Today has been possibly one of the most Starcraft 2 orientated days since I started playing. I think I have probable spent more hours in a single day playing than I have been today but this was the first day that I have woken up and made a decision that I am going to allow myself to put everything else aside and just have fun gaming. It felt pretty liberating really. I think a lot of how I am feeling at the moment is down to the fact that I am day by day piecing together my social life. It has a ripple affect on my general state of mind. But enough about that, I seem to constantly tell you guys more about my life than you want to know about or probably even care about. Maybe I should start writing the waffly sections in italics so you can just skip straight to the nerd talk.
One of the things I identified the other day was that I have fallen away from build orders, it’s not a bad thing but I just realised that I need a base set of plans and strats to build up from. SO I started the day watching some of the latest matches on GOMTV.net to get inspired, and I did inspire me. One match in particular between Anyproprime and Virus really got my geeky juices flowing. I have long been a fan of the good old Marine, seeing as it is by far and above the best unit in the game. Normally I tend to go for 4rax builds off one base with fast stimpack, combat shields and engineering bay upgrades. The problem I have always faced with this is that I am not yet skilled enough to follow that style through. If an initial push fails I can’t keep up with the micro management of the units, building supply depots, expanding and continuing to add more raxs. Virus did something really cool that I have decided to try and master so I have it in my arsenal, he went one rax fast expand with no gas then dropped a bunch of raxs once he was on two bases. The amount of marines that began to flood off the two bases was seriously baller! Throw in upgrades and begin to tech to siege tank etc and there is some serious trouble brewing for the opponent!
As well as trying to steal that build order I have gone back to the basic staple of Terran: the MMM – fast Marauder build. Works great even though the nerf on stimpack timing has caused it to lose some of its clean flow in application. I’m sure I’ll work it out with time. Oh yeah and ForceStrategy’s 1/1/1 with fast expand build is pretty dangerous if done correctly too.
Basically I am trying to wake up to the need not just focus on getting some units out to throw at an opponent but also set up for the mid and late game.
Over all today I have done ok; probably won about the same amount of games as I lost. A good few of the games I lost were down to silly mistakes so they can be easily learnt from. Considering that the last evening I spent on the ladder I lost maybe 13 games out of 15 today has been a major improvement.
So I’m going to leave it there.
Please do leave a comment or get in touch on battle.net – my character name and code are in some of the previous posts. It would be nice to know what people think of this blog. Though it started out as something I have been asked to do for coursework I am really enjoying the process and it would be great to get guidance from you guys as to what you like/dislike about it.
Battle hard people but above all do it with a smile J
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