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Someone Please watch this battle (west side) and tell me how to counter that strategy

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USrankbbar97
3 years ago
(edited 3 years ago)
I can't comprehend how he's able to do this. He expands so quickly behind his com that even when I kill his com its too late because he has troops being made from the mexes he built behind his com. It seems like an unbeatable strategy. Obviously its not unbeatable, just a hyperbole.

Let me know how you would counter it, I'm curious.

http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/1186988?

Edit: I want to add that I knew he would use that strategy because he did it in the previous two games I played against him. I made the counter for it, and it killed his com, but still I lost.
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AUrankSmokeDragon
3 years ago
yo i watched replay.. you were 2v1 bro and some of his units countered you.. and as you say he went full mex eco + com push.. your only option i know when so outnumbered is to raid around his front-lines and try to pick off his reinforcements and mex.. and then try to prepare a cheap com killer in the meantime.. but with 2 enemies you may have been in a loosing situation. perhaps more porc and hold off while your allies decide there fate.
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USrankbbar97
3 years ago
yeah that's what I figured. Thanks
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DErankkatastrophe
3 years ago
2v1 is definitely a problem, but there were things you could do better as well:
- you took the back-mexes with a builder and your com. One of those should better expand forward.
- don`t JUST rely on wind early. wind is fine there, but if you use it exclusively, you are prone to e-stall
- you were excessing for too long -> caretaker
- as your enemies had a lot of raiders, before you make that recluse, get more riots. Caretaker would have allowed you to mass up significantly more forces.
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USrankbbar97
3 years ago
Good tips, thanks
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USrankstrikeshadow
3 years ago
I don't think you had much of a chance when you have 1 teammate going air in 4v4 on that map + another rushing a backline silo and a trinity. I guess you could have rushed your com forward and built a forward lotus line and a faraday, but if your opponents built some skirmishers or arty to counter you'd been screwed that way too.

You might have been able to sneak a few fleas around and harass their eco to tie up their apm while you expanded like SD stated.
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