Interactive build order guides

It's discussed in the video. Bane nest before ling speed if you see it in time, spine in mineral line, 2nd queen asap. Hold position micro and sim city to block off your mineral line, split drones if need be but better to just lock them out of your line while queen/spine does work. Retake natural asap and you're even, ahead or slightly behind depending how well you micro

I think you should get behind on many maps but it won't lose you the game. On dusk towers and Orbital shipyard where there's only 1 area to defend you can get away with this. On other maps, and even on these ones to some extent, the issue is that roaches are slow to build, slow-moving units. So if you see 20 lings coming across the map if you have just 2-banes you know you can buy time and stop them getting up your ramp until your reactive 10-14 lings are out. But with roaches you NEED to have ~5 or so roaches out by the time they hit or everything can fall apart very quickly. So you have to commit earlier to more defence just incase there's aggression, so if you're opponents greedy they get ahead. Also you can't then pressure with this overcommittal of units to force units out of your opponent due to how slow they are, whereas ling-bane can always dart across a big map and force a big response or do big damage.

Your style is good on super close spawns on central protocol/lerilak etc because you can walk out with slow roaches to force a reaction, and just walk home without committing. On a huge distance no-one gives a shit about seeing a few slow roaches walking towards them, but on close spawns that shit forces a big reaction. I'm a big fan of doing it on these spawns.

Drone up hard focusing on minerals and delaying extra gas. Go spores as late as safely possible, 2-3 extra queens. As you hit 3-base saturation drop your missing gases and hydra den + infestation pit. Go Hive and roach hydra. Vipers for fighting mass muta or lurker or roach hydra transitions. Roach-hydra timing to hit before Hive kicks in if they're teching fast off just lingbanemuta.

Change absolutely nothing your early droning will be more efficient and you'll end up at most slightly behind in the midgame. The more you refine the opening the more you can ignore greed from them as you're so efficient.

If you want to do a lingbane attack then yeah the extra larva is super useful, but then you get stuck in a much more fast-paced game where it's very hard to have the same sort of reliable, safe and exact transition. However if you're defending with this build even vs an all-in you only need to build a fraction of their lingbane due to your early anchor making you incredibly efficient. You can just add a spine and a good round of extra lingbane to absorb endless waves.

With this hatchery timing your early droning is smoother and you saturate 2-bases much faster whilst being 100% safe so you're not behind. But it doesn't lend itself to early aggression as much

For big roach-bane timings you've gotta play a bit different on like ulrena and close spawn lerilak etc and maybe delay the evo or lair or whatever while scouting harder (or hitting your own big timing). Generally just ling scouts and ovie pokes on mineral lines to try and see what they're up to. Early warning makes it easy as you just prioritize roaches and slow down tech/droning to have a defendable lead.

Those timings hit quite late so you can easily defend the 3rd and have your own roaches out unless they've massed units off like 20 drones. In which case its super easy to scout because they have no drones on the natural.

14 Pylon (at wall)
16 Gateway (scout)
17 Gas
19 Nexus
20 Core
21 Gas
22 Pylon
@100% Core Adept + Warpgate
Chrono adept
@100 Gas Mothership Core
Build Stalker, sentry out of gateway.
@300 minerals 2 Gateways

14 Pylon
17 Nexus (scout)
17 Gate
18 Gas
19 Gas
20 Gate
23 Core
@100% Core 2 Adepts + Warpgate + Mcore
Chrono adepts
2 sentries afterwards
@150 minerals 1 Gateway

14 Pylon
17 Nexus (scout)
17 Gate
18 Gas
19 Gas
20 Forge
23 Core
@100% forge +1 attack -> +1 armour (no chrono)
@100% core Adept + Warpgate + Mcore
Stalker sentry afterwards.
@300 minerals 2 Gateways

Stargate (5 phoenix)
@3:40 Forge (if not added already)
@4:00 Double Gas (3:30 for gate forge opener)
Warp in for total of 2 adepts 2 sentries
Move down to take nexus and add twilight and robo immediately

Description
This series shows the strength of this style against one of the best lotv players. I couldn't seal the deal in the series because he is better than me, not because of the build.
Only the replay for Game 2 is there, but the whole series was casted as well.

Replay
http://www.twitch.tv/wardiii/v/27765439?t=4h32m00s
http://lotv.spawningtool.com/4361/

I don't by any means consider TvP to be anywhere near balanced right now. I believe the combination of adepts and PO allow Protoss to be excessively greedy due to pylons' potency and adepts early game efficiency, and I believe there is no "standard macro build" that puts Terran in any decent position. Unlike HoTS, where Terran expanded faster and generally had more army supply of weaker units than Protoss, in LoTV, Protoss expands more quickly and generally has more quality units by the mid game (you may thank the early thirds, adepts, and disruptors). Terran has new tools in LoTV that allow them to fight Protoss in the late game with Liberators, however, this only works out if Terran can survive to the late game without losing all their workers or outright dying. Every game has an early game.

TvP in HoTS often saw Terran on the aggression, with plenty of tools to gnaw away at Protoss while Terran then decides to end the game with a powerful SCV pull or chooses to mass up dropships and go ham on the Protoss' expansions. LoTV sees Protoss with map control and more viable harass with ranged warp prisms, lowered opportunity cost for things like oracles, disruptor drops, and easy defense with spammable 30 damage Pylon Overcharges.

What does this mean? It means what I said before. I truly and honestly do not believe there is a solid way for Terran to play macro into the mid game while staying even aggressively AND economically with a Protoss player of equal skill.

What does this mean???? It means we shake things up and use styles that allow you to take the initiative!!!

Camera Hotkeys:
This is Legacy of the Void, and you are a Terran player, a member of the official Hardest Race. If you are not using camera hotkeys, you are going to suffer 4 fold. This expansion is faster paced, with more expanding, harassment, and counter harassment than ever. You need to be able to zoom to each base accurately and quickly at the touch of a key every time you do macro management. What do you think this is, HoTS Protoss?

Hotkeys:
The same applies to hotkey management. If you are still relying on a select all army hotkey and are not responsibly rallying your forces, consider upping your mechanics before playing LoTV TvP. What do you think this is, HoTS Protoss?

The 1/1/1

It's back baby. The dreaded build from Wings of Liberty, the TvP 1/1/1. The Wings 1/1/1 utilized a combination of Raven, Banshee, Marines and Tanks in order to punish a Protoss who tries to play a standard game with a standard expansion timing by chipping away at them while having a beefy high DPS buffer.

In LoTV, the zoning power of the 1/1/1 has only gotten stronger, and is probably the one thing I think is actually "strong" in TvP. It's extremely map dependent however, and I reserve the build specifically for Ulrena and sometimes prion terraces.

The build:

- 13 depot
- 16 barracks
- 16 gas
- 17 gas
- @100% barracks, reactor
- @100 gas, factory
- @100% factory, tech lab and Starport

Money is very tight with the build, so mind your double queueing of marines and scvs as you throw down your depots on time.

Cut SCVs around 24-25 (22 is maximum 1 base saturation).

Once your factory has a tech lab, start your first siege tank. Once the Starport finishes, start a Liberator.

DO NOT STOP MARINE PRODUCTION!!!
DO NOT STOP MARINE PRODUCTION!!!
DO NOT STOP MARINE PRODUCTION!!!
DO NOT STOP MARINE PRODUCTION!!!

Once you have 8 marines and your first tank, move out, with the tank leading the way and minding any lingering adepts. Your opponent should know something is up by your lack of a natural.


The infrastructure set up by 3 minutes.

Move right across the map (especially easy on Ulrena) and start setting up at the bottom of their natural ramp. Pull 2-3 SCVs for repairs and making turrets/bunkers. Turrets will give you air dominance, and bunkers are well rounded for holding your position.


The Liberator doubles as a heavy duty zoning unit and a ramp spotter as your tank kills the pylons.

The attack only becomes more deadly as a second tank and Liberator show up, and it's almost lights out once the third tank and Liberator show up. You may start to have excess minerals as the attack drags, so don't be afraid to back up your attack with a natural CC.


2-3 SCVs give your push heavy duty trenching and on demand repairs.

Make sure you understand the broad strokes of this build order. Go back and skim through it if you need to.
Got it? good, now try running through the steps yourself.

First of all open Starcraft 2 on your computer. Second, click this link and see if you can keep up. Don't worry, you will be guided through each step as it becomes relevant.

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Proxy Reaper into 2 Base Heavy Aggression:

This style is more advanced and requires being able to multitask. It focuses on knocking the Protoss off balance early, discouraging them from doing cheese and instead focusing on defending and being greedy after successfully defending, before hitting them with a sharp aggressive timing parade.

This style is not without its weaknesses:

- Soft usage of DTs that burn out your scans and wear down your forces
- Players who are good at intercepting stray units with blink or Phoenix
- A combination of mis micro on your end and superb defense from their's

The opener:
- 12 SCV
- @5-7 seconds, take an SCV off the line and move it towards a proper proxy location. I like to do this build on Orbital Shipyard and Dusk Towers, and generally proxy like so:





- 16 rax
- 16 gas
- 17 gas (with next 75 minerals, no cutting SCVs)

- While your first reaper is queued up, start your factory at home @ 100 gas
- Start 2nd reaper @50 gas
- At @100% 2nd reaper, lift your barracks and take it home; Land the barracks on the tech lab from the factory (the factory will be done making the cyclone by then)

Your first reaper will arrive in the Protoss base a good 10-15 seconds before they are generally ready for it. A scouting probe might hint them that something is up from the double gas but lack of barracks, but there's nothing Protoss can really do from this point to accelerate their defenses, as they generally open Gate - > Gas - > Nexus - > Core while getting the MsC out just in time to stop an in base reaper FE.

- Use your grenades and focus down as many probes as you can. Even Mid GMs lose 2-3 initial probes, and sometimes have to pull for a little bit. Worse players I've faced have lost upwards of 7-8 probes total.

- Pull your first reaper back when the MsC is done and beware of pylons. With the next 2 reapers I tend to either split them up to split the MsC attention, or bring them to the natural of the Protoss and focus down all the natural probes before attempting to get at least 1 reaper out of there (I generally get 1 out).


The reaper arrives in the Protoss base well before good defenses are ready.


With good control, even NA's top can't help losing 5 probes with reapers escaping.

While the reapers are harassing, note your multi tasking with depots and infrastructure:
- at 100% Factory, throw down a tech lab and your Starport
- at 100% Tech Lab, start a cyclone. It finishes quickly enough that you are safe from Proxy Oracles, any adepts that counter push across the map, proxy PO, or MsC harass
- You will start to float money here, so as your Starport is building, start your natural expansion around 3:20
- at 100% Starport, start your first Liberator

This first Liberator can be used to harass or defend, depending on what your opponent is doing. My reapers sometimes see many gates dropping for retaliation, and a fat depot wall, the cyclone, and a liberator can quickly discourage most ground attacks.

If the Protoss is trying to regreed up, use the Liberator to soft harass one of their mineral lines, minding Pylon placement while you macro up.

Start 2 more barracks and an engineering bay for +1 attack. Land your barracks on the Factory's tech lab and start stim, followed up by Combat Shields and Concussive Shells. Start 2 gases at your natural when you have about 12-14 SCVs there. Do not forget non stop production. Cut SCVs when you hit 44.

The next part of the build is not set in stone, but I generally follow it the same way each time I do it. I use the factory to make a reactor for my starport, then a reactor for itself. I eventually add barracks 4 and 5, and I cut Medivacs around 3-4. From there it is pure Bio Mine Liberator Production.


Good, organized, and timely infrastructure to fuel your aggression.

Once you have a decent bio count, move out with the Mines, Bio, Liberators, making sure your mineral lines are safe from Oracle Harass and the like and use the cyclone to lead the charge, scouting on ahead.


This push out happens as early as 6:30-7:00, with the cyclone leading the way.

Most Protoss opponents are trying to greed up their economy before a production explosion. This combined with your cheesy harass can give you a solid army advantage-based timing to punish and end the Protoss. There are a few ways you can take out the pylons.

1) Cyclone lock on and pick away one by one.
2) Siege Tank (I have had games where I made a siege tank after the cyclone to counter heavy adepts)
3) Push in with 6-8 stimmed rauders and beat down a pylon quickly before the MsC can spam PO. Rinse and repeat after healing.

Set up your position in a fashion where your Liberators compromise important ground for the Protoss and mines cover the zones under the Libs so charge ins by high numbers of stalkers, adepts, or phoenix are heavy punished.


Good coverage with your zoning units gives you a strong staging ground to push from.


This Protoss took a 4:10 third, but his army is not well rounded yet. The Phoenix have no use in this uncomfortable situation.

From here you work your way forward and kill the Protoss third, before slowly leapfrogging Liberators, Mines, and Bio positioning up their ramp.

It's up to you whether to commit or not or play the hard contain game. I've chipped away at the Protoss infrastructure using zoning units until Protoss engages into my entrenched position and loses, and I've also lifted my main to my third (or even built a brand new CC) to sustain my income while Protoss's main is mined out and their third destroyed.

Following so far? OK, That's enough theory. Time to put it into practice. Follow this link to be guided through the process in a more hands on way. Remember to save anywhere you struggle with so you can isolate and work on it.

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