In regards to Andrew’s recent post about snatching victory from defeat, I’d like to make a few alterations to his narrative:
Andrew makes an immediate leap from the destruction of the mining bases to his victory.
This is not the case.
As Andrew’s battlecruiser fleet decimated the mining bases I had established in the north, I hurriedly manufactured legions of hydralisks to defend my base.
Unfortunately, Andrew called off his attack before reaching my base, leaving me with 24-36 burrowed hydralisks and very few resources to rebuild with.
In desperation, I took an overlord, filled it with two drones, and flew it to his base in the north. The base was build on the lower level of a two part island. I found a corner he had not yet expanded to, and constructed a small hatchery to complete the first phase of my plan. I burrowed the second drone.
Back at my main base, I constructed a two drones. Placing them at the base of my hatchery field, I built the key to my master plan of revenge: two nydus canals.
The hydralisks poured through them and appeared at the lower level of his northern base. They attacked, and victory was sweet.
Earlier, Binkle’s corsairs had been absent-mindedly attacking a flying command center, and a queen of mine had managed to infest it automatically. In order to do more damage, I flew the infested command center to the upper level of Andrew’s island, where I would build some suicide bombers.
When the infested command center arrived (roughly the same time as Operation Sneaky Hydra), I realised he had expanded on the upper level as well. The infested command center plummetted to the Earth after being shot by a goliath.
My hydralisks, having done what they were sent to do, pulled back to the nydus canals. But…the siege tanks were already in place.
Firing down from the ledge, the tanks got a nice attack bonus, which defeated a great deal of my hydras. The remainder were destroyed when the battlecruisers returned to my main base.
Having no method of recovery, no resources, no units for defense and a poor defensive structure, I left the game. I didn’t want to sit and watch as Andrew (slowly, with limited cruisers) destroyed my base.
Cruisers move slow. They fire slow. And with such a small amount, he would have taken so long to kill me, and I had literally nothing to do but watch. To me, that seemed pointless. I was genuinely defeated though. I had no options whatsoever. So, I quit.
Also, I’d like to stress two things:
It was Binkle’s observors all over the map, but it was usually me noticing the dropship that appeared on the fringes.
There was no support from Binkle because he had run out of minerals without establishing a new mining base (a habit which I hope he kicks before the next game). However, he definitely tried to survive. He was taking probes to mineral fields, and returning them to a nexus IN A DROPSHIP. Truly ingenious in desperate times. If I had drones, and a base to take minerals to where they would not be killed, I might have employed the same tactics.
But at the end of the game, I had nothing to control but buildings and a few overlords.