Safe Tank Push

Submitted by Tobears

Start out by telling all your SCV's to mine different patches while building a new one in your Command Center. 5th SCV mines. 6th SCV mines. 7th SCV mines. 8th builds supply depot. 9th builds barracks. After supply depot finishes, send SCV to scout. While building the barracks, start a refinery. Keep pumping out SCV's. When the refinery finishes, send 2 mineral guys to get vespene. Build 1 marine in the barracks, and tell the SCV that finished the barracks to build another supply depot. After you get enough money, build a factory. Get another one after the first one starts building. NOW.....you can either go for a vulture rush, or start with tanks. Get a machine shop on one of the factories, while also starting an armory, academy, and engineering bay. Start getting tanks. You may be looking to expand by now, because youll need the moolah. After you have around 5 tanks and several vultures (with mines), you can start the push. Send 2 SCVs out with your guys. Tell one scv to build a missile turret, and the other to build a supply depot next to it. Station your tanks behind them, and siege them up. Put a few mines in front of the depots, and keep getting tanks and vultures. (And maybe a few goliaths) Keep building turrets and depots with tanks behind them as you advance towards the enemy's base. If they attack you, your tanks will be protected, and you can use your vultures to waste their ground units with mines. If they manage to destroy an outpost, fall back and let the next one take the enemy. If they appear to be going air, just cancel vultures and go with goliaths. (with charon boosters) As you get closer to the enemy base, the action will heat up. Microing in more important than ever now, so protect your SCV's. This supply depot/missile turret/tank/goliath combination should be too much for the enemy to handle. After you are in their base (if they haven't left already) see if you can sneak some vultures into their worker line. 98% percent of the time they will leave. So that's the "safe tank push." Peace. ~Tobears (Kudos to Nick Ranish for this one)