[H] PvT Entombed valley mech turtle

On June 04 2012 21:42 ineversmile wrote:
In the very beginning of the game, you scouted his base and saw CC first on the low ground with a rax on the low ground. You seemed to boost the zealot and stalker as a response, in order to pressure, but then you got scared away by a bunker with 2 marines in it. Why not just go past the bunker and trade those units for scvs? You're looking to be in GM league; you should know a CC first when you see it. And if you don't want to do that kind of pressure, don't waste 2 early boosts on gateway units when you could be skipping those units, getting your Nexus faster, and boosting your probes/some kind of tech instead of units that did 0 damage to a greedy opener. Basically, you went with a half measure when full-measures were required; even though you scouted his location last because of luck, you still should have seen his stuff and known what was going on.

You didn't scout him enough as he was massing tanks and taking his third. In that period of time, you assumed he had a third--which is fine--but you still should have been checking his composition and reacting to his play. He had a billion tanks, which means he's hell-bent on turtling and going for the late game. You should have tried to restrict his ability to take a fourth instead of letting him siege up and attacking a fortified city at the 18 minute mark. You should have taken a faster fourth--when you would have seen that tank count if you had actually done your homework with scouting his tank count, you would have known that he was playing defensively and you could have taken another base--probably 2 more. It's not like minerals were lacking--just look at all the gates you massed.

You also were not vigilant with upgrades, you only had one Robo and 0 Stargate at the 18 minute mark, and this was while you were doing nothing but macroing up without worrying at all about him dropping you or attacking you in any way and while you also weren't even attacking anywhere--you're doing 0 micro and you're still missing upgrades? The money was in the bank but you didn't spend it because you fell asleep. Your mechanics weren't necessarily bad, but the most important aspects of the game were controlling expansions and racing tech, and you didn't focus enough on either of those things.

Now, I understand that mech is a rare army composition to face in PvT, but if you're really dedicated to Starcraft, you should be a fan of the game enough to know how that army works by seeing other races match up against it. Plus, you've surely played against the 1-1-1 before enough times to understand how siege mode works when there are only a handful of tanks...what makes you think you can attack into a dozen of them from a terrible angle and get anything done?

Honestly, I think you just got outplayed.