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.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

For the Swarm!!

Well, I went outside my comfort zone and started playing zerg instead.

I should start from the beginning though; me and A played a few 2v2 in the beginning of the weekend both playing terran. We won a few placement matches but we still ended up in the bronze league (of course) where we still played fairly decently (for our level) and won maybe half our match ups. Later I played with C, who I will from now on refer to as Cannan because that is his in game alias, and I decided to try out playing as protoss and zerg, and Cannan also decided to try out other races.

After getting destroyed as protoss in one match I switch to zerg and I kinda fell for the swarming game style and easy way to expand that they have, Cannan kept playing as protoss and soon we had kicked ass three matches in a row. Our tactic was fairly simple and rather easy to counter actually, as long as you did it in time; basically I tried to get a few zerglings with speed upgrade and try to swarm around at all expansions available, then tech into mutalisk and be even more aggressive with them, even harass enemy bases and really contain everyone to their main base. Cannan at the same time would start teching heavily and get a couple of carriers and with those we could destroy our enemies utterly.

As lone as no one gave us very early or even just normal early pressure this would work fine but we have serious problems with our defenses if we are attacked; the speedlings might be good at controlling the map and harass expansions but they suck at defending bases, and if anyone comes with tanks or something like that I am screwed.
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