Terran vs Protoss , your builds

[Perfecttear]

I would just like to discuss in this thread the TvP matchup. And your builds.


Me personaly i love playing vs protoss as a terran. I'm 45% TvT and 35% TvZ
but 100% TvP

My default build is mass marines, completely ignoring all other units. I found it supers super easy with them, every protoss that i've seen has went stalkers against me, and hight tech, thinking i would went marauders or something.
When you have a force of 30 stim marines, the protoss only has 3-6 stalkers and 6-12 zealots and maybe a sentry or two.
At start you just rush to research stim and combat shield, and that is that for your gas. Later you can research weapon and damage upgrades for infantry, if you have extra gas , but it dosn't make realy make difference.
You just go into his base and kill everything with focus fire and stim, it's not even hard , hardly a chanlenge even for me . I've defeated gold league protoss with ease, and i'm a sucky player. In the last game i lost 6 marines but killed 60 of his units, i alredy tokk pity on him he was so helpless.
Every time i do this the protoss player is in complete in shock and doesn't know how to respond, not that he has much time, to change tech or anything.

Anyone tried this?

[Gritten]

I have to admit when I see someone massing rines I'll build charged lots and tech to immortals.

Grant you I don't know how long it takes to get that many marines vs building cols...

But the colosus turns marines into flaming mince meat in seconds, especially if there's a front row of lots to act as meat shields.

Gritten

[Perfecttear]

The trick is ,i go for a very early gas, and the protoss scouts that i go early gas, the last thing he thinks are marines . Cut i need stim as soon as posible, when stim is reasearched you go out. The 30 marines was just an example , 15 are more than enough, to use focus fire to it's full. For every marine you will lose , the protoss player loses 4 zealots or 3 stalkers! And you will always outnumber his army 2-1 if not 3-1 with just building marines. If you rush this build it takes about the same time to build 15 marines as building 3 marauders, i love reactors This is a rush, the protoss doesn't even have charge or blink and he can only dream of colosuses

[Nicol Bolas]

This is a rush, the protoss doesn't even have charge or blink and he can only dream of colosuses

Sentries with Guardian Shield are enough to shut this down. Imagine all your Marines doing 1/3rd less damage.

[Perfecttear]

Sentries die in less than a half second, with focus fire
I just laugh at them when i see them, don't forget the guardian shield has a range of only 4, and stim marines are super fast, there is no way a protoss can protect the sentry from being killed, and also using the ability at the same time for his unit group ( if he even has enough energy that early to use that ability). And for every sentry he builds/wastes resources, you have about 4-6 marines more.


offtopic: Can EU and US players play together in custom games?

[imdrunkontea]

ya, most P players are surprised when they see marines compose the majority of your force. they're great for taking on immortals too. you just have to make sure you really capitalize on the initial push, or his colossi/HT will make your army obsolete very quickly.

[Perfecttear]

Has anybody noticed that marines now atutomaticaly focus fire. If you select 10 marines and target 10 zealots, they won't atack a different zealot each. They all concentrate their firepower on one or 2 targets, and with stim it's an insta kill.

[DemolitionSquid]

Has anybody noticed that marines now atutomaticaly focus fire. If you select 10 marines and target 10 zealots, they won't attack a different zealot each. They all concentrate their firepower on one or 2 targets, and with stim it's an insta kill.

That's not really new. Marines will always attack the Zealot closest to them by default. If the Zealots are reaching the marines, dispersing, and all the Marines are still focus firing on one at a time, then that's new, but I haven't seen it.

[Hammy]

offtopic: Can EU and US players play together in custom games?

Nope Bad blizzard! Bad!

Has anybody noticed that marines now atutomaticaly focus fire. If you select 10 marines and target 10 zealots, they won't atack a different zealot each. They all concentrate their firepower on one or 2 targets, and with stim it's an insta kill.

That only applies for the first zealot to come into range. Afterwards they will each target the zealot which is the most immediate threat to them.

[whitefire]

Going for quick ghosts helps too. EMP renders most shields useless like the immortals and even collosus fall to a well placed EMP and an M&M ball.