Diamond is Cheese and Annoying Non-standard Play - Page 2

Yes blocking your natural with an eng bay is annoying. I thought you were referring to walling off the bottom of your ramp with a eng/bunker. That's much more annoying to me.

I just ignore it and expand at the gold or closest mineral line if there isn't one. Terran already put themselves behind wasting resources on the bay so you can pretty much take the gold and afford to drone AND make an army to defend it.

You dropped a baneling nest and roach warren at the same time :S I'd only do that if I were completely uncertain of what Terran was doing and was scared of an all in. Considering your expo was delayed- it put you really behind to get both techs at the same time. Send overlords close to his base so you can scout it. A line of OLs would have also helped you spot the drop and prevent it from doing damage. Remember- lings underneath medivacs Queen right clicked on medivacs. Killing the marines faster is okay but killing the medivac is the best.

Anyway, you had no spire and no way to catch up, gg.
Fun fact: I get my baneling nest when my lair is 1/8th complete.

I see a probe. I put a drone on a probe. Every time. Always. No exceptions. If I don't I deserve to lose. That's the end of the story. If you scout forge first, patrol another drone at the bottom of your ramp. If you're forced to expand at 7 minutes you need to double expand or all in. Then expand again at 12 minutes. Hydras and spore crawlers were the correct choice. Corruptors suck shit against micro'd phoenixes, even if its a gold player. Also scout way way way more often. Send a ling to die to try and see his composition all the time. Sac overlords. Changelings, whatever you can do to know whats going on. Or else, surprise 12 phoenixes. Roach Hydra is also pretty good at breaking a cannon wall. Too bad they're not good against anything else.
Here's a replay with a few general ideas on how to respond to being caught unaware by forge fe when you've opened pool first. http://bit.ly/rt2JEi

See a worker attack a worker. No exceptions for scvs or drones. The minute someone builds some shit in your house then pull 4 drones to kill it (pylon/cannon) or 2 to kill the scv and 1 to patrol close by to see if reinforcements are coming

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It was the worst 10 pool I've ever seen, it was only one spine crawler and you could see the drone just sitting there. You should always attack a drone near your creep anyway. For exactly that reason. You could have held it off if you hadn't laid down in the snow and died though. Next time:
1. Don't make two spines. Make zerglings.
2. Don't let your morphing spines die. You lost 150 minerals (the drone cost added in) twice which means his early aggression gambit already broke even if you held it off perfectly.
3. You got the surround on the lings which was good but then you just sat there. Not good. Every second counts. Did you notice my apm in the replay? It's like 80 but I don't have the same problems you do. I focus on what I need to do (as much as I can for a casual player ). I let myself be angry or frustrated after I lose. Which usually involves lighting a cigarette, slamming my fist into my desk or angrily watching the replay. I'm not perfect but I try my best during the game.

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