Introduction

I'm not a great Starcraft 2 player, I'm not even good or decent, I'm actually quite bad. But that is why I want to share this, share how I might develop into a better player. For now this will mainly be about Starcraft 2 but as the title hints I tend to write a little about other Blizzard games. I do play World of Warcraft too but has put it on ice until the next expansion and I now focus exclusively on Starcraft 2.

Starcraft 2

I've recently done my placement matches and of course I ended up in Bronze league, I play pretty odd hours as I live in East-Asia but play on European servers so I'm rarely online for the busiest hours, this means I will usually play versus other players who are online at those hours. I try to play some 2v2 and 3v3 with some friends at home too but together we are even weaker than we are alone, actually my 2v2 team can't even get a placement, I think the system is bugged.

I try to do most things in Starcraft 2 and I enjoy it; I play quick matches alone and with friends, I play the campaign, I play custom maps and I even try to make custom maps, and I will try to write a little about all of these things.

World of Warcraft

I have 10 characters on Shattered hand alliance EU server, six of them are between level 5 and 30, two are just above 70, one is 79 and my current main is a 80 human paladin. I like most aspects of the game except end game raiding, while the concept of being the best in the world is appealing I find it too time consuming. My World of Warcraft account is currently frozen, mostly because I ran out of material to get without raiding and PVP got boring.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Finally won a 3v3

We finally won our first 3v3 match!!

Actually it is not entirely true, we did win a placement match a while ago but it was placement so it doesn't really count.

Now we wont a ladder game match, although it is bronze it is still a win, I think our rating now is something like 9 losses and 2 wins (the first one in placement as mentioned). It was pretty exciting actually, a TTTvTTT setup on Colony 426. I decided to try something I've never done before; delayed reapers, in mass. It was a tactic I saw in a commentary video where a high level terran player, don't remember who or what game, built three barracks and massed out reapers. It is not really like the early reaper harass when you get 1-2 reapers before your opponents have any defense but more a longer term harass that will keep you opponent(s) on edge and on the defense until you can expand and transit into something else.

While I was getting my first 3-4 reapers ready our opponents showed their hands; they were marine rushing one of us and actually got through and into my friend's base, I think I could have helped him out with one or two reapers but that would have both delayed and revealed my intentions so I let him fend for himself, and our other friend did get in there with a couple of marines to clear it up before it got too much out of hand. Actually the friend who got attacked, lets call him A (and the saviour is C, don't think this is arbitrary because their names actually start with A and C), also intended to go for reapers but because of the early attack he never got any up.

By the time their attack was repelled I had a couple of reapers ready and full production from three barracks going on so I pushed out to a Xel'naga tower in the centre, a scan on opponent 1 showed a defenseless mineral line and I made a 90% of his workers less alive and killed off a command centre without losing a single reaper. Back to the tower to gather up a few more reapers, a scan on opponent 2 and then off to make him as miserable as his friend was.

I think our opponents were actually still sending out all their marines to hurt my friend A and that left their defenses so much weaker. Anyway, at opponent 2 I encountered a few marauders but with speed upgrade and now ten or so reapers they couldn't stop me so I killed off a lot of workers here too as well as the command center. As soon as that was done I grabbed my new reinforcements and went on to opponent 3 but he was more prepared with several marauders and some marines in the mineral line and I had to withdraw after just one or two SCV kills.

Even with losses I still had a decent reaper output from my base so I was still over ten reapers and could go back to harassing opponent 1 and 2, reapers are also fairly cheap in minerals so I had a huge stash and could easily motive an expansion. So while I was running around with my reapers making trouble for two of our opponents I could run out to the gold in the middle and set up a Command Centre there. I would have liked to build it earlier in my base, upgrade it to Orbital Command but my multitasking skills are lacking so rather than sacrificing my reaper control I decided to just run an SCV out and build on the spot.

At this time friend C who had been left alone all the time had managed to tech up to banshees with cloak and he flew off to harass our opponent 3, and that was basically the nail in the coffin for them. Opponent 1 tried to attack my gold expansion with a tank and a marauder but it wasn't even enough to kill more than a few SCVs, I had already stopped my reaper production and transfered into marauders, as well as built my factory and starport so I had both medivacs and vikings out. Opponent 3 fell to the banshee pressure and they all gged.
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