It's been a while since I last wrote a blog so I figured that I'll share one of my recent games with everyone. I haven't played anywhere as much as usual since I stepped down as BW EiC, but I have gotten some interesting back and forth games, and I feel like my skill level has gotten close to what it was before. The game is still as amazing as ever when two players who are closely matched in skill play each other and I highly recommend any readers who want to try BW take the plunge and give it a go. We also just got colors added in the newest patch so there's that to look forward too as well! :D
On that note, late game TvZ is still as hard, fun and rewarding as I remember. You essentially have to: 1) Keep macro going at all times to avoid missing production cycles and keep income going. 2) Keep tabs on the Zerg at all times for expansion timings, army movement etc... 3) Stay aggressive so that the Zerg doesn't get out of control, involving lots of scans and irradiation. 4) Micro properly against ultraling with defiler and lurker support. Plague+swarm is a deadly combo. 5) Stay defensive with just enough units at your mining bases because a Zerg army can strike and retreat quickly.
a), e), h), and k) are my favourites. I also apparently play better in SD mode than RM with the bigger widescreen, go figure. Let me know what you guys think and let's all bask in the glory that is TvZ
Watching the sick hold vs ultras at h). Look at all of Zerg's bases and am astounded Bigfan somehow wins... Then looks at 13k/6k bank and not so astounded anymore...
War of Attrition: Bigfan dodges you until you're so tired of it that when he finally agrees to play you, you're so mentally exhausted. Excellent tactic. Art of War more like Art of Dodging.
On September 26 2019 12:04 Ty2 wrote: Watching the sick hold vs ultras at h). Look at all of Zerg's bases and am astounded Bigfan somehow wins... Then looks at 13k/6k bank and not so astounded anymore...
Jokes aside, cool blog.
Best moment for me:
haha well, I only started banking heavily after I maxed. I think I was at 3.5k? on 3 mining bases at like 165 supply. That bank is the reason I was in it since I mined out most of my bases.
On September 26 2019 23:38 FlaShFTW wrote: War of Attrition: Bigfan dodges you until you're so tired of it that when he finally agrees to play you, you're so mentally exhausted. Excellent tactic. Art of War more like Art of Dodging.
Nice try. That's not how it works, but that's a very good strategy. I should try it sometime!
What a game. 33:33 is a Terran's dream. Would love to see Zergs point of view. Btw, there's something funny going on with the gas mining at the Z nat at 32mins.
My hydra den cause some funky pathing, so I had to build a weird, out of place sunken to fix it, and then later in the game, it randomly decided to break again ;;
On September 26 2019 23:38 FlaShFTW wrote: War of Attrition: Bigfan dodges you until you're so tired of it that when he finally agrees to play you, you're so mentally exhausted. Excellent tactic. Art of War more like Art of Dodging.
On September 26 2019 23:38 FlaShFTW wrote: War of Attrition: Bigfan dodges you until you're so tired of it that when he finally agrees to play you, you're so mentally exhausted. Excellent tactic. Art of War more like Art of Dodging.
On September 27 2019 06:23 Dangermousecatdog wrote: What a game. 33:33 is a Terran's dream. Would love to see Zergs point of view. Btw, there's something funny going on with the gas mining at the Z nat at 32mins.
My guess is that john saw the vessels coming in and just clicked on the gas then realized that made things worse and tried to spread them out lol.
On September 29 2019 20:55 JieXian wrote: dat thumbnailz
On September 26 2019 23:38 FlaShFTW wrote: War of Attrition: Bigfan dodges you until you're so tired of it that when he finally agrees to play you, you're so mentally exhausted. Excellent tactic. Art of War more like Art of Dodging.
On September 28 2019 17:23 EsportsJohn wrote: My hydra den cause some funky pathing, so I had to build a weird, out of place sunken to fix it, and then later in the game, it randomly decided to break again ;;
Just the price to pay for playing against BigFan.... everyone would know when you lose, and not when you win
But honestly congrats to BigFan for improving in his BW play.
On September 27 2019 06:23 Dangermousecatdog wrote: What a game. 33:33 is a Terran's dream. Would love to see Zergs point of view. Btw, there's something funny going on with the gas mining at the Z nat at 32mins.
My guess is that john saw the vessels coming in and just clicked on the gas then realized that made things worse and tried to spread them out lol.
On September 29 2019 20:55 JieXian wrote: dat thumbnailz
On September 26 2019 23:38 FlaShFTW wrote: War of Attrition: Bigfan dodges you until you're so tired of it that when he finally agrees to play you, you're so mentally exhausted. Excellent tactic. Art of War more like Art of Dodging.
Hahahaha and "I only play TvZ"
the classic matchup dodge.
Coming from the guy who quit playing the game! :>
It was more like, "Oh hey, he's trying to do eraser. I'll just burr-...fuck."
EPT
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