Originally Posted by
poopy12
My main is Terran, I have a couple of good builds that work quite well. I play with a couple of friends and we generally keep around an 80% win rate, but my builds don't seem to be made for 1v1's, haha. Generally in team play, I'll do a 4rax marine push at 6 minutes, and while they're pushing get my orbital and both gas' to begin a quick macro to hit again. But in a 1v1 the push barely seems to put a dint in their forces..
Edit: also Gynx, do you watch Day9? I'd highly recommend watching his videos if you don't, very instructional.
In team games every push is much stronger, the push strength is the sum of the pusher's army, and the defense is only as strong as the weakest player.
You should get an orbital as soon as you get a rax, orbitals are ridiculous and Terran are balanced around them.
In general I think a good terran opener is just 10 supply, 13 rax, next rax when you have enough money, supply at or before 16 (don't let up SCV production until you are saturated), orbital once your first rax is done. From there just keep building rax and supply and spamming marines. By 10 minutes you should be able to push and win every game (ignoring the games where you lose to some silly cheese).
Ranking up and improving is about playing a large volume of games and focusing on a single aspect. There's always going to be stupid builds that get you killed or weird tactics, but just focus on what you are focusing on and don't worry.