{"id":376,"date":"2013-05-13T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starcraft.kevinleung.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:49:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:49:55","slug":"apollos-hots-terran-tvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Apollo’s HotS Terran TvP"},"content":{"rendered":"

You all know how much I love Apollo’s tutorials, where he plays 4 hours with each race starting from bronze. He usually shows 1 or 2 builds for each race and focuses on safe, reactive, macro play. Well, he’s back with HotS tutorials<\/a>, and he’s started with Terran.<\/p>\n

The games are unfortunately wacky, so there’s not too much to learn from them. I’ll probably post again when he finishes the series, but I’m excited to share.<\/p>\n

Terran versus Terran<\/strong><\/p>\n

In\u00a0TvT, he starts with a Reaper-Expand opening. The early Reaper is mostly for scouting, but you can kill SCVs if the Terran player reacts slowly. Notably, there is no longer a SCV scout, so you should focus on scouting with that Reaper. In the early game, the big dangers are 1) Proxy 2 Rax (where they build 2 Barracks near your base and attack in the first few minutes) and 2) drops (Hellion, Hellbats, Widow Mines). If you can get through that, then you can focus on a normal Marine\/Tank army.<\/p>\n

He didn’t get through his build without disruption, but here’s the start:<\/p>\n

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