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Originally Posted by Crankenstein

I'm only Diamond but reaper into 3 rax with a fast +1 (Learnt it from Kang at a lan) is my goto TvT. You have to be very aware of what your opponent is doing though. But If you know for certain that they are doing a 1 base tank all in moving to the centre of the map once you have combat shields is a pretty easy way of dealing with it (assuming you can keep your marines in a concave as you engage). If they make it to my natural because I am oblivious or something, I wait for plus 1 if it is not too far away and run at them with all my marines and scvs. You lose a lot but 2 orbitals means you can usually afford it.

It all comes down to map awareness. Holding this kind of 1 base play in TvT for me is usually just a question of whether or not I was holding the towers that game.

I do reaper expo with fast upgrades for "standard macro" build, but it's pretty hard to fend off stuff like banshee 1/1/1 and 7-8 min tank build, especially on certain tank maps. Also, it's obviously weak vs 5 reaper w/ or w/e helion medivac. Depends on map and spawn pos, but i wouldn't say reaper expo counters marine tank stuff like remaerc is saying.