TY's three-pronged harassment macro build (TvP Timing Attack)

Description

This build starts with a standard opening with Widow Mine drop. It later hits a powerful three-pronged harassment attack while having an early third Command Centre.

VOD

Replay - A.I. 1 (Very Easy) v Maxilicious - Eternal Empire LE

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Analysis

The defining feature of this build is the three-pronged attack:

• Marines and Siege Tanks (and Scvs) attack the third base.
• Liberator siege up at one mineral line.
• Widow Mine drop at the other mineral line.

While the build seems demanding, it is in fact just a variation of the standard builds. Up until getting the Medivac, it looks like a pretty normal Widow Mine drop build, which is the most common option in the current metagame. It is cognitively convenient for Protoss to assume it is a typical Widow Mine drop into 3-1-1 Stim timing. However, this build diverges from this norm and hits a different timing.

The battle at the three places is in Terran's favor. Generally, the attacker has advantage over the defender in terms of where to pay attention. This is because when the attack attempts a multi-pronged attack, the attacker decides where and when the battles happen. This build uses a three-pronged attack to maximise this advantage.Each of these three attacks is easy to defend if they are executed individually. However, when these attacks happen simultaneously, the difficulty to defend the multi-pronged attack is higher than to execute the attack. In short, this build takes advantage of attention and execution asymmetry.

You can read more about how this build takes advantage of attention and execution asymmetry in this article in TerranCraft. It also discusses execution and macro transition.

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• Created by: Maxilicious  
• Published on: May 12, 2020
• Patch: 4.11.0

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