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Resurrecting the Hellion in StarCraft II

Of all the Terran units I find that the Hellion needs the most work. That’s not to say that all Terran units need some tweaking but for the sake of this post, let’s focus on the Hellion. There have been hundreds of threads already discussing different desires for the successor of the Firebat and I know my own here might fall upon deaf ears but that doesn’t really bother me as much as the fear that this unit will be lost in the mix.

First off there are a few things that need to set straight. As it stands the Hellion can be a really fun unit and a useful unit to devastate overreaching enemy expansions. It’s relatively cheap to build and can be spawned in double time with the aid of a Reactor add-on. Against all workers, Protoss T1 units, and especially Zerglings and Hydralisks the unit shines and can cause some real damage. In the late game it’s nice to be able to send 4 or 5 of these units to an enemy outpost while my Barracks and Starport are busy trying to bulk up on Marines, Marauders, and air support – the harassment they dish out isn’t on par with pre-nerf reapers but it’s still something.

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Answering the StarCraft II Beta QQ

The forums, my email, hell even my voice-mail is full of QQ. “This is too hard! This is bullshit!This is imbalanced!”

Now to a certain degree I can understand balancing issues and the fact that Blizzard’s matchmaking system needs a few tweaks and a much bigger player base to pull opponents from because as it stands now you have about as much a chance to face an equal enemy player as you do somebody ranked infinitely higher than yourself. But the game is far from broken and with a few minor tweaks, you can find yourself on the delivering end of the ass beating.

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How to beat Terran in StarCraft II Beta: Part II

I play pretty much 100% as Terran during the StarCraft II Beta so far. I played a little as Zerg and Protoss in some custom games but honestly, they got boring to me. I don’t dig the play-style of warping in as the toss or having only one production building as zerg. Anyway here are the ways to annihilate a Terran player in the StarCraft II Beta.

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How to beat Terran in StarCraft II Beta: Part I

I play pretty much 100% as Terran during the StarCraft II Beta so far. I played a little as Zerg and Protoss in some custom games but honestly, they got boring to me. I don’t dig the play-style of warping in as the toss or having only one production building as zerg. Anyway here are the ways to annihilate a Terran player in the StarCraft II Beta.

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StarCraft II Beta – Patch 3 (version 0.5.0.14219B)

Terrans can upgrade their units faster which is awesome considering that it was taking an exponentially long time to get your units to be as formidable in the mid/end-game. Zealots too were nerfed some which means maybe I won’t have to stomp so many super early Zealot harassment moves.

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