| It is quite common to use the Recon as a Starcraft | | | | at least a 30?formation, so that your troops are lined |
| strategy, but there are other formations you can use | | | | up in the shape of a crescent. This will do more |
| as well. One of these is the True Cost of Peons. Ten | | | | damage to them than if they were dealing. |
| peons are worth twenty times the value of one | | | | In a situation where the enemy positions its troops |
| peon. With each loss of a probe, your cost increases | | | | so that they are in front in order to do damage to |
| greatly. As long as you have probes, they can keep | | | | your troops while holding them back, you can counter |
| on mining for minerals, so each one you lose | | | | this with a flanking action. You can do this by |
| decreases the amount of minerals you mine. Since an | | | | engaging the troops with your melee troops, and hold |
| average probe mines 50 peons, this is what you lose | | | | back troops to walk around their flanks and attack |
| for each one you lose. On a ladder map, a probe can | | | | their missiles. This strategy will give you much better |
| mine about 12 minerals in the same amount of time | | | | results because the missile troops will die at close |
| that it takes to build a probe. | | | | quarters. The strategy means taking the firepower |
| You have to know what constitutes a good | | | | applied and the firepower dealt into consideration. |
| formation. Many times your enemy could attack while | | | | When firepower is applied to low hitpoints, you can |
| you are trying to get your unit into formation. When | | | | do more damage than if you applied it to a low |
| you do form melee formations, you have to make | | | | damage high hitpoints unit. |
| sure you are within the enemy's firing range. While | | | | When you have high mixes, the best strategy to use |
| this may not be a good thing for you, it is also | | | | is that of bottlenecks. Effective use of bottlenecks |
| advantageous. The key to making the best | | | | depends on the power and the type of attack of |
| formations is to surround the enemy. This will give | | | | the units that you use. You should have your melee |
| you maximum firepower and if you make your | | | | units surrounding the opening of the bottleneck. This |
| formation on the edge of their formation so that | | | | way you can concentrate on a much larger surface |
| they will not be able to bring the full force of their | | | | area. Your ranged troops can also catch any troops |
| firepower to bear on you. | | | | that are caught in the bottleneck. When using melee |
| If you are outnumbered by the enemy troops, this | | | | troops, the best strategy to use is to delay their |
| strategy could pose a bit of a problem, but it will | | | | advance but at the same time beat them on with |
| enable you to have a far better ratio of kills than if | | | | ranged attacks. |
| you only had a shallow formation. You need to form | | | | |