 2fact strat that I might put up when I get time. However I seldom use those strategies anymore as I find them risky and replaced by better strats.
Some of them are still viable on certain maps, but they were much more common in the past.
FE strats of today is just better overall in my oppinion, but it can be good to switch in a 2factstrat in a Best of X series in a tournament or whatever to keep the variation up.
Never_Nal:
It's very hard for me to know what your main problem is. But I strongly suspect that you don't have the strategies down to perfection.
You say that you have improved. Thats good, improving in Starcraft takes time.
If you keep improving like this you will soon be able to hit C- or C rank, but it can't be done over a night.
Keep doing my strategies and work on your overall micro/macro you will improve more and more.
Also read the [G]Terran FAQ thread, where you can find many answers to common questions about my strategies.
If you can send me a replay of a game I can try to help you via PM.
Shikyo:
I haven't played bw for 1 month now due to my computervirus and I feel that my TvT skill isn't enough to write guides or make vods.
I'm considering adding one standard opening TvT before I quit and it will probably be up sometime before june if my guncam and camtasia is still working.
The strat im considering adding is basically a 1fac FE build with vultureopening into 4fact vulture -> map control/3rd exp.
Something that has been used alot of times in the pro gaming scene.
IdrA wrote some things about TvT many months ago but its still not old, here is what he wrote:
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there are variations of fac port, you can skip cloak and siege and get a fast expo, you can get cloak immediately and focus on wraiths and get a pretty quick expo, you can pump constant tanks and get siege and not get cloak and go for a hard rush designed to kill fac cc or double cc, or you can get both cloak and siege and go for a later, stronger rush. the last 2 options come pretty late expos and so you have to damage him or you'll be behind, unless he did an even more aggressive/late expo build.
getting vultures with fac port is not standard, tank/wraith is much more common. id guess the rationale behind it is that they wont have enough scans to deal with both mines and cloaked wraiths so the mines will stop the tank/gol timing attack, but tank/gol will roll 1 fac vulture mines anyway so its rather useless. stick with tank/wraith for now.
the safest version of the build is to get quick cloak and pump wraiths while getting a relatively fast expo. depending on what you scout you can cut tanks to get a quicker expo or not (if you see 1 fac cc get your own cc after 2 tanks or so, if you see 2 fac obviously tanks take priority) this build can adapt to all situations pretty easy.
if he 2 ports get an ebay and a faster expo with turrets, his initial wraiths wont do anything cuz you'll have faster cloak and by the time he could overpower you you have turrets, just transition to tank/gol with a better econ from there.
vs 2 fac you have cloaked wraiths and he'll have at most 1 scanner, but he will have a stronger army and you arent guaranteed a faster expo. 2 fac vs fac port isnt a guaranteed advantage to either side, all about how you play it out. your best bet is constant tanks + siege and set up a siege line outside your nat and pick at his shit with cloaked wraiths while expoing. transition into 3 fac tank as your expo goes up and do the thing where you siege just in range, outside of vision, of his siege line and use your wraiths to provide vision/kill his rax. practice that, its one of the most important things in tvt. this is the standard followup to fac port, taking advantage of the fact that he has to make goliaths so you'll have more tanks, but it leaves you with almost no anti air so watch out for a wraith switch from your opponent. if he has too solid a contain set up you can switch to tank gol drops.
the fac/port variations that dont include cloak are significantly more dangerous. the tank heavy one is designed solely as a fac cc killing build, and the fast expo fac/port is designed to defend the tank heavy fac/port, but is also ok vs fac cc. they both fail hard vs 2 port and vs 2 fac tank gol.
getting vultures with fac port is not standard, tank/wraith is much more common. id guess the rationale behind it is that they wont have enough scans to deal with both mines and cloaked wraiths so the mines will stop the tank/gol timing attack, but tank/gol will roll 1 fac vulture mines anyway so its rather useless. stick with tank/wraith for now.
the safest version of the build is to get quick cloak and pump wraiths while getting a relatively fast expo. depending on what you scout you can cut tanks to get a quicker expo or not (if you see 1 fac cc get your own cc after 2 tanks or so, if you see 2 fac obviously tanks take priority) this build can adapt to all situations pretty easy.
if he 2 ports get an ebay and a faster expo with turrets, his initial wraiths wont do anything cuz you'll have faster cloak and by the time he could overpower you you have turrets, just transition to tank/gol with a better econ from there.
vs 2 fac you have cloaked wraiths and he'll have at most 1 scanner, but he will have a stronger army and you arent guaranteed a faster expo. 2 fac vs fac port isnt a guaranteed advantage to either side, all about how you play it out. your best bet is constant tanks + siege and set up a siege line outside your nat and pick at his shit with cloaked wraiths while expoing. transition into 3 fac tank as your expo goes up and do the thing where you siege just in range, outside of vision, of his siege line and use your wraiths to provide vision/kill his rax. practice that, its one of the most important things in tvt. this is the standard followup to fac port, taking advantage of the fact that he has to make goliaths so you'll have more tanks, but it leaves you with almost no anti air so watch out for a wraith switch from your opponent. if he has too solid a contain set up you can switch to tank gol drops.
the fac/port variations that dont include cloak are significantly more dangerous. the tank heavy one is designed solely as a fac cc killing build, and the fast expo fac/port is designed to defend the tank heavy fac/port, but is also ok vs fac cc. they both fail hard vs 2 port and vs 2 fac tank gol.
This tells you nothing about specific builds though but it can help.
