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Foreword

First, an addition to movement. This will be needed to understand some of the explanations below. (The actual finished book will be better structured, but I'm writing this articles in chronological order as I research various areas). I will reference sections by their intended name in the book, so if you don't find something, don't be too surprised (The Processing frames and updating units section is not published yet, for example). I do try to keep it consistent though.

Let's get into it!

(Chapter: An inside look into StarCraft)

Movement modifiers

Some upgrades, and effects modify the unit's speed, acceleration, and turn rate. One would expect these to stack additively, but it's simpler than that.

Unit speed: if the unit is under the effect of stim packs, or has a speed upgrade, it has +1 modifier and it has a -1 modifier if it's ensnared. There is no movement speed upgrade for Firebats and Marines, so while the code permits them to stack, effectively they never do. If the sum of these modifiers is less than 0, the unit's speed is halved. If it's greater than 0, two things can happen. If the unit is a Protoss Scout (or a hero version of it), the speed is set to a constant value (ufp8::integer(6) + (ufp8::integer(1) - ufp8::integer(1) / 3u)) – this is roughly 6.66, which is a 33% increase. Otherwise the speed of the unit is increased by half of the base speed, and the minimum speed is increased by a constant (ufp8::integer(3) + ufp8::integer(1) / 3u) or 3.33. This causes the zerg overlord speed upgrade to result in a 300% increase in speed. If the speed is lower than the minimum, it is modified to be the minimum. If the modifier total is 0, then the unit's base speed is returned (so ensnare and stim packs can cancel each other out, for example).

Unit acceleration: Like with speed, there is a modifier value calculated, for the same effects. If the modifier is negative, the acceleration rate is divided by four, if it's negative, it is doubled.

Unit turn rate: The calculation is the same as with the the acceleration. If the modifier is negative, the turn rate is divided by four, if it's positive, it's doubled.

Here is the code segment dictating these:

Second, an addition to the Energy segment of unit abilities:

The starting energy of a unit is the quarter of the maximum energy of the unit type (rounded up), so upgrades affect it. The exceptions are the Protoss Shield Battery, with the starting energy of 100, and Dark Archons, with 50 energy (even with energy upgrade).

(Continuing the section about Terran buildings)

Refinery: Gas extractor building for the Terran race.

Academy: Enables building Comsat station addons, and training Medics, Firebats, and Ghosts at the Barracks. Also enables some research options for Terran infantry units. These are the following

U-238 Shells: Increases maximum range for the Terran Marine by 32 pixels. Also adds +1 tile (32 pixels) to the target acquisition range.

Stim Packs: Allows Marines and Firebats to use the Stim Packs upgrade. This costs 10 life to use, and increases movement and attack speed while in effect – to be more precise, adds a positive modifier for the unit acceleration, turn rate, speed, and weapon cooldown (see those sections for details). The duration of the Stim Pack tech is not constant, although the actual difference is 7 frames at most. When a use stim pack action is issued, a stim pack timer is issued to the unit, set at 37. This is decreased in every 8 frames, but that 8 frame cycle timer does not start at 0. This in turn results in the stim pack effect lasting between 295 and 288 frames. (See the Processing frames and updating units section)

Restoration: Removes all harmful effect from from target unit. (Lockdown, Optical Flare, Irradiate, Plague, Ensnare, Acid Spores and Parasite, but not Stasis Field). Strangely, it also kills Hallucinations.

Optical Flare: Sets the unit's sight range to 2* 32 pixels, and removes the ability to detect invisible units. Kills hallucinations.

Also sets the update_tiles countdown to 1, so the effect appears instantaneous.

Caduceus Reactor: Adds +50 to the Medic's maximum energy (And indirectly sets the starting energy to 63, see the section about unit energy).

Engineering Bay: Allows infantry upgrades (Terran Infantry Armor, and Terran Infantry Weapons), can lift off. Enables building missile turrets.

Missile Turret: Static anti-air defense unit that has detection (Since it's a building, the detection range is 7 tiles, or 7*32 pixels, which is not the same as the unit's sight range).

Factory: Allows building Terran mechanical units (Vulture, Siege Tank, Goliath). Can lift off. Can build the Machine Shop addon. Allows building of the Armory.

Machine Shop (Addon for the Factory): Allows building Siege Tanks at the Factory it's attached to, and can research the following techs:

Ion thrusters: Speed upgrade for Vultures. (See the Speed section how those work)

Spider Mines: Allows Vultures to use the Spider Mines ability. After researching, each Vulture will have 3 spider mines available to place (existing and newly created both). These can be placed on passable terrain only. If they are attempted to place into an invalid position, an error message 'Must target passable terrain' is displayed.

Siege Tech: Allows Siege Tanks to use the Siege Mode ability.

Starport: Allows training of Terran flying units (Wraith, Dropship, Science Vessel, Battlecruiser, Valkyrie). Can lift off. Allows building of the Science Facility.

Control Tower: Addon to the Starport. Allows building Dropships, Science Vessels, Battlecruisers, and Valkyries at the Starport it is attached to. Allows researching of the following technologies:

Cloaking Field: Allows Wraiths to use the Cloaking ability.

Apollo Reactor: Increases the Wraiths' maximum energy by +50, and indirectly, the starting energy to 63.

Science Facility: Allows the building of Science Vessels at Starports. Has two types of addons, the Covert Ops, and the Physics lab. Allows the researching of three upgrades:

EMP Shockwave: The science Vessel fires a missile that sets all the energy and shields of the units in the area (Including buildings) to zero. This affects allied units as well. This also kills hallucinations. Although the animation of the abiliy indicates a circular area of effect, it is actually a square. It doesn't affect units under Stasis.

The size of the EMP effect is a 129×129 pixel box.

Irradiate: Adds the irradiate effect to the target unit. Can only target units (not buildings), but only damages organic units. Does not damage Larvae, Eggs and Lurker Eggs, but the units spawning from the latter two retain the effect, and can still get damaged. If an irradiated unit gets into a transport or a Bunker, it damages organic units inside, but not the transport itself, even if that's organic. If the transport is irradiated, the units are not affected inside.

When on the map, It damages units in an area, which resembles a rounded square. The search box for affected units is 321×321 pixels, and the effect has a 32-pixel range, measured from the edge of the irradiated unit's bounding box – in short, bigger units can damage more units around them.

Titan Reactor: Adds +50 to the Science Vessel's maximum energy, and indirectly sets the starting energy to 63.

Armory: Provides armor and damage upgrades for terran mechanical units (Terran Vehicle Plating, Terran Ship Plating, Terran Vehicle Weapons, Terran Ship Weapons).

Jw library apk. Covert Ops: Allows building Ghosts at the Barracks. Allows research of the following technologies:

Personnel Cloaking: Allows Ghosts to use the Cloaking ability. (See the Energy and Detection sections for more info)

Lockdown: Allows Ghosts to use the Lockdown Ability. Can only target mechanical units. Kills Hallucinations. Disables the target unit. When the ability is cast, the lockdown_timer variable is set to 131. This is decreased in every 8 frames (See the Processing frames and updating units section) , resulting in the Lockdown effect lasting between 1040-1047 frames.

Ocular Implants: Sets the Ghost's sight range to 11 tiles (11*32 pixels). This also affects the maximum casting range of Nuclear Strike. (See the Orders section)

Moebius Reactor: Increases Ghosts' maximum energy by +50, and indirectly, the starting energy to 63.

Physics Lab: Allows building Battlecruisers at the Starport. Allows research of the following upgrades:

Yamato Gun: Allows the Battlecruisers to use the Yamato Gun ability. The Yamato Gun costs 150 Energy, and deals 260 Explosive damage to the target.

Terran ground units

SCV: Terran worker unit. Can go inside bunkers. Both organic and mechanical.

Marine: Infantry unit, organic. Can use the Stim Pack ability. Can go inside, and fire from bunkers.

Firebat: Infantry unit, organic. Can use the Stim Pack ability. Can go inside, and fire from bunkers. The Firebat's weapon deals 8 (unupgraded) damage, and is a series of radial splash explosion. (See Combat and Damage section) The attack sprite of the Flamethrower is a bit different than the actual damaging areas created by the attack. Firebats create 3 circular splash bullets in the direction the unit is facing at increasing distances on consecutive frames, similar to a line of bombs dropped from a plane. An excerpt from the attack script (iscript.bin):

This means that after 1, 2, and 3 frames, invisible bullets are spawned with distances of 24, 52, and 80 pixels respectively (from the unit, in the attack's direction). The splash radii is 15, 20, and 25 pixels for the inner, medium, and outer splash – all three attacks have the same pattern. Usually this arrangement means that a unit will get affacted by 2 bullets, but with big units, or units moving away from the origin of the attack, three bullets can affect them. This also means that it's beneficial to attack from max range diagonally with firebats.

A visual explanation – attacking from minimum range. The Siege Tanks is only hit by two of the splashes.

While attacking from a little further away, all three splashes can affect the Tank.

And finally, all attacks overlaid, with all the splash radii, color coded (Red = inner, Orange = medium, Yellow = outer)

Medic: Infantry unit, organic. Has the Heal ability by default, Optical Flare and Restoration if researched. Can enter Bunkers. Automatically casts Heal to patch up damaged organic units nearby. The Medic has a 321×321 pixel square centered around it, where it searches for units to heal, and will attempt to heal them.

Heal: Boosts the health regeneration of the target unit. Can only heal organic units, and a unit can only be healed by one Medic at a time. Cannot heal flying units, hallucinations, enemy/neutral units, and disabled units.

If this method evaluates to true, then the Medic will try to heal the target. It can still fail if the unit is being healed already, or the Medic has no energy, or for some reason, the Healing tech is disabled.

The amount being healed is 200/256 HP per frame (or the amount required to reach maximum HP), and it costs 100/256 energy (half of it) to do so.

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Ghost: Infantry unit, organic. Can use the Cloak, Lockdown, and Nuclear Strike abilities, if they are researched. Can enter, and fire from Bunkers. When cloaked, it doesn't acquire targets automatically, so it does not fire at opponents, except when a Hold Position order is issued. When a Nuclear Strike command is issued, the Ghost isn't able to do anything for a period of time, except canceling the action. If it's canceled, or the Ghost is killed/disabled during that period, the nuke is lost. (See Orders section for further information about nuclear strikes)

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Get the general idea

In ideal games between evenly matched players given even mineral consumption, the game should come down to who makes the most efficient use of their resources. The winner should be the player that lost the least minerals in their units lost in battle.

In popular maps like Big Game Hunters or in maps where the number of players is less than the number of players that the map was designed for (such as a 2 player one on one in The Lost Temple) it comes down to who can build units the fastest.

In most games, however, the skill levels are not equal, and (sneaky) tactics of the moment will tend to dictate the actual outcome of a game. Learning the utility and strengths and weakness of each unit will be crucial.

Fundamentals

What this means in StarCraft is that you want to build up big armies, and attack your opponent's smaller armies, and weakly defended buildings. A common strategy to this end is the drop. Where an overlord, dropship or shuttle is used to deliver your army to an approach angle to your enemies base which they have not strongly defended. Visual boy advance source. Similarly, though, if your enemy has more than one base, it is usually best to attack the weakest first.

Among beginners, a common problem is that they don't know how to build at top speed. So a skilled player can simply railroad a weaker player by building an small army at top speed and sending them to attack the opponent's base before they have build up an adequate army/defence of their own.

So an essential skill is the ability to build quickly. This is achieved by making sure you have the fastest possible resource collecting stream as well as building in units and buildings simultaneously with each other. Here are a few rules of thumb that should be follow roughly in order:

There are certainly exceptions to the above rules. Different maps will dictate that you modify your strategies accordingly.

In addition to these basic rules, the beginner needs to be aware of how to perform many actions at once. Queueing up commands with the shift key is essential. For protoss and terran, your peons (scv/probe) should return back to gathering minerals or gas after commanded to create a building automatically by virtue of queued commands. Setting rally points are essential for organizing your troops later in the game, but at the beginning of the game (when you are spending time waiting for peons to build), they are effective for sending your peons to the mineral patches at the very instant they are created. These saved fractions of a second do accumulate and thus it is worth it to redefine your rally point to a new mineral patch after each peon is created at the beginning of the game.

The beginner must also become accustomed to the keyboard short cuts. Navigating the menus with your mouse while you are in the middle of a battle or other micromanagement is an unacceptable waste of time. Learn the short to building peons (terran: ss, zerg: sd, protoss: p) as well as making your common buildings (protoss probe: bp - pylon, bc - canon; zerg drone: bc - build creep, bh - build hatchery; terran scv: bb - build barracks, bu - build bunker) and common units. Look at the highlighted character in the menus to see what each key does. Press a to send a selected army to attack (to attack a sequence of points just hold down shift and queue the attack pattern up!) Also remember that audio queued events can be zoomed in on immediately by pressing the space bar.

A common mistake for protoss and terran players is to load up the unit queues in each of the buildings as much as possible at the beginning of the game. At the beginning of the game, when you have relatively little money, and little to micro-manage, you should instead queue up two units at each building and increase the queue as each unit is built. This is essentially 'cash management'. Doing this will leave you with more minerals on hand to build more buildings while not slowing down your unit build rate. Ordinarily the goal is to put those minerals towards making more buildings that will in turn let you make more units at once (it is better building 2 units in each of 5 unit generating buildings than 5 units in 2 unit generating buildings). Once this micro-management starts becoming overwhelming, use the full building queues (5) to maintain maximum build rate.

In Big Game Hunters (or a two player match on a four player map) as a rule of thumb, protoss should build towards having about 4 nexus', zerg should expand to 9 hatcheries, and terran should build towards about 3(?) command centers. The protoss are a special case, since its possible for them to be building multiple races at once (Dark archon can mind control friendly or enemy peons for other races and start building thier race as well.) A protoss player should, of course, also be trying to build 9 hatcheries and 3(?) command centers as well (if your brain doesn't explode from handling that much stuff at once.)

Then you should be building towards a situation where you can pump out units and constantly sustain a near 200 unit-slot limit while you are doing battle with your enemy. With the protoss, you should build about 8 gateways, or a similar number of telportation ports, and make sure the build buffers are always full. (These are late game suggestions that don't apply to the beginning of the game.)

Building units quickly

For protoss and terran, the army builders (barracks/gateway and spaceport/teleportation port) have a build queue. It is temping to simply fill these queues, and let the build process take care of itself, however this is not a good idea at the beginning of the game. Instead you should build lots of ground army builders (gateway/barracks) and build evenly in each. In this way, more of your mineral resources are dedicated to units that are about to be built, rather than on units that you wont see for a long time down the road. In this way you are pushing for simultaneous building rather than sequential building. You units will pop out faster relative to the minerals put into building them. Later on, your mineral production and the number of army builders should make this amount micro-management prohibitive. At this point you should switch to simply filling the queues of your numerous army builders.

Standard armies

Despite claims or theories to the contrary there are no unbeatable armies. There are no unfair units. Every attack has a counter attack that can beat it. You need to build up experience to learn how to beat any given individual attack. If you find a certain kind of attack difficult to deal with, adopt that attack yourself and see how others deal with it.

However creating a successful defense or counter attack to any impending attack requires reconnaisance to know what your enemy is up to. Also remember that an experienced opponent will also be trying to observe what you are up to.

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The Rush

These players typically complain or request a 'no rush' time period at the beginning. But there is no enforcability in battlenet, and more to the point, its part of the game. The right response to a rush is: have a defence.

There are suitable defences for all variations of the superfast rushes (a handful of offensive units built at the very start of the game and sent to attack).

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