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Phalanx's Daily #74: Suddenly the zerg

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Sir.Phalanx
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Japan195 Posts
August 13 2013 12:24 GMT
#1
Heilow peepull. Nice to see ya again, at my 74th daily battle report! Not gonna fool about much for today's daily since I've gotten a lot further behind on writing it than intended! Guess I'll just bolt right in to the game!

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PS I'm cheating out a bit today by posting a very short game


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

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

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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.

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

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


replay : http://drop.sc/354006

The Game

Early Game...
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So today's game is a PvZ on Neo Planet S. I start out just as per usual, pylon at the natural's choke soon to be followed off by the well off.

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I try to be as annoying as possible with Johnson at the zerg's natural, although I don't delay the expansion by too long.

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Lets dance!

Johnson's waiting around for later so that he can scout for the 3rd, but quite unfortunately gets spotted by zergling. Oh noes!

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I'm too young to die!!!

At right around 5minutes Johnson is killed in the line of duty... not quite having been able to confirm the 3rd. I decide to just play as usual, guessing that he's going for a normal build as well.

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Turns out that my guess was way wrong since he had a roach warren on the way and no 3rd base at all... sigh. I suppose that I could have kept my probe in a little bit longer (before lings were out) to check for gasses as well... although checking for the 3rd really is what's critical. I've decided that if I don't get a confirmed scout on the 3rd i'll play defensively rather than greedy, as I did in this game.

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Noooo I lose the guessing game .

Now I got roaches knocking at my door... 3rd expansions are in fact not very good at killing off allins.

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A lone sentry and zealot... all that I had.

I basically get straight up overrun by that first wave of units... since I went for super greedy stargate play and mis-read my enemy I had no defenses at all, even just to stall. I must say, losing the scouting probe REALLY hurts. Still gotta work on that in PvZ since scouting is the only thing that keeps me alive.

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Well that was a fast GG...

So yeah, a pathetic loss due to a simply scouting mistake. Pro tip, don't assume and then proceed to be super super greedy.


Well... that's all for today! sorry for the very very minimal battle report but thanks for reading, and have a great day!

P.S.
Phalanx now streams! http://twitch.tv/sirphalanx

P.P.S.
Check out the website for my current clan as well as the website for my previous clan that I was part of. Well, there's not much to see... yet (!!!).

P.P.P.S.
So you gonna wash this Corgi or what?

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Go to school - Laddder - Sleep - repeat. Who needs a social life anyways.
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
August 14 2013 02:36 GMT
#2
Personal Preference:
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Don't play defensive. Don't even think of it as defensive. Think of it as aggressive. You can think of it as building up before you roll out into battle or as a temporary retreat or something, but don't think defensive.

Defensive tends to give one the idea of turtling even if they don't mean to. Maybe a whole minute just slipped by and it felt like 20 seconds to you since you were doing so many things. Sometimes you end up building too much static defense which lowers your army count and can end rather sadly.


I was hoping for a much funnier BR after the introduction of the characters beforehand. I was sadly disappointed.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
Sir.Phalanx
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Japan195 Posts
August 14 2013 11:34 GMT
#3
well sorry for that... my other ones are better though if you care to browse back

sounds like a good idea to not think of it as playing defensively... even if I'm doing the same stuff maybe that mindset will help me out. thanks for the tip!
Go to school - Laddder - Sleep - repeat. Who needs a social life anyways.
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