Daily Ladder-age #34: Roaches Rushing On In

Today's game is a PvZ match up, no the map Derelict Watchtower. Not a bad map, fairly suited to my play style too. I open up as per usual with a forge fast expand, and the zerg does whatever zergs do.


A 15 pool, by the looks of it.

Pretty hard, in my opinion, to tell what a zerg's doing before the 5 minute mark. 5 minutes is when their 3rd would (or at least, was) generally going down, and for me that's basically my only indication of whether he'll be aggressive or passive. Until then, I just go ahead and do my usual thing.


A pretty bad wall... That first pylon was too close.

Now at 5 minutes, my probe Johnson checks out that there is, in fact, no 3rd base by the 5 minute mark. BAM. Rush alerts should be going off all over the place now. From obs vision, we can see that the zerg is going for some early roaches.


Maphax!

Now, surely, I must be starting to build up a bit defensively right? Some sentries, some cannons, maybe a voidray!


Errr defenses??

Pathetically bad reaction by me. Not only is my macro a bit bad with not throwing down any gateways, but I didn't prepare defenses at all. I didn't even call in Emily (the MSC). Barely even started a 2nd cannon before the attack hit. I was, simply put, extremely f*cking stupid in this game.


Arr, ye walk the plank!

Thus a lesson is learned in scouting; actually use that information. This loss could have been prevented, even without deviating from what I normally do. A simple voidray could have swept the tides in my favor. But nope. I just totally played as if the zerg had a 3rd.