I'm really terrible at playing Protoss. I knew I wanted to do some early Stargate play but I didn't wall off my ramp so I had to add extra buildings to do that, then I was slow at getting them up and running, then I revealed my Phoenixes by stopping to fight some overlords then...then then.
I just feel, when playing Protoss, that every decision I make is the wrong decision.
Okay...well Protoss have meaty units. Even if I don't go Colossus tech I can mass Gateway units and just be agressive and pushy and bully my opponents. I need to just be more agressive.
- 6 Points, Silver League Division Rank 53, Remaining Bonus Pool 389
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/172814-1v1-protoss-zerg-slag-pits
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Expand, Expand, Expand, Battlecruisers!
Got to try my new TvT with heavy early Marines again today. It went well, but I'm not sure if that's because the build was good or because my opponent was...less than good?
I don't want to say less than good. He did the typical Terran "turtle on one base until 200/200". At least I'm assuming he was 200/200 when he pushed out? I'll have to go back and watch.
Anyway, I tried to push in on him but he had a good turtle started already so I just pulled back and expanded.
I tried to push a little again and he had not only not expanded, but turtled more. So I expanded...again.
I scanned him and saw he still hadn't expanded and was just massing up, so I expanded again.
At this point I was getting close to 3/3 upgrades for my Barracks and Stargate units and was producing Battlecruisers. I pushed out, killed the expand he'd finally started, lost my barracks army to his big army, defended his big army push at my base, expanded 3 more times and pushed back out with my Battlecruisers.
Probably didn't have to take as long as it did, but it felt safe and strong and I enjoyed it.
+ 36 points, Silver League Division Rank 52, Remaining Bonus Pool 354
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/171676-1v1-terran-gutterhulk
I don't want to say less than good. He did the typical Terran "turtle on one base until 200/200". At least I'm assuming he was 200/200 when he pushed out? I'll have to go back and watch.
Anyway, I tried to push in on him but he had a good turtle started already so I just pulled back and expanded.
I tried to push a little again and he had not only not expanded, but turtled more. So I expanded...again.
I scanned him and saw he still hadn't expanded and was just massing up, so I expanded again.
At this point I was getting close to 3/3 upgrades for my Barracks and Stargate units and was producing Battlecruisers. I pushed out, killed the expand he'd finally started, lost my barracks army to his big army, defended his big army push at my base, expanded 3 more times and pushed back out with my Battlecruisers.
Probably didn't have to take as long as it did, but it felt safe and strong and I enjoyed it.
+ 36 points, Silver League Division Rank 52, Remaining Bonus Pool 354
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/171676-1v1-terran-gutterhulk
50!
Took a bit of a break over the last week to play Portal 2. I love those games....anywho..
ZvZ today. I went for an early expand into Speedlings and Roaches. It went...well. My opponent scouted me out early and tried to cheese me with a quick spine crawler on my creep, but I scouted it with my drone transfer. He cancelled and went for an extractor, then pulled back and tried to do the spine crawler again but I had my first round of 'lings up by then and stopped it.
I then sent them into his base where he'd built a hatch at his expansion, but hadn't populated it...so I took it down. My 'lings got pulled into his base where I spotted a bunch of spine crawlers, and I pulled back out and started massing Roaches.
He had a surprising number of roaches for a quick counter but I held it off easily and pushed. He never re-expanded and just went for Mutas, but my queens held it while my hydras got up and I just muscled my way into his base for the win.
Interestingly he's division ranked 10th for his Gold division. I wonder if he normally wins his ZvZs with cheese like that, or if it's just a weak matchup for him...No, no I'm reading through his history. He 6-pools most games. That explains it.
Oh, I also got my 50th solo win as Random, so that was fun. Trying to decide if I'm going to change from my Zergling portrait to the newly unlocked Overseer portrait.
+ 40 points, Silver League Division Rank 57, Remaining Bonus Pool 366
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/171379-1v1-zerg-backwater-gulch
ZvZ today. I went for an early expand into Speedlings and Roaches. It went...well. My opponent scouted me out early and tried to cheese me with a quick spine crawler on my creep, but I scouted it with my drone transfer. He cancelled and went for an extractor, then pulled back and tried to do the spine crawler again but I had my first round of 'lings up by then and stopped it.
I then sent them into his base where he'd built a hatch at his expansion, but hadn't populated it...so I took it down. My 'lings got pulled into his base where I spotted a bunch of spine crawlers, and I pulled back out and started massing Roaches.
He had a surprising number of roaches for a quick counter but I held it off easily and pushed. He never re-expanded and just went for Mutas, but my queens held it while my hydras got up and I just muscled my way into his base for the win.
Interestingly he's division ranked 10th for his Gold division. I wonder if he normally wins his ZvZs with cheese like that, or if it's just a weak matchup for him...No, no I'm reading through his history. He 6-pools most games. That explains it.
Oh, I also got my 50th solo win as Random, so that was fun. Trying to decide if I'm going to change from my Zergling portrait to the newly unlocked Overseer portrait.
+ 40 points, Silver League Division Rank 57, Remaining Bonus Pool 366
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/171379-1v1-zerg-backwater-gulch
Thursday, April 21, 2011
TvT Loss
Well I lost that one pretty convincingly. I knew on my next TvT I wanted to try a straight Marine push. I remembered to push when my +1 attack landed, I forgot to wait for Stim. Or maybe it was done and I just failed to notice? I almost took down his bunker and then failed to retreat timely.
My build order was kinda wacky and my timing was off, but I still think there's a lot of potential. I need to remember next time to throw up a missile turret so I can be ready for the cloaked Banshee reply.
I should probably not also rally my marines to the front of the line, don't bring reinforcements on an early Marine push..just what I have when I set out.
- 5 Points, Silver League Division Rank 63, Remaining Bonus Pool 262
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/167058-1v1-terran-backwater-gulch
My build order was kinda wacky and my timing was off, but I still think there's a lot of potential. I need to remember next time to throw up a missile turret so I can be ready for the cloaked Banshee reply.
I should probably not also rally my marines to the front of the line, don't bring reinforcements on an early Marine push..just what I have when I set out.
- 5 Points, Silver League Division Rank 63, Remaining Bonus Pool 262
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/167058-1v1-terran-backwater-gulch
Saturday, April 16, 2011
How many expands is too many expands?
I expanded 5 times in this last game.
It was Shattered Temple and we spawned in close by air positions. He was scanning me a lot and not putting any pressure on me by ground so I figured he was going to go with drops. Which he did.
The problem was he waited a long time...he shoulda dropped me when he had that first Medivac out. That would have done a good job of pinning me in my base. I had 3 warpgates online and was just barely able to afford each production cycle. But he waited a little too long, until I'd gotten my Robo up and running and was expanding and it was just too late.
At that point I was already pretty sure I'd won so I cleared the rocks at my Gold, started making Immortals to handle his Marauders, started the tech for my Blink upgrade, expanded to the Gold and started building as many Gateways as I could afford to.
It still took 15 minutes from this point. I tried to force my way into his main once but lost most of my units destroying most of his army so I pulled back, rebuilt, expanded a third and fourth time (to his second) and maxed on my Immortals, Blink Stalkers and Charge Zealots. Eventually I got my fifth and rebuilt my base there when he sacked mine with his third drop. But at the same time my army was destroying all his buildings, so it was effectively over.
+ 26 Points, Silver League Division Rank 62, Remaining Bonus Pool 193
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/164985-1v1-terran-protoss-gutterhulk
It was Shattered Temple and we spawned in close by air positions. He was scanning me a lot and not putting any pressure on me by ground so I figured he was going to go with drops. Which he did.
The problem was he waited a long time...he shoulda dropped me when he had that first Medivac out. That would have done a good job of pinning me in my base. I had 3 warpgates online and was just barely able to afford each production cycle. But he waited a little too long, until I'd gotten my Robo up and running and was expanding and it was just too late.
At that point I was already pretty sure I'd won so I cleared the rocks at my Gold, started making Immortals to handle his Marauders, started the tech for my Blink upgrade, expanded to the Gold and started building as many Gateways as I could afford to.
It still took 15 minutes from this point. I tried to force my way into his main once but lost most of my units destroying most of his army so I pulled back, rebuilt, expanded a third and fourth time (to his second) and maxed on my Immortals, Blink Stalkers and Charge Zealots. Eventually I got my fifth and rebuilt my base there when he sacked mine with his third drop. But at the same time my army was destroying all his buildings, so it was effectively over.
+ 26 Points, Silver League Division Rank 62, Remaining Bonus Pool 193
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/164985-1v1-terran-protoss-gutterhulk
Thursday, April 14, 2011
More sucking
God, I just feel like a terrible player. Forgetting to inject, forgetting to drone, not making enough units, not putting enough pressure on. Not knowing when to attack and when to pull back. Constantly making the wrong decision at the wrong time.
It feels like I'm just doing everything wrong.
I rewatch these games and I don't see what I can do better. I see mistakes, I just can't ever seem to correct them.
Disheartened at the moment, no lesson learned for now. Just defeated.
- 11 Points, Silver League Division Rank 73, Remaining Bonus Pool 186
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/164286-1v1-zerg-shakuras-plateau
It feels like I'm just doing everything wrong.
I rewatch these games and I don't see what I can do better. I see mistakes, I just can't ever seem to correct them.
Disheartened at the moment, no lesson learned for now. Just defeated.
- 11 Points, Silver League Division Rank 73, Remaining Bonus Pool 186
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/164286-1v1-zerg-shakuras-plateau
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Okay...let's try this again
I queued up yet again today. Why? I want to know what I'm doing wrong. I want to understand why my play is so extra horrible today. I want to smash my face into the keyboard.
And I finally won.
Tal'darim is a huge macro map and it was TvT. So I wanted to establish an early strong economy and just mass marines and marauders. Huge numbers. So I started doing that and just sat back. He attacked a few times and I defended. I attacked once or twice and did some damage to his army but neither of us made much progress.
However it felt to me like I kept coming out ahead. When he'd attack I'd lose less units than him. When I attacked I lost less units than him. I went for Battlecruisers for my final tier tech and quickly upgraded. When I hit max I did 3 things. 1.) I built more unit producing structures so I could replenish my army instantly if I suffered some huge defeat. 2.) I expanded like bananas. 3.) I kept upgrading (or tried to, I eventually forgot to keep upgrading).
Either way it worked. I just crushed his forces as I rolled over base after base after base. I had 6 or 7 Command Centers up at the end and over 20k minerals in the bank I couldn't spend (except for the upgrades I kept forgetting to max out...lesson learned!).
Anyway, it felt good to finally get a win in.
+ 26 Points, Silver League Division Rank 65, Remaining Bonus Pool 159
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/163289-1v1-terran-taldarim-altar-le
And I finally won.
Tal'darim is a huge macro map and it was TvT. So I wanted to establish an early strong economy and just mass marines and marauders. Huge numbers. So I started doing that and just sat back. He attacked a few times and I defended. I attacked once or twice and did some damage to his army but neither of us made much progress.
However it felt to me like I kept coming out ahead. When he'd attack I'd lose less units than him. When I attacked I lost less units than him. I went for Battlecruisers for my final tier tech and quickly upgraded. When I hit max I did 3 things. 1.) I built more unit producing structures so I could replenish my army instantly if I suffered some huge defeat. 2.) I expanded like bananas. 3.) I kept upgrading (or tried to, I eventually forgot to keep upgrading).
Either way it worked. I just crushed his forces as I rolled over base after base after base. I had 6 or 7 Command Centers up at the end and over 20k minerals in the bank I couldn't spend (except for the upgrades I kept forgetting to max out...lesson learned!).
Anyway, it felt good to finally get a win in.
+ 26 Points, Silver League Division Rank 65, Remaining Bonus Pool 159
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/163289-1v1-terran-taldarim-altar-le
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