Words do not express how bad i'am at this game. I got it early on and didnt play much, sufice to say i recently picked the game up again and have been getting my backside handed to me over and over since.
I only play terran because im not brave enough to try anything else. I can get a nice fast economy going early on and if forced i can even do a fast expand... but my problem is i never know when to stop building troops at the start and harrass, and i almost always bulk up my base way too much and end up shelling behind my line untill the enemy comes to stomp me.
Once or twice i got brave and i got burned as a result, i do watch videos and stuff but i just suck suck suck ... need mentor!
1) NEVER stop building troops. Same goes for SCVs until ~14min mark.
2) keep money below 500min 500gas. If you can't spend fast enough then build more rax, factories and starports
3) take your natural expansion before 8mins, and your 3rd base before 13mins
4) don't get supply blocked
5) remember to get your tech lab upgrades - combat shield, stim, concussive shells, generally in that order
6) attack when you get maxed
Honestly just following those 6 steps will get you into gold at least. It doesn't even really matter what units you buy, though I would suggest sticking with just marines and marauders at first until you get the hang of macroing. After this happens, you can add in medivacs, and an ebay for upgrades. Some more specific tips:
- take your 3rd gas geyser at the same time you start your factory building, and your 4th when you put down your starport
- use two hotkeys for your buildings: one for your CCs and the other for all your production structures, and just tab through them
- as terran, you should have 22 workers at each expansion for optimal saturation (16 on minerals and 3 on each gas). To check, just double click on an SCV and you should see two and a half rows in the bottom panel.
- some good basic builds to focus on macro are the 1 rax expand and the CC first. I would suggest not getting any gas at all for the first ~10 games. Just build depots, SCVs, rax and marines. This really helps you with macro. Push out at 10 mins with all your marines.
I'll be online for a bit today, I'll be in the OcUK chat channel so if you want to play a couple of custom games then look through the replay then just hit me up. My ID is Beelzebro
