Phalanx's Daily #49: Playin' with twilight

Johnson, the lovable 1-st scouting probe! Dream profession is Aiur Head Chef.


Mike the stalker. Hardest working of them all, and single-handedly preventing scouting and pressure, while receiving the least credit.


Emily, the mothership core. Has a secret love for education, but quickly gets out of hand and fires photons all over the place if pissed off.


Snowden, the sneaky observer, watching out for the protoss race. He checks your computer history too.

Early game PvP; what can I say, there's almost never any variance. 2gas at 15, cyber at 17, all that standard stuff. Until the 3 minute mark both me and my opponent are doing the exact same thing. Oh, the map is also on Bel'Shire Vestige by the way.


Mirror match up in more than 1 sense.

My enemy opts for a 3stalker+MSC pressure build. My build was basically the same except for the stalkers coming out of only 1 gateway and I was defensive, so his pressure was no real problem at all.


Mike the lone stalker, pictured just as planned.

I see my enemy getting 3gate stargate, and since his units are out on the map my probe freely walks in and starts building a pylon. My warpgate tech has finished and in moment my DTs will come along to ravage this poor boy's bottom.


You got this Johnson, keep it up and you'll get a raise.

My DTs get in to attack promptly, killing off quite a few probes. Forcefields are used to buy time as he desparately tries to pump out oracles for detection. I do believe that oracles regenerate just enough energy to constantly have Envision up.


What are these silly hexagons, they kinda look jello-y!

About 10 probes were killed by my DTs, and since I had a bit of an edge I expand to make that edge go even stronger.



Not sure why, but my enemy decides to go for voidrays. He starts getting his later expansion and rallies a voidray around to go into my mineral line. At this point I decide I should go win soon and so I start researching Blink.


Dat rally.

It just so happened that his rally went over my semi-proxy pylon.... and by a stroke of luck, his voidray passed over the pylon right as I warped in stalkers. Amazing timing, really, I must say that was beautiful luck. I manage to pick his voidray off for free ezpz.


My opponent proceeds to accuse me of maphacking... Which, now that I look at how perfectly that was timed, I must admit wasn't such a terrible accusation. That timing was one in a million, folks.

I'm a bit pissed at the other guy for thinking I'm a maphacker now, so I decide to just go win it. Yeah, going in with blinkstalkers! ... except that blink wasn't done yet.


FML our commander is a nub retreat.

NOW I have blink! Yeah, going in and winning with blinksta... waaait a second...


So close...

I finally move out with blink actually completed, but since I lost a few more stalkers than I should have in the previous engagement I'm forced to retreat. I, however, can take bad engagements, since I'm ahead in economy.



My next warpin of zealots helps greatly to push again. Stalkers blink forward to eliminate voidrays and mothershipcore, while zealots work away and kill his immortal.


BLINK IS USEFUL WOW ITS SO AMAZING LOOK GUYS HAVE YOU EVER TRIED BLINK IM SO HIPSTER.


Probes are pulled, but zealots are just so good.

The battle rages on, but macro is just too good.


IMMORTAL SMASH!

Although my opponent still has a few units remaining, he calls me a maphacker once again and leaves.