hey man, nice stream, enjoy it a lot. i just have a couple questions after watching you play for a good week or two.
*) do you never use hallucination? for someone who advocates scouting so much, and for someone who always keeps a thousand sentries around, hallucinated phoenixes will provide a lot of scouting, not to mention their potential combat purpose. you're a clever guy. can probably figure that shit out.
*) do you never chrono boost the warp gate tech on purpose? why? i've noticed that more than once (thus i figure it's not a mistake) you're looking at your base, you have almost full energy on your nexus and you're researching warp gate. might be a decent use.
if anyone else who feels confident enough on the subject i'd appreciate some enlightenment.
Good thing Blizz fixed the "stuck in gold" shit - nice to see you in Div1 Plat.
Best of luck against Idra also.
One thing though, that PvT you lost last night on Kulas, where you had a macro advantage all game and +1k gas invested in your army - i'll provide my observation if you don't mind: if you check the replay, there were two ghosts left alive at 1-10HP for soooo long when he pushed into your bases. That along with the fact that he obviously was watching your stream and found out about your gold expo sealed the deal. Those ghosts were allowed to do like a shit ton of damage and one even stayed up long enough to get energy back for like a third EMP, so.
The build is pretty simple -- usual composition of sentries, lots, and stalkers, but instead of immo rush, phoenix rush. Get 4 phoenixes + ground unit comp, then harass with phoenix immediately while getting natural/pushing if you feel that you can. Keep adding to gateway unit force and keep chornoing more phoenixes.
This build seems especially good against zerg, because phoenixes are great for a) picking off queens, overlords, and drones, b) are solid support when your main ground army faces roaches and c) great for picking off roaches that are retreating. The downside is that phoenixes are quite micro intensive.
Dunno if you've tested this out, but give it a shot before your game against idra. it seems like just the sort of unconventional play that would throw him for a loop and improve your chances of winning. It's been working wonders for nony anyway -- he just won like 6 games in a row against all races and all sorts of maps with it on his stream. Granted he was playing mostly randos on ladder, but still.
Just registered to say that the 2v2 matches with Painuser were fucking awesome. You two definetly have to do that more often. Those were the most fun games i watched so far.
Any chance you can get a cut of that replay from your livestream using the livestream editor/production stage? The double rage and commentary was hilarious!!!
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