The HotS Terran Help Me Thread - Page 63

Lets go into detail :

1.

at some point your third CC no longer builds SCVs thus your early third never mattered. those 6 Scvs would have been better off mining minerals instead of gas at that time.

you should distribute your scvs among CCs to have the optimal income - not to have scvs that are innefficient. i have to look it up but i thought 16 is optimal, the 17th worker is contributing less already. you could have avoided that because you had enough expanions or the possibility to get them easily.

this leads to one of the major mistakes at 18:20 and contributed to your slow, slow death.

You have 73 SCVs, 28 in your main, 21 at your nat and 3 (not counting those at the gas)at your third. Your Main will be emptied, your Nat will soon be emptied and your weak third will be shut down by lings. your main already hat way too many scs as only few mineral nodes were present.

at this time your income has taken a heavy blow - but it could easily have been avoided.

because from 18:20 to 25:20, thats SEVEN! minutes you seemed to consciously ignore that you had an orbital command right next to an easily defendable expansion. after the ling runby at the bottom right expo you fly the 3rd CC to the expansion that the useless CC could have taken 3-4 minutes before. in the end for some time 39 SCVs mine at that expansion until at 25:20 the first ever SCVs touch the useless CC at the top middle expo.

3 of your planetaries were downright useless because 1 only watched how the same lings that stopped your third interrupted mining at your fourth and later two and a half planetaries were watching how another ling runby interrupted that same expo again, killing some scvs.
build them right next to a mineral line or right next to an orbital to secure remote expansions. dont place them randomly around the map where they wont have any effect at all.

2.

Use single SCVs/Marines to scout for Expansions.
Dont waste 50 Energy on areas you could have seen with SCVs/Marines, instead use it for areas you cant walk into - in this case his main/natural.
If you had Scanned more frequently you would have seen his air tech.

3.

F2 is NOT how to command armies. it is a tool you use to create Control Groups. You'll need Control Groups to command your army efficiently.

This is StarCraft II, you play Terran and Tanks are serious business.
Sieging Tanks even a second too late can make or break an engagement.

One does not simply F2 Attack-Walk into Mordor.

Dont save ALL your production buildings on the same hotkey. Tabbing through them to get what you NEED is slow and inefficient. Barracks, Factories and Starports are to be on seperate ones.
"But KeyboardCat!", you say in a whiny voice to your computer screen as you read this post, "my fingers are too short to reach farther than 5 or 6!".
Your hand is attached to an arm, use the whole thing.

4.

Your unit composition was okay, good job on that one until the 25 minute mark.. But you did some things that were painful to watch.

Put tanks in the sweet spot were they cover your bunkers nicely but cant be targeted easily. too close and theyll get down fast - too far away and they wont target the enemy units. yours were, for the most part - too close to the bunkers and/or in bad positions.
apply the same to fights outside your base/natural. dont put your MMM too close to the tanks, but also not too far away.
you want him to suffer for wrecking your tanks. achieve this by proper positioning of your MMM.

You must keep your tank losses minimal. it might seem that i overemphasize the importance of tanks so read carefully because you mustnt get this wrong

you cannot afford to waste tanks against pure Hydra/Roach. Once you get a critical mass of Tanks Hydras and Roaches are worthless and if he sticks to it you will crush him. even if he adds some ultralisks - if you saved your tanks up to that point he wont have an easy game.
This does not mean that they should be what your army mostly consists off(you will become very vulnerable!) - Marines, Marauders and to some degree Medivacs are replaced quickly - Tanks on the other hand are not.

additional :

The fights at 18:00 and 20:00 show some bad positioning - you lost the second one because you did poorly in the first and repeated mistakes from it.
You decide to pursue the swarm lords, roaches easily run by your MMM and kill off 3 tanks, also one medivac was full with units so you lost more than necessary and thus had less units for the second fight.
the second fight happens at the lower and middle left expo.
the first hatch is easily killed and the second one falls too - so does your army.
it would have been better if the tanks had at least been sieged BEFORE the Z ran into you and your MMM were positioned in a way he could attack from the front, push into the right and with that edge kill off the tanks. he then slaughters your units with minimal losses.

In this case you should have sieged the tanks on the high ground(not too close to the edge though) run into the hatch with stimmed MM, kill it and retreat to the tanks/close to the ramp again. if he then took you head on you would have traded a lot better or even won that fight. even if not you could have just retreated with those medivacs or he wouldnt have come after you at all.

because you didnt bother to scout/scan for tech you couldnt see his air tech in time - it would have been easier if you had seen it. a good reaction would have been to build a second starport and get out quite some vikings - your ground army can deal with his ground units quite well. afterwards just dance a little to kill off his corrupters/snipe brood lords and the game would have been yours.