Your imba starcraft 2 replays here!

[Yoica]

Thanks for looking Palmar, but the high minerals problem was something I mentioned and what I'm particularly interested in is what to spend it on.
 

9:00 1300 minerals, fuckton of larvae.

the only part of your list I have problems with. How is 4 larvae a fuckton? and even if I had spent those I'd still be above 1k mineral. Still leaving me scratching my ass wondering what to spend it on. I have a slight problem with spending as terran/toss as well, but at least there I know what I should be doing, as zerg i'm clueless.

The 2nd queen was a big mistiming on my part. I want to use it for 1 creeptome and the move it up a 2nd hatch, but I kind of forgot there are rocks you need to clear 1st

Supply caps are still the biggest bane of my SC2 play, no matter which race I play.

While I agree I should be using my larvae faster, I don't see how that causes me to loose this particular push. Right when he moves in I have 1 larvae up, purely luck sure but still :p. You just need to make sure to spawn as much larvae as possible and it doesn't really if you have 25 up (not counting the ones you spend on drones) or none as long as you have none (or 1-2 max) up when you get attacked or go for a push. Or is this flawed logic on my part?

I should probably just go do some matches vs a (very) easy AI and just macro hard, but keep the minerals low until I've figured what the zerg "money sinks' are.

[Sparrowhawk]

I see alot of people make second hatchery at 1 of your bases for extra larva, maybe do that?

[Palmar]

it's really hard to explain, you should spend those minerals on units and drones... that's it. There's no magic to it.

I decided to play a random game vs some stupid hard AI, just to see what happened. I didn't have a particulare build in mind, I just highlighted some of the stuff you did in your game, and figured i'd do something similar. These are the points I had in mind.

14 gas 14 pool

roach warren

expand/lair


I have no idea what you did with the lair, but I decided to get roach speed... just because I could.

anyway, this is played in windowed mode, while working and stuff, but while it isn't a good opening, you can probably see some hint of difference yeah.

[Shiftey]

LOL THOR RUSH!

[Sintrael]

After the dismal games i did in the league yesterday i decided i had to start practicing again. Here's me playing a diamond league zerg and using the HuK gate, core, robo, gate build fairly effectively

[kagemoth]

This guy made me rage.

I fucking hate voidrays.

[Devlin]

Good replay that shows what can happen if you scout too late

If you saw his double gateway with a regular scout around 12-15 food, I guess you wouldn't expand in that situation, which could mean 3 spine crawlers in your main (better than lings against zealots), which would pretty much negate the rush!

[kagemoth]

I think its better to do the expand. You wont have the larvae spawn to sustain an defence against the rest of his force. all he has to do is wait back a few sec then attack. In the case of a proxy 2 gate THEN i would do a few spines. However since he was far away enough i would rather not.

[Devlin]

Sure it's better to expand, if you ignore the fact that you had zealots going into you main, killing 6-7 drones, your queen, and forced you to waste a lot of lings! I didn't mean that you shouldn't expand at all, just meant that you should've thrown down the spines and then expand after you had a defense up and running.

You would have been quite far ahead, since the protoss cut so many probes to get those zealots out.

But really, weren't you a little bit interested in what the protoss was doing?

[kagemoth]

Not really. It's always a 4 gate or a voidry or a cheese and i generally don't modify
my opener for the first 2. I mean that guys attack was probably strong enough to kill
most zergs but the problem is once he started he is committed cause if he doesnt do
enough damage i am already 2 bases + probably a lair ahead of him and as u can see
as soon as i held him off he was pretty fucked imo. The 2nd push he did with the Voidray
and the Phoenix was probably his scarriest and that was it.

[Draconis]

I thought it would be fun to post the last 4 games between Kage and me, and maybe Kage can post the first two (in which he totally crushed me) - as an excuse for the first 2, I was very tired and drunk, on the other hand he was a bit distracted in the last 4.

All I want to say is that he didn't rage when he got cheesed , we also have discovered an issue with the hatchery view range

Hope you enjoy them,

Cheers,
Drac

[kagemoth]

There u go perry. Notice how he throws away his thors etc so easily , without a care
in the world untill he gets me out of position and takes out the Gold cause i didnt
have enough units to stop his force attacking it at the time. It was pretty much gg after that cause i couldnt keep up production cause of not having enough resources.

I think if i had perhaps done a 2 overlord Hydra drop at this main a few times i
coulda probably done more damage but tbh i dont know, Thors are just really really
hard to deal with once they are at your door.

And another thing that sickens me. Repair. What other race gets that... If that was a
protoss or a Zerg those towers would be dead an i would have free reign in his base
but NOT with Terran OH yeaH! Thing is ,against Thor/Marine you gotta use overwhelming numbers of baneling/ling and muta its fucking harsh. Cause as u see he also used Blue
flame helions in the mix and they roast that shit like its nothing.


The 2nd replay i link is just an example of HOW faceroll it really is. This time i was fast enough to get banelings in his base and he gg's out
instantly after i killed like 8 SCVs. So sad that blizzard hands Zerg losses to Terran on a Diamond fucking
platter.

[Destro]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP.

Ive had about 10 1v1's with kage since i started playing SC2, some on my first day of playing when i was awful and didnt appeciate how important a build order was, some after i thought i was getting better at the game! and some today after 250+ custom games to hone my skills... AND FINALLY! i got to taste sweet victory after he continually crushed me.

FUCK A YOOOOOOOOOOOOO KAGE! 

(You know i love you really! Kage taught me alot about how to play and if it wasnt for his guidance id be alot worse than i already am)

Anyway i thought id post this cos i thought it was a really epic faggotry style of play and i didnt think it would work 1v1, it probably wouldnt in most cases but i think i caught kage offguard, or he wasnt trying cos he was relying on me to be my normal shit self... And before anyone insults my play, i realise im shit so theres no need to point it out, i played my 5 placement games, won them all... got into the platinuim league, and now im too scared to play again incase i drop out of the platinum league into gold

TLDR?

Epic faggotry possible cheese (i dunno) replay.

[kagemoth]

Not cheese , i really shulda just sacked an overlord hahaha , actually i knew he
would do voidrays (thats why u see like 3-4 queens , and that woulda been fine but
then this Mothership-nigger rolled up and i was like HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT!!!!
loled hard , Lost hard xD

[Palmar]

Shiftey and I had a go on match point

neither of us had a clue on how to play such a huge map, but meh, we went for it anyway.

It ended up in a pretty silly game.