[PTSZ]

Hi Josh, first of all - that was an impressive game and you are definitely a good player. I'm struggling with the same things you are, so I don't know if I can give any major advice. Your expansion timings were good. Upgrades good. Very few mistakes. But a few things maybe to help -

1. Your drone count was slightly low in the mid-late game, hovering in the 60's and then 50's in the very late game. I think somewhere between 70 - 80 drones is supposedly optimal. Basically you want to be banking up a shitload of minerals because vs late-game protoss who is on 3+ bases, you are going to need to remax your army more than twice.

2. The nydus play didn't really work out but maybe try this - when you denied his 3rd base with speedlings and his army moved out, you could have sunk another nydus in the back of his base and then punished the protoss for being out of position. Nydus is hard to use correctly, but I think we need a 'terran mindset' and be hitting two or three places at the same time.

3. When you dropped in his fourth base with that large roach/hydra mix around 23:00, it might have been best to just snipe the nexus and then load-up and retreat. You lost a lot in that engagement with little returns.

4. I was amazed when your massive Brood-lord and Ultralisk army couldn't end the game... I would be frustrated too. Out of desperation we can sometimes just try and make a zerg deathball of our own, but I guess zerg just doesn't work that way. When it died, the game was over right there... too many minerals sunk into expensive units that didn't do a lot of damage, with no bank of minerals to remax.

I would really like to get a master or grandmaster's view of this, and get some advice on dealing with protoss once they have more 3 or more bases.

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Nemo:

Good advice