Hi guys!
So for those who don't know, this is a new project I'm taking on. Basically I started playing Starcraft 2 about a month ago, and I love it! It's the first RTS I've ever gotten into, so I'm a complete nub. I instantly fell in love with the Protoss race for a myriad of reasons, and so I play them exclusively. I've been learning, and I wanted a way to track my progress as I dive farther and farther and (hopefully) get better at this really fun game. The idea is, I'll cast my games, then provide highlights of certain games, along with some points on what I did well or not so well. This helps me, as I get to analyze what I need to improve on. I hope this might also provide some entertainment for you guys, and maybe some help (especially if you're a complete noob like me!) Now, on to the first day.
Monday Oct. 17, 2011
Rank: 15 Bronze League
Today I'm going to post 2 games, one win, one loss.
First the loss:
Early rush loss
Okay, so basically this is an early rush, there are a couple things I could have done to survive this rush. I've listed these options in the order of best case--> worst case solutions as I see them
1) Sentries. Sentries have the ability to make force fields. If I had a couple sentries out, I could have completely blocked off my ramp, allowing me time to build more units, and destroy his little army.
2) Better micro. Stalkers outrun zealots, and zealots are melee units while stalkers are ranged. If I could stutter step better I could have kept my stalkers out of the range of the zealots while pewpewing them down.
3) Better scouting. If I had seen what he was doing, it's possible that I could have had better units waiting (this sort of flows into #1).
3) Engage with my probes. This is something that I am TERRIBLE about. I always have the tendency to try and save my probes and run them away. Later in the game, when the units are tougher, this is the way to go, but in the beginning, against a couple zealots, the probes can actually be a huge help, and could have served as a way to block off the zealots from my stalkers, providing my stalkers time to pewpew the zealots down. I would have lost a lot of probes, but I would have survived the attack. Usually when people send units that early, they are pulling probes (not making as many probes as they could be), so it's quite possible that if I had survived the attack I could have been even or ahead economically.
Okay, now that we've gone over a loss, here's a win.
Win against terran part 1
Win against Terran part 2
(two parts cause twitch split the archive in the middle of the game)
To me, there were three key points in this game that led me to the win.
1) I outmacroed him. I gathered more resources and created more units. If you do this in most games, you will win! It seems simple, but getting to a point where you have a decently macroed game is tough. My macro wasn't actually that great this game (you will hear me constantly complaining about how many minerals I'm floating), but it was better than his.
2) Scouting. I scout him early, and can see what he's up to. Therefore, I stick with my favourite build against Terrans (heavy robo units). If I had seen a starport with a tech lab for instance, I would have known banshees were coming, as it was I saw he was going marine/tank (a very common Terran build). Immortals absolutely melt Terran tanks, combine that with upgrades and you can see his army basically disintegrates under mine. (Again I could afford upgrades and those units due to better macroing).
3) Denial of a 2nd base. Because of my scouting, I was able to see when the Terran was going to take a second and destroy it. This is important as it keeps me economically ahead of him. Now, he could have very easily countered this by simply taking a different location as his 2nd base, but more often that not (especially in bronze league) people are obsessed with taking their natural as their 2nd base, and this guy paid for it.
That's all for this edition of Chatia Learns SC2, I hope you'll join me next time! If you have any comments, please feel free to post them below!
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