EPTI went 2-3 winning two games on Andromeda. They were the first games I've won on Iccup in TvP where I wasn't cheesing. (I also won a TvZ in which I fast expoed, also a first for me on Iccup... my early game micro always failed me before).
I'm surviving the early game against Protoss a lot better than I was before. Partly because they're letting me and expanding, but also partly because my early game management is better. I'm still entering midgame a lot further behind that I would prefer, but that's better than not even getting there. I'm not a huge fan of being behind, because it makes harassing pretty difficult. :/
The one game I'm really proud of that I won tonight is where the Toss took his mineral only at 13 supply or so. I panicked since I was going 2 factory and I scouted 3 gateways, and I built a ton of marines and sent as many tanks and vultures as possible. It failed miserably since he scouted it a mile away and he had way too many dragoons by the time I got there anyways (I should have just backed off when his probe saw it). Instead of going for the kill, he was content to expand. I tried to make up for this (since he didn't seem to be in a hurry to cross the map) by expanding immediately.
Things continued on pretty uneventfully (except a shuttle with a reaver running into a turret line above my gas natural) until I scanned carriers at around 150 supply. I swore, because I wasn't at all prepared for them and I saw three of them. He ended up swarming in with everything, and despite not having charon booster initially due to thinking I had it but not(I wanted to scream), I pushed him back. And then very slowly managed to beat him back despite him having a ground army and carriers, and a 30-40 supply lead most of the game.
I think I did a pretty good job after he attacked my expo. I managed to minimize damage from his templar and his ground army pretty well (I did eat one storm that looked like it hurt a lot, but watching the replay I moved my goliathes out of it pretty quickly), which I think contributed to him going pure carrier (well, almost pure). But eventually I bled him dry and killed them all with goliath/wraith.
I think his big mistake was not targeting two of my expos at all, but after a point he couldn't really because I eventually clawed my way to a 200 supply goliath army vs his 200 supply carrier and if he did, I'd just run over his expo or main.
About 2/3rds the way through he asked me my real rank. I guess I handled it pretty well, but goliath micro isn't that hard once you know how to do it and you have the economy to support it. And Andromeda is a terrible map for carriers (especially when my vital expos were cross positioned from his main). I'd be going arbiter every time as Protoss.
Anyways, die carriers! I remember when they used to be an auto loss for me regardless of how big of a lead I had. Revenge is so sweet. :0
http://tdzk.agadak.net/zer0das/0384 z0rzergT FrozenCP.rep
Also, if you don't want to watch the whole thing, he loses about half a dozen carriers in about 2 minutes and 30 seconds starting at 23:00 or so. I felt like this prolonged battle gave me the advantage.
