1vs1 With Toss - First Time In Months...

I haven't 1vs1'd with Toss since the early beta, so I knew this would be a nerve wrecking experience.

Of course I rolled up against a favored Terran player. Which was the one race I really didn't want to fight.

You see I know Zerg very well, and I'm learning Protoss, but I know very little about playing Terran solo. I've played lots of Terran players, but from Zerg's perspective.

The early game was pretty boring, we both built a lot of units and expanded to our naturals. He had a heavy Siege Tank army with lots of Marines, Maruaders, and Medivacs.

I had a mix of Zealots, Stalkers, Void Rays, Immortals, and Sentries.

Anyway it was some back and close fighting, he was on my heels than I was on his.

Now here is where I lost.

He attacks my third expansion, he doesn't have one at this point. So he attacks my third with a drop, I send my army over to kill off his drop. I lose the expansion anyway, and than he sieges in front of my base with my army outside of it.

So now I have Collasus in my base, that are just finishing, but I had to fight without them. Not only that, he had countered with lots of Marines and Marauders, and my Zealot Stalker army just wasn't enough. The Void Rays went down pretty fast too.


Oh and let me mention, Dark Templar's are even awesome verses Terran. I used them so efficiently to run in and kill off Siege Tanks when my opponent was barely paying attention.

I do need to tighten my Protoss build up a little, I wasn't sure what to build so I went all over the map. I think next game verses Terran I'll do at least dual Robotics Facilities early on.

2vs2 Protoss.. Man I'm kickin butt....

What a truly fantastic game.

Just absolutely awesome.

Me and a Protoss verses Zerg and Protoss.

Dual Protoss hasn't failed me once I don't think...Maybe one time. ;)

So I start off with a couple Zealots but quickly tech. My opponent dual gate's zealots, and decides to attack.

Anyway we really kicked butt.

The final moments were awesome. We all had expansions, I had about eight Collasus and some Stalkers. My expansions getting Mutalisks and Dt'd and even Zergling attacked, I'm being nonstop attacked.

Yet we have control of the map, we were knockin them around.

Mutalisks rained down hell on my partner's economy.


He was out of the game for awhile, a few Dt's he used to kill there expansion.

Next thing I know, my partner and the enemy Zerg had built expansions right next to eachother!

He's telling me he needs this one, he can't lose it.

We go down their for the big battle.

Collasus melting Hydralisks and Stalkers like they were nothing, I love Collasus!

I was worried the Mutalisks would take down my Collasus too fast, but the Stalkers did a good job of keeping them clear. Not only that, but I was able to attack them when they were sandwhiched, walls on both sides. Yet walls don't slow down Collasus' do they?

Hope you enjoyed my goodnight post, until next time.

A quick win Me(toss) and Toss vs Terran and Zerg

What a whacky win in the platinum bracket.

So the game starts out, and my partner Photon Cannons in the Zerg, which doesn't do a lot of good but keep him in his base.

Me and Terran have several fights, Marines must be making a comeback because that is all he built, and then Medivacs. Yet my Zealots were doing an ok job of fending off the Marines with a couple of Stalkers.

Then my partner gets Void Rays and kills attacks Zerg. Terran decides to attack my partner with a drop. It was sort of like a base exchange because my partner attacked the Terran with his Voids.

So I run over to my partners base, I have to destroy a Pylon to get in because he sealed off, and I took care of the Marines and Medivacs.

I then built some Dark Templars and through them into the Zerg base. The Dark Templars went in undetected and the enemy players left. I came out with top score again. Was a nice win, I think I'm done playing for tonight.

What did I learn from that game?

Zealots rock Marines...(upclose, these fights can be forced)
Zerg need to be able to counter air....
Watch out for Photon Cannon rushes...especially as Zerg since you can't spread out much...

Dual Protoss vs Dual Terran - The Showdown

That is right! I chose Protoss and was randomed up with another Protoss verses two Terran players.

Well guess what, we stomped those guys.


Beginning was slow as we expected, we both built Stalkers to handle an early rush.

None came for awhile. Eventually they attacked us with a large force of Marines, Marauders, and Medivacs. They had mostly Marauders, which in my opinion, and from what I learned from Joanas guide, is not the best unit to mass verses a Protoss.

Marauders kill Zealots quite well but just about every other Protoss unit does ok to great against Marauders.

I had about five Void Rays and killed off all his marines so it was just me slaughtering Marauders, My partner was doing a lot of the ground fighting too with Immortals and a Collassus.

We also had Photon Cannons, I had strategically placed some on the cliffs edge so they were helping. I also had a few in front of my expansion, this map was Twilight Forces so we had a combined entrance sort of (to our expansions).

I expanded again, built some Carriers, then we attacked and won. They had some Vikings but nowhere near enough, had they used Scanner Sweep they could have seen our army and prepared better. Although I had built some Phoenix's for ant-air as well.

When we hit our final attack on there bases they mostly had Marines, Thors, and Vikings. The Thors were a little late to be effective, as I had about five Carriers and a few Void Rays at this point.

That reminds me, Void Ray speed upgrade is fantastic! I was shocked at how fast they moved with that upgrade, I lost a few because I didn't expect them to move so quick!

I just totally lost my train of thought, I finally got ahold of my friend who I've been playing phone tag with for several days. So I'll just end the blog post here, I'll probably play again tonight.. this still feels like talking to myself a little bit =p

Double Protoss - Grab Detection....

When you 2vs2 random and end up with another Protoss player, make sure you have detection in your base.

Now I had Photon Cannons, so DT's weren't really an issue for me. However my teammate decided not to have Photon Cannons... He also decided not to have Observers.

Now I had an observer building, but it wasn't quick enough to build then run to his base and save him.

This pretty much cost him his base, and me my chance of winning. I made a push after that but it was too late. Then my partner decides, instead of attacking with me, to suicide into the opponent.

It can be frustrating playing 2vs2 random.

2vs 2 Protoss win.. Promoted to platinum!

Woohoo movin on up, that win was crazy.

I tried to mimic his proxy, but due to not knowing the map I put it in an obvious position. Zerg sees me and kills both Pylons, but loses a lot of Zerglings doing it. Now I have unpowered Gateways and I'm running a Probe wayy down but it won't be there in time!

Luckily my partner brings a couple Zealots, and together me and him were able to stop the Protoss from killing my Gateways, my new Pylons go up.

I had nothing in my base, had he hit it I'd have been left defenseless... Anyway with my two Gateways pumping Zealots we quickly overpowered the Zerg, then they surrendered. Was a decent game. Until next time :)

Lost a 2vs2 with Protoss....

I'm going to watch the replay now, he had a really good Zealot build I want to absorb.

I'm going to see what he does, and take what I like from it to add to my Protoss build.

He comes in with about five Zealots when I have two, granted I single Gatewayed but still...

Now I'm hopefully about to add a nice Zealot rush to my Protoss toolbox.

So I'm going to watch the replay, see his build, then play one more, I'll make a post about it then I'm going to sleep.