Daily Ladder-age #8: Phoenix Drop Denial

Spawn on Whirl Wind, a terran in the top-right and me in the top-left. I personally love this map both for it's shape and the face that the bases aren't too hard to defend, especially due to the large map size. The terran opens up pretty greedily with a CC first, although due to the size of the map punishing it becomes pretty hard.


If only all houses could be self-constructing.

I look to see if an opening is there to attack with my first msc and 2 stalkers, but the bunker is up and I don't feel too confident in pushing into his mineral line, so I decide to also sit back and macro. Two can play that game. Also, I've decided to name my MotherShipCore, since it's almost always in my early game... I'll call it "Emily".


Yay, a name!

My terran opponent seems pretty prepared for early aggression, pre-positioning marines where an oracle would pass through and even making a fast turret and +1 upgrades. I must admit, I'm glad I decided not to go straight into stargate like I usually do, That oracle would have been toast.


Many many techlabs...

Meanwhile in fort Phalanx...


Looks like an OPfacility is active.

A fast colossi! Yeah! I usually tend to have troubles with the terran 10-or so minute 2 medivac attack, so I've been trying to get my colossi out as soon as possible. I guess that it's fine since I float a lot of gas, and getting them out faster can only help. Since I saw a bunch of techlab add-ons, I actually decide to get 1 immortal out before I start making my 2nd Colossi too.

The anticipated 10-ish minute attack actually came more around 11 minutes, but none the less I'm fairly prepared. My zealot count isn't quite where I would have liked it, but I believed my sentries I build up early on would suffice for zone control.


Emily you whore, get off that colossus' face!

Regardless of how prepared I am both emotionally and physically, the marines run in with their drugs! With the use of force fields, the lone colossus bravely combats the MMM while Emily runs to safety.


Pretty Colossus ragdoll.

A warp in round of zealots, along with the planetary nexus, cleans up the stragglers... But once the carnage is past, I realize; EMILY THE MSC DIED!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
She was a brave MSC.

And was soon rebuilt.


Bitch we're fabulous.

As I prepare for building up my army, I get all my remaining infrastructure, placing down 2 forges, twilight council, and double stargate. Why double stargate, you may ask? Well, that's because I didn't realize I'd already made 1 stargate, and being the idiot I am I built a second one. The stargate it's self is no mistake, however. I love myself some phoenixes in PvT, both to deal with drops and to make colossi a ton more potent in engagements. The composition of chargelot/colossi/phoenix is pretty sweet, and all you protosses out there should try it out if you haven't already.



Meanwhile, the terran.. well, he MMMs. Drop after drop after drop. He tries to drop so much, but after every drop he loses almost all of his forces. My units arrive in time to kill the dropped units, and my phoenixes were able to run in and clean up the retreating medivacs. That's a really great part about having phoenixes; carving down dat medivac count.


Phoenix squad, move out! Wait, turn back there's a drop! No, over there too!?

After all of those drops, only 7 probes were killed, and the only structures picked off by them were pylons. I must strongly recommend the usage of phoenixes to stop drops, especially after having so much success.

With all of his unsuccessful drops, although he annoyed me a lot, my opponent managed to widdle his forces down quite significantly. The closest he came to dealing a blow, nearly taking out my robotics bay, was prevented thanks to phoenix's AWESOME gravitational lifts.


Oh, you wanted to snipe a tech structure? Well here's a face full of anti-gravity!

As the terran moves out for the final battle, his poor MMM are quite down in numbers, not to mention not supported by any vikings at all. Free Colossi food.


Colossus beam ZHUUUUUUUWP!

Lets just let the following slew of pictures tell the tale for how the battle went.


Colossi OP OP OP!!!

Literally rolled over that guy, with a loss difference of about 20 supply vs 60. Immediately following that battle my enemy left the game, bringing me to a SUPER satisfying victory. Only negative is that I forgot to /dance.