{"id":24,"date":"2012-01-03T21:34:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starcraft.kevinleung.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-01-03T21:34:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:34:48","slug":"turns-out-upgrades-are-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Turns out upgrades are pretty good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drop.sc\/84058\">Replay Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just played a ZvZ on Arid Plateau where literally everything went wrong for me. Watching the replay, I was behind the entire game in almost every metric, then managed to win off of a desperate all-in. Allow me to describe in a few bullets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He 11 pooled me. I went hatch first, and accidentally built my pool even later than I should have<\/li>\n<li>Thankfully, I drone scouted the rush at his ramp, canceled my natural, then microed well enough to hold<\/li>\n<li>He was ahead on workers and went in for a roach push while I was rebuilding my economy<\/li>\n<li>Thankfully, I saw his roach warren go down with an OL scout and got my units out just in time, with spine crawlers to boot<\/li>\n<li>Through the middle of the game, he had more units attacking and more workers at almost every moment<\/li>\n<li>Thankfully, Arid Plateau is really narrow entrances into the natural, which nullified a lot of his advantage. And spine crawlers were good, even though my placement was awful<\/li>\n<li>He got up a 3rd base while continuing to pressure me and even nydus&#8217;ed to force me to cancel my 3rd and scramble to the back of my base<\/li>\n<li>Thankfully, I had +2 ranged attack and squeezed out a few hydras at the end. And he never transferred his drones from his mined out main to his 3rd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Had he been a little better, I would&#8217;ve lost that game very badly. Instead of macroing behind his immediate advantage as he rushed me while I flubbed my build, he tried to go for the kill, and the map worked really well to my advantage to stay on 2 bases.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 1: upgrades and tech are really good. I&#8217;m certain that the +2 was the difference because he had more roaches than I did<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 2: spine crawlers are really good in enclosed spaces, but I need to position them better. The 2nd spine crawler should&#8217;ve been in my mineral line, closer to backdoor side<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replay Here Just played a ZvZ on Arid Plateau where literally everything went wrong for me. Watching the replay, I was behind the entire game in almost every metric, then managed to win off of a desperate all-in. Allow me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}