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Article #292843TvP Lost Temple, Strategy Help Please
From: Johnda...
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:23
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:23
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Hi All, I've been having a terrible time beating my pal who plays Protoss. We pretty much only play on Lost Temple, due to the genericness of the map. In replays, he has better micro, to my better macro. I start it off with 8 supply 9 Baracks 9.5 Refinery 11 Supply Build vultures, mines, second command and try to prevent him from expanding Unfortunately he's come up with a strategy I cannot over come no matter how fast I build. He basically blocks my 2nd expo exit spot with 5 or 6 zealots. Sometime just outside of my main expo. The reason he does this is so that he can block me from blocking him expanding from his first expo to a 2nd expo plateau that isn't weak to upper ground siege tank bombardment(basically he has two seperate bases. I normally scout with my 13th SCV and can find when he's about to start this expo. The main problem is that by the time I have my 3rd vulture out he's already got 6 or 7 zealots at the front of my base pinning them in. When I try running by, leaving my base a tad under defended his 2nd expo already has 2 cannons at the pinch point and 2 cannons near his resources. So in short, there is no way I can stop that expo with just vultures. My first thought was to block off the entrance point of that 2nd base with mines and drop tanks with a few vultures to clean that up. The main problem there is that he has 3 or 4 zealots by that time and perhaps a carrier or 2 that he's fast expanding to. I've tried my darndest to get goliaths up in time....sent 2 tanks and 4 goliaths in the strat but can never survive. I've tried stopping his expo...but then he just uses his 5 zealots to break through my terran wall. Any suggestions to this dilemna guys?
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Johnda...@gmail.com Newsgroups: alt.games.starcraft Subject: TvP Lost Temple, Strategy Help Please Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 52 Message-ID: <2130542a-aadd-4978-97e2-a78a4e00ede8@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.115.162.81 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1221495828 22036 127.0.0.1 (15 Sep 2008 16:23:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups...@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups...@google.com Injection-Info: o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.115.162.81; posting-account=Ggtk8goAAACz8Pig_oN8ojJAIw24VUm_ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 ACSIS-SLC-PROXY X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MS-RTC LM 8),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit