Jaedong sends his Overlord in the wrong direction and 12 Hatches at his expansion. Hwasin doesn't do anything funny and goes Supply -> Barracks at his choke.

Jaedong is sending a Drone over towards Hwasin to scout.

Centric

United States1989 Posts

April 27 2008 05:48 GMT

#45

Some nice drone harrass by Jaedong.

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 05:49 GMT

#46

Jaedong attempts to harass the building SCV but the Barracks finishes before the SCV dies.

Jaedong puts up his pool and his second 3rd Hatchery and maynards his Drones to his expansion with perfect timing.

Hwasin uses his harassed SCV to scout but it's chased out of Jaedong's base by Zerglings.

Hwasin builds his Barracks and immediately expands, building a Bunker to defend against the initial 6 Zerglings.

OneOther

United States10774 Posts

April 27 2008 05:50 GMT

#47

KALLL

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 05:51 GMT

#48

Jaedong morphs his natural Hatchery into a Lair and is getting the geyser there as well. The scouting SCV is denied an attempt into Jaedong's base yet again by well-placed Zerglings.

Meanwhile we have not seen Hwasin's base in quite awhile, so it's hard to determine what he's doing.

Jaedong's getting a Spire up and Hwasin's getting his Engineering Bay and a second Barracks. He has a moderately sized M&M force stationed at his choke. Jaedong Sunkens up his natural expo.

Hwasin gets a 3rd Barracks.

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 05:54 GMT

#49

Spire is finished for Jaedong and Mutalisks are morphing for him. He sends a Drone down to the 4 o'clock main and expands there. Engineering Bay is finished for Hwasin but no turrets are going up just yet. Mutalisks have popped for Jaedong and they move out immediately.

Hwasin puts up his Turrets and moves his M&M force back into his base to defend against the Mutalisks. Very nice Mutalisk micro starts picking off at M&M.

Hydralisk den is up for Jaedong and he's getting an Evolution Chamber as well. His expansion at 5 is finished and he immediately gets the Extractor there as well, while bring up his Queen's Nest. Nice FPView of Jaedong's Mutalisk control.

Hwasin, however, is doing an excellent job of mitigating Mutalisk harass with as few Turrets as he deems necessary. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be enough as Jaedong's Mutalisks are hungry for SCV blood and the undefended mineral line is easy pickings.

Lurkers are morphing for Jaedong as view shifts back to the observer.

amorpheus

Bulgaria2144 Posts

April 27 2008 05:56 GMT

#50

<3 @ jd muta micro

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 05:56 GMT

#51

Hwasin adds two Tanks to his army and is currently producing a Vessel from his Starport. Jaedong is prepared and adds two Scourge to his Mutalisk cloud so he can snipe a Vessel more easily. However, a small lapse in control causes Jaedong to lose a few Mutalisks.

Lurkers outside of Hwasin's base delay the advance for a little bit but Hwasin's Tanks and single Vessel are enough to easily avert any major damage from the Lurkers. Two of fhe Lurkers fall and Hwasin sieges up outside of Jaedong's natural.

Jaedong has a sufficient number of Lurkers to defend this attack off, I think, provided he controls them well.

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 05:59 GMT

#52

The Sunkens fall for Jaedong but he moves in with a very nicely placed flank. A Defiler is out for Jaedong but it doesn't manage to place down Swarms (Consume not researched yet?) The flank manages to take out Hwasin's army outside of Jaedong's base, but Hwasin has amassed an even larger army in the meantime.

Both armies are moving about in the center of the map, Jaedong's Lurkers preventing easy movement of M&M around the map. Hwasin has stopped building tanks and has transitioned smoothly into a perfect M&M only battle.A nice swarm goes up over Hwasin's army but he retreats out of it quickly while expanding to one of the unsafe middle expansions.

Bazse

Hungary582 Posts

April 27 2008 06:00 GMT

#53

Well, this is tvz at its finest.

Centric

United States1989 Posts

April 27 2008 06:00 GMT

#54

On April 27 2008 15:00 Bazse wrote:
Well, this is tvz at its finest.

Agreed.

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 06:01 GMT

#55

Jaedong's first-person view shows excellent control as always, and affirms that he knows about Hwasin's expansion attempt. He sends a few Lurkers down to stop it but they are stopped by the M&M force that Hwasin sends down to counter the Lurkers.

Hwasin simultaneously sends his army at Jaedong's nat, but the small choke is easily defended by just two swarms.

Jaedong chooses to expand to the 4 o'clock natural as well, and he manages to take out Hwasin's Vessels with some Scourge - a nice bonus. Hwasin moves down to counter Jaedong's new expansion and kills it switfly - then retreats.

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 06:03 GMT

#56

Jaedong attempts to take the 4 o'clock expansion, but Hwasin runs past it and moves down into the 4 4 o'clock main. However, he's forced to divert his attention temporarily due to the Nydus Canal that's defending the main down there. An excellent Plague goes off on Hwasin's forces and the Lurkers rip through them in half a second.

Centric

United States1989 Posts

April 27 2008 06:03 GMT

#57

Plague and lurker equals wonderful.

Gaetele

Esper760 Posts

April 27 2008 06:04 GMT

#58

Hwasin has started to add a very large number of Tanks to his army now, and Jaedong is prevented from being able to get a good swarm over them due to the M&M wall in front of them.

Hwasin expands down the 7 o'clock main. A nice swarm finally goes on over the tanks, and Lurkers are even being sent down to 7 o'clock. However, Hwasin is simultaneously tearing through 4 main and 4 expansion. If he successfully takes both of them down, he will be ahead in bases.