Rines has the same range 5 with Immortals. Normally a good Toss will put his Immortals at the back, and focus fire on your Thors. Thors will die in no time.

One thing to point out. Vikings are never good against a group of Mutas. Vikings are too slow and can never chase down the high mobility Mutas. You can only put them static at your mineral line to help defend, in which a Turret will do a much better job at cheaper cost.

I kinda LOL when "Shokz Starcraft 2 Guide - #1 Selling Starcraft 2 Guide", recommends players to use Vikings against Mutas.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Nov 13 2010, 01:46 PM

Also take note of the timing. The earliest reasonable time for the first batch of Mutas to come out should be about 8 to 9 mins mark (assuming he tech straight up to Lair after Pool). You should be having E-Bay ready before the 8 min marks no matter how (if he did not go for Mutas, your E-Bay is still useful for the infantry weapon upgrade, armor upgrade, requirement for Planetary Fortress etc.), so that Turrets can be build instantaneously after the first wave of Mutas harassment. First wave should be consist around 5 - 6 Mutas. Your Rines will be enough to deal with them.

If he decides to go for more and more Mutas, then you will have to get some Thors.

And yes, aggression is the best way. Base for base, I'm sure you can finish all his buildings off before his Mutas do finish your buildings off.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Nov 13 2010, 02:12 PM

If you let Toss get to Colo without any obstruction then it's basically an auto win for Toss. Try to get some early Banshees to harass Toss' mineral line. If he already got Colo, then you will need to have few Vikings. 1-1-1 build normally works against Toss.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Nov 20 2010, 12:12 PM

Forget about that, you can't choose your opponents on ladder

Yup. According to Liquipedia, on 1v1 Shak Plateau you will never spawn at the same side of the map, which is why you can rule out one location during scouting.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Shakuras_Plateau

This post has been edited by westley0214: Nov 20 2010, 05:40 PM

Somehow I don't feel comfortable playing on this map as Terran. It's one of the three thumbdown maps I've vote. But Foxer showed otherwise with his victories over Nestea and Kyrix on this map. His style is hyper-aggressive.

One thing has been bothering me quite a while. Do Terran need to wall-in when vs. Toss? Vs Zerg obviously have to due to early threat of Lings, TvT normally no due to both being range and the threat of Siege Tanks.

Some Korean Terran wall-in and some not when vs. Toss. Which one is better?

Thanks for the tips, yeah I also feel the same and normally won't wall off vs. Toss.

P/S: You forgot DT as another Melee.

Just do a Marines SCVs all-in rush before the Baneling Nest is out. If failed, rage quit and get another new game. Lol...

Read: Rage quit = IdrA's style "Isn't that amazing? You won without doing a single thing".

just put two bunkers and you'll be fine against 4 gates and freely tech-up to whatever you want.

1-1-1 build, and make a Raven if you sense that it's coming. Even if opponent is not going for DT, your Raven is still useful for it's PDD.

More exact way to put it would be 280 minerals over 90 secs. If you can save the scan you can call down a Mule.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Dec 11 2010, 12:36 AM

Honestly, nobody is at fault. With just two OCs you can easily call down 4 mules while each OC is at 100 energy. How's your opponent going to stop you from getting 4 mules? Use a Ghost to continuously cloak in and EMP Round both your OCs?

The world is going for fast paced match. In the past sports like Volleyball and Badminton last so long that everyone will feel asleep during a Thomas Cup. Now the point rally system paces up the game without reducing their attractiveness.

Long duration games just make me felt asleep.

I normally regard IdrA's word as arrogant, meaningless, bullsh1t and pointless. There are so many ways to play the game. Being able to macro well doesn't automatically mean that you are above everyone else. Being able to stay in the game for 30 mins doesn't automatically mean you are a good StarCraft player.

The world is looking for result. They don't give a shit on the process. If LCW plays damn well and still loses to Lin Dan, he's still inferior to Lin Dan no matter how you look at it.

BTW in case you haven't realized, IdrA rates himself above everyone else. He is still naive enough and still thought that he himself is the best player in the world (Or the entire universe).

This post has been edited by westley0214: Dec 16 2010, 06:23 PM

You need to continue that Rax and pump the first Marine out. When the Marine is out, micro him and don't let him surrounded by the drones. Put him at range 5 position and keep shooting while your SCVs wall his Drones.

Need a lil bit of micro.

Yeah it was exciting. On a small map like Steppes of War it's not easy to defend. Don't think that the Rax can finish in time though.

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Added on December 27, 2010, 1:07 pmI guess the best way is actually to straight wall off the ramp with another depot while the Rax is constructing. Something like 10 Depot 12 Rax 13 Depot? Need very early scouting to spot this off.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Dec 27 2010, 01:07 PM

Nice one. Never think of this before.

Have been experiencing great success going mech build vs. Zergs who never scout and just go purely for Mutaling. Just get like three Thors and move out with blue flame hellions companion and the Thors are basically invincible and crush everything. SEA server players seldom get roaches. Banelings are so cost ineffective vs. mechie.

This post has been edited by westley0214: Jan 9 2011, 03:07 PM