Terran SCV Strategy and Tactics

The Terran SCV Unit is the base economic unit for the Terrans. The SCV is the only terran unit that has the capability to mine crystals and vespene gas, and build structures. The basic information of the SCV is as follows:

Basic Statistics

• Supply Use: 1
• Size: Small
• Cost: 50
• Vespene: 0
• Armor: 0
• Hit Points: 60
• Sight: 7

Attack Statistics

• Ground: 5
• Air: N/A
• Cooling: 15
• Range: 1
• Modifier: N/A

Additional Information

• Biological Unit
• Worker Unit

Strategy

1. As a worker, the SCV is the base of your economy. It cannot fight very well, but you will need to build many of them in order to win most battles.
2. Because the SCV needs to stay with a structure while building it, it is absolutely essential that you use the shift-click on a resource to make sure that after it is completed with the building, it gets right back to work.
3. It is necessary that you use your SCV's to repair buildings, because unlike the Protoss and Zerg, there is no building regeneration. The give-and-take here is that terran buildings can move, to make things equal again.
4. SCV's need to be protected, so make sure that you use them to build some bunkers near the resource points.
5. The ability of an SCV to repair units is key to success. It is important, and almost imperative, that after every attack that occurs, the SCV is used to heal any units that need to be healed. Multiple heals can easily be queued (although, as I said before, no queue ever appears)