My Assistant
What can I say? Mighty fast one here. This one is exciting all the way through, though some glaring mistakes do rear their ugly heads. I will provide short summary of this game as it's fairly long and lots is going on. I also don't want to spoil too much as this is our new RoTW (well earned, might I add).
The game starts out with nearly identical BOs from Poita and AZ, I was beginning to wonder if something had been decided on while I wasn't looking . Anyhow, each player attempts to expand early (as they should) and each does a fairly good job at doing so, though Poita does a much better job at 1) early scouting and 2) protecting his engies as they go out into the open and cap mexes. Each player begins building air rather quickly and wastes no time getting support factories up around the outskirts of the map. Some intense t1 skirmishing goes on, including some Skyhunters (whoever coined that term rocks) from Poita, until we get into the double digit minutes when t2 begins to show up from each player. Poita's comm hangs out in the middle of the map at a forward factory for most of the mid and late game, with him almost getting taken by some t3 bots from AZ, which kicks Poita to match AZ at t3 rather quickly. Some battling goes back and forth in all parts of the map, with Poita getting some t3 bots into AZ's main base while AZ attempts to assault Poita's forward base with some t3 arty.
The game comes to an end with a very intense battle centered around AZ's t3 factory which is positioned in farily close proximity to the middle plateau of the map. I won't go into the details of this battle as it's quite exciting and some very close calls are experienced, along with some rather odd mistakes (or mistakes that I find odd at least). I recommend that everyone watch this game as it shows some really good moves and some bad mistakes that we should learn to avoid or be aware of. Bravo!
This was some great play from Poita. He utilized hunter gunships (skyhunters), mantis, and loyalists very effectively against an aeon opponent, who has superior t1 untis and t3 units AND handled his economy very well by making sure he had plenty of power and mass, while continuing to expand his economic capacity. Well done, very impressive! We all can learn a thing or two from this replay.
I don't know if you really played at a 6/10 level the entire game - you made some costly mistakes in the mid and late game. However, I'm giving it to you because you played a good early game in t1 - you were beating him until you guys hit t3 and he got a productive and economic advantage over you. Poita also had a really good game and you put up quite the fight throughout most of it. You played decently, but you can play better! We can learn a lot from AZ's performance here as well.
Cybran followers: pay close attention to Poita_'s amazing use of Cybran mobility to outflank me at every stage of the game. If it weren't for reclaiming, I wouldn't have lasted nearly as long as I did.
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