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I posted a couple days ago about this problem I am having.
I'm going to try uploading a recent replay of mine here,
a TvP.
I'm a silver league at the moment. Thank you for your help!
I tried to think about what I was lacking in this match, and thought that I needed ghosts, two starports earlier, as well as more tech units of some sort.
TvP is my most confident match-up, and I am currently working on my TvT and TvZ, but just wanted to know what I could have done better here.
Hi! I'm going to be watching your replay and essentially live reporting it with some time stamps. Excuse me if I'm harsh or anything, these are my raw thoughts and the first time I'm analyzing a replay on GAF. I'm also watching it solely from your PoV so no observer sight or anything.
[3:00] really really delayed OC, you should get it as your rax finishes or on 16 supply, either works.
[6:50] just realized you didn't send out a scout. On a 4player map I would advise sending one after your 1st depot or after rax, unless you're going reaper fe. Queue your scv to scout bases too, so you dont have to worry about it idling.
[9:45] Positions on rax placement might be something to work on, or at least note for further improvement. It's something I struggle with constantly when I play, but it's important to get a good sense of where you should put buildings as a snap decision on every single map, because you always need more barracks. I would also consider getting stim before combat shield.
[10:00] still absolutely 0 info on your opponent. Since you scouted 2 bases, I would instantyly scan the 4th base's front to see. If there's a colossi push or 2base allin or something you need to prepare instantly.
[12:25] huge number of marines is ok, but you might consider putting some marauders in.
[13:00] drop deflected, that's fine.
[13:50] he's ahead on upgs but that's not a /huge/ problem. Work on supply blocks.
[15~] if you saw colossi I would instantly put down another starport at this point and start +1 armor or ship weps.
[16:50] you are maxed, you can prod his base a bit and check his army.
[17~] huge fucking engagement, you attacked with 3 vikings vs 3 colossi which is a pitiful amount due to only single starport, but you traded decently. Where you messed up is the follow up where you did not macro behind. Put down more more more raxes, thousands more. Nice upgrades though.
[20:00] you have a huge fucking bank, and by this point (20 mins) you need a ghost academy. I struggle with this as well, but a good timing is when you take your 3rd, and get energy and shit.
[22] awful engagement. you focused on macroing which is ok I suppose, but he got the jump on you which shouldnt happen since you scanned his army. He kills your fourth which puts you behind but you should be able to clean it up.
[24:00] you still have a huge bank, which should happen with 70 free supply.
[26:00] nice drop, focus the nexus
[26:50] weird ass sensor towers dude, I thought you were going to go search for his expos but I guess not
[28] you see templar which means INSTANT ghost academy if you hdont have it which you already should. Ghosts take FUCKING long to create and also to upgrade and gather energy so if you see fucking templar with storm RESEARCHED you better fucking get ghosts asap and try to delay him because if he gets two good storms you are dead
[30] see min 28 and why 2 good storms decimate a bio ball.
[30:50] why the fuck has he not killed your sensor towers wtf
[31] I foundmake those PFs rather than OCs and make a bundle of OCs at home
[32] still no ghosts bro come on
[32] worst stim ever
[33++] standard protoss late game colossi templar, it's really hard to fight already, it's harder to fight without fucking ghosts
[34] he's in your base now and it's pretty much over.
Hope my advice helped, I agree with your assessment, ghosts much much earlier. I would pre-empt ghost acadmy and the energy research as well, because even if he never gets templar you can just not build ghosts, and if he does have temps you can insta build them. Even having 1/2 ghosts vs non-templar is good for archons or zealots. Marines melt zealots without shields. Anyway hope you get some use out of this 'analysis'.
[39:00] I can't believe that fucking guy pre-gg'd you. You should lifted all your buildings and made him work for that. Fuck that fucking guy oh my god.
edit: wow this is really long
