I don't know what to do. I can't figure out how to win a single game.
In my defense, I almost never play other bronze leaguers. In their defense, when I do they still kick my ass. How bad am I? When did I get this bad? When did it happen that I actually can't win any games at all? At the bottom of the Bronze League I can't get close to a 50% win ratio.
Like quite a few of the other players I've faced, he shows in his profile and badge as being Platinum, but not in the score screen. Bug?
Also like quite a few other players I've hit on the ladder, I didn't get a GL or HF or anything out of him. More and more I'm seeing that. I guess the friendly players have moved on to other games? The ladder just isn't as much fun for me in HoTS and I don't know if that's because I don't have as much time to play or I just don't know how to play or if something else is really going on in the Community.
Before the Replay:
PvT. I scouted his heavy Marine / Marauder 1 base push early and was ready for it. I defended pretty well and put up some counter pressure.
I kept to my "expand to 3 bases by X time" but I failed to continue to Macro well. He did a *huge* drop on my Mineral line and I held it off, but was hurt and didn't rebuild quickly. I started to tech but I was feeling anxious that he had a huge lead on me. I threw DT's into his expansions and base and slowed him a bit, but not enough He had all his mining centralized pretty tightly despite the attempts to expand.
He threw another huge MMM force at me and I thought I was defending it well but suddenly I had *no* army. He just ripped them to shreds despite my better upgrades. I hate Robo tech. I just hate it. I have to find another way to win.
After the Replay:
I was supply blocked a lot. I'm so bad at building Pylons. Why?
I was right that he had a huge advantage after I destroyed his first MMM group that landed on my mineral line. His supply was 20 higher and though I had twice the working worker count, MULEs gave him a higher actual income.
However I had a huge advantage after my DT attacks. I had 71 harvesters to his 17. I had a huge amount of cash and I just wasn't spending it. I should have had more Gateways down and should have been Chrono Boosting them. Jesus that's where I lost the game right there, the biggest single blunder where I could have won easily.
That being said, it's worth noting that we actually had a similar food count. 159 to 168. Just that his was almost all Army and mine was 1/2 Income.
Damn, I should have been able to win that. Even when I GG'd he had nothing behind it. If I'd started properly macroing then...
I had almost 4k in Minerals in the bank. Didn't even notice. I am so so so awful at this game.
- 0 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 32
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Showing posts with label Rolled Protoss. Show all posts
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
I think I've been clear that PvP is my worse matchup...
...and my least favorite.
I'm so f-ing bad at this game.
Before the Replay:
I'm not sure what he did different. I'll have to look. Felt like a 4-Gate with a Mothership core though. I guess I was thinking this was HotS, surely the 4-Gate is gone? Right? Wrong. Fuck.
After the Replay:
Yeah, 4-gate. Okay...well lesson learned. Prepare for the 4-Gate and get my Mothership Core up earlier with more Sentries.
I don't have time for another game tonight, I have work early in the morning. So last night I went 0-2, tonight I went 1-2 with the only "win" being a default win because he d/c'd. I probably would have won, but I didn't get to earn it or experience it. Bunch of crap.
- 0 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 38
I'm so f-ing bad at this game.
Before the Replay:
I'm not sure what he did different. I'll have to look. Felt like a 4-Gate with a Mothership core though. I guess I was thinking this was HotS, surely the 4-Gate is gone? Right? Wrong. Fuck.
After the Replay:
Yeah, 4-gate. Okay...well lesson learned. Prepare for the 4-Gate and get my Mothership Core up earlier with more Sentries.
I don't have time for another game tonight, I have work early in the morning. So last night I went 0-2, tonight I went 1-2 with the only "win" being a default win because he d/c'd. I probably would have won, but I didn't get to earn it or experience it. Bunch of crap.
- 0 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 38
Not to be deterred...
I went 0-2 last night. Hoping to do a little better tonight.
For the first few seconds I forgot to build my first probe =/ Auspicious start.
I ended up winning, but I don't know that I earned the win. He d/c'd as I was rebuilding my army from a relatively "failed" attempt to put pressure on him. I had built up some infrastructure so I planned on having an army back soon and I had good vision, so I figured I could afford to lose most of my army...but still...
Before the Replay:
He hit me with somewhat early 'Lings. I don't have a great feel for it, because I totally screwed up my opening (as mentioned above). Built 2 Pylons before my first Gateway, started a wall-off, then changed my mind, then he rolled in with Zerglings.
I took care of them pretty quickly and the game escalated from there. I held off his attacks and harass pretty well (I thought) and managed to get my 3 bases up by 12 minutes. I transitioned to Templar with Storm and as I was rolling out for a second time to attack his base, he D/C'd.
After the Replay:
One thing I forgot about, he built an extractor in my base. Not he started and cancelled and started, just built one full out. I guess he was worried about early Stargate pressure? I all but forgot about my plan after yesterday to go Stargate against Zerg, so I was just going with my Gateways.
He threw up a Pool at 10 (after the Extractor in my base) and threw in his Zerglings at my base and started a Roach Warren. He only had 2 in gas though so he wasn't getting much there.
He also pretty much stopped Drone production once he started attacking me. That makes me feel good...like I may have actually earned my win. The only time he seems to have built drones was to replace the ones he was about to spend on buildings. I'm pretty sure I would have won this game in the long run.
I was totally wrong about when I got my 3rd base up. I barely had my 2nd base up at the 13 minute mark. Wow, how did I so totally read the clock wrong during the game? No idea. Interestingly though, at the 13 minute mark when my 2nd base is just getting going, he's still on 1 base. I had more probes than he had drones, and a higher income.
+ 48 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 38
For the first few seconds I forgot to build my first probe =/ Auspicious start.
I ended up winning, but I don't know that I earned the win. He d/c'd as I was rebuilding my army from a relatively "failed" attempt to put pressure on him. I had built up some infrastructure so I planned on having an army back soon and I had good vision, so I figured I could afford to lose most of my army...but still...
Before the Replay:
He hit me with somewhat early 'Lings. I don't have a great feel for it, because I totally screwed up my opening (as mentioned above). Built 2 Pylons before my first Gateway, started a wall-off, then changed my mind, then he rolled in with Zerglings.
I took care of them pretty quickly and the game escalated from there. I held off his attacks and harass pretty well (I thought) and managed to get my 3 bases up by 12 minutes. I transitioned to Templar with Storm and as I was rolling out for a second time to attack his base, he D/C'd.
After the Replay:
One thing I forgot about, he built an extractor in my base. Not he started and cancelled and started, just built one full out. I guess he was worried about early Stargate pressure? I all but forgot about my plan after yesterday to go Stargate against Zerg, so I was just going with my Gateways.
He threw up a Pool at 10 (after the Extractor in my base) and threw in his Zerglings at my base and started a Roach Warren. He only had 2 in gas though so he wasn't getting much there.
He also pretty much stopped Drone production once he started attacking me. That makes me feel good...like I may have actually earned my win. The only time he seems to have built drones was to replace the ones he was about to spend on buildings. I'm pretty sure I would have won this game in the long run.
I was totally wrong about when I got my 3rd base up. I barely had my 2nd base up at the 13 minute mark. Wow, how did I so totally read the clock wrong during the game? No idea. Interestingly though, at the 13 minute mark when my 2nd base is just getting going, he's still on 1 base. I had more probes than he had drones, and a higher income.
+ 48 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 38
Monday, June 24, 2013
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
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
Friday, June 7, 2013
PvP vs Plat...
Yeah, so no Silver Leaguers out tonight. Probably time to just call it a night here.
Before the Replay:
Random vs Random which, of course, turned into Protoss vs Protoss. Man I'm terrible at this game =)
He scouted me pretty thoroughly and just out built me. Plain and simple. He built more than me faster than me and hit me right before my upgrades came through. Another minute and I probably would have held my own pretty well. Or maybe if I'd done less upgrades and gotten more Stalkers. Either way, GG.
After the Replay:
Oh. He actually expanded. So he was on 2 bases. Even better.....I really got outplayed. This is an interesting map, I hadn't played it before. Well my first game of the night where the Zerg quit at 2 minutes was on this map, but that hardly counts.
+ 0 Points, Silver League Division Rank 49, Remaining Bonus Pool 407
Before the Replay:
Random vs Random which, of course, turned into Protoss vs Protoss. Man I'm terrible at this game =)
He scouted me pretty thoroughly and just out built me. Plain and simple. He built more than me faster than me and hit me right before my upgrades came through. Another minute and I probably would have held my own pretty well. Or maybe if I'd done less upgrades and gotten more Stalkers. Either way, GG.
After the Replay:
Oh. He actually expanded. So he was on 2 bases. Even better.....I really got outplayed. This is an interesting map, I hadn't played it before. Well my first game of the night where the Zerg quit at 2 minutes was on this map, but that hardly counts.
+ 0 Points, Silver League Division Rank 49, Remaining Bonus Pool 407
I would have rather played the ZvZ....
So I rolled up on a ZvZ and I was ready for it. At the 2 minute mark the guy quit.
Next up was a PvT. Protoss is always my weakest race and right now I have no idea how to play them well against Terran. A Platinum Terran, I guess no one from Silver is playing tonight.
Before the Replay:
He just Turtled. But he did it well. He spread out, took 3 bases, kept me from getting 3 bases. Built up a lot quickly. I didn't stand a chance, I played so terribly. Lots of Hellbats, Medivacs, Banshees. Ugg. I should have built more Immortals and ....and what? I don't know. Macro'd better, expanded better, put on pressure? Templar?
After the Replay:
I could have expanded before he pushed out. I just failed to. I could have built a better army, I just failed too. I didn't have to lose this game. He was careful and well prepared, but I wasn't outplayed. I just didn't bring a good game.
+ 0 Points, Silver League Division Rank 49, Remaining Bonus Pool 415
Next up was a PvT. Protoss is always my weakest race and right now I have no idea how to play them well against Terran. A Platinum Terran, I guess no one from Silver is playing tonight.
Before the Replay:
He just Turtled. But he did it well. He spread out, took 3 bases, kept me from getting 3 bases. Built up a lot quickly. I didn't stand a chance, I played so terribly. Lots of Hellbats, Medivacs, Banshees. Ugg. I should have built more Immortals and ....and what? I don't know. Macro'd better, expanded better, put on pressure? Templar?
After the Replay:
I could have expanded before he pushed out. I just failed to. I could have built a better army, I just failed too. I didn't have to lose this game. He was careful and well prepared, but I wasn't outplayed. I just didn't bring a good game.
+ 0 Points, Silver League Division Rank 49, Remaining Bonus Pool 415
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
I can't get the 25 minute achievement..
On the last mission. I could bump it down to Normal difficulty...but where'd the fun be in that.
My record? 25:30. Damnation.
Anyway...on to some matchmaking.
I mean on to some TERRIBLE matchmaking. God I'm so terrible at this game =)
Before the Replay:
PvZ. I have no idea how to open with Air as a Protoss now. I've tried it a few times against the Computer and lost miserably. I'm scared to try it against a real player. So instead I did a terrible Gateway opening.
Forgot to build units. Forgot to chrono boost. Forgot to build probes. Forgot forgot forgot. He just expanded like crazy and kept throwing stuff at the front of my base until I ran out of units. Simple. He played not terribly and I played terribly.
After the Replay:
Yeah. Same deal. I never had an advantage and constantly screwed up. I just didn't have my mind around what I was doing. You'd think this was my first game. If there's a league below Bronze, that's the one I deserve to be in.
- 0 Points, Bronze League Division Rank 91, Remaining Bonus Pool 116
My record? 25:30. Damnation.
Anyway...on to some matchmaking.
I mean on to some TERRIBLE matchmaking. God I'm so terrible at this game =)
Before the Replay:
PvZ. I have no idea how to open with Air as a Protoss now. I've tried it a few times against the Computer and lost miserably. I'm scared to try it against a real player. So instead I did a terrible Gateway opening.
Forgot to build units. Forgot to chrono boost. Forgot to build probes. Forgot forgot forgot. He just expanded like crazy and kept throwing stuff at the front of my base until I ran out of units. Simple. He played not terribly and I played terribly.
After the Replay:
Yeah. Same deal. I never had an advantage and constantly screwed up. I just didn't have my mind around what I was doing. You'd think this was my first game. If there's a league below Bronze, that's the one I deserve to be in.
- 0 Points, Bronze League Division Rank 91, Remaining Bonus Pool 116
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Next HotS season...
Time for my placement match.
Ass kicked. Mine that is.
Before the Replay:
I'm terrible at PvP. Always have been, probably always will be. Not exactly the positive attitude I need.
I had a good first early attack, but then I didn't retreat my units, instead I let them die.
I played too passively, didn't spend my money well, didn't use map awareness the way I meant to. Overall I played sloppy and he took advantage to build a huge death army of Collosi.
He was ranked Gold.
After the Replay:
I did have an army advantage when I rolled out and took out his third. I think that was a good move. I should have had more Gateways up and a forward Pylon to reinforce.
Of course when I lost my whole army to his there I had a 20 food supply deficit to him.
I essentially never caught up after that. Couldn't watch for his drops, couldn't spend my money, couldn't think straight.
- 0 Points, Bronze League Division Rank 23, Remaining Bonus Pool 42
Ass kicked. Mine that is.
Before the Replay:
I'm terrible at PvP. Always have been, probably always will be. Not exactly the positive attitude I need.
I had a good first early attack, but then I didn't retreat my units, instead I let them die.
I played too passively, didn't spend my money well, didn't use map awareness the way I meant to. Overall I played sloppy and he took advantage to build a huge death army of Collosi.
He was ranked Gold.
After the Replay:
I did have an army advantage when I rolled out and took out his third. I think that was a good move. I should have had more Gateways up and a forward Pylon to reinforce.
Of course when I lost my whole army to his there I had a 20 food supply deficit to him.
I essentially never caught up after that. Couldn't watch for his drops, couldn't spend my money, couldn't think straight.
- 0 Points, Bronze League Division Rank 23, Remaining Bonus Pool 42
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Heart of the Swarm!
First ranked game of Heart of the Swarm. Played a little in the beta, played the campaign and I've played vs the computer for a while. Finally time to try vs real people. Let's see how it goes, first Ranked match.
And I win!
Before the Replay:
I didn't play very aggressively I pushed once sorta early with 3 Zealots at the front and my Mothership Core at the back. I think I got a few SCVs and did some damage to his front Supply Depots, but that was it.
Otherwise I sat back, micro'd, tech'd and just tried to keep vision on the map. He pushed and I stopped it. He pushed again and I stopped it again. As I was moving out to take my 3rd, he left the game. No GL HF at the beginning or GG at the end. Looking at his profile, I think he was also playing his placement matches.
After the Replay:
I probably could have kept hitting him hard. When I moved out with my Mothership Core and 3 Zealots from 1 Gateway he'd only managed to produce 2 Marines from 2 Barracks. I suppose scouting would have helped me identify that sooner.
He never checked the watchtowers I held them without contest all game and his income was terrible, never built an Orbital or even Muled. Not really much of a contest I guess.
1 Win, 4 Placement Matches to go
Edit: Actually he did eventually make an Orbital. But he really didn't Mule and he didn't expand. He also stopped building SCVs around 23. He did do a better job of keeping his money low than I did, though.
And I win!
Before the Replay:
I didn't play very aggressively I pushed once sorta early with 3 Zealots at the front and my Mothership Core at the back. I think I got a few SCVs and did some damage to his front Supply Depots, but that was it.
Otherwise I sat back, micro'd, tech'd and just tried to keep vision on the map. He pushed and I stopped it. He pushed again and I stopped it again. As I was moving out to take my 3rd, he left the game. No GL HF at the beginning or GG at the end. Looking at his profile, I think he was also playing his placement matches.
After the Replay:
I probably could have kept hitting him hard. When I moved out with my Mothership Core and 3 Zealots from 1 Gateway he'd only managed to produce 2 Marines from 2 Barracks. I suppose scouting would have helped me identify that sooner.
He never checked the watchtowers I held them without contest all game and his income was terrible, never built an Orbital or even Muled. Not really much of a contest I guess.
1 Win, 4 Placement Matches to go
Edit: Actually he did eventually make an Orbital. But he really didn't Mule and he didn't expand. He also stopped building SCVs around 23. He did do a better job of keeping his money low than I did, though.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Random = Protoss Again + mini meltdown
Before Replay:
Because, of course, I can't seem to improve at it, I rolled Protoss again.
I really thought I had been improving, with all the games I was playing, but clearly not. Tonight is teaching me that I was waaaaaaay wrong.
PvZ, he just did his own thing and built to Broodlords and kicked my ass. I thought I had a big enough upgraded enough army to deal with the massive Broodlords / Infestors what with all my Carriers, Zealots and Stalkers who got right up under there and tried to deal with it. But I was way wrong.
Wrong wrong wrong.
So what should I have done? Quit when I saw I was Protoss?
The problem with Protoss is I feel like I can't harass. Not that *Protoss* can't harass. That I can't. That I can't make good enough use of the units to harass effectively.
He killed all my probes too...I don't know what happened to them all but suddenly I didn't have any.
I'm getting super ragey here so clearly I'm done for the night.
After the Replay:
Something I know before I start the replay - I wasn't making very good use of my money. Of course. Should I be more aggressive with my Zealots? I can't seem to balance out when I have gas and when I have minerals. I *understand* what I was doing before, but suddenly can't recreate it tonight.
I was sooo high on minerals but couldn't get gas. Suddenly I had nothing but gas and no minerals. I can't seem to build the right units and predict. Maybe I just don't have the right mindset right now. Or maybe I'm just getting so off tilt when I see I've spawned Protoss again that I can't think straight.
It's interesting because, with Protoss, I feel like I can't win. I should qualify that I guess..
With Protoss, I feel like every decision I make is the wrong one. If I choose to be agressive with my early units, I shouldn't have because he built a lot of Lings and by the time I find out, my units are dead and he's in my base. If I play conservative then I should have been more agressive. If I scout and he's conservative, he suddenly builds a bunch of Lings, and if I scout and he's got a lot of units then I spend money building for defense of an attack that never comes.
You know, if I want to harass I should just fucking harass. I did some DT play but I couldn't get them in the main. I never bothered to watch to see why, but he had a bunch of Spine Crawlers and Overseers there. If I'd dropped a few DTs in the back his Greater Spire would have been gone in no time.
My style is tech switching, harassment and large scale production of units. I know that's mostly geared towards Zerg but I've been able to make it work in other match-ups. I just have to get my head out of my ass and be willing to make it work.
Nothing I didn't already know in the replay. I had plenty of great vision on him, I just didn't realize that his army would so cleanly destroy mine the way it did. Once again I find myself wishing my friends still played SC2..it'd be nice to have some friends to play and practice with. But like many other games, my friends all like games I'm not a huge fan of and they generally aren't interested in playing the games I enjoy. Board and card games tend to fall into this category too.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 15, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273257
Because, of course, I can't seem to improve at it, I rolled Protoss again.
I really thought I had been improving, with all the games I was playing, but clearly not. Tonight is teaching me that I was waaaaaaay wrong.
PvZ, he just did his own thing and built to Broodlords and kicked my ass. I thought I had a big enough upgraded enough army to deal with the massive Broodlords / Infestors what with all my Carriers, Zealots and Stalkers who got right up under there and tried to deal with it. But I was way wrong.
Wrong wrong wrong.
So what should I have done? Quit when I saw I was Protoss?
The problem with Protoss is I feel like I can't harass. Not that *Protoss* can't harass. That I can't. That I can't make good enough use of the units to harass effectively.
He killed all my probes too...I don't know what happened to them all but suddenly I didn't have any.
I'm getting super ragey here so clearly I'm done for the night.
After the Replay:
Something I know before I start the replay - I wasn't making very good use of my money. Of course. Should I be more aggressive with my Zealots? I can't seem to balance out when I have gas and when I have minerals. I *understand* what I was doing before, but suddenly can't recreate it tonight.
I was sooo high on minerals but couldn't get gas. Suddenly I had nothing but gas and no minerals. I can't seem to build the right units and predict. Maybe I just don't have the right mindset right now. Or maybe I'm just getting so off tilt when I see I've spawned Protoss again that I can't think straight.
It's interesting because, with Protoss, I feel like I can't win. I should qualify that I guess..
With Protoss, I feel like every decision I make is the wrong one. If I choose to be agressive with my early units, I shouldn't have because he built a lot of Lings and by the time I find out, my units are dead and he's in my base. If I play conservative then I should have been more agressive. If I scout and he's conservative, he suddenly builds a bunch of Lings, and if I scout and he's got a lot of units then I spend money building for defense of an attack that never comes.
You know, if I want to harass I should just fucking harass. I did some DT play but I couldn't get them in the main. I never bothered to watch to see why, but he had a bunch of Spine Crawlers and Overseers there. If I'd dropped a few DTs in the back his Greater Spire would have been gone in no time.
My style is tech switching, harassment and large scale production of units. I know that's mostly geared towards Zerg but I've been able to make it work in other match-ups. I just have to get my head out of my ass and be willing to make it work.
Nothing I didn't already know in the replay. I had plenty of great vision on him, I just didn't realize that his army would so cleanly destroy mine the way it did. Once again I find myself wishing my friends still played SC2..it'd be nice to have some friends to play and practice with. But like many other games, my friends all like games I'm not a huge fan of and they generally aren't interested in playing the games I enjoy. Board and card games tend to fall into this category too.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 15, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273257
BWAR@#!$@#!(*&
That's all I have to say about that.
Before the Replay:
WTF. So many stalkers? I just got my ass handed to me in like 8 minutes. It felt like I could do *nothing* about it. I couldn't macro because he kept me so busy attacking my front base, I couldn't stop paying attention to my units without * guarantying* I'd lose all of them. And everytime...everytime what? Lost my train of thought.
After the Replay:
Nothing of value here either. WTF am I getting so much PvP recently? Or why does it feel that way?
I don't know what to do in this scenario. I mean, I know I need to macro better but I can't seem to do it? And I don't understand why. Do I not understand the units? The tech structure? Can I not wrap my head around what Pylons I need when? I don't understand the barrier.
If I felt like I could say "okay, this. Work on this!" I'd feel better but now I don't see anything that I can do. Any one thing. Pissing me off because I know there's something, there's thousands of somethings, I just can't identify it.
- 12 Points, Silver League Division Rank 14, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273254
Before the Replay:
WTF. So many stalkers? I just got my ass handed to me in like 8 minutes. It felt like I could do *nothing* about it. I couldn't macro because he kept me so busy attacking my front base, I couldn't stop paying attention to my units without * guarantying* I'd lose all of them. And everytime...everytime what? Lost my train of thought.
After the Replay:
Nothing of value here either. WTF am I getting so much PvP recently? Or why does it feel that way?
I don't know what to do in this scenario. I mean, I know I need to macro better but I can't seem to do it? And I don't understand why. Do I not understand the units? The tech structure? Can I not wrap my head around what Pylons I need when? I don't understand the barrier.
If I felt like I could say "okay, this. Work on this!" I'd feel better but now I don't see anything that I can do. Any one thing. Pissing me off because I know there's something, there's thousands of somethings, I just can't identify it.
- 12 Points, Silver League Division Rank 14, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273254
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
More PvP
That sucked.
Before Replay:
I should have won that game. I supply blocked myself early, wasted my money, didn't build my Gateways fast enough, all the normal "I'm terrible at Protoss" stuff that I usually do.
He did a tight Colossus ball which I knew was coming and I just wasn't ready for it fast enough. My money got high and I wasn't spending it properly. I don't know why Protoss is so hard for me to play?
After Replay:
Yep. I should have had such the advantage. I was ahead before he attacked, I was ahead after I defended and then he pulls *way* ahead while my money just climbs quietly and stupidly. Enough said.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 14, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273252
Before Replay:
I should have won that game. I supply blocked myself early, wasted my money, didn't build my Gateways fast enough, all the normal "I'm terrible at Protoss" stuff that I usually do.
He did a tight Colossus ball which I knew was coming and I just wasn't ready for it fast enough. My money got high and I wasn't spending it properly. I don't know why Protoss is so hard for me to play?
After Replay:
Yep. I should have had such the advantage. I was ahead before he attacked, I was ahead after I defended and then he pulls *way* ahead while my money just climbs quietly and stupidly. Enough said.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 14, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273252
Thursday, October 18, 2012
I'm tired of playing Protoss now
5 games in a row, Random = Protoss.
Before the Replay:
Man, I don't know what happened. Okay that's not totally true. I threw away my army trying to be too agressive on his doorstep. This whole thing is built around my macroing and building a lot. I didn't have enough gateways, I didn't take a 4th early enough and I threw away my army in a stupid attack.
PvP, by the way. I don't think I lose more games in any matchup...
After the Replay:
Watching through, he's got a solid build and a plan. Lots of strong Robo units and a good mix of others. But my macro is better, faster on the expands, more probes and a higher unit count. Food's constantly pulling away from his too...slow but steady.
I moved my army out when I spotted his 3rd going up. He sees the army moving out and cancels the Nexus. I should have considered that a win, and to an extent I did. But when I see the Nexus going back up I decide to advance again. Stupid.
And at that point it's GG.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 13, Remaining Bonus Pool 81
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272934
Before the Replay:
Man, I don't know what happened. Okay that's not totally true. I threw away my army trying to be too agressive on his doorstep. This whole thing is built around my macroing and building a lot. I didn't have enough gateways, I didn't take a 4th early enough and I threw away my army in a stupid attack.
PvP, by the way. I don't think I lose more games in any matchup...
After the Replay:
Watching through, he's got a solid build and a plan. Lots of strong Robo units and a good mix of others. But my macro is better, faster on the expands, more probes and a higher unit count. Food's constantly pulling away from his too...slow but steady.
I moved my army out when I spotted his 3rd going up. He sees the army moving out and cancels the Nexus. I should have considered that a win, and to an extent I did. But when I see the Nexus going back up I decide to advance again. Stupid.
And at that point it's GG.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 13, Remaining Bonus Pool 81
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272934
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Protoss #4
Before the Replay:
My Protoss play is getting plenty of much needed practice.
This was a PvP, he scouted me pretty heavily early. I don't know if he macro'd because he saw I was macroing or if he didn't have an agressive 4-Warpgate descendant build like what I usually see in PvP that kills me early.
I struggled a bit at the beginning to get everything off the ground, or at least it felt like it. I didn't have many units, I didn't have many upgrades, but I just kept at it and he gave me time while trying to get his Colossus death ball up.
At that point it was all about having plenty of capacity for reinforcements, upgrading and tech switching. Got my Archons up then got my Carriers up. He didn't seem to expand as much as I did, once I destroyed his 3rd pretty thoroughly he GG'd out.
Expanding for gas has been critical to my ability to pull off a win with this build. I'm going to need to keep that in mind if I run into situations where that expanding isn't an option.
After the Replay:
He didn't build his Gateway until he saw I was going for mine. Then he threw it down and almost instantly also a forge. He wanted to get that expand up asap.
Except...not. After the Gateway / Forge he threw down another Gateway and a Cybernetics core to start researching Warpgate. Also a cannon at the front, but he's not really blocking off the ramp.
Once he could afford it he got +1, but it wasn't right away...I think the Forge was a waste of money? At least for a while. He got an early +1 which I suppose may have been good if I were rushing him...? But if that's what he was afraid of wouldn't have have been better off to build a better wall?
Anyway, by the time he's got Warpgate done, 3 Gateways, his Twilight Council started and his expand Nexus begun warping in I've already finished my expand Nexus, I have 4 Warpgates, admittedly no upgrades but a 16 food lead in army (pretty even in Probes).
Within a few minutes that's a 26 food lead and now I'm starting to pull away from him in Probes.
At 14:20 he spots my 3rd with his Observer and drives his army in. My food lead's up to 40 now, 13 of those in Probes and we pretty much draw even in the fight, coming out with an unchanged food differential.
As he gets his 3rd up and starts building his Colossus army I pretty much pull away. The Colossus helps his food catch up, but I'm on 4 bases, throwing down a ton of Gateways and leveraging my stronger income. I probably could have harassed some here...but I don't think I needed to. I think until I'm maxed it may suite me better to just upgrade, expand, get my ability to reinforce up to par and prepare to tech switch. When he attacked at 21 minutes the game was basically over, I instantly shot up to a 60 food lead and started countering to win.
+ 28 Points, Silver League Division Rank 10, Remaining Bonus Pool 66
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272856
My Protoss play is getting plenty of much needed practice.
This was a PvP, he scouted me pretty heavily early. I don't know if he macro'd because he saw I was macroing or if he didn't have an agressive 4-Warpgate descendant build like what I usually see in PvP that kills me early.
I struggled a bit at the beginning to get everything off the ground, or at least it felt like it. I didn't have many units, I didn't have many upgrades, but I just kept at it and he gave me time while trying to get his Colossus death ball up.
At that point it was all about having plenty of capacity for reinforcements, upgrading and tech switching. Got my Archons up then got my Carriers up. He didn't seem to expand as much as I did, once I destroyed his 3rd pretty thoroughly he GG'd out.
Expanding for gas has been critical to my ability to pull off a win with this build. I'm going to need to keep that in mind if I run into situations where that expanding isn't an option.
After the Replay:
He didn't build his Gateway until he saw I was going for mine. Then he threw it down and almost instantly also a forge. He wanted to get that expand up asap.
Except...not. After the Gateway / Forge he threw down another Gateway and a Cybernetics core to start researching Warpgate. Also a cannon at the front, but he's not really blocking off the ramp.
Once he could afford it he got +1, but it wasn't right away...I think the Forge was a waste of money? At least for a while. He got an early +1 which I suppose may have been good if I were rushing him...? But if that's what he was afraid of wouldn't have have been better off to build a better wall?
Anyway, by the time he's got Warpgate done, 3 Gateways, his Twilight Council started and his expand Nexus begun warping in I've already finished my expand Nexus, I have 4 Warpgates, admittedly no upgrades but a 16 food lead in army (pretty even in Probes).
Within a few minutes that's a 26 food lead and now I'm starting to pull away from him in Probes.
At 14:20 he spots my 3rd with his Observer and drives his army in. My food lead's up to 40 now, 13 of those in Probes and we pretty much draw even in the fight, coming out with an unchanged food differential.
As he gets his 3rd up and starts building his Colossus army I pretty much pull away. The Colossus helps his food catch up, but I'm on 4 bases, throwing down a ton of Gateways and leveraging my stronger income. I probably could have harassed some here...but I don't think I needed to. I think until I'm maxed it may suite me better to just upgrade, expand, get my ability to reinforce up to par and prepare to tech switch. When he attacked at 21 minutes the game was basically over, I instantly shot up to a 60 food lead and started countering to win.
+ 28 Points, Silver League Division Rank 10, Remaining Bonus Pool 66
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272856
Protoss...again?
He was pretty good humored at the end, but still didn't GG when I won and he quit. *shrug*
Before the Replay:
Wow...Protoss again. 3 games in a row now I think? It was...hard. I did basically the same thing I did last time. Just tried to macro smart, build, keep up with warp-ins, not get supply blocked, etc, etc. I did..okay. Still got blocked but not as much as before. Had trouble remembering to turn my Gateways into Warpgates, whoops.
He tried to proxy me with a Barracks. 3 or 4 times. He was surprisingly not behind for how many times he tried and canceled....so I was impressed by that. His plan was pretty simple, build a lot of Rax units, hit me in a few different places with drops, try to out macro me.
After defeating a few drops I hit my supply limit and just rolled him. My upgrades were in, I was getting my infrastructure set to switch to Carriers and he actually did me a favor by killing off a few probes so when I countered, it was over.
After the Replay:
It really seems like all his proxy Barracks were a real waste. After we're pretty even, but he could have been way ahead if he hadn't wasted so much time and money. My harvesters quickly outpaced his and despite his MULEs my income followed.
I could have done a lot better job spending my money. I should have been pushing out sooner, tech switching sooner, maybe expanding even more for better gas income. The big problem was I felt I wasn't making decisions fast enough, I suppose that'll just come with practice.
+ 24 Points, Silver League Division Rank 11, Remaining Bonus Pool 80
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272850
Before the Replay:
Wow...Protoss again. 3 games in a row now I think? It was...hard. I did basically the same thing I did last time. Just tried to macro smart, build, keep up with warp-ins, not get supply blocked, etc, etc. I did..okay. Still got blocked but not as much as before. Had trouble remembering to turn my Gateways into Warpgates, whoops.
He tried to proxy me with a Barracks. 3 or 4 times. He was surprisingly not behind for how many times he tried and canceled....so I was impressed by that. His plan was pretty simple, build a lot of Rax units, hit me in a few different places with drops, try to out macro me.
After defeating a few drops I hit my supply limit and just rolled him. My upgrades were in, I was getting my infrastructure set to switch to Carriers and he actually did me a favor by killing off a few probes so when I countered, it was over.
After the Replay:
It really seems like all his proxy Barracks were a real waste. After we're pretty even, but he could have been way ahead if he hadn't wasted so much time and money. My harvesters quickly outpaced his and despite his MULEs my income followed.
I could have done a lot better job spending my money. I should have been pushing out sooner, tech switching sooner, maybe expanding even more for better gas income. The big problem was I felt I wasn't making decisions fast enough, I suppose that'll just come with practice.
+ 24 Points, Silver League Division Rank 11, Remaining Bonus Pool 80
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272850
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
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Been outta town for a few days...
Let's see how I do.
Wanted to try something new today. I'm going to post my thoughts on the game twice, first before I watch the replay and second after. I'm interested to see how my analysis changes between what I "felt" and what actually happened.
Before the Replay:
Rolled. A little hyped up about it but trying not to be too upset. PvT so it's not like it's a huge surprised, and I had all kinds of mechanical failures. Missed a few starting probes on minerals, miss-queued a few things, forgot upgrades all kinds of fantastic stuff. Even forgot probes pretty often. And of course got supply blocked like crazy because I can't remember to build pylons in a timely manner.
Meanwhile built MMM and just rolled me with it.
I actually managed to repel the first wave, but the second wave totally crushed me. He had so many Medivacs there was just nothing I could do with my crappy gateway units. But I was so strapped for cash I couldn't afford a tech switch.
After the Replay:
Yeah, his units just demolished mine in that second attack. I shouldn't have even stuck it out, it was GG already. I suppose I was hoping he'd just futz up somehow. I guess maybe I should have tech switched, because maybe that would have given me some small advantage, but I was so strapped for cash after losing so many probes.
I should have sent my expansion base probes running when I saw my initial defense failing. Maybe that would have given me more cash to recover quickly and put up a good second fight. So that's a lesson learned.
And I *have* *have* *have* to get better at building Pylons. I don't know why they're so much harder than Supply Depots and Overlords. Maybe I'm just not used to the inflated unit cost of Protoss? No idea but I need to get better at it.
- 5 Points, Silver League Division Rank 18, Remaining Bonus Pool 67
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272632
Wanted to try something new today. I'm going to post my thoughts on the game twice, first before I watch the replay and second after. I'm interested to see how my analysis changes between what I "felt" and what actually happened.
Before the Replay:
Rolled. A little hyped up about it but trying not to be too upset. PvT so it's not like it's a huge surprised, and I had all kinds of mechanical failures. Missed a few starting probes on minerals, miss-queued a few things, forgot upgrades all kinds of fantastic stuff. Even forgot probes pretty often. And of course got supply blocked like crazy because I can't remember to build pylons in a timely manner.
Meanwhile built MMM and just rolled me with it.
I actually managed to repel the first wave, but the second wave totally crushed me. He had so many Medivacs there was just nothing I could do with my crappy gateway units. But I was so strapped for cash I couldn't afford a tech switch.
After the Replay:
Yeah, his units just demolished mine in that second attack. I shouldn't have even stuck it out, it was GG already. I suppose I was hoping he'd just futz up somehow. I guess maybe I should have tech switched, because maybe that would have given me some small advantage, but I was so strapped for cash after losing so many probes.
I should have sent my expansion base probes running when I saw my initial defense failing. Maybe that would have given me more cash to recover quickly and put up a good second fight. So that's a lesson learned.
And I *have* *have* *have* to get better at building Pylons. I don't know why they're so much harder than Supply Depots and Overlords. Maybe I'm just not used to the inflated unit cost of Protoss? No idea but I need to get better at it.
- 5 Points, Silver League Division Rank 18, Remaining Bonus Pool 67
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=272632
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Stalkers > Void Rays
Okay maybe not. But with a greater economy and better build mechanics (and more upgrades!) I pulled it off.
We were both Random =)
+ 26 Points, Silver League Division Rank 17, Remaining Bonus Pool 38
http://sc2rep.com/replays/test_1349228866/20980
Not sure about this URL? It may need to change...
We were both Random =)
+ 26 Points, Silver League Division Rank 17, Remaining Bonus Pool 38
http://sc2rep.com/replays/test_1349228866/20980
Not sure about this URL? It may need to change...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
God I hate PvP
Tal'darim PvP. So I went Forge first Expand. That's what you're supposed to do, right?
No. No he kicked my ass quickly.
Put a big ass army in the front of my base and had no trouble picking me off. Somehow killed all my probes in the back with Zealots he got back there and I never saw any warnings or information about it. No notice at all I was so busy trying to figure out how to use this stupid race against this stupid race.
Okay, just frustrated. I can't get my head around anything to do in this matchup. It feels like every decision I make is the wrong decision.
- 6 Points, Silver League Rank 18, Remaining Bonus Pool 8
http://drop.sc/257979
No. No he kicked my ass quickly.
Put a big ass army in the front of my base and had no trouble picking me off. Somehow killed all my probes in the back with Zealots he got back there and I never saw any warnings or information about it. No notice at all I was so busy trying to figure out how to use this stupid race against this stupid race.
Okay, just frustrated. I can't get my head around anything to do in this matchup. It feels like every decision I make is the wrong decision.
- 6 Points, Silver League Rank 18, Remaining Bonus Pool 8
http://drop.sc/257979
Monday, September 24, 2012
PvP =(
Random / Random. Turned out it was PvP and I scouted the wrong direction. He immediately took his second, walled it off with 4 warpgates and just expanded more aggressively.
I have a hard time justifying agressive expansion because I can keep my money low as Protoss so easily by just building from what I have. I don't often recognize when it's time to build another base easily.
Also I'm terrible about not getting supply blocked as Protoss. Played a few games against the computer yesterday as Protoss, constantly supply blocked all game long. This one was no different.
- 7 Points, Silver League Division Rank 26, Remaining Bonus Pool 29
http://drop.sc/257538
I have a hard time justifying agressive expansion because I can keep my money low as Protoss so easily by just building from what I have. I don't often recognize when it's time to build another base easily.
Also I'm terrible about not getting supply blocked as Protoss. Played a few games against the computer yesterday as Protoss, constantly supply blocked all game long. This one was no different.
- 7 Points, Silver League Division Rank 26, Remaining Bonus Pool 29
http://drop.sc/257538
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