Title: A Game Of Starcraft, In Pictures
Subtitle: In Which Hero ****ing Wrecks An Exploitable Strategy
A game of Starcraft begins; in the bottom left of Overgrowth, we have our hero, goofyballer. In the top right, our villain, a platinum Terran.
We scout; what is going on here?!
Okay, this is getting weird...
Is that the second of two proxy raxes? But there's no gas...oh, here we go!
CC first at the gold, and you think you're so tricky.
I play normally, get a third slightly earlier than normal, then go check out what he's doing at the gold if he landed it there:
Ohhhh. You're one of those guys. That's so cute! You think you're going to win this game!
For the uninitiated, a planetary natural is the hallmark sign that you are going up against a mass raven strategy. So, this guy is going to take some bases with static defense (planetaries/turrets), build lots of starports, and build lots of ravens. Let's see how it works out for him!
I begin by doing the most sensible thing I could think of:
One thing you need to know about people who use this strategy is that they are all terrible at Starcraft. This guy is not going to "apply pressure" or "harass drones" or anything that good Starcraft players do: he's going to sit in his base and make lots of ravens. So **** it, let him, I'm gonna take my half of the map if he won't stop me.
Aww, he thinks he's gonna take another base!
So cute.
I haven't actually scouted at all since the start of the game, but if there was any need to worry that maybe this guy isn't bad and isn't doing the exact strategy for the next 15 minutes I thought he would do based on scouting one little detail at the 5 minute mark, it's now gone.
With all 5 bases mining gas, I focus entirely now on my plan for domination: MUTALISKS.
Behold, the adorableness of this clown thinking he's gonna take this base:
lol!
I kill the turrets at the gold while my muta count keeps building, he comes with the ravens so I circle around and kill some stuff in the main (mostly starport tech labs), then circle back to the gold and finish it off. We dance some more:
and he taps out after those seekers fizzle; I'm maxed with 44 mutas, he has eight ravens left.
In short: LOL MASS RAVEN PLAYERS.