Currently too tired to ladder

On October 07 2010 22:32 sob3k wrote:
DEAR LORD

I watched your replay:

YOU DID NOT LOSE BECAUSE YOU MADE TOO MANY MUTA
NO
NO
NO

You lost because of two things

1. MAGIC BOX! Learn how to do it! It burns my soul to see mutas engaging 4+ thors without magic box. You would have totally crushed that nub if you just used magic box. All you have to do is let your muta spread out naturally, then before you engage the thor tell them to NOT attack move, but instead move past and over the thor, then when the spaced out muta are directly over the thor ball press hold position. This trick REMOVES the splash damage bonus thors get vs muta and easily makes the battle 4x better for the muta.

2. SPEND YO MONEY FOO! Your expansion timing and play was solid, but you got up to 6k minerals.......SIX-THOUSAND! Thats TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTY LINGS! I think those could have helped you out....

If you EVER see your money approaching 2k.
1. Spend as much as you possibly can, it doesn't matter if you are making units that aren't optimal, something is FAR better than nothing.
2. As Z, throw up 2-3 expansions IMMEDIATELY. Don't even worry if you feel you may not be able to defend them all, if one of them survives for 3 minutes you have made your investment back. If they all survive you have doubled your production capabilities. Especially in bronze level, if you had thrown up 3 expos when you hit 2k in this game you would have FACEROLLED your opponent.

Oh, the third thing you need to work on majorly is scouting.

You had no idea what he was doing until your roaches snuck into his base, UNACCEPTABLE. What if he had been going banshee? You would have instantly lost the game.

On Kulas your first or second OV should ALWAYS be hovering over the highground expansion near their choke. Like this:

Red is where your OV's should stay to scout composition and when they move out and when they take the highground expo.

Later in the game you must establish map vision to know what the hell they are doing as well. Like this:

Some nice safe spots. Now you know when he expos or goes to drop.


The green arrow is where your overlord or overseer should ALWAYS be, ready to sac himself into the enemy base when you enter the midgame. If you ever think to yourself "what exactly is he doing right now?" and you don't know 98%, this OV goes to his death on a glorious kamikaze run. Have him already positioned and ready to go. You can use changeling too!