On April 10 2012 00:37 Razultull wrote:I have been using Parting's Double Expand a lot ever since i saw it in the GSL a few months ago. However i don't think it should be accredited to Parting perse, the concept has been fooled around with by TT1 for a long time.
Anyway i have the build order pretty tightly down, it takes a considerable amount of macro and i wouldn't recommend it to any player short of master league but here we go.
This can only be done in response to a gasless FE from the terran.
Build Order is a basic 1 gate FE off 24 supply.
9 pylon
13 Gate
15 gas
16 Pylon
18 Core
You can choose to skip the zealot if you are 100% sure he won't be able to bumb rush you
22 Stalker
24/26 > EXPAND
24 pylon on low ground
24/26 sentry.
Probe till 30.
30 EXPAND AGAIN.
Add 2 more gates near your 1st gate and add your second gas so it looks like a standard 3 gate.
This where the build branches off into heavily macro oriented play. Chrono boost only probes and make ONLY sentries off your 2 gas. You should be adding gates in groups of 2-3, and spread them out over your base so your opponent doesn't see them.
You want to get to a total of 8 gates or 7 gates and a robo/twilight + double forge.
By the 8:30 mark you should have around 7-8 sentries and 1 stalker and your last gates about to be thrown down or already building. This is when you add your 3rd and 4th gases
*Execution*You need to keep your sentries close to the ramp so you can split up any early marine aggression. You should know this aggression is coming by being active on the map with your stalker and preventing an early scout of your third. This is indeed a slightly gimmicky build for if the terran knows that you have double expanded he could start dropping you or even come and kill you earlier by adding extra rax. However by the 8 min mark you are practically safe with a solid sentry count and can repel any marine aggression with good and conservative FF's.
If you see some 8-9 min aggression with marauders and no Medivacs, just warp in some zealots and clean it up, theres nothing he can do.
Parting likes to keep his zealot count to a minimum till he's at the base attacking into bunkers. This is because stalkers can clean up marines that are split up with FF's. You want to maintain your sentry count so be very careful with them and pull them back every time you FF, the terran WILL target your sentries to pick them off.
After you have fended off his early aggression you need to put a forward pylon and be working on 1-1 with some kind of twilight tech either charge or blink. Begin warping in huge amounts of stalkers and 1 wave of zealots. Go and push his front. As you're doing this grab your 5-6th gas and get a robo.
Philosophy of the build Basically the build achieves what zerg achieves some what vs protoss. You get a quick third base and macro really hard and play defensively till the 10 min mark. You should be able to get to a probe count of 60+ by then and an easy 1900 income. Once your 8 gates are active, you are supposed to be able to split up the terran army with ease and over run him with units. At that time the terran production is around 5-6 rax at most, you should be able to crush him if you don't lose your sentries or macro incorrectly.
The timings to keep in mind are 7-8 early aggression that you must fend off only with sentries, and a 10 min push with medivacs where it is possible you could get dropped. Ideally you would like to meet your opponent on the field where you can slice him up and overwhelm with your production superiority.
Twilight tech is favored because of your sheer gateway count, but i have seen MC do a 7 gate robo variation where he goes into late colossi instead with a few immortals.
Disclaimer This build is extremely macro oriented and the management required is quite high. It's very easy to stop spending your money just because you achieve such a high economy so fast, and this can eventually kill you. Also, be wary, as soon as the terran figures out what you have done, you are susceptible to heavy heavy drop play. Keep your stalkers in your main if you think this is going happen and keep your zealots/sentries/colo/immortal/templar at your third.
That's all ii have to say, only do it if you think your macro can handle it. GL, i can post some replays of me doing it on the mid master ladder.
Replays I'll add replays as it becomes available i guess...Most of them are very sloppy because the macro required, in my opinion is that of a high masters player or GM. I play on 3 different accounts all of them mid master level so don't get irked by the change in name.
1. Guy gets really worried im going to all in him lol and he ends up cutting scvs as a result. It's been a while since i've done it so my forges were a bit late and so was my twilight.
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