[H] Analyze My TvZ

On July 25 2012 02:03 Hollow27 wrote:

Your initial trouble is in your opening strategy. At the most basic level, you can either be aggressive, play economically, or tech. You open 2 rax -> expand, putting on 6 marine pressure. You can't reinforce cross map condemned. Either 1 rax fe so you get better economy, or do a better aggressive build than a 6 marine.. poke, frankly at 5:40.

Your strategy towards spending money is like this - "OH SHIT, I HAVE 500 MINERALS. BETTER THROW DOWN A COMMAND CENTER." But you didn't produce constantly from your Orbital and Barracks, which is why that was happening. You also need to get gasses earlier; double gas at 7:40 doesn't cut it champ. Your tech is infinitely delayed. When a CC finishes, immediately make it into an orbital. 4 CC's with 22 workers. That's a mistake.

Stim first is generally preferable to combat shields, but whatever, that's nothing too major.
You went double e-bay at 10, but you made both of them with the same worker. Try to avoid that by boxing your mineral line to get several workers when you build something. Queing building production is bad.

Your factory also dropped around 10. That is far too late. You can't go pure marine; you need tech with them, be that medivacs (most commonly, for healing and drops.) But pure marine doesn't cut it. Be that as it may, your push at 11 should have won you the game, if you split. Go to Darglein's micro trainer, select the split level, and do that a coupe of times. Maybe more than a couple. His banelings were ludicrously cost effective, because you clumped so much.

You need medivac production before 13 minutes.

You make a command center at your third when you have 2 just sitting in your base. Those should have been floated earlier, and waaaay earlier than 14. Counter intuitively, expanding faster makes them easier to hold. It allows you to get more income faster, set up bunkers and sim city faster, etc.

Your drop at 16:30 was decent, but the purpose of a drop is generally to split their army and focus to damage their economy. You really should have dropped each base with a single medivac, instead of all of them to the main.

If you micro'd at 20 minutes, you would have won that game easily. Don't know what else to tell you champ. Viking production starting after your entire army died. Two tanks made before that point.

The rest of the game isn't really commenting on; though your qq was amusing to me.

To sum
Learn a real build, instead of haphazardly dropping CCs you never expand with.
This build should be a 1 rax FE, probably a three orbital Bomber-esque style.
Focus on earlier tech, constant unit production.
Darglein's micro trainer and some games with a practice partner to improve control. To address your lack of speed, you can prespread your units.

And I recommend in the future not posting games where you QQ in game, it will lower the quality/quantity of feedback.