9pool speedlings > 1 cannon fe

On October 13 2009 05:10 Vekzel wrote:
Man, this was like watching TvT with no action for 1 hour...

First of all, after that massive damage you inflicted you went for Spire. This was unnecessary: You could instead get more Hydras and run him over before you lost control over highground ramp. But OK, you played super-safe.

Your Drones in main got raped by DT's. You really seemed to be anxious about DTs, since you went for Over speed so early, but in the end there were no Ovies in place to spot the intruders. Given the match situation, drop was the only thing he might unleash on you, so you should definetely be more prepared.

Overall, you played much too passive, probably because you had little scouting info -> little idea what Toss can do. With that massive edge, just use single Scourges for scouting or even spawn Queen and Parasite Templars. After figuring out what he's got, find his weakness and abuse it. In this particular game he had 0 Observers all the time, so Lurker drop = GG. You dropped Hydras, and it was OK. Just remember that staying passive gives enemy the chance for comeback.

Actually, you could even ferry a Drone uphill, build Hatchery, then Nydus Canal and transfer shitload of units into heart of his base. This would have been the best way to show him that further resistance is futile.

And BTW, with all cash you accumulated you could spam +50 Hydras at once. So yeah, your macro indeed needs training.

EDIT: Haha, he called you 'noob'. Another proof to my theory, that calling other players 'noobs' constitutes REAL noob.

On October 13 2009 05:42 Catch]22 wrote:


Another theory is that they are tired of losing to 1hatch lurker, proxy 2base carrier and the likes.

On October 13 2009 05:32 vAltyR wrote:
Yeah, seriously. A couple doom drops, maybe some ultra/ling and he's toast.

Just watched the ZvT rep. Pretty epic. I thought you were behind for a while, then I realized he was only mining from one base while you had half the map

On October 13 2009 06:58 Equaoh wrote:
Double gas --> LOLtraling

On October 13 2009 07:40 LordWeird wrote:
StorrZerg too gosu

On October 13 2009 07:56 Harem wrote:


qft

On October 13 2009 11:13 Rayzorblade wrote:
I think I played you on Tau Cross the other day and you said I was "so bm". . .

On October 13 2009 10:52 vAltyR wrote:
Watching the next zvp replay.

Forge placement = LOL. Guess I shouldn't laugh too hard since I screwed up my simcity three times on destination today. >_<;

Dear protoss player, whoever you are: blind 14 nexus is *never* a good idea... unless you're stork.

Your priority should be the probes. Probes have to be microed against zerglings, cannons don't. However, you also want to stop cannons that haven't finished building yet. But since his wall cannon finished, you made the right choice of running by and harrassing the main probes instead of trying to kill the wall cannon. If you had tried to kill the cannon, you would have taken significant ling losses and he could have possibly microed his probes well to take care of the rest of the lings. Solid win IMO.

But seriously, what is it with protoss players and calling you a noob? o.O

watching the last replay...

wait... a scout?! did he stove you? Nope, but seriously, wtf?

On October 13 2009 14:14 Rayzorblade wrote:


When you 12 hatch on Tau Cross (and 99% of the time Protoss FE) you should expect to get your nat pylon blocked/cannoned. I wouldn't say that's being "cheesed." I just took advantage of a a vulnerable build because that's what a better player will do.

But yes, you shouldn't 12 hatch on Tau Cross. It's dangerous, especially ZvP. (Equally dangerous ZvT, come to think of it, but not as much).