STRATEGERY!

SC2 -- LOVE HATE LOVE HATE LOVEHATELOVEhatelovehatehatehate

I get so frustrated with SC2.  Yesterday, I was at Fry's and tempted to buy the StarCraft II Strategy Guide.  $20 for 400 some pages of delicious geekery.  Not bad, and it was made by Brady Games -- who makes excellent Strategy Guides and the official guide through Blizzard.  At any rate, with some new strategies and renewed confidence I played a 2v2 with the dudeguymanfriend against some random pre-league awesomeness.

Well, until we got crushed.  They Bansheed us and I lost all my SCvs pretty early on.  We played some more games, but apparently my turtling skills are just non-existent.

My two greatest weaknesses:
1) I don't utilize the hotkeys.  If I remember to even set them, I end up forgetting to use them effectively.  I end up using my mouse to click or scroll around.  One of the first things they suggested for a new RTS player is to figure out a hotkey system and stick to it -- so get into a habit of setting them and having them be consistent.  E.g. having 1-5 as your buildings and 6-0 as various units.

2) I am really bad at scouting.  Even if I don't decide to play offensively any time soon -- I really need to get into the habit of checking to see what my opponents are doing.  There by being prepared and being able to counter their attacks.

Ok, I'll add a third one here, but I consider to be secondary to the first 2

3) I haven't learned my counters at all.  What do I do when I see zerglings? PANIC.  How about some Mutalisks? PANIC.  How about some Void Rays? FUCKING SURRENDER.

The challenges in SCII are great, but mostly it makes me feel retarded.  It takes practice though.  Why aren't I infused with these talents?

What I have gotten a bit better at is building things more quickly -- I often ask manguydudefriend what to build, he'll say "oh shit corrupters" and I'll yell "ahhhhh what do I make what do I make?!?"

I wonder if playing some of the other races will give me a better grasp for how to play Terrans.  Right now it just feels like everything kicks Terran's ass -- including other Terran.