[M] Birthrights (Asymmetrical)

Yay! A top down picture!

10o'clock main and natural.
The cresent shape protects the natural while giving a good advantage over your opponent if he takes the shortest path. Rocks help protect the enterance to the natural, but are destroyable if your not carefull, (or maybe you want that.)


Here's a shot of some building placements. You can do a complete wall-off with 2 rax/gateways for both chokes. It takes 2 Supply Depots to block of the main choke if you wanted. The Rax's are there to show if you wanted a gap (Zealot, maybe?)


7o'clock base.
This is south of the left side third. This one is a little further away, and a little more open. I don't like free bases once the game is started! This base has it's back to the outer edge, making it a little more dificult for flyiers to sneak in. The third is in here as well. It's protected by the volcano on it's back side, but has openings on the bottom, left, and top. It's block'd by rocks, but it's very close to your natural and won't be hard to open it up.


11o'Clock base.
The last base on the left side. It's north of the main, accross the bridge. This is a little further than the 7o'clock base and less open ground, but much closer by air. That'll make it more protectable if you have a mostly air army. Choices choices. . .

4o'Clock main and natural.
Again, the cresent shape helps to protect the natural and defend against attackers who cut it too close. And again, there's rocks.


The third base is in the only path to your opponent, but has less defences than the left sides third. An opening straight into your mineral line makes this an easy place to lose workers. It's gotta' compensate somewhere. . .


6o'Clock base.
Here, like the top left base, is a lot further by ground forces, but a lot closer for air. Same rule applies. Make sure you have a mobile army.


2o'Clock base. This base is closer by ground, but a bit more open, (suprise!) There is a little maze-ish area on the high ground too. Most of the map is open, so I need'd to spice it up somewhere.

This is the gold expo and watchtower. There is a small band of ground that goes above the gold mineral line. This will make it even harder to defend. Big risks, big rewards.


Found a cute tutoral from the TL website on how to modify your Xel'Naga Watchtower. So. . . Thanks goes out to Holiver(OP) and Ragoo for the ideas! Hope you like it. I wanted to make the watchtower activate the volcano, but I don't want to mess with triggers. Not sure if anyone would even notice it either. . .
Watchtower off


Watchtower on

You'll notice the influence on the gold base is slightly closer to the left side, but this is offset by the slightly larger choke on the right side. So the left side can reinforce sooner, but the right side has a more defensible position.