[AxS.Sorathez]

I've been having trouble against Terran whenever they do a 3-rax pressure buikld Usually I can keep them out with forcefields, but I end up behind as my expansion will always be up later than theirs.

http://terranimba.com/replay/PdP2dSgI3dU9XimpK29 Here's my replay, and would appreciate any help given

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by FaDeSorathez

I've been having trouble against Terran whenever they do a 3-rax pressure buikld Usually I can keep them out with forcefields, but I end up behind as my expansion will always be up later than theirs.

http://terranimba.com/replay/PdP2dSgI3dU9XimpK29 Here's my replay, and would appreciate any help given

FaDeSorathez (http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/profile.../FaDeSorathez/) vs zpnq

League :
Map : Shattered Temple
Length : 17:54
Version 1.4.1

Replay Analysis

• 6:01 : When Chronoboosting your drones, queue one more to avoid chronoing a building not producing.

• 7:38 : You already knew your opponent was not doing gaz before his Orbital command, now you see 4 Barrack, a Marauder and a lot of marines. You're in close position on Temple, you're not going to hold your expo. You should not have made one and probably canceled it now. Better to try a Ninja Expo at the north. Your opponent is likely to throw all he has directly to your base and your likely to hold it with sentries but be contained, so get some more revenue from that Ninja base and stay in security in your main.

• 8:28 : You still engage as you guess that he has more army than you, and you're army is arriving in a line while his is in a perfect ball. From that point you have lost the game virtually. You will catch on latter because you have superior macro but against better opponent that's already a loosing situation.

• 9:10 : Force Fields like that are quite useless, use them in narrow places, not open, especially if you're defending outnumbered.

• 10:13 : As predicted, you loose your nat and the pylon and your army.

• 13:06 : You catch on but your expo is late now;

• 14:27 : As soon as you expo in Toss, make 2 gaz. Gaz is what you need first when teching like that;

• 15:59 : You now take that 3rd before your opponent. You're on par with him.

• 17:34 : Catastrophic push. 3 levels of errors (note that I'm writing this before seing the end of the fight, but I know only from what you see, that's you're in very bad situation with this) :
  • You have no stalkers, how are you going to manage his air (Vikings) ?
  • You're not preparing your push with advance pylon to reinforce ;
  • You see 3 bunkers and you still push without getting DeathBall yet ?

• 17:54 : You leave indeed without gg ...

Strong points

• Very impressive macro (Diamond level I would say) ;
  • Valid and safe Build order (3 gate Robo into expand) perfectly executed;
  • You're not supply blocked, you're spending your resources, your chrono, warping units, teching in time, making drones. You were very superior to your opponent in macro.
  • Very good use of sentries.

What could be improved

• Be smarter, adapt to your opponent: Don't expo in close po if opponent is going to All-In you !
• Catastrophic army composition without stalkers with your Colossi. In general better manage your army.
• Increase your map control with:
  • spread pylons to reinforce your army; Harass, flank, scout.
  • Hallucination since t=you have a lot of sentries.
• Don't forget to gg. Your opponent has deserved his victory.

Where you could advance pylons:

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