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I wish there were a "coach mode". I'm great a critiquing a strategy but if SC1 were any indication, I'm going to suck at actually executing anything. I was just watching a replay where it was terran vs protoss. The terran pumped out like 5 marines and 10 marauders. The protosss had 10 zealots and 2 stalkers and 2 sentries. I'm guessing at the numbers here but their economies were roughly equivalent so assume that ratio of troops with the same resources spent. Anyway, the terran initiated combat and the protoss player really smartly trapped up some of the terran units between two force fields so he couldn't juggle/escape with his units. The protoss player lost all of his stalkers because of the overwhelming advantage of marauders (they chew up armored units which stalkers are) but the zealots tore up the marauders. I'm sitting there thinking, okay now the terran has to pump out reapers because they do +damage to light units (zealots, marines, zerglings.) He has the infrastructure to do it (3 barracks are up) but instead he just tries to futilely make more marauders. He has a few by the time the protoss arrive but predictably the zealots tear through them again.
Now, dispassionately watching a replay isn't quite the same as having to juggle offense, defense and base management, I know. :)
Most of replays I've watched have boiled down to player A making more rocks than player B made paper. Like above, someone decided okay, I'm going to mass unit X and hope that my opponent hasn't decided to mass unit X's counter. They meet outside of someone's base, one army beats the other and that's the game. 8 minutes of base management for 2 minutes of combat. It seems you're really kind of punished for building a balanced force. If I came at you with 20 zealots and you came at me with an equivalent economy of marines, marauders, reapers and hellions, you'll probably lose because while the reapers and hellions would tear up a few zealots, there would only be a few of them which I guess is why everybody masses unit X and hopes for the best.
There's no point to this post other than to say I'd like to be in the beta now please. :/
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Protoss feel a little weak right now, or maybe I just suck. Still learning the new stuff though.
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