Best StarCraft 2 tactics

StarCraft 2 is FINALLY out and is meeting all expectations in terms of sales and popularity. Games like these are so popular and have such staying power (think of the fact that the first StarCraft is still selling well going well over 10 years) largely because the gaming experience is always radically different, especially when playing online and with friends.

The speed at which the game is played is also addictive and actually required if you hope to stand a chance in taking out your opponents. You've got to be aware of the best StarCraft 2 tactics and just as importantly have got to be able to employ them in seconds to stand a chance. This article is going to look at the top 3 best StarCraft 2 tactics for taking down your opponents, REGARDLESS of which race you choose and play against.

Identify Your Enemy's Weaknesses Vs. Your Strengths

The first of these StarCraft 2 tactics is that it's simply important to know your strengths especially in relation to your opponent's weaknesses and vice versa. Obviously each race, Zerg, Terran, or Protoss, comes with its own advantages and disadvantages which can be exploited and used tactically against them.

Build Orders

Easily one of the most important StarCraft 2 tactics is to have a thorough and quickly retrievable knowledge of build orders or basically the orders in which you should build up your forces and spend your resources, depending on your race choice, your opponent's race choice, and the number of players. Obviously it's going to change depending on these factors, like a one on one is going to differ substantially when it's 4 on 4, etc.

Refer to a Guide

Consider an online StarCraft 2 tactics guide like Shokz to cover everything from basic terminology, build orders, campaign mission walkthroughs, and strategies for each and every opponent matching to individual guides in specific tactics and units. The advantage here is that you're getting StarCraft 2 tactics from actual elite players of the game to give you backgrounds on the latest and most effective tactics as gamers uncover them as opposed to getting a guide in a store which focuses on the story mode and doesn't give much substance or help in multiplayer/online modes.

Opening Builds

Here is his opening Protoss build. I'm going to practice it, and then try some of his other builds for other races and see what I can learn.

Basic build (number represents current supply):

9 Pylon
10 Queue up 3 Probes and Chrono Boost their production twice in a row.
13 Gateway
14 1st Vespine Gas
16 Pylon
18 Cybernetics Core
18 2nd Vespine Gas
19 Zealot (GET ZEALOT BEFORE CYBERNETICS CORE IF YOUR OPPONENT MIGHT BE AGGRESSIVE)
23 Research Warp Gates
23 Zealot
23ish Pylon
26ish Robotics Facility
27ish Sentry
27ish Chrono Boost Warp Gate research
30 Observer (Chrono Boost ASAP)
31 Gateway
NOTE: Depending on what you want, either get Immortal ASAP or work towards Colossus tech
31ish Immortal right after Observer
36 Make Gateways into Warpgates
36 Immortal
40 Stalker
42 2x Zealot
42 PUSH OPPONENTS BASE