Road To Gold Day 5

On November 10 2011 05:52 DomiNater wrote:
I don't think you needed to take your 3rd at 5 minutes game time. You could have droned harder off of 2 bases and then taken your 3rd around 8-9 minutes instead.

I can't stress how big this is but you NEED to get out of the habit of hotkeying all of your units to 1 hotkey. Get those infestors on a separate hotkey man!

When dealing with voids, 4-6 Infestors can take out their whole army. Practice your chain-fungals and you can kill that army ez-pz.

On November 10 2011 07:05 Aocowns wrote:
I'd say a spore per base. Then increase the number of spores if you see him continuing to go air

On November 10 2011 12:05 firetyo wrote:
Game 1-
If you see a FFE, it's not the best idea to waste money on gas and roaches. Instead, it's a better idea to drop the roaches and gas later after you get more drones. This is putting the idea of 3gate pressure, early attacks, harass, etc aside. Phoenixes are great and in fact you'll have to unfortunately pull back all of your overlords. Early air is actually a terrible idea, considering if you went early roachling, he wouldn't have anything much to hold off your early game roachling macro.

Work on creep spread and keep you army at the most efficient position possible. Your hydras were at your main when he attacked your third, keeping it in the middle with creep would have been more effective. Also, when there's air like that, invest in Pneumatized Carapace so that your overlords can run around faster. Therefore you can have overlord spread with less risk of losing them.

Up until 14 minutes, you were playing defensive, waiting for him to attack you. You probably wanted him to push with his army so that you could kill it, and then run to his base with your army since you just killed his. That's the basic mindset of players under diamond level, and it isn't bad but not great. Be more aggressive, try pushing in with roaches and lings and force him to make gateway units. Since you didn't attack at all, he just kept going voidrays. He then floated a bunch of minerals and massed cannons; by then it was too late.

16:50 no overlord spread to at least scout. Ovie + speed can risk you losing 1 or 2 overlords but your other overlords can run away + you have scouting information. You had a lot of minerals as well. If you really had nowhere to spend it, make mass zerglings, queens and spore crawlers. At this point you need to out-macro him.

19 minutes - futile expansion goes down. His voidrays have full reign over the map; there's no use expanding unless you take map control or aggro him instead.


22 minutes - You're in over your head, you assume you have a strong army but you had a lot of roaches which are completely useless since you weren't even attacking his base

Couple of things I would have done
1 - Make more infestors
2 - Roach ling all in early game
3 - Made 2-3 nydus worms, drop changelings and constantly try to get nyduses off.
4 - Spine + creep highway with supporting mass queens and hydras w/ upgrades

There are multiple things you could have done. Nothing is necessarily better than the other but you should have been aggressive early game. You made roaches in anticipation for a gateway push without scouting anything he had. Once you get lair tech scout/drop a changeling to see what he's teching to or even before the lair tech; sacrifice an overlord to see what he has.

Spore crawlers are okay in the sense that it stops early game harassment. Early game isn't 15 minutes but I'm talking perhaps 7~9 minutes. When it comes to mass air like that, spores are basically useless unless you transfuse them.

Note : Just attack him next time lol. Don't wait for the fight to come to you, be aggressive. Go into the game with the winning mindset.

Will edit for games 2 and 3. Busybusy right now! BBL