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Originally Posted by goofyballer
I need to go re-watch Life vs. MVP to remember how people did it back in the day.
Game 1, Cloud Kingdom
MVP does 2 factory blue flame hellion. Life has no scouting info and is probably assuming bio from his opening (getting baneling nest, no roach warren in sight), he sends a group of lings into MVP's natural at 9:00 and sees extra hellions + the blue flame so that's when he knows it's on. Life panics, builds a second baneling nest, has a wall at his natural but doesn't put a queen there to close it off, loses 24 workers.
Life goes first into infestors and then gets his roach warren around 13:00, getting both melee + range upgrades. 16:00, he's finally starting to get roaches out to go with his 13 infestors and gets hive + spires, which he quickly turns into a greater spire at 18:00; MVP is on 170 supply at this point, with mostly tanks/hellions and some thors. MVP is ready to move out but Life uses ling/roach runbys to his 3rd and 4th to try to keep his army in place while he gets corruptors out to make broods. Lings and roaches barely take out the 4th, but Life loses a lot of supply in doing so; MVP moves out to counterattack while Life is morphing broods. They pop just as MVP sieges up at Life's 4th. MVP has 6 vikings to take on the broods and just a few corruptors; Life tries to chain fungal them down, but loses lots of infestors to tank fire while doing so. MVP loses lots of tanks/vikings, Life loses lots of broods, but is able to reinforce with corruptors barely fast enough to make sure MVP won't have enough anti-air to hold the position and forces him to retreat.
Life continues to use roach runbys to try to keep MVP's army in place while he gets his ideal composition; when MVP finally moves out again to try to hit Life's 5th, Life has 9 infestors and like 14 corruptors vs. 11 vikings and MVP has no thors, so even though the infestors can't get past the tanks to where the air battle is taking place Life just has too much. He pushes MVP back to his 4th with the broods where MVP ggs.
Unfortunately not that useful to learn from cause lol brood lords vs modern raven-viking mech compositions. I imagine ravens would have been effective for MVP here; this was a month after the "seeker missile no longer needs an upgrade" patch, and obviously PDD would help a lot in the air battles too. I guess it just wasn't something people had figured out yet?
Last edited by goofyballer; 02-13-2014 at 04:15 AM.