Starcraft 2

[KoRnholio]

2nd placement match lost due to someone camping in my base with a barracks. god damn. does everyone just scout there own base with a scout at the start??

I hear ya. All you really need to do to combat this is A) watch the minimap and B) send one worker to chase that intruder down. If he stops to build, he dies.

Sometimes they do it even worse than barracks, I've seen guys attempt to cannon rush with protoss. Enter base area, build pylons+cannons towards your base. If you get caught on this one, try to take out the pylons that power the cannons if they are in poor spots (ie, no overlap).

There's all sorts of dirty tricks, most of them involve having vision/things in your base. So shoo them away.

[ensign_lee]

I hear ya. All you really need to do to combat this is A) watch the minimap and B) send one worker to chase that intruder down. If he stops to build, he dies.

Sometimes they do it even worse than barracks, I've seen guys attempt to cannon rush with protoss. Enter base area, build pylons+cannons towards your base. If you get caught on this one, try to take out the pylons that power the cannons if they are in poor spots (ie, no overlap).

There's all sorts of dirty tricks, most of them involve having vision/things in your base. So shoo them away.

NO NO NO!!!

If you see this before the cannons are up, ATTACK THE CANNONS. It's so easy to just to place another pylon. They build stupidly fast. Once that other pylon is up, boom, cannons up. ALL YOUR GUYS ARE TOAST.

Pull probes to attack the cannons if you have to. 4-5 probes per cannon BEFORE they warp in. Once the cannons are warped in...you're kinda Fed.

Save up enough minerals for an expansion and start again there. Or, if you're terran, liftoff your CC to your nat and starta new base there.