Imbalanced - Show - Page 9

On February 10 2011 22:45 KoKoRo wrote:
I find Terran has a hard time being the aggressor and defender. If I go Marauder 1 rax slow pressure into expand, he can just stop it completely and then crush it. If I go 2 rax expand I need to make a bunch of bunkers because I wont have gas units for awhile, and MMM is so terrible in the late game(Colossi and HTs dominate) that Mech is the only viable comp unless I can force the game to be in Mid game all game. The only way to accomplish this is to keep the Protoss on 2 bases while I'm on 2 bases without letting up pressure.

I also don't get the whole idea of air dominance. In TvT I give up air dominance completely. I don't really need my Starport outside of making a Medivac or a Banshee. Sure the other Terran will have more Vikings than I do, but then I have more of a ground army and I don't need to MULE as much because 2 marines is cheaper than 1 viking. I feel all I need to is hold a Xel Naga and/or use Scans accordingly. I carry this philosophy in TvP and TvZ by making Banshees to compliment my army instead of Medivacs or Vikings. If my air units are going to die to Mutalisks or Phoenixes I may as well just make up for it by putting more into my ground army that can deal significant damage with as little cost as possible. I feel the whole Colossus+Phoenix thing can just get punched in the face by using 2 Thors + Vikings and what ever else I have on the ground. I feel people use Marines too much in every match up that they feel that the Marines are the strongest part when they're more of a unit you use to hit air when all else fails. It's evidence in TvZ where a Terran goes Marine Medivac Siege Tank and loses all his Marines. If you don't have air dominance you should just make up for it by having a larger ground army. I think the Thor is an underused Terran AA unit in all match ups. Sure it's not great against everything, but it forces units that Marines, Hellions, or Siege Tanks are great against.

Really I think there isn't any imbalanced openings. Everything just sets the game up for the later stages and if your opponent or you weren't prepared for something it's your fault, not the build or your build's fault. I could claim I can win every TvP by opening Hellion harass and claim it's OP because it works for me(NOTE: I don't actually open Hellion harass in TvP). It wouldn't make it imbalanced, it just shows I know more about handling this build than others. It's like the new TvT opening that's coming to light(2 fact 2 port), it's extremely hard to execute but extremely effective if done right. Does that make it imba? I don't think so. I just think most people are used to dealing with 'the norm' that they think anything that beats their build repeatedly is imba. TvT is my best match up and I always open the same build no matter what my opponent is going. Does this put me at a disadvantage if my opponent plays me and knows the build I'm going and exactly how to defend/counter it? Maybe. But I do this build so much that I know how to counter what they may or may not be doing.

If this discussion was only to be about TvP openings then I probably contributed a lot of garbage to this thread.