InteR.Calm BW reminiscence

瞒天过海 (Deceive the heavens to cross the ocean) A risky third accessible by ground only via the open middle high ground, keep in mind that Calm would completely skip lurkers this game, such a simple and easy to counter strategy that no one expected it.

The terran moves out at with a squad and a firebat, spire is just finishing, and there are just 6 lings on the map.


空城计 (Empty Fort) - Just one sunken colony to his name with nothing else in sight, giving a false sense of danger making the terran think a zergling attack is imminent.

Picks off the medics positioned for a potential zergling attack with mutas and cleans up the rest.

Hive off 1 sunken, an exposed third, while the terran is posturing for a mass mm push, and no lurkers.


树上开花 (Decking a tree with false blossoms) Stalling the terran with just mutalisks while.taking a completely undefended fourth next to the exposed third.



无中生有 (Creating something from nothing) - Showing only a squad of mutas at once, posturing that he is transitioning to lurkers while greater spire is morphing. The terran is reluctant to attack with out waiting on scans.


偷梁换柱 (Replace beams with rotten timbers) Continually snipes medics instead of trying to kill marines, leaving his opponent with 2 squads of marines with no support then cleans up the whole ball with just mutalisks.


打草惊蛇 (Stomp the grass to scare the snake) Terran responds with 3(!) port stealth wraiths to mass mutalisks, still thinking that the zerg is doing a 2 base muta all in. Instead he morphs an ultralisk tavern.




调虎离山 (Entice the tiger to leave its mountain lair) Morphs guardians any ways while showing nothing on the front lines, letting the terran's bio move out onto the map.

Starts sunken sim-city at home.


笑里藏刀 (Hiding a knife behind a smile) Here comes the wraiths, but wait, who put those scourge, that overlord, and that devourer there. It would turn out that the overlord was there since the beginning of the game.

Beautiful cloning.


围魏救赵 (Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao) Positioning makes guardians completely inaccessible to the bio ball, this also stopped the terran from just marching across the map and killing his completely exposed bases.

Terran matches across the map to find where there once was no defenses, there is now a fortress.

Ultralisks pop at the exact right time


声东击西 (Make a sound in the east, then strike in the west) Terran turtles out a massive army, preparing to engage the ultralisk army outright with science vessels, instead he goes for a pure Ultralisk backstab.




Calm is a zen master, instead of celebrating his victory, he contemplates his actions and the future.

In an all important ace match, Leta opts for an early supply depot block on the natural, and opts to go for an early expand of his own.


Diligent scouting from Leta, confirming the lair timing.


While the scv is still in the main, Calm puts down a hydralisk den in plain sight at the natural.


Leta is a formidable opponent and scans right on top of the natural, revealing both the hydralisk and the den.



The face of a man who isn't impressed.

Leta starts bunkers and missile turrets.


Calm uses the knowledge that his opponent knows about his "hidden strategy" and morphs 2 lurkers while taking two expansions at the same time.

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Calm shows two lurkers and starts harassing Leta's mineral line, protecting them with zerglings, the first scan does nothing.


Leta cleans it up with another scan and starts adding missile turrets in fear of more attacks.


SCV goes up the ramp to meet 2 lurkers and some zerglings. These are ALL of Calm's military units on the entire map.


Leta waits for two squads of bio and cleans up the ramp, mean while Calm has been droning on 4 bases. By the time Leta stims across the map, Calm already has 2 new lurkers and easily defends his bases.


Leta, thinking that Calm is well entrenched and heading on hive tech, waits for his tanks and science vessel to pop out before moving out. In reality Calm has stayed on lair tech this whole time.


Calm spots the movement with a single well placed ling, threatens for a back stab. Delaying leta's forces repeatedly.



Calm is a master of the art of running away and getting hit.

Calm baits Leta way from the 3rd / fourth which are completely undefended, and threatens a flank, forcing Leta down into the open.


It's a trap! Or is it?

Leta is too afraid to commit to going up any of the ramps, yet every second he wastes the zerg is building lurker ling off 4 bases with macro hatchs. Leta can't take a third with out pulling his forces back to defend. He stays in the same spot even though the zerg's army is no longer there.


Leta decides to commit to heading into the natural, Calm sets up a rear flank and leaves lurkers to cut off reinforcements. Now Leta is completely boxed in between the convergence point of the zerg supply routes.


Leta fights valiantly but is inevitably forced to retreat, taking heavy losses on the way home.



By now defilers are coming out, Leta's 2 base push was completely negated,


Swarms seal Leta's fate.


Coaches swarm to touch this man's magnificent brain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZzUkcIlxVs