So I guess I’ll just write some comments about the game.. nothing comprehensive. Don’t feel like doing screenshots either! So sue me.

Game One on GW

I was expecting Rulaz (orc) on this map…. but yeah. So I was disappointed I didn’t get a good spawn to creep merc but I crept it anyway. I think I crept it incorrectly.. it’s probably better to get the 2 ranged first?

Anyway, I notice he’s expanding and camping his expo so I decide to creep to level 3 and push. I sell my items at the shops and buy circlets before pushing. Push failed. 2 arcanes~

Game Two on LT

He uses Night Elf on this map. I won’t guess why. Anyway He goes POTM so I assume hunts/tier 1 stuff. Go over what to do in my head: get expo up, guard tower or two, dual rax rifles to counter hunt/protector push.

So yeah he accidentally canceled all his protectors, but I think I would have won anyway.. just would have been more difficult. The angle at which I built my town hall at the expansion probably wasn’t so great either. I probably should have built it along the trees on the other side and put towers in front.

Game Three on TS

Yeah my opponents keep picking TS against me.. kind of lucky as it’s one of my favorite maps along with LT. (James says I shouldn’t post stuff like this?)

So my opponent didn’t creep at the start and ran straight to me.. killing my troll priest since I wasn’t paying attention to it (because you usually don’t have to that early..). That kind of threw off my groove and I fed him a free footman too.

If you watch replay, you’ll see I ran into some big trouble at tier 3. Usually you want to chop some trees for an opening by then, but I didn’t so I had to use zeppelins to ferry my units across >_>. My workshop should have gone behind the wall as well.

1.22 staff nerf is going to hurt.

gl to me.. etc…

:D

moon vs lucifer on TR from NSL was pretty epic…

EDIT

I won 2-1.. some difficult games. Final result HDx 3-0, I think tomorrow I will post about my games. Stay tuned.

Game one was on Terenas Stand. I scouted with a footman and found him creeping to level 2 with blademaster. I’m thinking, “great. I can creep the mercenary camp and a green for level 3 and tower rush with mercs.” So that’s what I did.

A couple things to watch for:

1) I used the wand of mana stealing on the green wizard creep. This is a great way to refill up on some of your Archmage’s mana after summoning water elementals to creep with. The wand of mana stealing item is otherwise not very good versus blademaster or other heroes anyway.

2) I sold my Town Portal for dust and boots.

Game two was on Lost Temple. This game the orc spawns next to my natural gold mine so I chose not to fast expand. Instead I teched to casters and Mountain King before putting up a tier 2 expo.

A few things to watch for:

1) At the very start, I sort of waited on the ramp next to my natural a little before going down to creep it. I was thinking that maybe his Blademaster would think I decided not to creep the gold mine creep camp and would go try to find me at the greens in the center instead. I had heard of some German human player doing this against FoCuS (I didn’t actually watch the game), but yeah, maybe it’s worth trying?

2) As usual, I close off my base at the beginning leaving no entrances for grunts or heroes.

3) You might notice I use my Mountain King’s storm bolt and thunder clap to creep a lot. I actually learned this from watching Storm vs ToD on Turtle Rock for WC3L finals ages ago. It is really worth using the mana to creep faster.

4) Notice my tier 2 creep pattern. I don’t creep all the camps that are next to each other.. but I go for the starting spawn location gold mines, the goblin shops and lab. These camps can drop very good items as well as tomes of experience. They are just much more worth your walking time and creeping time on Lost Temple.

played 3 games with chase… lost all 3… aaaaah

wish me luck :p

meh wc sux