Terran Advanced
If you survive the early game stage, your
main goal is to upgrade as fast as possible and slow down your enemy as
much as you can. At this stage you must watch over your supply - you'll
need to have 10 unused supplies at all times. Here are some of the mid
game tactics that can be a good way for a Terran player to slow down his
opponent. Nevertheless, if you see that your opponent has too weak defence,
which can be penetrated, don't hesitate to attack.
Vulture Drop
Vultures aren't much of a powerful unit,
but you probably never noticed that they do concussion damage. Than means
they damage small units the best - the whole of 20 damage points. By dropping
4 vultures among your enemy's workers you will be able to kill at least
some of them before being noticed. When you do notice units moving towards
you, lay out some spider mines to halt them for a while, and continue shooting
at workers. If all the workers retreat, lay a few mines and come back in
half a minute (spider mines are not triggered by workers, however, they
will kill it if they explode next to them). This is like very good way
to slow down your enemy, sometimes without any losses.
Siege Tanks Dropping
Siege tanks are a powerful but not so
strong unit. They usage is best on the maps with higher grounds looking
down on shorter passages (look at The Lost Temple and you'll see what I
mean). You can practically kill an enemy attack before it comes. On the
maps that have expansions near higher grounds it's very good to use a tank
drop. Load one of your dropships with a siege tank, 3 marines and one medic
(scv if playing regular starcraft) and drop it on the higher ground over
expansion. Repeat the process once again to have 2 tanks and then set them
to siege mode. This way you'll kill most of his workers and units before
noticing. If you see a transporter (dropship, overlord, shuttle) comming,
stim your marines and shoot it before it unloads it's cargo.
Using the Irradiate
Using irradiate can sometimes win you
a game. It is my recommendation to upgrade irradiate as soon as possible.
Against Zerg, with cost of only 75 energy, you can kill an overlord, meaning
that if your science vessel has 225 energy, you can kill 3 overlords
without any losses whatsoever. By building 2 or 3 of these ships, you
can kill all of your enemy's overlords in which case he won't be able to
produce any more units. Casting a irradiate on workers can kill at least
one of them but casting like 3 irradiates on 3 different workers can sometimes
kill off 10 and more workers.
"Newbie" Wraith Flanking
Well, this one is not so smart strat,
but it works. Make about 12 wraiths and split them in two groups the 1st
consisted of 3 and the 2nd of 9 wraiths. Use your 1st group to attack the
your enemy's main base (not the workers). Position your 2nd group next
to your opponent's main resource base. When the anti air units come to
the 1st group, cloak them. Meanwhile, move in the 2nd to kill all his workers
in his resource base. After that retreat the 2nd, without losses, and if
the 1st one is still alive, kill some workers or things like that.
