[dman123]

Originally Posted by sRAequitas

wow someone missed the point of a joke

but in all seriousness if you want to learn to play terran:
1. learn to make scvs. so play a couple of games where you max out on 200 scvs, but constantly keep your money low, don't get supply blocked when your money goes over 400 make another expansion until you're maxed. There should be no gaps in worker production, money should not go over 600

2. Learn to drop mules, same as above but get a barracks first and then make orbital commands as soon as you can for each expansion drop mules whenever you have the energy to do so. Energy should not go over 100

3. learn to make marines. So now you make 1-3 barracks and then expand when your money starts to go high again, or if you are becoming oversaturated. You should have constant marine production unless you are saving up for an expansion.

4. add in gas and other T1 units, add upgrades, then T2 etc etc. add in steps like the ones above and keep doing it until you feel comfortable with each step and you can easily complete the step without breaking the limitation of that step and all the limitations before it.

Yeh this ^ when playing terran you want to be in a constant macro cycle. something similar to this:
-constant scv production (preferably 2 queued at all times)
-army production producing (2 units out of a building at all times)\
-building supply depots (ideally one scv dedicated to making depots, if you see your about to be supply blocked or you hear the "additional supply depots required" build 1 or 2 more)
-when your money spikes, progressively add production facilities and command centers as you see fit. When playing terran there is no excuse to have a bank at any stage of the game, exception being the super late game. So add a good number of production facilities and OC farm so u can sack your scvs for a strong late game army.
-and finally checking progress of upgrades and making sure u start them asap.

As far as builds go. I think u should 1 rax fe in every match-up. Its a macro oriented opener which will improve your mechanics and overall game play. Feel free to ad me on bnet if you have any concerns or need advice about anything. dman 739