EPTIt's actually quite good timing, because Day[9]'s Newbie Tuesday this week actually dealt almost exaclty with the kind of thing that I've decided to focus on. Perfect! With that fuel fresh in mind, it's time to practice!
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jambrez (T) vs Apocriva (Z) (Loss)
With the idea in mind of focusing on larvae and Day[9]'s advice to lose by having way too many drones, I focus almost entirely on making drones!
- I don't watch for Terran expansions. (I'm also largely in danger of early aggression, but I'm not so worried about that.
- I really screw up my queen timings! I dunno what's up with that. I also do really poorly with injections early on, gross.
- I really need to have two gas started at the same time as my lair, I think. I don't endup with enough gas to do anything. Once the lair is complete, I think I really should have four gas up at least.
- I get my spire out and then don't actually have gas for anything. The gas at my third needed to be up a long time ago.
- I don't see the Terran's attack until he rolls into my third. Spread out those overlords!
Chu (P) vs Apocriva (Z) (Loss)
- Early on, I get thrown off by a probe. That sucks, but I don't think it's the worst thing that happens to me.
- I have noticed in the last few games that I can't get a queen as early as I had been doing, but I can certainly expand a lot more quickly. I get my third up at just after 6:00.
- I should maybe have had spines up by 8 minutes. I wasn't keeping tabs on my opponent. Either way, I have my first big forgetting of drones aroundt hen, while I'm setting up tech. (I totally forgot to make my gas and lair early on, boo.)
- I'm starting my lair and hive at 12 mins, and have 76 drones altogether. Larvae are piling up though.
- Big attack from Protoss moves out at 13 mins, and I see it on the minimap. I have a buttload of minerals and no gas. I notice that I forgot to put drones on one of the gas in my natural. Oops.
- I have a dozen or so too many drones at my third.
- I had a zergling patrolling to check bases, but it totally missed the third that Protoss was setting up.
- The attack finally reaches my front door at around 15 mins, two minutes after I first noticed the attack. I have 30 larvae doing nothing. Would definitely have been a good time to have done something like at least making zerglings.
In the end, I didn't have nearly enough gas for making Corruptors, Infestors and Brood Lords. Could one gas geyser make the difference? I'm not convinced. At the same time, though, how can I take a fourth when the Protoss army was going to be knocking on my door? Hmm.
What the heck. I had a third replay analysis in there that somehow disappeared. Whoops. It went well, though.
In any event, that's enough for tonight. "Learning"-style games take a lot longer to go through than simply playing! Next night I play, I'll probably skip the indepth analysis and just work on playing as many games as possible to try and work on the 'feel' of things.
