@Cataphract1014: Hey Cataphract, that was a fun game to watch, and I'd like to start off by saying I am in no way a pro player but I still have some comments on your match :
- Loved the harassment with two hellions at the start, you danced around those zerglings beautifully but I wish you'd have gone for the mineral line instead of retreating (as the hellions were already cost-effective). - When the banelings first destroyed your supply wall you should have rebuilt it with a barracks and a factory and kept the Depots inside of your base. This way a clump of banelings that size wouldnt be able to pierce into your Main and you wouldn't get supply blocked. I might be wrong about the timing but you could have used your idle Barracks that was sitting near the ramp and used the tech lab on your Factory for the Starport. - (Nitpicking here) You were smart to make siege tanks when you saw the banelings nest but you didnt siege up that one tank when the first group of banelings attacked. - Smart use of vikings to scare away the overlords. (For all zerg players) even if this happens never keep your overlords all clustered over your base, as you lose sight of the map. - Both you and the zerg player didn't saturate your bases (this makes a huge difference). - ( Nitpicking again) next time you get a banshee, consider researching cloak and harassing his mineral line. The dude didn't have any detection. This also would have made the tech lab on the Starport worthwhile. - You were sitting at a constant 800-1000 minerals for the longest time without spending it. This is a sign that you should expand, don't be afraid to expand to your natural and siege up and get bunkers near the other ramp. By expanding where you did you hid your 2nd base pretty effectively but if he had his overlords and done a drop you wouldn't have been able to get reinforcements too the far right of the map in time. - Way to decimate his army with your tanks. Also very nice counter attack to finish the match (lol his keyboard didn't work)
A few comments for the Zerg player (in case he is reading) : - Saturate your base! Always be making drones. - Expand! Their was plenty of opportunity to expand earlier in the game (after the first baneling bust for example) - If you are going to baneling bust, at least have a good amount of zerglings to run into the base. - Don't get scared off by one viking, keep your overlords spread out and don't give up vision of the map. - Use creep tumors and spread creep over the map, not only does it give you sight but it makes your units move much faster, this is crucial for Zerg.
Whoa, this critique turned out way longer than expected, sorry for the wall of text. Anyways I think this thread is a great idea and I hope to see more replays in the future!
I haven't looked deeper into the problem myself yet, but I had the same issue at one point during the campaign. I'm not sure if I was accidentally logged off of battle.net at the time but I didn't get the achievements for two missions. I didn't want to redo those missions just for the achievements but you're right, it's kind of a bummer.
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