[OxygeN]

Hi everybody! After a long hiatus, I am back with a hardly-anticipated article, on the art of playing Terran! This article is targeted at players who is struggling to grasp the crux of Terran, and also maybe highlight a few tricks that is very handy to a Terran player.

Before I start, let me clarify by saying, no, I won’t be covering any cheesy methods of abusing Terran, just the basics on how to play Terran.

Tips :

1)Did you know you can press Ctrl-F1 to select ALL your idle workers? This is exclusive to Terrans as every building you need to have 1 worker, and sometimes with too much micro, your “Shift-Rally” will fail.
2)Did you know that bunkers can use stim pack?
3)Did you know that MULEs harvest at a rate of 6-7 SCVs? (means do NOT waste mana on scans unless necessary!)
4)Did you know that comparatively speaking, Terran fast expos are the weakest of all races? (SO DO NOT FE.)
5)Do not overlook the power of Reactors. I used to hate them; now I love them.
6)+3 attack upgraded marines makes everything un-upgraded look weak.

Game Tips :

1)A fully saturated mineral line can support about 4 Raxes with 1 factory with pauses in between.
2)Stim-Pack is steroids. Don’t overdose!
3)If you stim a marauder for an example, both marines and maruders stim! So do not control the marines and stim again! They’ll double stim!
4)Ravens PDD can turn the tides of battle if utilized properly.
5)Tanks when micro-ed is a lot better than auto-attack.
6)Expo-ing when you get your T2/2.5 up is always very safe. (ie factory/starport)

Build Orders :

The idea of everyone’s “Perfect” BO, is that you are able to consistently build workers whilst getting whatever you want. And since I said I won’t go out of the norm in this thread, for everyone struggling to pen down their BO and randomly building things when they feel like it, read on for a very basic yet widely utilized order!

Build constant SCVs,
10 food build a Supply Depot
12 food build a Barracks
13 Refinery
15 Oribtal Command

Laugh at me for posting such a thing, it seems simple, but I’ve witnessed countless people get it wrong. There’s only 4 numbers u need to remember!

General Unit Compositions

TvT : Tanks Vikings MMM
TvP : MMMG
TvZ MMMTTH / MMT(more favored nowadays)


MMM = Marine Marauder Medivacs
MM = Marine Medivac
T = Tanks
TH = Thors

A short simple post, hope it helps your game! Any questions feel free to PM me in this website, or post below. I changed my bnet nick, so I haven’t really got my game ID. So my Oxygen.278 is redundant. ):

PS : OISK! /o/