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well no one else is posting Protoss stratagies so i thought i'd post a favorite technique of mine.

I reccomend doing this only with friends or noobs.

What i like to do is on a map with only one walking exit from a base, is to take a probe and a few zealots/dragoons and go build a few pylons and a lot of photon cannons right outside of the entrance. It is really costly but prevents ground assaults. Once the cannons have warped in its a good idea to build a Gateway up there too (behind the cannons of course). With that Gateway there you can have an attack force right outside your base. You do need units with those cannons because just one seige tank can take out every cannon. A few zealots can go through a cannon easily as well. After a while you may want to surround the areas of the base where shuttles and other flying craft can get out with cannons so they are trapped and run out of minerals and waste their remaining units trying just to get out of their base.

Here's a totally a*****e tactic (I hate it, but it often works. Haven't used it myself):

Go into their base, and behind their minerals make a cannon inbetween pylons. Of course, it only works if there's just enough space there.
Start with the pylons, then make the cannon.

Alrighty... Here's my main protoss strategy. It's a mixture of units. a minimum of Zealots, built while you're constructing your base, because this is a long term strategy and you need something to dissuade them from blowing up your base with 3 vultures (We all gotta learn sometime) Dragoons are CRITICAL if you want to survive any form of air assault... but if you see that they've gone air, you're going to need something more to destroy that, because that's what this thing is week against. Dark templars, High templars. At least 1 hotkey of High templars. Archons are optional since I'm no good with them, but those would really help against air units (not that good if there's a bunch of streams everwhere X_X) keep 1 carrier with 2 Dark archons in it charging. If you get an oppening to steal a worker, do it. you'll need the extra supply to build an Anti-Air strategy. If you get another race going for Anti-Air (Either muts/devos, or valks and wraiths) then stop with goons/archons and focus on Templars. The high templars are for bottlenecking or large assault forces if they're mass attacking you. The dark templars are for drops, random waiting in bottle necks to make them THINK there's something there to be destroyed (had a person sending wave after wave of units trying to get to the N part of the map just cause i had around 5-6 cannons there and some DT's ^__^) And, if they have no detector, make a land baracade. 5-6 DT's in a line, told to hold position. Even enemy cloaked units won't be able to get past, they'll just walk up against the cloaked units, try to get around, will be unable to, and leave. They'll go insane not understanding why. Priceless. Remember Storm doesn't work on buildings, so taking out baracaded areas is going to be VERY hard without large numbers. Dropping 4 carrers worth of DT's down on top of a missle turret/supply depot/tank baracade will easily take it out... although you're pretty much gaurenteed to lose every unit you sent in (including the carriers) And, if you get the chance, Drop them right on the enemys Nexus/command center thingy. That will spell the end for them. Targeted strikes to take out key buildings (Zerg-spires/spawningpools, Protoss Templar Archives, Terran unit creators) will make them powerless and, if you keep up your strikes, will lead to their entire base degrading to nothing. Persistance and Reasources are required, but not even carriers or Battle cruisers can stop you. When i lay out my DA strategy, I'll talk a bit more about BC's and Carriers.

Alrighty folks. If you've read my recent terran and zerg posts, you know what you're about to read now, if not, well too darned bad. Here ya go folks, it is, from yours truley...

THE DARK ARCHON AWSOMNESS

The dark archon, in conjunction with High templars, is bascially the Terran version of the Science vessal. Here is how to get the most effect out of your Dark archon ness.

Feedback: This move, i have never seen used. Not once, in any game, against computers or human players. I am, effectivly, the only person I've EVER seen use this. However, this move is the secret to stopping any Wraith rush, a perfect way to kill a ghost instantly, and 1/2 the way to defeat a BC attack. It's also very effective for stopping enemy queens, defilers, and, most importantly, MEDICS. Use the DA to take out the medics before engaging any marine/firebat army. As long as the enemy has energy, this move will be of great assistance. BC's have 500 health. They ALSO have 250 energy, I rarely see anyone using Yamato cannons. However, they will usually have full energy (or at least 200 if they havn't reasearched anything) By feedbacking 1 BC, you effectivly kill it halfway instantly. And a fully charged DA can do this 5 times before it's out of energy. That's right folks, feedback only costs 50 energy. Wraiths have 250 energy as well. As long as you can see them (observer or uncloaked) using feedback will destroy them if they have enough energy. same with ghosts (Who usually are sent in with full energy cloaked) and DA's can do this with the range of a gaurdian. It's a very effective move, and comes deafault on any DA you make.

Mind Control: Now, feedback by itself is useless when trying to stop a BC attack. However, stealing a full health BC, and taking 2 others down to half health, is easily accomplished wiht a fully charged Dark Archon. You can stop 1 Hotkey of BC's with 4 dark archons. ******** scourge, they have to get in close. Keeping a hotkey of DA's around is the easiest way to defeat a player just massing BC's. KEep in mind, that when using MC, you lose ALL your shield and are down to their 25 base health. Keep as many shield batteries as you have DA's if you're using MC as a defensive measure. Offense wise, MC can open up a total other Tech tree when used against other races. OR, it can reasearch technologies without spending the money. Yes, if you steal a Zealot with +3 to shields, you automatically have that technology reasearched. Same with leg enhancments, spellcasters, etc. Stealing an enemy HT can quickly give you access to psi storm, while spending your money on other things. Keep in mind stealing other units after having one of their drones to quickly reasearch technologies you'ld otherwise have to get yourself. of course, stealing 1 unit while it's surrounding a bunch of enemy units is useless... instant death. How do you steal a tank for your own defense if it just dies instantly? that, my friends, is what comes next.

MAlestrom: It's basically lockdown and stasis field mixed. You can damage enemy units while they're malestromed, it just doesn't last nearly as long. Malestroming an assault force with one DA, while stealing what units you want with other DA's is effective, as well as malestromming tanks and other defenses as you move in your land troops. Or steal the other tanks and move them out. The possibilities are as much as you can think up. Malestrom their worker units and they'll forget what they were doing, just stopping gathering minerals. IF done and they don't notice, they'll soon be completely out of minerals and gas and NOT KNOW WHY. then feel free to bring in attack units to finish off the stumped SCV's. And, of course, you can use it to stop any assault force and move in your own defenseive assault units to take a chunck out of their numbers (can you say Psi storm?) OF course. freeze the zerglings/hydra's (only the front row, the ones in back will stop when they can't get through) and psy storm them with your own hotkey of HT's.. They'll just stand there and take it. Goodbye. Even more effective vs. gaurdians.

There ya go folks, the effective way to use DA's. On fastest, when against terran, MAss DA's cause they're certin to go BC's. They'll be ticked as they waste BC after BC and lose it to you, enabling you to create an army of 24-36-64 large army of them. And keeping around 4-6 around to complement your other strategies can NOT hurt.. (unless your strategy requires perfect timeing) OF course, even a late game appearence will NOT hurt with these units.

very simple, only works on newbs and computer opponents, but when fighting them, can rack up the win stats.

zealot swarms. Lots and lots of zealots. research one upgrade to sheilds, 2 to damage, and leg enhancements in that order.
start by building 2 pylons side by side. In front of em, build 2 gateways. (ofcourse, you are massing probes as fast as possible and when run out of supply, put a pylon near your entrance, you enemies will attack em instead of just rusing into your main base.) By the time you have 6 zealots, they should be just building their stuff to make air units. Attack then, and they will focus on defenses more than new stuff. Also, they will have been advancing as fast as possible, so don't have many units usually. YAY, super happy fun time, but seriously sucky against an experianced opponent.

armor, always first. shields effect all units, but it doesn't hel keep your units alive...

now, protoss have an very unique ability...
back when i played, maxing out supply on hydralisks or zerglings was a very popular strat.

to counter this..i develiped probably the strongest defence strat in the game. though, this takes about 20 mintes to reach that high of tech, so you'll have to figure out a strat untill you reach that far.

don't mass cannons, ensted, put only 4 or so and a shield battery at key defence choke points. research all the upgrades in the templar archives. psionic storm first, the mana upgrade for templar, mealstorm, then the mana upgrade for dark archons. when you get psionic storm researched, start building enough high templar to put atleast 2 at every defence outpost. after mealstorm, start building 2 or 3 dark archers...though they aren't really useful against another protoss player, but they are can single handedly disable a whole zerg army with one spell.

after having atleast 2 templar at defence points, you can now hold your base against any attack that doesn't have long range suport (siege tanks/reavers/guardians). though, this defence isn't a build and forget thing. you'll have to move to whatever defence post that is getting attacked very fast before you lose a high templar. 2 of these with a shield battery recharging shoudl they take dmg, and a few cannons to take the blunt, this will stop ANY possible combo without long range. and if, by either lack of useage on your part, or an oponent that has above average skill, it will atleast buy you enough time to get your main army back within your base, and cut down the enemy forces.

now vs a zerg oponent, that is where the dark archons show their stuff. a commond strat, mass mutas. hey look... *mealstorm* awww....poor little muta fall over, go boom? after mealstorming, pull a high templar over, psi storm them a few times, and you just vaporized an whole army with bearly 20 psi worth of units.

comments woudl be apericated.

completely agreed! 3nodding xd
i only make afew cannons to get me by and then build up on units! 3nodding xd heart