Hwangsanbul 1.2

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this map. It plays like something in between Lost Temple/Python and an island map.

I recently played a game as Protoss vs. a Terran on this map (replay).

At first I was nervous as I almost always am. Then I decided to expand and tech. So I mined away the 56 mineral patch blocking my one ramp and expanded while I tried to get out observers. If you go fast observers, then a reaver/shuttle combo is the logical follow up. Unfortunately I found my opponent the last place I checked and my drop was late and not very successful. At least I did not loose my shuttle. He countered with a vulture raid on my mineral line. Apparently vultures rape the chrysalis that block the other ramp up. I saved most of my probes and then his vultures ran into the new reaver just built in my base.

Lucky for me, not so much for him. I wondered what to do then and expanded again while I pumped out more units. I tried controlling the center and even tried a direct attack with zealots and a few dragoons on his expansion. The narrow access to the expansion was good for his concentrated tank fire and bad for my units. I did succeed in delaying his second expansion and only later realized that I could have attacked his main the other way around. Silly me.

I was now in some kind of panic. His base seemed impossible to attack, but I thought I was ahead in resources and expansions, so I went hard carriers thinking that it was the newbiest thing to do. Something he would easily anticipate and counter. I tried to hold back my carriers until I had a lot of them, but he dropped my most recent expansion and I had to use my 5-6 carriers to defend it. I guess he then realized that he was in trouble and had to finish the game before I had more. A very critical battle took place outside my main and he lost all his tanks and vultures.

Then I went on a search and destroy mission with my carriers to take out his newest expansions. He managed to get out a lot of wraiths and goliaths, but before they could kill my carriers I managed to destroy two expansions.

At this point he had only one expansion left and it was totally unguarded so I took it out with attack-moving zealots and the game was over.

Even though I won, I still know I sucked pretty badly. I badly misused my only stasis and I have to relearn how to use this spell. I also messed up badly in my production. As I got more and more units and buildings I lost track of what was hotkeyed to what and for long periods of time my gateways were idle. I also thought I was way ahead on expansions at all time and although I was ahead, it wasn't by nearly as much as I thought.

Finally, looking at the replay I realized that he had a higher unit count than me for a very long time. For once I was happy that Terrans are not as mobile as Protoss.