I am slowly getting better.  Every once and a while I have a win where I countered everything my opponent did and I eventually won but I watch the replay and find it almost embarrassing.  I had one match last week where I countered everything perfectly.

I was Zerg and he was Terran.  He tried a drop but I spotted it on the way in and was ready at the landing zone.  He quickly turned his ship around.  He tried banshees but I already had a detector looking for it.  Both times he attacked me, I had the correct balance of troops to hold it off.  When he tried to drop 2 thors on a cliff behind my my natural I was able to get sight and mind control one with my infestor.   The MC’d Thor killed the dropship, the raven, and the other Thor.

Although it looked like I was playing a pro game, it took me forever to get the right group for an attack. Sure if he never attacked me my early army could have mounted an offensive.  I had 3 basses to his one.  He did put a Planetary Fortress up on his 2nd and then I picked up a 4th.  At the end, I was finally able to mass lots and lots of troops to break into his main.  He did hold off the first wave but had nothing left for the secondwave.

It felt very sad that it took me so long to get a solid attack even with map control and having 2 more expansions then him the whole game.  I did learn a lot from that game from the replays.  I had no macro game (none of my hatcheries were hot keyed).  my minerals and gas would build up way to high.  I had low worker saturation at every location so having the extra expansions was not all that advantageous.  I was also not collecting gas at all locations.

So how did I win?  If I did that much wrong, he should have walked all over me.  I would bet he made the same types of mistakes.  He took way too long to expand.  He focused too much on gimmicks and didn’t have good group composition.   And I did do things somethings very right.  I scouted the whole game and I played a good micro game.

I love replays.  I use that feature so much.  I can see what my common mistakes are and work on improving them.  My macro game is already improving and I have been on a little winning streak because of it.  I’ll talk about that another time.