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@simpledemon: Banshees are powerfull against your ground troops, but they have no air weapons. If you fly an observer in to detect them, they can't hit it because it's a flyer. Then you can move in some air units and destroy them. Also, photon cannons can detect cloaked units, so if you get cloakers before you're ready, as long as you have photon cannons, you can fend off early cloaked attacks. Hope this helps!

@Clutch: If you have lots of minerals. Don't immediately blow it all on buildings. Often I find that having lots of minerals saved up can help me a lot in a tight situation. Also, I find that if I keep all my buildings except my mining, training, and defensive structures in one place(typically my starting base, or some other well defended area) it helps clear up my expansions so that I can operate more quickly and easily. Hope this is pretty clear. I know it's kind of vague, but I can't expain it very well. Hope it helps!

@scubasteve: Scuba Steve, it is never too early to expand early. Just take a look at Ketroc's Fast Expand BO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EaRqeyfLSg

@Maxsom: Thanks Maxsom, I checked out the video and I'm going to try this BO out.

@QuinnZorich: So macro is short for macromanagment that is the managment of the big picture. In starcraft this is things like building units and building and making sure your ecomomy is strong. Micro is short for Micromanagment; the managment of small things. In starcraft this is things like pulling back wounded units so they can still deal damage without dying. Good macro means that you are constantly producing, contantly expanding, and not getting supply blocked all while doing things like moving units, building buildings and microing units. Hope that helps ^^

@Alan: Try using siege tanks, their range is great than the cannon's range so they can hit and move forward, but be sure to keep the tanks protected during the process of siege mode and un-sieging for movement ( this is called leap frogging)

@TheHegemon: Hegemon there are 2 issues w/ Void Rays... 1 is the imbalance caused by their attack becoming too powerful, even against the small units which are supposed to beat them, after they charge up, and 2: proper scouting
If a Toss player is walling in and preparing to rush void rays, you need to build a sizeable ground force and hit them with transports. A reaper, or even speedling rush will fail if they wall in first properly. Transports behind their lines is key. If the fight does come down to beating the void rays you need : marines/vikings, infestors w/ nueral parasite or at least fungal growth and hydra/queen/muta support, or an equal number of your own rays and/or blinking stalkers to run away after their beams are charged, make them cool down is the key. Isolated turrets also work well because they have to fly to the next building after killing it, making their charged beam fade off. you just gotta swarm em!

@TheHegemon: I have a personal hatred of void rays. Lots of protosses think they are the greatest unit ever. They will build 50+ void rays and try and win. The easiest thing to do (I play zerg) is to just contain them because odds are they're going to one base (because people who mass void rays are terrible.) Once you make sure they aren't expanding you just make mass hydra and get full upgrades. Don't even try and break in just expand all over the map and when the mega death void ray army dies horribly you win the game.

@Jameson: If you want to know how many units you have in an area, just hold ctrl. and click the unit. if you look at the bottom bar, you can see all of the selected units grouped together. Then it's easy to count them.

@Jameson: Maybe goes with out explanation but, each row is 8. so multiply how many rows you have by 8.

@Tobikun: I do the same thing :(

@Tobikun: Practice, practice, practice. Make sure you're hotkeying your production buildings (usually to 5-7 or something.) After a few games you will get into a rhythm for producing units. Once you're pretty much on unit autopilot it's much much easier to remember things like upgrades and expanding. It's very hard to explain but once you get it, you'll know.

@Sense: I'd go the opposite direction. Practice all strategies. Open moves and early fighting are core parts of the game. Most games will be decided by your early opening moves. Don't be afraid to rush because someone labels it a cheese strategy. Rushing is part of every good players arsenal. You should also practice all-in cheese strategies, in part so you understand how they work and in part so you see how they can be countered.
Late game is where you will have the least experience because few games will go late game (i.e. 150 population +). It's good to have experience with this but you want the most experience in the part of the game you'll find most games are decided. Early to mid game.

@Sense: Amen. Cheese can be very good but practicing cheese strats won't work past gold or plat. Good players can tell if you're missing a pylon or if you're going all in and will often just demolish you with supperior micro and scouting. While the occasional cheese can be fun you shouldn't rely on it.

@IFAIL: Thank you. Would there be anyway you could message me and send me some replays with protoss and terran thanks.

@Spikey:idk but i could show u the rushes personally just add me character code is 148

@IFAIL: alright Ill do it when I get home today....will you be on like 9-11 et.