Went 1-2 tonight. In practice league.
Loss #1: I tried to rush reapers, was surprised when I got to my opponents base and discovered they were actually competent at the game; they'd walled off their ramp (immaterial for reapers, ofc, but shows some level of skill) and had reapers of their own, my 3 reapers died, he came at my base with like 8 reapers and I had like 5 marines and 1 reaper to counter at that point. Yuck. He destroys my base.
Loss #2: I resolve to build lots of units and not slack off. I build lots of marines. He builds mutalisks. I expand but am not really sure how to split my forces between two different bases, he harasses me at whichever base my marines are not at. We fight battles of attrition where he takes out most of my SCVs, I come in with my marines and the mutas/marines pretty much take each other out. I can't get my economy back on track enough to build air defenses and eventually he just overwhelms me with mutas and I lose. Watching the replay, his first muta attack left me at a significant food disadvantage so I guess I just need to be better prepared against that sort of thing and not let myself get hit in the first place. Build turrets, I guess?
Win #1: Opponent is zerg again, says "oops didn't mean to pick them" when the game starts. I assumed I was building up much faster than him, but when I sent in my big attack I just went with 35 marines (1/1 upgrades maybe? and stim), 6 banshees, and 3 medivacs (I had more stuff back at my base, but my main goal was to take out his expo and anything on top of that would be gravy) and looking at the replay it turns out food was only 142-122 me at that time. My stimpacked marines tore him up pretty good though and I got his whole base.
orange sweated me against the computer a bit before these games and taught me how to 3rax. Not applicable yet in practice league though (****ing rocks), maybe I should skip the rest of them?
I feel most out of place right now when I get to the midgame and I'm not sure what units to build. Like, in my last game, I had a bunch of marines and some banshees, and I was ready to go in and did a final scan of his base and saw he had a bunch of mutas and was like "well ****, now what." Went in with my banshees anyway and just kept them behind the marines, but yeah I'm not sure what to be doing with my army. Should I be doing something like hellions in TvZ, siege tanks in TvT/P? My factory def isn't getting a lot of use in these games.
I guess I feel like I'm improving from the standpoint of getting deeper and deeper into games before my standard "wait how the **** do I have 6k minerals?" moment hits.
(edit: actually, was 2-2 tonight - forgot my first game before I hit up orange, where I took 27 minutes to beat a guy cause I didn't scout well enough to realize how ridiculously far ahead of him I was at the end; I was up 99-66 when he launched a decent attack with marines and medivacs, which I tried (and failed) to counter with only marines which obv got massacred while his got healed, so then I wised up and sent in cloaked banshees which obv destroyed all his marines...dude should have loaded them back into the medivacs clearly. he didn't recover after that)
Last edited by goofyballer; 06-07-2012 at 05:51 AM.