r/broodwar

ZOMG Flash can do it all, what a match.

BW is my favorite game of all time. It’s maybe one of my favorite pastimes in general, I love StarCraft.

My friend is a serious gamer who values high skill, strategic games that require mastery. He likes AOE2. Has obviously heard of BW but I want to send him a video to convince him to give it a try and stick with it.

What’s a good thing to send him? Thanks

Is it Bunker Rusher? Bunk Rushmore, if you will?

Look I understand that it’s competition we’re watching, and winning and losing is a part of it.

Having said that, I can’t help but feel sad for Snow! Especially watching him micro the shit out of his units in game 5 but still losing (obviously he was in a losing position but the micro was so intensive and impressive, and it just seemed like he was trying everything).

Dude keeps losing to top players. Idk, I’m not making excuses for him, but the feeling I felt after game 5 reminded me of how I felt a few seasons ago when Best’s amazing run ended with a loss to Soulkey in the final.

Anyway, kudos to Flash for grinding through the series, getting a win, and giving us one of the few TvTs that I’m actually excited about in the Ro4.

I hope Snow wins a title in the next few seasons!

Who here is caught up with the current season of ASL? Who are we rooting for?

As a Protoss fan, I was hoping for a Tulbo win, but he choked hard. As for the players left, I hope Jaedong takes it.. or Snow.

I wonder whether it could work. Standard counter to potential wraiths is building several observers, so that wraiths cannot snipe them in time. However valkyries might wreck them all with their splash attack. And then die of course, but if cloaked wraiths manage to kill carriers, it could be well worth it. What do you think?

EDIT Okay I am obviously wrong and exaggerating about the vulture kiting thing (well it would work but unit ai ignores them) but I'm trolling a little just to stimulate discussion. I legit think if professional protoss players put them more forward we could see more dragoon templar & reaver builds with archons, pylons and shield batteries in front.

I think protoss underutilize them. They're the most tanky thing in the entire game. Obviously ling hydras are the only early counter, but you always supplement them with zealot dragoon cannon anyways. They're the most cost efficient building per hp, if protoss started doing this, dragoon templar builds would be I would say %10 to %20 more effective. then you can also hide reavers behind them and I think scarabs weave in between the gaps.

I like to think of them like they're roman testudos/ viking shield walls, and castle walls while dragoons , templars and reavers are like archers and trebuchets firing from behind

Also, like 90% of terran armies legit do garbage damage to pylons. Marines, firebats, vultures, wraiths, goliaths all do ass against them. You NEED tanks and battlecruisers to kill them.

The predicted score, based on their current ranked points (according to my elo list), and the predicted score based on their (ASL career) average points. The %age is how many games out of 100 played between these players they should win against each other.

To everyone's great surprise, I'm sure, ;) I predict a soma v. FlaSh finals. But, none of the games should be 4-0 or 4-3s. Generally, I expect the scored to be 4-1 for the soma v. Leta match, and 2-4 for the Light v. FlaSh match.

I don't know anything about Starcraft University. But whenever I see a subtitled clip it's a pro coaching a woman player, the BroodWar category on Afreeca is all former pros and female streamers, and the frontrow seats at ASL games are reserved for SC university teammates, who are all women.

What's going on here?

I've recently discovered it, pretty fun format and they take these games seriously.