Bold vs. A.KELLY.

Battle Report by: Bold
Map: Lost Temple
Players: Bold-404 (Protoss) vs. A.KELLY (Protoss)
Date: 3/21/00

Ah, my favorite (and best) matchup, Protoss vs. Protoss on Temple.  I chose Random and spawned Protoss at 2:00 while A.KELLY chose Protoss.   I found found A.KELLY in the 6:00 position and noticed a fast forge and a cannon before his gateway was finished.  DO NOT DO THIS!  This means that while he invests in static defense I can outnumber him in troops and spread them out and take expansions without much fear.

..And that is just what I did.  The first expansion I took was 12:00's main.  I loaded it up with 2 gateways and a number of cannons, A.KELLY contested this expansion with some random ground troops, including DT, but I just had more resources and troops at this point, so I quickly dispensed them.  You see, if you invest in lots of static defense early on you sacrafice troops, which means you'll have a well defended main, but you can't really cause significant damage outside your base and it makes it harder to take an expansion or expansion hunt because you can't afford to spread your troops out.  Myself on the other hand, built troops instead of static defense which enabled me to take an expansion thereby giving me a nice resource advantage.  At this point, I could afford to build as many cannons as I wanted because I had an excess of minerals due to my mobile forces allowing me to defend the expansion and my main at the same time.

I began to upgrade my troops and keep pumping random ground units from both bases.  Here is a look at the map control I had.  I had so many troops right know I knew I could overwhelm A.KELLY so I sent my main force into his base, and as you can see I had a steady flow of reinforcements coming out of all 6 gateways.

Basically, in a Protoss vs. Protoss matchup you should aim to outupgrade, outnumber, and have a good backbone of either reavers or templars in your army.   Also, don't just go ALL goons, add in about 6-8 zealots up front, they have a good amount of HP and shields which means free shots for the goons and reavers in the back.  

Power Overwhelming..

That's all for now.  Now that I'm starting to get back in my groove I'll probably start playing other maps like Dire Straits so that you can see how I fair on islands and different sized maps. 

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