Shady Wraiths

Strategy by: DJNewStyle
Map: Medium Islands/Land
Race: Terran vs. Terran/Protoss
Date: 1/31/00

This build order has the capacity to annoy the living crap out of your opponent.  It cripples their economy and can even win the game.  It works best when played against Terran or Protoss, and is not very effective versus Zerg because of their detection capabilities.  Here's how it goes.

As with all of our build orders, it is so important that you pump out scv's.  The more scv's you have the stronger your economy is.  It can't be stressed enough - PEONS PEONS PEONS.  Anyway, here is the order:

  -8 depot
  -9 minerals
  -10 build refinery
  -11 minerals
  -12 barracks

When the barracks is completed you have a choice.  You can either get 4 marines and a bunker to protect, get an engineering bay for turrets, or you can go straight for the tech tree.  The quality of this strategy is how well you alter it.  If your opponent is going to hit you early, smack a bunker down.  If you think they are going to go cloaked, get turrets, or do both!

  -After completion of barracks build a factory
  -After your factory, build 2 starports simultaneously
  -Upon completion of the two starports, train wraiths
  -Build a third starport, attach a tower, research cloaking

What you should do next is get as many wraiths as you can - until the research period for cloaking is finished.  Take all of your wraiths and bring them to your opponent's base and hold position behind the mineral line.  If you are seen and your wraiths are getting attacked, cloak them.  If the mineral line is protected with detection, back out and try and kill what buildings you can by using the wraith range to your advantage.  If you find a spot where you can attack something without being hit, hold position and position each wraith so they can attack safely.  

You are now set up to do several things.  You can help your partner, attack and defend early, or go gas and tech up.  If you kept up on your probe production, you should have a decent economy, but don't stop making probes!