2008-08-16 21:59:47, LML wrote:
if you don't know the timings, watch reps;o
easiest way to learn it, and then to perform it yourself, getting the feeling for it.
Scouting is also pretty important, don't unsiege to move out while P is on the way of the atk, he will hit your weak.

2008-08-17 01:01:38, Zoler wrote:
If he does 12 nexus you need to rush early to make him pay by losing probes.

And you need to slow push, "leap-frogging" the tanks, I think its called. Unsiege half of the tanks, move them forward, siege, repeat the process until you are at the protoss main.

2008-08-17 01:31:35, Shobolanu[5thF] wrote:
after i watched the replay i mailed it to blizzard... they were so shocked about ur skill that they said u'll get banned for being too noob omfg

2008-08-17 18:02:52, E wrote:
Your scouting was insufficient the entire game, use mines and scans to see when and where he expands, and also scan his base for gateway count, tech, etc. And your first scv scout was way too late.
Your opening was not a good response to a 12 nexus, in fact it probably was amongst the worst possible. In my experience the best counter to 12 nex on those kind of maps is a scv + marine bunker rush, (but time that 2nd depot better)
Skip that first tank and just build vults and upgrade mines first. Vult drop might also be very strong if he doesnt build any cannons in his main.
The problem is that you pretty much played as if he played some standard 2 gate, core, nexus build, and that gave him a huge advantage from the start.

He gave you a chance to come back in the game though by that attack on your choke that was a total disaster for him, but micro mistakes on your part when you moved out made him get away with it.

so how should i micro my army?

is the terran supposed to be on the defensive or the offensive?

2008-08-17 20:02:42, E wrote:


When moving your tanks, its important to know where toss army is, and plant mines on your flanks if they are threatened. Never have unsieged tanks out in the field when you have a black area on the map right next to them. Here he managed to get a quite perfect flank on your tanks with a group of zealots. When zeals are amongst your sieged tanks, make sure your vults take them out asap (dts and hts have higher priority though), and dont let tanks fire at will, but target goons or other units at some distance (shift-click units in center of clumps). When facing hts (as you did here) or arbiters, try to avoid clumping up your tanks like that.



Depends on how you mean, please elaborate the question.. in general the terran of course wants to force battles where he is in defensive position (sieged tanks, mines planted, turrets up), the more battles like this the closer the t will get to victory, as the toss in general loses so much more resources in these fights.

2008-08-17 20:54:51, m_m wrote:


like i mean should the terran be constantly trying to push their way and pressure the toss or should they be more passive and try to just sit back and wait for the toss to come to him?