A build order is one of the most important skills every starcraft 2 player needs to master, this starcraft 2 guide will lay down the basis of how to place build orders.

Start building Bunkers on your base perimeter. Your goal is to put at least one Bunker in each obvious approach route to the base.

• As your first Marines emerge from the Barracks, send them to garrison your Bunkers. Keep this up until every one of your Bunkers has a full complement of Marines.

• Put an SCV in auto-repair mode behind each Bunker cluster for quick repair work when Bunkers are damaged.

• Add 2-3 more Supply Depots in the very early going

• After your Bunkers are full, keep training Marines until you have a squad of 8-10 of them grouped in the center of your base. Assign a hotkey to this squad.

• Send out a few cheap scouts (Marines or even SCVs) to get a peek up the road. Try to locate new resources (mineral elds and gas geysers) as well as enemy bases and deployments.

Tip: Assign a hotkey to each scout so you can switch your view to him quickly, especially if he’s getting attacked. A lone scout will die fast if he wanders into an enemy assault team or a bustling base. Double-tap the hotkey to get a good glimpse of the area before he goes down!