Walrus

Hey folks, I have a question for the experienced players. I find the players who I have the most difficulty facing seem to be the ones who tech up very quickly and start producing T3 units, so that the first attack I see from them almost always includes Volkov, the Centurion, or a Kirov, or something like that (These players usually use China or Russia.) They seem to use very few T1 or T2 units, if any at all.

Now, my intuition is that I should be able to counter such a strategy by producing a few T1 or T2 units and making an early attack on my opponent's miners or some other soft target. However, It seems that in the time it takes me to produce 6-8 T1/T2 units costing 5000 credits or so, my opponent can build a battle lab and a hero unit who is easily capable of taking on 8 basic tanks!

My question is, do you find that teching up quickly and using few basic units is the best way to play? Or, am I just getting my basic units out too slowly? Perhaps it's more complicated than that, I know it's hard to make a judgement about my strategy without seeing it and different tactics are appropriate on different maps.

If it's relevant, most of my experience is with SC or EA.