Quote (nerobellum @ Nov 8 2012 11:47pm)
why do you have to look away to warp in? if you're engaging without a forward pylon, there's something wrong
also, it's not just marines, you need to rally marines/marauders, hellions/tanks/thors, vikings/medivacs, so terran has to rally/box units from 3 different production structures, with different move speeds, and different spawn rates
if anything, pressing 5rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is the zerg macro style.
and BECAUSE all my units have two states (larva -> egg) it's much easier to preset control groups for my different units (5fff, ctrl+click eggs, keybind) and when engagements are active and i'm trying to macro, i can always fall back on my rallies and boxing to assist, terran doesn't have that luxury.
e: not only that, but zerg macro has access to sloppy macro mechanic luxuries (backspace injecting) that allow you to just cycle through and hit all your injects in half a second. granted, like i mentioned, it's sloppy, but it gets the job done.
1 - You almost never have a pylon on the screen of where a battle takes place, apparently there's something wrong with that? With your 1400 games / low masters based knowledge I guess you know your stuff.
2 - In your 1400 game and low masters based knowledge, when have you ever built marines, marauders, hellions, tanks, thors, vikings, and medivacs at the same time? TvP Terran really only builds marauder,ghost,marine(barracks) and viking/medivac(starport). You can literally do 4ggggddddaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaTABvvdd , all one hotkey. In TvZ you either are going to be building marine/tank/medivac ( 4aaaaaaaaaaaTABtttTABddd ), or mech and then it's even easier with just tank,hellion,thor all out of the factory, maybe some banshees or vikings at times.
3 - What does spawn rates and movement speed have to do with anything? You rally them and they come out, late game you have money that you put into queuing up your units, as I said you're going to primarily be always building the same handful of units , most of which are prioritized by how much gas you have. It doesn't really rely on what specific composition your making as you have mineral and gas dumps that basically dictate your composition anyways and the later you get you just have everything queued anyways.
4 - How can terran not rally to a fight and fix rallies? wtf? I don't even get what you're trying to say.