How to play Starcraft Master mod - Page 3

If you put the unfocused marine on hold position you are required to run in small circles with the other marine in order to be shooting the zealot with the unfocused marine all time. However, as you already pointed out, small circles means that the zealot may deal damage or even kill the running marine. So, don't put the marine on hold pos, run in bigger circles and switch the marines' roles should the zealot change focus. To complete the challenge a few seconds faster start shooting with both marines when the zealot is low.

Pressing stop to do the stutter-step doesn't ensure focus firing. If you want to do the challenge faster press attack on one of the zealots and focus him (of course still stutter-stepping, just with a-move instead of stop-command). As soon as only one zealot is left you may repeat the process of the first challenge, letting the running stalker shoot from time to time. Let's you complete the challenge faster. You may also just stand still with both stalkers for the last zealot and let him poke away. Shields will deplete, no stalker should die though.

Run your zealots back to the fan instead of blocking the broader passageway. There even is a small gap between map-border and fan, which allows you to neatly tuck away one zealot. Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/NdROJ.jpg & http://i.imgur.com/vvjrO.jpg

The trick is to position the burrowed zerglings in a way that makes the marine ball disperse, allowing all of your lings to attack and surround single marines. If your burrow is positioned well enough you may sit back. If the ball remains dense you will fail.

You can blink your stalkers right between the tanks. There's a small spot where both of the tanks cannot shoot and your stalkers will take zero damage. Finding the right spot is easier with just one stalker, so feel free to leave one of the stalkers behind where the tanks can't reach and eventually call it in when you found the spot with the first stalker.

Burrow the weak roach. Make sure the bunker changed focus and unburrow it again for additional firepower. As soon as the next roach is low, burrow both the earlier weak roach and the current one. Wait for the bunker to focus the healthy one and unburrow again. When the last roach is low burrow all, wait a few seconds and unburrow the healthiest first, quickly unburrowing the other ones. Repeat from beginning for profit.

Don't build an overlord. The overlord will pop the second the lings run in, so the additional drones you produce will come in too late (assuming you actually need them). A better way is to do a double-extractor trick to quickly free up supply. When the lings run in select all your drones and send them to one mineral patch. As soon as they are clumped, do the a-move and your drones will automatically spread. With a little bit of micro you can keep weak drones alive by selecting them and putting them on hold position (cancelling the attack-command and making the ling that is attacking them change focus). After the ling stopped attacking the drone you can put it on a-move again.

In fact the zerglings will take out one or two probes to get to the cannon. It's nothing of importance though. The cannon should be able to cope with one ling attacking it.

There are several possibilities to do the challenge. One is to do a little bit of scoot-n-shoot with the hellions. Everytime the hellions move back the marines should clump up a little, allowing your splash to have more effect. You also may take 2 hellions of your main group (that is attacking from the front) and run them to the sides and abuse the concave the marines form.