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Bunkers: Most people place supply depots in front of them because 
they give supply, have lots of life, and are cheap and fast to 
build. But, towards the end game, this can be cumbersome to those 
of us not highly skilled in micromanagement. A scout can attack 
the depot w/o fear of retaliation from the bunker, unless it is 
full of ghosts. Now I know, I know, one can have wraiths go over 
and kill the scout, but, I'd rather not have to do that in the 
first place.

	I place bunkers in front of bunkers. Bunkers have decent life, 
and if you put a good mix of units in them, like a few bats in 
the front ones (with marines of course) and a few ghosts in the 
front and back ones, (still with marines), you can have a pretty 
solid defense. This way, you won't lose a supply depot to scouts 
or what not.

	Goliaths: some people don't use these, simply because they are 
used to vanilla SC. They are invaluable now... Sometimes, if the 
opponent is not too skilled, or is busy with other things, you 
can kill corsairs with groups of goliaths before they get 
d-webbed. Now their ground damage still stinks, but that's okay. 
You have tanks and firebats for the ground units.

	Medics: if you have a medic that is in the middle of a battle, 
and has gone astray, and has nothing worth healing (this happens 
more than you'd think), send off a few last hurrah flares. It 
works best on sci vessels, but overlords are good too. Plus, be 
warned that medics can heal anything within range, even zerglings 
and zealots. 

	Comstat: if you are playing on a large map, I like to have 2 
comstats around, and I hotkey them.

	Nukes: don't forget about these... They are better now. they 
build faster, and 2 can kill just about anything.

	SCV's: Most of you may know this, but for those of you who 
don't, scv's repair buildings way faster than they do units, and 
mass scv's can repair a severley injured battlecruiser in 
seconds. The more scv's repairing, the better.

	Vultures: After using the spider mines, I suggest, if you need 
the supply, send these guys on suicide peon runs. At 75 minerals 
a piece, that translates into 25 per spider mine, The cost of an 
interceptor (?) and far more damaging.

	Battlecruisers: Use them, but sparingly. and dont use them 
without 2 scv's and a sci vessel. You'll need those... By the 
way, the computer counts the battlecruiesers land and air attacks 
as different, so by clicking back and forth between a ground and 
an air target, you can effectively double your rate of fire.

Thanks for reading, although most of you probably knew most of 
this stuff already. Comments would be appreceated.

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