Another day..

Boy am I a glutton for punishment =)

And finally!  A win I earned!  A match against a fellow Bronze player!  Someone with some manners who GL'd and GG'd.  And a promotion to Silver!

Before the Replay:

ZvT.  I felt like it was safer to build towards an opposing Bio army than Mech.  Only because that's mostly what I've been seeing recently.  Also Banelings hurt Mech pretty well, too.

I scouted a lot and saw him building and starting to move out.  MMM, but moving across the map slowly.  He stopped to kill my creep tumors which was nice.  Gave me plenty of time.  He clearly didn't want to get stuck on creep and surrounded.  Which gave me time to get my units into position to surround him.

The first time I took out his army I made the mistake of trying to counter immediately   Of course the bunker and his units there quickly killed that idea, but at least I didn't go all in.

I threw up a 4th base and just kept building.  I had more money than I could spend.  Threw down a few extra hatcheries and focused on Lings and Banelings with upgrades while teching to Mutas and then Hive.  Once I hit Hive and saw he was sticking with MMM + Tank, I went for Ultras and pushed to win.

I love the Muta / Ling combo.  Hit one place and hit the other.  He can't split his units as well.  He gets flustered.  Worst case scenario the first time, one gets good damage in.  Then in the future if one can't get good damage in, it's because he's split his army up too much and I can expand more, shut out his expansions, starve him out.

Felt good!

After the Replay:

He has his second base down before 6 minutes.  Wow.  I should have made 2 Zerglings early to scout that.  Now I know.

Also he put his 3rd up when I put my 4th up.  Again, didn't realize.  I was bad about putting Overlords around the map to watch those.

After my first split attack that took his 3rd base he was shaken.  He had a bunch of SCVs just sitting in his main not doing anything.  Maybe he thought to push and win?  He pushed pretty hard, took my 4th, but I was able to stop it.

A lot of my play still needs a lot of work.  I should have been spending my money better earlier.  Spending my larva more pro actively.  Keeping my upgrades going a little sharper, getting my expansions earlier.  But not terrible either, a win I can feel good about.

+ 46 Points, Silver League, Division Rank 51

Autowin =/

How come every time I'm feeling good about a game, the opponent drops?

Before the Replay:

ZvP.  I was a little nervous, but figured I could get away with a 15 pool.  I got my Overlord in for a scout and though I lost him, I got good info on what was coming.  I got my Zerglings in for a scout, saw the expand.  I got my macro hatch up and was teching.  I was scouting the area around me for Proxy Pylons and Observers.  I was trying to decide to expand or poke when he dropped.

After the Replay:

He was planning a Proxy Pylon but I found the Probe and destroyed it before that 4 minute mark.  Didn't even realize!  After that he changed directions and went double Stargate before leaving the match.

Sadly, the only 2 wins I've mustered at the bottom of the bottom league were both to people who left or disconnected from the game.

+ 48 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 34

Ummm, damn

Apparently Swarm Hosts do MASSIVE amounts of damage.  Like, enough to annihilate my whole front row of Zealots in NO time.

I'm terrible at SC2.

Before Replay:

He kept hitting me with little spurts of Zerglings.  I thought it was just to see what I had and test my defenses.  Apparently it was to prompt me to attack before I was ready and to run my whole-damn-army into his Swarm Hosts.

Not that I had any lack of detection, but I couldn't get anywhere near his Swarm Hosts.

One thing - I made a plan to try to go 3 base as Protoss, in any matchup, by the 15 minute mark.  That's my "goal" to keep my play motivated.  That went reasonably well.  I could have done a better job spending my money, though.

Next time, Protoss versus Zerg, I'm going with a tighter base D and air for my offense.  Less Warp Gates, more Stargates.

After Replay:

I keep forgetting that Hallucinate is free on my Sentries now.  I can throw hallucinated Phoenixes in to scout.  I have to remember to do that.

Nothing else to be learned from this.  Except that I'm terrible at this game.  Also neither of my opponents has "GL" or "HF"d tonight.  Just total silence.  I hate that, makes the opponent seem like a douche.  We're in the Bronze league, this ain't exactly Serious Business SC2.

- 0 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 100