[R] I am on a slump

On August 06 2010 08:30 hiddencamper wrote:
If you've been winning the game will put you up against better players

On August 06 2010 08:34 kNyTTyM wrote:
It's good that you posted a replay but 1 more step is needed in a strategy OP. You should analyze your own replay and post what you think you did wrong. It's ok if it is wrong but it will allow us to help you more thoroughly then just a simple what can I do better?

On August 06 2010 09:08 Panoptic wrote:
I watched your replays and noted a few things. I can understand what you mean by a 'slump'... it seems perhaps that your play lacks a certain confidence or decisievness. Game 1 and 2 you lost for the same reason, which was not building the right units despite scouting.

In the first game, I think that if you had just made for certain that those void rays had been dealt with you would have been free to attack and I think you could have done so successfully because the starport/voidrays and the forge/photon cannons are an investment you could have countered. Stimming marines for void rays which can just fly away weakened them unnecessarily.

In game 2 you were kind of unlucky, but again, your opponent teched to battlecruisers on 1 base so that investment should have put him behind of you if you had the right units. This was simply a matter of unit composition. You and your opponent went for pretty similar builds, but where you invested in a needless tank, whilst he got the vikings which complement the banshees so much better. If you were insistent on getting the tank and less vikings, I would have got way more rines to compensate and basically used them as base defence.

In the last game you scouted the 1 base carriers and decided to double expand as a reaction. What I think this did, is gave your opponent time not to be punished for such a huge investment early on. Instead, my thoughts on seeing 1 base carriers would have been either:

"Ok, I'll make a MM mix and just attack once I've got stim/a reasonably sized force with stim."

or the more passive option of:

"I'll make a buttload of marines with stim/shield and get a starport with vikings and slowly but steadily start expanding, and maybe even attack eventually."

You almost did the second option, but without the right resolve, things like the siege tank in my opinion were a distraction from the units you needed to be building.

Apart from these things, I'd say your play seems pretty good. I just think you need to remember to adapt your build to what your opponent is doing without compromises (unnecessary siege tanks for example) and always bear in mind that you opponent has inherent limits governed by his race and available resources. For example: If they go 1 base carriers/battlecruisers and you manage to fend them of, they're not gonna have jack shit units compared to you if you went something a little more standard.

Oh yeah, and you should hotkey your buildings more but other than that keep it up, it seems you've got a pretty good grasp of things, you just need to not slack on things like adapting your build to your opponent imo.