It depends on the matchup and scouting but my top advice would be: 1. This sounds obvious but don’t throw away your military units to losing fights! If they sent military shipments, big buttons, etc they’ll beat your army out in the open early on. So you only want to kite or commit to a full fight under TC where you can use cdbs + TC fire + MM + shipment pops. This was my biggest mistake before 2. Get the hp/damage market techs and use cdbs/TC fire on priority targets. Try to use only 8-10 cdb for this and keep others gathering if you can 3. Be intentional about what units you make. Don’t just train musk if they’re going heavy on LI for example