The Terran Help Me Thread - Page 433

Not really, or to put it that way it's a side effect on some maps rather than the primary purpose. Let's take Antiga for instance: open this image. The blue arrows show the two common possibilities for his elevator's location: against most openings, gas first Marine/Hellion elevator has the strongest army (7 Marines, 3 Hellions, 1 Medivac) by the time they hit (~6'30), so for them it's wise to elevator as soon as possible (time is against them as you reinforce while they do not, or at least not instantly), which is why they take the shortest road to hit you. Therefore, you have to cover the space represented by the red arrow, so you make Bunkers at the green locations in order to (a) shield your Marines who would otherwise suffer a quick and inefficient death and (b) prevent him from unloading his troops and heading right towards your mineral line; if he wants to reach your SCVs, he'll have to bypass your Bunkers, buying you precious time to thwart his next maneuver (e. g. if he tries to circumvent the cliff and elevator near your right Refinery).


Your choice; if you retain them, Banshees are a nice asset when going mech afterwards, but nothing forces you to head for mech, you can play Marines/Tanks after a Cloak Banshee opening, e. g. see Kas vs Lucifron, Daybreak, IEM Katowice.


Not really; in certain circumstances you can decide not to make a third and kill him, but it depends on the interaction of the build orders and/or the compositions. 2-bases all-ins require some kind of asymmetry to work in TvT, otherwise you can't break his position due to his advantages, i. e. faster reinforcement since he's at home and the strength of defensive sieged Tanks. (As such, mech can sometimes go 2-bases all-in against pure bio because he has zero Tank to block/slow your progression should he fall behind in army for some reason.)


Depends on what happened before. When you 11/11 you have to scout his main before your attack so you know if he's getting gas or not, because some Zergs will sacrifice their natural, morph a Spine at the edge of the creep in your main and try to stall until they get Speedlings and Banelings (Roaches are inferior, he should not have enough economy to make enough of them to break efficiently Bunkers); so if you scouted gas and you see he does not try to defend his Hatchery, you can try to get a Bunker at the top of his ramp to support an attack in his main (it's optional; be cautious if you do that, you don't want to lose your contain), otherwise:

• expand;
  
• using the 2 Barracks you already have, prepare a rax wall on your natural (it takes 13 Banelings to destroy a Barracks, which is tremendously expensive for a 1-base Zerg) with a Bunker behind;
  
• get dual gas → tech Hellions and possibly Banshees afterwards (or bio tech, depending on how safe you are, if you intend to play Marines).

The order of those three actions is situational / up to you. This follow-up is good whether he locks himself into a 1-base all-in or simply uses some Banelings to reclaim his natural: in the first case you have Hellions to defend, in the second you have them for defence and map control. Against Roaches you can get either Banshees or Marauders.

You have to avoid at all costs the situation in which he runby 25+ Speedlings ignoring your Bunkers, heads towards your natural before it's walled and morphs several Banelings there, because it's checkmate: your Depot wall will easily fall and you'll have nothing at home to defend SCVs.

See Bogus vs HyuN, Abyssal City, GSL Code S Season 5, RO4.