It always surprises me when I come across something like this. I face a moderately cheesy rush from a player who loses and then GG's out. 6-Pool, Cannon Rush, Bunker Rush...it's odd. And they're almost always in a higher division than me.
Does this rush always work? Were they just trying it on a lark? Is this just their bad matchup? Sometimes you can tell from his match history, and sometimes you can't.
Before the Replay:
ZvT on a big map, so I opened 15 hatch, pool, extractor to get my economy up early. I got a few Lings out early and caught his scout SCV trying to bunk the base of my expansion ramp, so I put an end to that quickly but his Marines at the tower killed my starter Lings.
No big deal, I threw down a spine crawler, got a few more Lings and Queens, started my Baneling tech and went back to Droning.
Not long after I'm moving my creep tumors out and he comes rushing in with most of his SCVs and a handful of Marines. It doesn't work and I hold off the push, he GG's out.
#boggle
After the Replay:
So he goes for a quick 2 Rax followed by 2 more. He gets an early gas geyser but doesn't use it for a while until he eventually puts an SCV in it. He never uses the gas. Then he sends 13 Marines with 10 of his 20 SCVs into my base.
End of the game...fascinating. At least I held it off I guess?
+ 36 Points, Silver League Division Rank 14, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273251
Showing posts with label Map Entombed Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Map Entombed Valley. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
My goal is 15 ladder games a week...
Seems likely that I won't be hitting that this week.
It comes out to 3 a day, M-F. Maybe more some days, less others. Only 2 a day including the weekends with 1 day having 3. It doesn't seem like it should be too many but...it's hard to make the time.
Never the less, it seems like a good goal to shoot for.
Before the Replay:
So I rolled Protoss again and again I flubbed just sending my probes out for their initial mining.
Smooth.
So I resolved myself to do better. I payed closer attention to my food count, I tried to make a lot of use out of my Chrono Boost and just constantly build stuff and look for expand timings.
I don't know if I did badly somewhere and it worked out or if I did well or if he just did badly, but it worked. He tried to hit me with a relatively early Marauder + Thor comp that I held off reasonably well. I didn't counter, just kept teching, upgrading and expanding. Quickly went for Archons and once I started getting close to my supply max planned a tech switch to Carriers.
Once I hit max and completed an upgrade I sent my Archon / Zealot / Stalker army into his base where they were destroyed by his army. No worries, I had built a lot of Gateways and quickly replenished my Archons. Then I used my Warp in Rounds to make more Zealots while all my gas went to upgrades and Carriers.
Maxed again I sent in the Archons and Zealots, again they were crushed. This time I remade only Zealots with all the gas going towards more Carriers and upgrades.
I'd sent probes to a bunch of bases to pylon block expansions and eventually saw him trying to expand out. I used my Zealots to harass his expand opportunities and moved my Carriers across for the kill.
After the Replay:
Early on he cut SCVs at around 25 or so. He put up 4 Rax and a Factory. Maybe this was supposed to be some kind of all-in timing attack? It looks that way, his push out was timed with when his Stim, Concussion and + 1 Vehicle attack would all be done.
He expanded behind in, I guess incase it failed, and it did. After that he started making SCVs again but only 3 bases to his 2 with 60 to his 30 harvesters, even his Mules weren't going to be enough to easily catch up. By the time he was on 3 bases, I was on 5.
I don't think he was a bad player, at least no worse than I was. He just didn't play aggressively enough for his low econ style. At least that's how it looks from here.
+ 24 Points, Silver League Division Rank 16, Remaining Bonus Pool 62
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272671
It comes out to 3 a day, M-F. Maybe more some days, less others. Only 2 a day including the weekends with 1 day having 3. It doesn't seem like it should be too many but...it's hard to make the time.
Never the less, it seems like a good goal to shoot for.
Before the Replay:
So I rolled Protoss again and again I flubbed just sending my probes out for their initial mining.
Smooth.
So I resolved myself to do better. I payed closer attention to my food count, I tried to make a lot of use out of my Chrono Boost and just constantly build stuff and look for expand timings.
I don't know if I did badly somewhere and it worked out or if I did well or if he just did badly, but it worked. He tried to hit me with a relatively early Marauder + Thor comp that I held off reasonably well. I didn't counter, just kept teching, upgrading and expanding. Quickly went for Archons and once I started getting close to my supply max planned a tech switch to Carriers.
Once I hit max and completed an upgrade I sent my Archon / Zealot / Stalker army into his base where they were destroyed by his army. No worries, I had built a lot of Gateways and quickly replenished my Archons. Then I used my Warp in Rounds to make more Zealots while all my gas went to upgrades and Carriers.
Maxed again I sent in the Archons and Zealots, again they were crushed. This time I remade only Zealots with all the gas going towards more Carriers and upgrades.
I'd sent probes to a bunch of bases to pylon block expansions and eventually saw him trying to expand out. I used my Zealots to harass his expand opportunities and moved my Carriers across for the kill.
After the Replay:
Early on he cut SCVs at around 25 or so. He put up 4 Rax and a Factory. Maybe this was supposed to be some kind of all-in timing attack? It looks that way, his push out was timed with when his Stim, Concussion and + 1 Vehicle attack would all be done.
He expanded behind in, I guess incase it failed, and it did. After that he started making SCVs again but only 3 bases to his 2 with 60 to his 30 harvesters, even his Mules weren't going to be enough to easily catch up. By the time he was on 3 bases, I was on 5.
I don't think he was a bad player, at least no worse than I was. He just didn't play aggressively enough for his low econ style. At least that's how it looks from here.
+ 24 Points, Silver League Division Rank 16, Remaining Bonus Pool 62
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272671
Monday, August 27, 2012
I love this game
I just wish I had more of my friends to play with. I play so infrequently that when I do play, I just lose because I'm so out of practice.
ZvT on Entombed Valley. I lost. He sat in his base and barely did anything. I failed to be agressive in any way and mostly just tried to macro. But I didn't tech and wasn't paying attention so...my Mutalisks were countered, my Zerglings were countered, my Roaches were countered and I just wasn't doing a good job of teching or building or anything.
Anyway, solid loss. Nothing to be learned, just out of practice.
- 6 Points, Gold League Division Rank 76, Remaining Bonus Pool 556
http://drop.sc/244050
ZvT on Entombed Valley. I lost. He sat in his base and barely did anything. I failed to be agressive in any way and mostly just tried to macro. But I didn't tech and wasn't paying attention so...my Mutalisks were countered, my Zerglings were countered, my Roaches were countered and I just wasn't doing a good job of teching or building or anything.
Anyway, solid loss. Nothing to be learned, just out of practice.
- 6 Points, Gold League Division Rank 76, Remaining Bonus Pool 556
http://drop.sc/244050
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
8 minute DTs
Cross positions, I went for heavy queens for larva and into roaches. I didn't immediately rush for lair tech and Overseers.
His early push was pretty easy to defend, but he had a few DTs in it and I just wasn't anywhere near detection. GG
- 0 Points, Gold League Division Rank 77, Remaining Bonus Pool 272
http://drop.sc/224017
His early push was pretty easy to defend, but he had a few DTs in it and I just wasn't anywhere near detection. GG
- 0 Points, Gold League Division Rank 77, Remaining Bonus Pool 272
http://drop.sc/224017
Monday, March 26, 2012
Second try today...
After earlier's focus problem, let's give it another go here.
The focus is on macro. Mining and building.
So of course I loaded into a PvP and got ROLLED.
We basically wiped each other's forces early and then he reinforced better than me and stomped me with a crap ton of Stalkers. I still can't really wrap my head around PvP..so at least that hasn't changed in the time I wasn't able to play.
- 10 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 252
http://drop.sc/143475
The focus is on macro. Mining and building.
So of course I loaded into a PvP and got ROLLED.
We basically wiped each other's forces early and then he reinforced better than me and stomped me with a crap ton of Stalkers. I still can't really wrap my head around PvP..so at least that hasn't changed in the time I wasn't able to play.
- 10 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 252
http://drop.sc/143475
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Well that was straight forward...?
My first time playing on Entombed Valley..not that I saw any of it.
ZvZ, we spawned in cross positions. He did a 14 pool and I did a 14 hatch. It seemed like a big map, I figured ZvZ (I was Random and he wasn't) I had time to choose my opening unless he 6 pooled. And even then I could probably hold it off.
He went hatch after pool and then tried to put a Spine Crawler in my base which I stopped, so he did it again and I stopped it again. While he was busy with that, though, I built Zerglings and ran at his base to discover he was going Baneling.
Which I suppose I should have expected, I know it's what I used to see all the time in ZvZ. And here's where it gets odd for me.
He did a good job of harassing me, trying to draw my units off and get banelings into my mineral lines. He just didn't do *enough* damage with them ever, not enough to stop me from teching to Roaches. After a good hit with the banelings taking me down to 1/2 of his drone count, I countered with my now large Roach army while I took my 3rd and he GG'd.
That was it? All I had to do was counter Roach once and he'd quit? Good to know I guess!
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