New year special!!!

Today is new year eve, so i want to dedicate this 1st post of 2012 to my girl snowflake.. =D She took her placement match at last, after she overcome her nervousness.

The game take place on Xelnaga Caverns and her opponent is Zerg. 

 Then, the cheese has arrived. It makes me think, people lower then plat always cheese?? >.< nvm, need to learn to counter cheese right. So her opponent went 6 pool. It's easy to six pool in 2 player map because you will know where you opponent spawn.

The zerg send out scout, He try to harras her SCV building a supply depot. This i a common small harassment done by zerg or protoss to terran scv.

But with micro, she manage to swap her scv with a new one =D I was shock to see that kind of micro from her. Maybe she got used to get her worker harass by me that she learn such micro.

She send scout when she is making a barrack ( 12 food). She saw the zerglings. but luckily the zerglings were rallied straight to her base so they skip to kill her scv.

With the information given by her scouting scv, she quickly make another supply depot to block her ramp. At the same time she train marine asap.

She grab another scv to help repair her wall. The wall + scv repairing cannot be busted with a few zerglings. =D then her marine pop out, *trat trat trat trat* the sound of blessing.( marine shooting) Zerglings back off, there is nothing left they can do after the marine start shooting.

He park his zerglings outside Snowflake's base. The zerglings waiting patiently for their doom and hoping their commander have a back up plan.

As the first tank come out to the battle field, Snowflake ordered her 2 best marine to bait the zerglings to come and attack.

The Zerg commander took her bait. The zerglings march to the suicide field of tank bombing. The Tank squad completely Zero'ed the killing area.

It's time for Snowflake to make her move, she send her troop forward, the order is simple ( Shoot anything on sight!) Not even overlord is at her mercy. By killing the overlord, she successfully supply cap the opponent.

The zerg commander, answer the pressure by making banelings. This small force are the last hope for the swarm. As the hatchery almost finish, the only hope for zerg survival is for Snowflake to delay her attack.

Snowflake waste no time, she immediately siege the zerg expension. No mercy had given that day for a cheezer. The zerg force try to protect the hatchery. But they fail as the tank keep shelling at the zerg force.

As she finish denying the expansion, the tank reinforcement arrived. 2 more tank was added to her arsenal. While a group of marine are trailing behind. As the zerg commender realize there was no hope left for the swarm, he raise the white flag.

GG! p/s Congrats on your win on the placement match, and have fun with your new table. Hope you won't have back pain while playing Starcraft =D Wish everyone a blessing new year!!!

No starcraft

No starcraft for today.. its weekend.. time to go out and have fun.. :D gotta enjoy life..

Taking ladder slowly

Final, Y U NO DISAPPEAR!!!!! Need to study, so i made my self a quota, only 3 ladder game per day. just to keep my hand moving. The replay story won't be upload everyday.. Hope can get back in-track after my final finish.

My target is to get top 8, so i grind ladder a bit today. Got a few interesting games. So while i was waiting for snowflake to play 2v2, why not i make a The Story of Replay. I fought a Zerg guy. We play on shattered temple. The natural is quite exposed, but it is still viable to FFE (Fast Forge Expand). I put my forge early, because i do not dare to stall it incase of 6 pool. Yes, people still 6 pool. hahahaha.

I send my probe to scout, I saw his pool timing. I want to know wether it is safe to put my nexus down.. =D

I immediately  put down my nexus and my canon . Everything went well so far. 

After that i finish my wall off with a gateway. We have to make sure that the canon is out of reach from the zerg and still cover the wall.

Tips. Remember to take both of the gas after gateway if you want to have enough gas to research warpgate and a sentry by the time cybernetics core finished.

I send another probe to scout, just to be safe ^^ if there is no threat, i can cut corner by not putting 2nd canon. I was also looking for few hint, like roaches, zerlings so i can plan my next move. As my 2nd scout enter his base, look what i saw. ROACHES n NO EXPANSION!!!! ZZZzzzzzz... cheese again?? damn..

I quickly put down 3 more canon making it 4 canon defending my wall of. I immediately chorono boost out my stalker. Why stalker? haha, because stalker can shoot ^^ i only chrono out sentries if i know the zerg is going to do baneling bust. Thanks to Cecil Sunkure for teaching me this trick.. =D go find him on youtube. good teacher for Protoss.

There is nothing i can do but right now, just wait until the battle to take place.A few second later, the roach has arrived.

He try to kill my pylon to unpowered my canon, luckily it was not an artosis pylon. hahah, I have a backup pylon at the back. A good relief for me to know that my canon will still work.After he kill the first pylon, he try to kill my back up pylon. Shit! Pull ALL THE PROBE!! haha not all la, but enough. My probe give the final blow to the roach. and my pylon just have 6 health left. True probe hero.. =D a medal was given that day..

Then my first stalker arrive to the scene. A small swarm of zerglings try to attack the stalker. I back my stalker to the wall so my canon can help him. I also ordered a Void Ray to help to fend off this cheese.

My canon completely obliterate  all the zerglings. 

 But the zerg commander does not give up, he try to sneak by from the side, but all my building are in range of the canon. Safe zone =p

He try to mass roach to bust down my wall, but the Void Ray arrived just in time ^^ He surrender after my first Void Ray pops out.

GG! Time to play 2v2

No more top 25

I'm sick of struggling to top 25!! aiming for top 8! gona be slow, because have final paper to focus on. But yeah next stop TOP 8!

Made it back to top 25 with this game!!

I was struggling to maintain my top 25, beside I play 2v2 with snowflake just now, so I did not grind my game. luckily i made it back to top 25 again.. hahahahah.. This will be my replay story for tonight.

I fought against terran. When we start to play we would usually say glhf ( good luck have fun) but i prefer hfhf     (have fun have fun) I don't wana wish my opponent good luck right.. hahahahha.. so this happen. I say hfhf, and he say i try to talk trash.. LoL, so i explained to him incase he do not understand or what.. yet he replied with...

It's gona be so fun now for you.. =p My mind set is simple.. 1 gate expand then make double forge ^^ because protoss need to be ahead in upgreds. chrono boost will help to get the +3,+3 faster which will make the army stronger of course.. at 12 food, my sneaky probe went to take a peek at the opponent base, and what I see is he take his gas. This mean there will be no gassless expand of course..

But on the way back, my probe see something important. barrack with techlab and another barrack!! Phew, i don't have to worried cuz he won't 1-1-1.

After i saw his 2nd barrack, I immediately chorono boost my gateway to get stalker ASAP to defend against his aggression.

I expand as usual, and send my stalker to the enemy base, hopefully i would get a free kill ^^.

I send my probe again to scout, i do not want to get caught of guard if his marauder have concussive shell ( which will make my stalker move slowly) aka all my stalker will die. Then i saw he got his 3rd barrack! SHIT!!!!!! he is all-inning me!!

Quickly i put down 2 more gateway to defend his attack. i chorono out another stalker. I need as many unit as i can.

I send my stalker to the Xelnaga tower. Then the All-in come. He march with his scv to my base. My stalker bravely stand to his ground, He know, with proper micro, he can kite the scv and live to tell the tale.

The engagement start, it was an intensive micro, but 1 unlucky stalker are stuck at the pillar. Without hesitate, Zealot jump forward and try to save the stalker, with his high health he can last longer then the stalker. In his mind, he know with his sacrifice, all the stalker can retreat and regroup.

The lost of the zealot was not in vain. It give me enough time to summon more stalker! With this reinforcement, there is hope to defeat this all-in!

Then i quickly chrono boost the warpgate, i summon zealot to tank the damage and kill the scv. without zealot, the scv can surround my stalker.

After zealot has arrived, there is no more time to lose. They quickly go into the battle field. It's their duty to protect Aiur, their home place.

As they march into the battle field, terran commander have a smart plan, which is to let the scv go up the ramp while let his marauder do all the damage. The army of Aiur did not take the bait, they move back so the marauder can't shot them while they kill the scv.

Terran commander went rage and ask his marauder to run to the ramp. I saw this and said to my self, this is an opportunity. I ordered all my army to engage the terran army directly! the zealot went infront to tank the damage while the stalker shoot from behind, at the same time, another zealot reinforcement has arrived! the battle look bright on our side.

As i saw my zealot run forward to the enemy, i know i had this battle in my hand. It was i tough 1, i would never imagine to hold this all-in.

As my zealot give his final blow, I know this was over. I held it off. It was a very tense moment and i won!

GG! with this game i made it back to top 25 ^^

Trying to mantain top 25

I got knock down of top 25, kinda hard to mantain.. alot of competition. Some how i ran to i random player. I hate random player because i have certain idea for a certain match up, if the opponent went random, i cannot prepare. So i need to wall off incase he a zerg, but i cannot FFE ( fast forge expand incase he is a terran). I have no choice but to wall of. Well guess what he is a Protoss, mirror match up. Plus he cheese me with proxy gate all in.. ZZZZZZzzzzzz. here is what proxy gate look like..

As you can see, he built the gateways near my base, and when i scout his base with no pylons, i knew it was proxy gate! So I react with forge, thats how you want to deal with proxy gate, forge + canon.

But too bad i wall my ramp off, little room to micro and my canon placement is bad.. what you want to do is no wall off and put your canon at the mineral line so it cover both of your probe and buildings. I lost, GG. Then i was match up against him again. but this time i took the risk not to wall off, and i scout he was Terran.. hahahha.. good news for me, I straight 1 gate expand ^^ Since i knew he cheese me before, n i scout that he put bunker with tons of marine and no marauder, there is 90% chance he will 1 1 1 all in me. So i put down a 2 more gates n a robo . Chrono boot out the observer ASAP. And i was right, he did 1 1 1. He use clock banshee to harass. but i got observer and few stalker to fend off the cloak banshee.

He also try to contain me with his cloak banshee which is a smart move. As i want to move out and attack, he come n try to harass me with cloak banshee. I set up a nice defense just for him ^^

+1 attack with collosus and gate way, i win ^^ GG! sweet revenge.. =p

It's Snowflake as Terran!

Time to release stress for awhile. hahaha. playing 2 v 2 with Snowflake. She a new Terran, we always play 2 v 2 together.. hahahaha.. tryin up the ladder.. I suppose this topic should be in The Story Of Replay.. But since its a team game, i want to put in on the separate topic. easier for me to manage my post.

well, here we go. Once upon a time, Volhart spawn as Zerg while Snowflake spawn as Terras (like always)

We are matched against a Protoss and a Zerg. So i start the game with 8 pool. A safe built against 6 pool cheese. i can have my zergling in time + good economy incase the opponent 6 pooling me. 

After that i start to scout. Send up my trustee drone to gather any useful information for me. He return with a very usefull information. the opponent pool timing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw he just put down the pool and the entrance was not wall off.

 no pool = no zerglings = no defense. what are you waiting for??? go forth my zerling! bring them chaos.. =D

 Artosis pylon ( a pylon which power all building).. hahahahaha, good meal for my zerglings.. eat until you full ^^

 =p U Mad Bro??????? we r not finish yet..

 After we completely destroy protoss building, the reinforcement from his ally came.. few zerglings? no problem.. hahahah..

 Then come the queen.. ZZZZZzzzzzz.. tips, DON'T BRINGS QUEEN OFF CREEP. because zerglings can retreat.. hahahahahhahahah..

 After Snow flake saw the success of my attack, she brings her marine to pound them, but little she know that the opponent have tons of zerglings. They completely annihilate her entire marine force.

 She pull back he marine asap back to the base. Luckily she had a back up plan back at home ^^

 A good wall off + some marine to guard our entrance. I have no army at that time because i was investing on my economy. well, she hold the counter attack, so it dosent matter if i have army or not. LoL.

 *Enemy zerling : Run you fools! they got gun and we just got claw!* She hold it off pretty well. So, its time for the final blow!

 We assemble the army and march towards the enemy.Zerglings in front to check so the tank can un-siege and move forward. We don't want to get caught off guard. We siege right in front of the enemy base. My roach lead the attack, and the tank do all the damage. We penetrate the defense with ease.

 After we are inside the enemy base, they left ^^

 GG!