EPTThings focused on: Steps 7 and 8 of the Staircase
Completion of Focus: Completed!
End of Day Placement: Silver 495 (Down 60)
To start things off I'm gonna put up the replay from yesterday that people were asking for. Any and all (helpful) comments are welcome. This is pretty normal for a game of mine against zerg. I outmacro the guy always have a bigger army but get destroyed by banelings repeatedly because my micro sucks until he makes infestors and beats me.
Bear in mind that I can only build marines marauders and medivacs in this one as far as units go.
http://drop.sc/279047
Some things I know I didn't do very well:
I was a little late with my factory and therefore my starport so I didn't get as many medivacs as I should have.
Upgardes - I didn't do it, that sucks
That's about all I can remember that went wrong in that game. I know it's not crazy in depth self analysis. I will try to do better in the future, but for the most part I don't see what I did wrong in this game other than having banelings be my bane. (They're aptly named)
Recap:
Well, today was Hellions, and in my playing with hellions I learned something... they suck against Terran. Especially in the section where I wasn't allowed to micro with them. A-Moving hellions really doesn't do any good, especially against tanks. That being said the whole time I played almost all my games were against Terran. I got annoyed about that at first, but then I just sucked it up and told myself that it didn't matter that I was getting my ass kicked I was supposed to be learning about Hellions and nothing teaches you about Hellions better than losing with them repeatedly, so I buckled down and macroed my heart out
Doing this got me through level 7 pretty fast, and then I started level 8 (where I was allowed to micro). Mineral lines here I come! So I played a few games (took me 4 games but I did round one of my SQs up to count it, but it was close enough and my SCV production was almost perfect. Of my micro games I managed to get to the mineral line no times (got close against a zerg, but spine crawlers and lings got me before I could do anything) with my hellions and managed to just get crushed all 4 of those games. My MMR is now in the toilet, but that's okay because next is Thors and that should help a lot I think. I normally don't care about wins and all that, but having my MMR drop below the silver level is bad, cause I don't want to be demoted.
Tomorrow is Thors - day! (would be cooler if it was Thursday, but at least it's the other T day). I'm looking forward to it as I've been wanting to do more with Thors but didn't really have much of a chance to before. Should be fun.
