Tank Placement and Control

Examples

First of all I think about my newly played game against {PH}Shockwave and IN^Agent911. I was playing with [??]Mantra. I was Terran and he Protoss, both Agent and Shock were Protoss too. I did a quick Tank push to stop their Reavers. Shockwave did drop a Reaver and a Dragoon within my peon-line, but I managed to stop it without losing bigger losses than he did.

Oh well, after a good while I was able to crawl out of my nest and Tank push the middle where Shockwave had expanded. Now a funny thing happens, 5 or so Shuttles bouyanting Archons; Reavers; Templars; Zealots and Dragoons arrived over my Tanks. I as fast as I could unsieged four Tanks and ran them away just in time he dropped. It was easily killed off as his Shuttles were told to drop beside the four Tanks I ran away with. Nothing big but one good example. Be concentrated on your Tanks, you have to babysit them. But don't forget to build!!

Another example is when I played versus a Zerg player. I spawned at 3 with my Terran fleet while he got the 12 position. After a while I had a good ammount of Tanks and some Dropships. I took his natural expansion doing the thing I just have told you; in the Early Tank Drop section. He managed to take back his expansion after a while and all his troops were below the ramp at my main base. I sieged up some Tanks there and at the same time loaded some Tanks, 2 SCV's and some Marines in Dropships and flew it below the ledge beside his gas mine. I also wrote about this in the Late Drop Tricks section. At the same time my Tanks began to shoot at his Hydras and Zerglings below my ramp, his Extractor was gone by the heavy firing from my Tanks. I flew down some Tanks below MY ramp and at the same time flew some Tanks and Marines up HIS ramp. He was confused and chose to split his units to kill both attacks. He could not.

This does really need babysitting and I must admit I couldn't to much when I dropped units up his ledge and down my.

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