StarCraft 2 Strategy and Tactics Guide

StarCraft 2 Strategy and Tactics Guide

With the release if StarCraft 2 came the release of a large number of strategy guides, some not as good as others. After purchasing a particularly bad strategy guide I took it upon myself to review some of the bigger guides available so other people didn't make the same mistakes I did.

I also noticed the lack of guides out there for beginners that are only just starting the game and may not understand the terminology or layout of some of the guides that were available. Seeing as I've been playing StarCraft 2 since beta, I was a huge fan of StarCraft 1 to, I thought I would write a number of beginners guide to StarCraft to give people starting out in the ladders a chance.
For beginners here is a rundown of the different races and their play styles.

Terran
Terran is considered the easiest to learn and is the most popular by far because the strategies they use are easy to apply in a live battle. The Terran race's strength lies in being able to set up impenetrable defenses and being able to hold the choke points like ramps and narrow passageways. A Terrans biggest weak point is the open battlefield as both Protoss and the Zerg have the advantage over them.

Protoss
Protoss are the second hardest race to learn, and they sit right in the middle of the two races. Protoss are a flexible race having strength in base defense and in attack. The Protoss can't hold a base as well as Terrans nor can they attack as strongly as Zerg but they can flex both ways to suit whatever the situation is.

Zerg
Aggressive and fast are two words that describe the Zerg. Zerg are the hardest of the 3 races to master because you need really good macro management. A Zerg army will always have twice as many units as any other side and this is what makes them so deadly on an open field because the Zerg will just swarm around enemies and outnumber them.

Strategies and Build Orders
StarCraft has been on many occasions described as an intricate chess game. It shares a lot of the same mechanics, you need to scout your opponent and read into all the moves he makes and come up with a counter strategy all the while he is doing the same thing.

This means there is no perfect strategy as every strategy has a counter strategy to combat it but the more strategies you know the easier it will be to know what your opponent is doing and how to counter it. It's always good to go into a game with a starting strategy as well, a set formulae to apply until you know what your opponent is doing, and that's where build orders come in.

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