StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Journal

So StarCraft II has been AMAZING so far!

Current Points: 605
Most Used Race: Protoss
Last Match: Win
Last Achievement: Opening Gambit: Bronze

I played through the original and expansion back in the day, and didnt feel like I missed a step anywhere. Even during the install screen, a complete [not as detailed] overview (in pictures, words, and a voice) of the first game and expansion fills you in on what has happened, and even a little more (Sarah Kerrigan and Jim Raynor never hooked up in SC, he just constantly hit on her).

Beginners dont start off behind, unless they jump right into multiplayer. There is a tutorial option, and when you go to multiplayer, there is a practice league, of [no more than] 50 unranked games.

Playing through the campaign makes you feel really comfortable with the Terran, until you realize that half of the upgrades and units are only available during the campaign.

I have always been horrendous with the Zerg, and was decimated the only game I decided to play as them. I then went to Protoss, and the new Warp Gate upgrade is my kind of playing.

The Warp Gate Upgrade allows you to convert any Gateway (basic Protoss ground unit training structure) into a Warp Gate, where you can directly and instantaneously create a unit in any pylon power grid area. [Pylons power Protoss structures.]

I usually make an initial force, then expand, using the force to protect my probe(s). After I get my second base, leaving the first to a matrix of photon cannons for defense, I then take one (1) probe and create a pylon to be able to warp fresh units right into the heat of battle. If I'm facing Zerg, I stick with Stalkers, basic range unit for the ever present Hydralisk/Roach threat, and Colossi, to Thermal Lance the CRAP outta the Zergling/Baneling horde. If facing a Terran opponent, I go with Zealots as a frontal force to take on Marines, Immortals to cover fire for Zealots, and frontal assault on a squad of Marauders, and then Phoenixes to cover any air support they get. But no matter what my enemy, I always try to build a Mothership, a permanent cloaking field above my army!