Daily Ladder-age #33: DTs vs pressure!

Both players open up rather standard. I open with double gas on 15 looking to tech to fast DTs, my enemy on the other hand takes a later assimilator, going for some build that requires an excess of pylons.


How can I possibly get supply blocked if all I build is PYLONS? GENIOUS!

What my opponent actually is going for was a 3gate pressure of sorts, taking an expansion behind it. His income was quite lackluster and probably required some damage to be done to actually equal it out.


Heaaading on in!]

His 4 stalkers and MSC roll in to my base, but luckily my build gets Emily out onto the field fast enough to have enough energy for the photon overcharge. I now basically just sit back and buy time for warpgate to finish up and for my DT shrine to finish.



Thinking that he has me contained my enemy proceeds to throw down a nexus and 2 stargates. Had I not been able to attack with DTs I expect that this strategy would have put me far behind. I truly, truly am glad that I started using this new build.


Be careful what you ask for... cuz it looks like you're asking for a butt whoopin'.

My DT shrine finishes up in a handy time, and I warp in 2. 1 at my main base to charge the stalkers with sexual harassment suits, and 1 to go harass his probe line.


OBJECTION!

Since my enemy was going for pressure as well as a fast expansion, he of course doesn't have a robotics facility ready at all. His stargates also haven't made any oracles yet so his detection is miles away. Like any good player, he runs around his probes... but guess who didn't notice a probe sneaking in to the back to make an uber proxy pylon.


Oh Johnson, you sneaky bastard.

Then a warp in cycle in his main... right as the probes are running around.


In my country, this is commonly referred to as a "gangbang".

Oh man was that a beautiful routing of probes. My original DT somehow managed to shepard his probes into a choke point, then from there my 3 other DTs blocked off their escape route. I think I came a little bit when this happened, but that's another story.


Even the stalkers get surrounded.

A polite GG WP from my enemy, and another few ladder points in my pocket <3.