On May 24 2009 21:10 GinNtoniC wrote: if there was one single person in the world I would NEVER try to cannon-break it's Much. Doesn't Falcon know he's got probably the best probe micro in the progaming scene?
I remember him on Desti a couple weeks ago, blew my mind.
On May 24 2009 20:50 Shikyo wrote: Well, the thing with only massing cannons at the front is that he can only have so many in the range of the forge. Then JD can move back and snipe that forge. And 10 hydras can take out as many as 6 or 7 cannons, so JD would only have to wait for a while. 2 hatcheries can get you surprisingly many hydras.
Yeah, jjonga was preparing for his followup, but just needed to buy enough time for the 1 base P versus 1 base Z to really kick in.
What do you mean, 1 base toss to kick in? It will never kick in if you only mass cannons. After JD would break those cannons, Jjonga would have nothing. JD would only need enough hydras to snipe the few cannons in the range of the forge, then snipe the forge, and after that, if Jonga hadn't started pumping goons in time, he'd be completely screwed. Even if he got like 10 cannons, JD would need 18 hydras at most. After that, Jonga has no way to defend against all the hydras and lings. He really needed to get those gateways up. Maybe a tiny bit later, but massing just cannons would not have worked.
That was my point - I was agreeing with you. No amount of Cannons will actually win the game for you - the point of the Cannon contain is that by the time Zerg breaks out, you've got a real one base army going, and it turns into essentially one base P versus one base Z.
Much put on a 2 hatch hydra defense clinic. Despite not scouting it until well after the sair was out and the hydras were at the front he blocked the front and the back entrances.
On May 24 2009 21:14 Noah wrote: Wasn't that GG way too premature?
Given the number of Drones Falcon had (not enough to reinforce), a stream of speed Zealots at that point off of the 4 or 5 Gateways Much had would have ended the game in another minute anyway.