Phalanx's Daily #69: NAC vs zeez

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.


Clyde, the zealot. Often times forgotten about due to cutting corners in the early game, and is always brought around in clutch situations.

The map is Neo Planet S, and my opponent is a Terran. I start off with the usual gateway at 13, but Johnson's scouting gives me no fast barrack... I get a little bit hesitant at this, but I check out the SCV count and see that the worker count is equal to mine, so I go ahead and assume that he's going for a CC first. I originally think to just go for 1 gas instead of 2, but go for the 2 anyways because I want to get some oracles out. Johnson moves away in time to see the command center and first barracks go down.


Scouting... scouting... bingo!

While he's expanding very fast, I get a fast stargate. The scouting SCV from the terran looks really perplexed since he doesn't ever see the stargate, and also sees my extremely late nexus. He probably expected a proxy, and threw down a fast couple of bunkers.


Oohh the mind games... that were unintentional.

A good scan goes down, spotting my oracle right before completion. Although I don't want to rely purely on the enemy not scouting my buildings, I definitely am going to consider keeping my stargate in a little bit more of a remote location next time.


So close to being sneaky .

Turrets go up immediately and the only kills that my oracles get are on marines (still, kills none the less!). From the source that I am taking my build from, it suggested to go in with 3 oracles around the 8 minute mark. I was a little bit slow on the 3rd oracle, although even with 3 I don't think that I could have DPS'ed down the repairing turret.


Nom nom nom at least we got something!

Both of us go into peaceful macro time, as per usual. I tech to colossi to keep away the push that soon would be to come, and the terran builds up his MMM forces. His upgrades were started earlier than my double upgrades, giving him that edge.



The pressure from the terran comes a little bit later than usual, at 11:40 or so. His units pick off my first colossus very quickly, despite my attempt at some sort of force field usage. The attack is pushed back but I definitely take more damage than I would have liked... I really need to improve my FF usage. His retard magnet factory didn't help either.


Nyuuuu stimmed marines are too fast!

At the end of the day I do have a superior economy, although he has a vastly superior army size. My army compostion is very stalker heavy, since I thought that he would be getting a lot of vikings after seeing both stargate units and Colossus production. Upgrades are even because the terran just decided to fall off on that.


BURN BABY BURN!

The terran soon goes for a second push, but thanks to my superior economy my army count starts to get closer. I also can, for the first time in a while, say that I probably had a superior army composition! Woo! If I had sentries maybe I could have trapped his units, but as it stands I was happy just pushing him back away. My stalker count was definitely high enough to kill his few vikings, and my zealot numbers were sufficient to meashield.


RUN BABY RUN!

Oh, he also goes for a drop right as I get supply blocked. T.T
I saw it coming way in advance but I jut didn't have the supply... sigh. This is why I'm not masters.


Oh shit baby we need some supply.

The drop deals more damage than I should have let it, but it still isn't crippling.

And then suddenly the end game... I was feeling good about my macro, my army comp. But then sombody decides that they need to bring a train along with their attack. An SCV train, to be specific.


Choo choo mother fucker.

I knew I shouldn't have skipped making Snowden to stay in front of their base...
My enemy goes balls-deep all in, taking nearly all of his SCVs with him. Sadly, I don't get any sentries at all, since I often times don't get any sentries. Just another thing that would make me such a better player...

Try as I do to keep off of the SCVs, they get the jump on me since I was trying to get my 3rd expansion right as the attack hit (and of course I have far from perfect map awareness). The SCVs soak up far too much damage, and the colossi are picked off. With no sentries to keep them at bay, the terran all-in fucks me up hard.


Damnit... gg? Allins suck!

Later I learned that the guy I faced hates macro games vs protoss, and always will all-in at 15 minutes. If only Snowden were there to help me... :'( I might have maybe used force fields semi-efficiently.