I go for a similar build to CauthonLuck, basically standard 1 Tech Rax, followed by a CC, into 3 more No add-on Rax. I pump Marines and Marauders and the eventual ghosts. My opponent goes 3 Gate Robo followed by High Templars. I cannot for the life of me beat High Templars. I know my macro was poor and got supply blocked many times. However I still feel like something is missing from my gameplay. I would like to keep bio as my core army and hopefully find out how to make this build work. Where can I improve specifically regarding this replay. I did not feel safe to get a third expo. I felt that whenever I pushed, my opponent was still able to keep up with me even while he was capturing his third expo.
Yeah, I know I got outplayed. Any help is much appreciated.
On August 03 2010 19:23 AmbitiousNub wrote: yo trump! It's been a while. Last time you saw me I was at gold level, but I've managed to tighten up my game a bit and now have reached diamond. I typically view TvP as my best match up, but this guy did an early stalker rush. I went ghost rine. Enjoy the results, any tips would be appreciated.
On August 03 2010 20:27 Odge wrote: Since I feel like I've improved a lot since this game I posted earlier (in spoiler) I uploaded a newer game. This is TvZ diamond.
I go 3 rax and manage to sort of hold off a baneling bust. I decide to go counter-attack wich i probably should not have done. I get my exp up and decide to try some banshee harass since I've only seen lings and banelings. When I've got two banshees up my exp gets torn apart by mutalisks. Watching the replay I can see myself in panic mode and freezing up, and thus failing to get rid of the mutalisks.
On August 04 2010 05:19 CrovaxDFS wrote:
TVT on Scrapstation - I am gold rank 28 at the time of this upload.
1-1-1 build to banshee rush.
I go banshee/marine. Opponent goes banshee/viking/raven.
There is a point where my money gets high but this is mostly while I am trying to rebuild barracks and such, so i'm not sure if this really affected the game. I almost feel like I was 3 shots more from my banshee and I win.
Game is 25 minutes, part of that is cleanup.
Thanks,
-Crovax
On August 04 2010 07:18 Chiller274 wrote:
I'm playing plat on Rank ~15. He was Diamond Rang 3. My Strategy was banshee herassment and then Siege + Marine.
My First Mistake was the Supply block when my Starport was rdy. My secound error was to take the Gold expo. It was to greedy. After that I got Outmakroed and outplayed by his vikings
What can I do against mass viking beside mass viking too and any genrall tipps appreciatet, too.
On August 04 2010 08:47 justalex wrote:
Platinum level TvP I went for a pretty normal 3 rax, marine marauder mix, intending make a timing push with stim. He absolutely destroyed me by going 2 gate into a proxy stargate, and absolutely decimated me. I'm not sure there was much I could've done except scout better.
On August 04 2010 08:51 NazarioTsk wrote:
league Diamond 80th place
we both went Siege Tank and vikings, but he locked me up in my base. I dident see a way out of my base. its a 26 min game, i would really like if you wood comment on this. to help me find out where i did wrong.
I think i should have maybe build more siege tanks and just pushed out. or maybe gotten a few drops ships. and killed his main and exp. to make him pull back.
TvP. Having a hard time with those High templars. And alot of other things. Like macro/micro. Build orders etc etc. i went MM&M i had no solid buld order.
i went marine medivac ghost, i think i must have somehow messed up in my early macro since my first timing push which should hurt my opponent failed, any ideas?
I started out using 3 racks build, scanned him found stalkers/robotics bay. I don't think i engaged his army effectively. I lost a lot of units due to his charge zealots.
I think i didn't produce enough svc's throughout the game and i didn't expand as soon as my command center was finished. I was lacking in macro most of the game i think as well.
DT harass kept me from getting a nice economy mid game. Later I had trouble dealing with his storms.
My plan was to go 3 rax and adapt depending on the protoss answer. If HT then i would go ghost and if colossus i would build vikings. I deviated fro my plan when the DTs surprised me.
What I did wrong.... hard to say. Maybe I need faster reactionspeed and a maybe cloak for my ghost to deal with the HTs.
Mid-platinum game, I'm now rank 49 Platinum, Terran vs. Terran.
I started with a 3-rax (I've got to platinum thanks to you and to the 3 rax push, I still mostly start that way) push but I see he's going for a 1/1/1 build so right after the push horribly fails (predictable) I swap to a more Viking-tanks heavy build. He starts to harass me without causing too much damage, but the game goes on a lot and the constant harass really annoyed me, so I eventually just went ahead blindly and happened to win. It's the first game I win that lasts some time and I wanted to know how I can improve apart from the obvious (my macro eventually failed, stopped making SCVs etc, really not used to handle a long game). I also know I kind of failed with my assault, as I sacrificed most of my bio to his tanks, I imagine against someone with a better economy I would've lost badly, I'm still getting used to handle siege tanks (my own and other's) and fighting them. Thanks a lot Your replay commentaries and stream's reeeeally awesome and helpful.
My opponent is a Terran who went for a 3 gate Bio Ball of only marauders, eventually made medivacs and Tank/Thor. I took advantage and pushed with a heavy Immortal lead force. A lesson to be learned for all Terran players; don't spam just one unit.
I believe I could have handled my macro better by expanding sooner and producing more workers.
I was going for a typical Mech build at first. I opened with Hellion harass but retreated when I saw Roaches. I built some barracks and started pumping out a Bio army composed of mostly Marauders with tank support because I expected further Roach pressure. I destroyed his natural expansion easily but he managed to get Mutas which decimated most of my army. I eventually got Thors out but the "magic box" trick made them near useless against his Mutalisks. I got desperate at the end which explains the unsuccessful suicide attacks on his base. The missile turrets I built weren't enough and he overran my base and I gg'd.
I think what I did wrong was overcommiting to one build and not scouting enough. I should have spotted the Spire going up and gone on the defensive instead. I also built more barracks then my production could handle and they were sometimes idle and wasted. Mutalisks have been giving me trouble because if I go Marine heavy I tend to get decimated by Banelings. My opening was slightly off. 16 Orbital instead of 15...
btw, this is a great thread Trump and thanks. Very cool of you to help out fellow Terrans.
At the time of this posting, I am ranked 90 in Diamond.
I go for a Hellion FE, and my opponent goes for a baneling bust, which i do hold off. He then transistions into Broodlords, and I hold that off with Vikings, and then counter his main, which I kill. After macroing some more units, I destroy his new main for the win.
After watching this replay, I can see that that my macro was really bad. I had thousands of minerals stocked up for a huge part of the game. Also my failure to scout the Broodlords almost cost me the game.
Started normal, quick gas for tanks and maurader pushes after scouting his roach warren. After that I get bane wiped till he out macro me in income and larva. I go into marine/thor cause of his mutas but just cant stop his army wiping without turtling in and giving him even more the win.
Any good strategy on how to counter this is appreciated
First of all thanks for taking the time to do this. Now to the game. I went for a 1-1-1 ish build with marauders and banshees. The toss player went for a colossus rush, but I got some vikings to deal with collossi. I expanded and put down bunkers. I was contained. Finally, the toss player rushed in with his troop sand got owned completely. He had pretty much no army. I charged with a good handful of MM ASAP, but once I got to the Toss base I was greeted with chargelots en masse. I definately could have done a better job microing here. Eventually the toss player got HTs and I didn't get ghosts out in time. I failed a bit because I sieged up some tanks and tanks shot my MM when chargelots charged in. Another mistake was I took the island expo on LT instead of high yield. I also accidentally made OC instead of PF on my 4th expo. Misklik. But in the beggining I had a huge income advantage because I expo'd quicker, did some drop harass and I still lost. Where did I go so wrong?
Hey Trump! Very nice of you for doing this for everyone! Props!
I have a question though; I feel that i can macro really good early and mid game, but when I get a bigger army and stuff starts to happen, I find that I don't macro really well, and when I notice, I just spam my unit production buildings. Is there a way that I can practice my late mid/late game macro efficiently?
Hey Trump, just wanted to say thanks a lot for this thread, more than anything it has taught me how to better analyze my own replays, what questions to ask, what mistakes to look for. Someday I may have the guts to post my own replay for you !
Hey Trump! Long time fan, thanks for taking the time to help us out.
Simian, Platinum 20ish.
Marine/Helion vs Ling/Baneling. I transition to banshees once I see the ling/baneling. He transitions to Muta/Ultra backed up by ling/baneling. He takes the W.
I was using your strategy here, scouting out front with the helions, microing both groups (left out marauders incase he went air), but he destorys my 50 food push with those banelings. I think my problem was that I left him alone for so long. Transitioning to banshees took a while. He owned the map by then.
He was a diamond player and I have been having a lot of trouble making the jump to diamond(especially TvT). I can handle most high Plat players and usually a couple low diamond, but its not consistent. Any extra pointers on flaws in my macro or bad micro would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Trump! I'm a gold level player still trying to get to platinum. In this game, I do a standard 3 rax build and scout my oponent going for stargate tech. i try to do a really quick all in as he had no units besides probes. after that first push failed i went to a more Viking/ Marine Combination which was very unsuccessful for me. thanks for any and all the help you've given me! i watch your stream every night.
Hey Trump, I've just started watching your livestream and I recently started to dive into 1v1's. I'm still Platinum as of this post but my opponent was a ~450 Diamond. I actually won this game, but I felt like I played pretty terribly and didn't deserve the win.
I started with MM and spotted his FE late, I tried attacking with what I had and failed. I got an expo down while I was attacking and it transitioned into MM+Tanks vs. blings/slings/roaches. Any tips for dealing with the fast expand (early aggression vs. zerg) and the fine points of my play would be appreciated. Thanks a ton!
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