Quote Originally Posted by sketch View Post
Congrats, dude. I placed somewhere in the 40s when I got promoted to gold, pushed my way down to the 11-13 range in my league. I saw you on recently, but you were campaigning and I didn't want to interrupt.

i just saw this post:

uber turtling terran? mass expand. If you're scouting properly (observers, suiciding a probe to their front, etc.) and often enough you should know when you're safe to expand - grab two or 3 more bases (putting you up to 4 or 5). If it's 2-base vs 2-base, and my opponent is going uber turtle (as is often my early-game as a terran), I'll immediately drop 2-3 more bases. the economy provided by that can really, REALLY propel you far enough ahead to win. I can easily transition to mainy factory & starport tech (or robo & stargate)
Yeah I figured that out about a week ago and saw my results against these types of players skyrocket! Now I need to focus more on defending drops. I've been throwing a few more Observers into my unit composition to look out for this. Medivacs are just really obscene.

I rarely ever go with Stargates and that tends to hurt me against drop-type players. I lean toward mass gates and Robo tech. I LOVE blink Stalkers but they don't provide as much mobility as a few Phoenixes flying around the map would.