Criticism or or compliments?

[aaronINdayton]

Second Replay:

T2: I like your opening, but would have moved the spawned runner on the right up to the hex north of your starting heavy for some sweet vision.

T4: I would have boosted the heavy instead of the runner, but I'm not always big on boosting runners

T6: moving your center sniper over is dangerous business, since you already moved your medic twice, you should have committed that sniper to the center and if anything moved him up the center. Now you've wasted a wit because you could have moved the sniper over earlier and only moved the medic once to be in range of both the sniper and spawn point. Spawning a new sniper might have been a better option, not necessarily this turn.

T8: You're moving your units away from the natural attack path of your opponent, even if they aren't massing up there, they're adorables and can basically produce two units at a time on either side of the map, so if you're not careful they can do a big swing to a spot where you're weak on defense.

T10: You've made like a million boosted runners! I like the runner swarm idea, but usually they're going to die immediately so it's okay not to boost them. Also, before making a play for their super far away sniper, I'd be more comfortable with an extra soldier on both sides of the map if I were you.

T14: Looks like you miscounted wits and basically gave away a booster solider, booster runner, and a bunch of wits

T16: I would hit the sniper instead of the base, but maybe you've got a secret plan for 3 more damage I don't see. Also I would not have boosted the runner.

T20: Sweet scramble/heal, but not sure you had enough knowledge to know scrambler would be safe after.



So! Looks like you learned about attacking on thorn gulley, more specifically, how it's hard to do! You're early attack on the left side gave you two damage on the base, but the only way you were able to capitalize on that was to have an opponent completely ignore your scrambler. That won't keep happening as you move up. I think if they responded more appropriately and turtled hard once they saw the scrambler, it would have been difficult for you to secure the win on this one.

A couple of things I think will help your game are:
- learning ideal positioning on every map for runners/soldiers, this comes with practice and watching high-level replays
- learning when to attack and when to build up, this can change from map to map, but on thorn gulley, you need a pretty big force because your spawn is so far away and theirs is so close
- conserving wits. This is something everyone can get better at, when to boost, when not to, do you need a second medic? if you lose your medic do you need a new one? wits are super important, if you can save as many as possible while still fielding the right units, you'll win, probably.