Thor Rush

This article will cover the art of the 1vs1 strategy that i have pretty much designed. It consists of building an un-defeatable offensive Thor being constantly repaired by several SCV's with in 7 minutes of a game. This Thor should take out the entire enemy base within very little time.

Summary: For this strategy to work you must be confident that the enemy will not be rushing you with in 6 minutes of gameplay. But this is normally very unlikely anyway. Your aim is to build up a relatively strong economy and gather plenty of gas in the beggining. You will build a supploy depot, baracks and bunker at you ramp.

You will build the factory somewhere near your enemy's base (must be hidden). Plant down an armory at your base as soon as the factory is built and add a tech lab to the factory. save up enough so that you can build a Thor as soon as the Armory is down. While the thor is being built, send 5 scv's to the factory. Along with the 1 scv who built the factory, get your 6 scv's to follow/ repair your thor as soon as it comes out. Order the thor to attack the enemy base with the scv's constantly repairing it.

Make sure to keep on building marines and scv's at your base just incase something does go wrong. I like to add a reactor to the baracks to pump out some marines for defense or extra offense. You may also want to upgrade your command centre.



Here is the exact build/action order i use:

-build 3 scv's

-Build refinery while 3rd is being built + 2 on gas

-1 scv

-supply depot (use the SCV building it to scout after)

-1 scv

-baracks

-2 SCV's

-Refinery + 2 on gas

-Factory near enemy base

-SCV

-1 marine

-1 SCV

-Bunker at ramp

-marine

-Armory (build as soon as factory is complete. Save up if necessary)

-Tech lab on factory

-Thor

-reactor on baracks

-Send 5 SCV's to factory near enemy base

-3 SCV's

-keep building SCV's + marines at base while micro-ing the thor over at the enemy base

This strategy should work and defeat the enemy with in 7 minutes of a game. You may shape the strategy to defeat an enemy even quicker. Im still working on it, but it seems to work against all races. If the enemy do manage to destroy your thor dont worry. If you have done enough damage, just build lots of marines and banshees w/ cloak and attack again soon.