**UPDATED FOR 1.12**
Mineral harassment is a very effective strategy to have to keep your opponent on his toes and damage his economy. Plus it’s extremely annoying to deal with if you’re the player getting his worker’s killed. Use this reaper rush Terran build order to push your opponent back and keep him guessing where you’re coming from next.
The point of this build is to get a reaper out as quick as possible without sacrificing your economy to the point of an all-in cheesy build order. When done right, you will get your reaper into your enemy’s base fast and kill enough probes to set him back in the economy battle and intimidate him to stay in his base.
Instead of the usual supply depot on 10, this build want’s to get a reaper out really fast, so you’re going to save up and put a Supply Depot down on 8/11. Immediately after that, build a Barracks then a Refinery and get 3 SCV’s in it as soon as it is completed. After you get these 3 buildings started, make 3 more SCVs (this will put you at 11/19 supply).
As soon as your barracks goes down you should have enough gas to add on the tech lab. Hotkey your barracks and set it’s rally point into the opposing players base. Once the tech lab is done, train a reaper as soon as you can. This build will put a Reaper into your opponent’s worker line pretty fast. He should be able to do quite a bit of damage to his workers.
If he hasn’t countered it yet, keep making reapers until you have at least 3 in his base 1-shotting his workers. If you can get to this point, you’ve won the game. However, if he counters it, bunker up your ramp and move on to a normal build.
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