[NASL] S2 Grand Finals Day 1 - Page 485

Very passive start,

Mana went 1 gate expand into 4gate, stargate and forge.

Morrow had got to 3 base into lair by then.

mana built a VR and went overlord hunting, 3 phoenix joined in, killed quite a few overlords, 7 or 8, Morrow slowly dealt with it with queens and a couple of spore crawlers and macroed through it with a 4th base + 90 drones @ 10 min mark.

mana still didn't attack even though he must've seen no army for Morrow, built up his own deathball, stalker, sentry, zealot, couple of colossus @14min.

Morrow kept up macro econ + tech, hive - now has an amy of ling, infestor and 9 corrupters @ 14min starts greater spire. Plus adds some roaches to the army mix.

Critical moment @16min, Mana warp prism with 4 zealots +1 att drop onto morphing greater spire (can't warp in anything else because he's supply blocked), Morrows army out of position in middle of map, Greater spire is defended by drones and a couple of queens, 3 transfusions barely keep it alive in the red before the zealots are cleaned up.

@20mins big engagement, Morrow rolls over Mana's deathball with nice fungals, lings, roaches and 10 broodlords. ling reinforcements and remains of morrows higher tier units clean up most of mana's warp in reinforcements as well. Has about a 50 supply lead - game goes on until about 28 mins until mana gg's

mana forge expand plus 1 cannon, Morrow 13 pool 20 hatch,

Mana wallin with 2 cannons, morrow goes to 3 base, mana goes to 5 gate plus colossus tech @9min

Morrow techs to banes plus drops

@13min Morrow splits army into 2, - 5 overlords full of lings goes to drop main while roaches go to mana's wallin. Ling drop gets repelled, roaches take out forge, Morrow pulls both armies back. Mana pushes out with his stalker plus colossus to try to get some map control but ends up pulling back.

Morrow finally morphs some banelings, adds infestors to his roach army, fills 10 overlords with banelings

Mana has about 30 stalkers plus 5 colossus, it starts to banerain and all 5 bunched up colossus evaporate plus half his stalkers, roaches clean up the rest. Morrow pulls back 174 to 116 supply in Morrow's favour, Morrow on 4 base, mana just starting his 4th.

Morrow makes about 8 corrupters to handle the new couple of colossus, Morrow pushes in and wipes out Mana's army again (roach, infestor, ling + corrupters) - a few more battles occur, Morrow always has at least a 60 supply lead but it's basically over, mana gg's after a few mins when he's had enough of being strangled and abused.

Both same openings, forge expand and 13 pool 20 hatch.

This time the first 4 lings get past the just finishing cannon at the expansion into main base because it's a smaller map. 3 get in kill one probe, remaining 2 remain very annoying for a few mins and pick off 3 more probes, delays mana's tech as he doesn't want to show what he's doing whilst lings remain alive.

mana does get aggressive earlier this game @10 min attacks morrows 3rd with stalker, sentry army. Morrow lets it die and counters with roaches and lings to deny mana's 3rd whch is warping in. he leaves lings to deny 3rd and walks into mana's expansion with a load of roaches as mana's army tries to return home. Mana's army finally makes it back to see expansion die and a mass of roaches destroying his main nexus.

So to summarise, mana got aggressive took out Morrow's 3rd. Morrow countered and denied 3rd and killed mana's main and expansion's nexus'. Mana throws his army at Morrows main, Morrow holds, gg. So yeah i guess i can understand why he was so passive in the first two games

nope

still nope

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