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Replay of the Week #8

For those of you who have been too busy keeping up with WCG to read the previous one, last week's ROTW was a brilliant TvP match that's definitely worth reading! You can find it here: ROTW #7!



This week's replay
GosI[Saga]Sunmi
Race
Zerg
Terran
APM
407
367
Color
Orange
Red
Map
Blue Storm 1.2
Position
7 o'clock
1 o'clock


The match commences with Saga at the bottom left, leaving Sunmi at the top right. Neither player goes for an allin, Sunmi building his first depot above his gas while Saga hatches an overlord. Saga scouts early, with his ninth drone heading off to the Terran base. Finding nothing of concern, he makes some attempts to harass Sunmi's building SCV but is quickly headed off, with an SCV blocking off the narrow passage into the Terran natural soon after. No refinery or second barrack is out for Sunmi, and as such he is probably going for a 1rak FE.

Meanwhile in the Zerg main, Saga's extractor is almost finished, and with the second hatch nowhere in sight he is 2 hatching. Sunmi puts down his CC and his blocking SCV moves out, scouting the Zerg base and finding Saga's 2 hatch tech there. He puts down an extra barracks, consistently pumping marines and SCVs and making his third supply to accommodate them, with his refinery starting soon after. Although Saga has a ling blocking off his natural entrance, an SCV manages to sneak past it, though it is killed off before it sees anything significant. Putting down an academy, Sunmi cuts his production for a small period, also building a bunker at his natural, and Saga puts down a spire in his natural, near the upper wall.

With a third scout SCV out, Sunmi spots a 12-strong group of speedlings leave the Zerg base, with another four keeping the SCV outside of the zerg base. Saga attempts to run through the choke and catch the terran off guard; however, he is met by a bunker and five standing marines, and a combined effort from some of the natural SCVs sees Saga lose his speedling army for two marines.
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Saga's speedling attack fails.

Economy wise, Saga is badly hurting after this; he has only three drones on minerals in his natural, and though he quickly recovers, he is definitely somewhat behind. On top of that, Sunmi starts building several turrets in his natural and a handful in his main, cutting his SCV production to do so. Saga is going to need to make his mutalisks count, as although he has lurker research started, he has no second expansion coming yet. With several hydras hatching in his base, he doesn't seem intent on getting it just yet.

On the bright side, Sunmi is only halfway through getting marine range, though it seems not to matter; Saga is only managing to pick off a few marines here and there, with too many turrets around to do any damage to Sunmi's economy. Though he is still on his original two barracks, a factory is on the way for him, though it will not come before Saga's lurkers do. Some more fights between the two see Saga lose four mutas and Sumni lose about half of his marines, leaving him with only ten; however, two more barracks are on the way, and the factory has finished. Three lurkers have hatched outside of the Terran natural, with two more on the way; Sumni's factory starts a machine shop, and he also starts building a Starport. Several of Saga's lurkers are burrowed above the ramp, making it impractical for Sunmi to move until his vessels are out.

Using some lings, his remaining mutalisks and his lurkers, Saga goes straight into the terran natural, looking to throw him off guard and claim his expansion. Though he sees it coming just in time, Sunmi is initially overpowered, with his bunker destroyed and many of his marines killed. However, Saga's lurkers are not in range to hit SCVs, and their supporting units are dead; though there are only five marines, he cannot take down Sunmi's expansion at all. As reinforcements arrive, however, he begins to push towards the CC with a fourth lurker, and with Sumni's tank not finished yet he claims control of the expansion for the time being.
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Sunmi's expansion takes a hit.

Being careful not to be wiped out altogether, Sunmi puts down a bunker and turret at the choke to his main base. Saga does not attempt to kill it; Sunmi's marine army is quite large, and although he has two sieged tanks sitting near the edge, he has no vessel and as such cannot force out Saga's lurkers yet. Another seven lurkers are morphing outside Sunmi's natural; they serve to block any attempt to come out from the Terran, who is suffering a supply drop preventing him from making a vessel.
Current Position
SagaSunmi
Running Bases
2
1
Supply
59/91
60/60
Upgrades
0-0-0
0-1
Resources
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Unit Count
SagaSunmi
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At long last, Saga finally takes an expansion, making a hatchery at 10 o'clock. At equally long last, Sunmi begins making his first vessel of the game, along with more tanks. Saga's lurkers in the Terran natural mineral line try to get closer to the CC, but two are killed and the remaining three are overrun by marines, allowing Sunmi to finally resume mining from his exp. A hive is on the way for Saga, though, and his 10 o'clock hatchery has finished, though it will be some time before it is operational as all of his other hatcheries are producing scourge and hydras. With five tanks and a vessel, Sunmi forces Saga's lurkers out of the choke, ending his contain of the Terran army.
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Saga's lurkers are finally forced out of Sunmi's natural.

Saga is in serious trouble; his army is split, and Sunmi's impressive tank numbers are too much for his lurker/ling combination. However, Sunmi is not very careful with his tanks, and loses three of them in a fight with five lurkers after attacking head on, though he lost few marines. Also, Sunmi only has one SCV on his second gas; why is unclear, since he is producing tanks and vessels, and also researching irradiate and infantry upgrades and as such appears to be running a little short. Though his push is still working, and his tank numbers are replenished, Saga has a new weapon: defilers with consume are coming out from his main base, although Sunmi will soon have five irradiates at his disposal, with a third vessel coming out. Saga expands at his second natural, needing the extra economy quite badly at the moment.

Saga also attempts to expand at 12, though with the impending Terran army coming towards it, it will not stay up for long; however, Sunmi scouts it with his vessels alone, and loses one of them to a pair of scourge in the process. With some good swarms, Saga causes chaos in the Terran ranks with nothing but zerglings, killing several marines and two tanks. Five new defilers are sitting at Saga's rally point, and they have little to fear; Sunmi's vessels choose to irradiate some lurkers near 12, and as such have little energy left for the defilers. Finally putting three SCVs on his second gas, Sunmi expands at his second natural and makes a second starport; his army retreats somewhat, staying on his part of the map for now.
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Some good swarms allow Saga's lings to wreak havoc.

Without many scourge around, Sunmi's vessels take free reign, irradiating two defilers. Ultralisk tech is finished for Saga, though no ultras are out yet. Some good swarms cause Sunmi to lose a large chunk of his marine army to a smaller ling/lurk force, and Saga tries to take the 12 o'clock expansion once again. Some more good swarms from Saga sees Sunmi forced back a little, though he decides to go and demolish Saga's 12 o'clock expansion before it can become useful. In his second nat, Saga has hoarded up several hotkeys of lings, which Sunmi's vessels use to their advantage, irradiating some defilers and forcing lings and drones alike to move by irradiating a vessel. However, a dying defiler plagues all five vessels, and one is taken out by a scourge.
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Sunmi loses some of his army to a modest zerg force.

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Sunmi's vessels are plagued after he starts irradiating everything in sight.

Current Position
SagaSunmi
Running Bases
4
2
Supply
131/135
132/134
Upgrades
2-2-0
1-2
Resources
minerals.gif1564/vespene.jpg135
minerals.gif678/vespene.jpg684
Unit Count
SagaSunmi
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The upgrades for Saga refer to armour, melee and missile weapons, in that order. Sunmi starts building a CC at the 4 o'clock expansion, with the only untouched base now being the one at 6. Saga moves out, hoping to destroy the Terran army, which is sitting relatively close together near six o'clock, on the bottom edge of the ramp. In an absolute disaster, Sunmi's vessels go too far forward, and he loses four of them to scourge, leaving him with only two remaining. Both armies are left badly weakened, with the Terran's large number of marines decimated, and the horde of zerglings killed off. However, Saga is quicker to reinforce, and is able to destroy Sunmi's 4 o'clock expansion, and also forces him to use his bunkers to defend his natural from a force of cracklings, losing several SCVs from his natural at the time.
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A hard fight sees both sides badly hit.

Sunmi begins making more firebats, though the lings are eventually killed off by his standing marine army. In what can only be described as a random move, Saga puts down a hatchery at Sunmi's natural and second natural...
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One can only wonder what Saga is attempting to do here.

A second ling force attempting to kill off the second natural is shredded, and Sunmi's vessels once again take advantage of a scourgeless sky and irradiate five of Saga's ultralisks on their own turf, though some hatching scourge take their revenge and kill off three of them. Saga has little left to work with; his main army consists of low-hp ultras and a large number of lings, and once again Sunmi manages to irradiate some defilers and ultras; the two armies meet, Sunmi vaporising all opposition before it comes into contact with him. Once again, Saga's 12 o'clock expansion is destroyed, with the sunkens guarding it being relatively obsolete versus Sunmi's 2-3 upgrades. Two lings in Sunmi's second nat are destroying his scvs, however; the two lings take 14 SCVs in total, causing serious damage to the Terran economy, as his natural will soon be mined out.
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Everybody loves science vessels...

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...Especially ultralisks.

Saga is hurting once again; he has only two expansions mining, with an expansion at six o'clock just completed. He has little gas, even less minerals, and only two ultralisks and a defiler; on the other hand, Sunmi is not doing much better. He has only one base mining now, as his natural has mined out, though he has large gas reserves. However, he is building a CC to the left of the 4 o'clock expansion, avoiding the two lings stationed there.
Current Position
SagaSunmi
Running Bases
2
1
Supply
85/146
85/134
Upgrades
2-2-0
2-3
Resources
minerals.gif42/vespene.jpg353
minerals.gif896/vespene.jpg1139
Unit Count
SagaSunmi
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With an excellent swarm and plague, Saga takes out a whole group of marines, though his defiler is irradiated for the trouble, and his plague also hits one of his ultralisks, reducing it to 10hp. Saga attempts to engage the larger part of Sunmi's MnM army without a defiler, but his lings are quickly reduced to dust and his ultralisks are forced to flee the scene, only two of them remaining alive on half health.
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Saga's defiler-less army fails to meet expectations.

The two lings at 4 o'clock prevent Sunmi using his expansion CC; with the Terran army marching down upon the six o'clock expansion, Saga puts down seven creep colonies there, hoping that Sunmi's lack of tanks will deter him from making an attack. However, with no defilers in his army, Saga's modest ultra/ling army fails to delay the terran, and his expansion is smashed down. Saga does take a vessel from the Terran, but loses the only other gas expansion available to him; he takes the 12 o'clock expansion, but with less than half the supply rating of Sunmi, he is not likely to be able to keep it.
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Once again, Sunmi melts Saga's defiler-lacking army.

A defiler has finally hatched for Saga, and he manages to kill a small MnM group with two ultras and some lings, though he is reduced to one ultra in the process. He plagues another MnM group, but with only one ultra left to fight with, cannot kill it. Finally deciding to retake his expansion, Sunmi sends some marines down to 4 whilst sending one of his drops to 12. Sunmi takes his 4 o'clock expansion back, but a swift ultra/ling response from Saga leaves the 12 o'clock hatchery alive with 200 hp. He now has two defilers ready along with two ultras and a pack of lings, but he still has only half of the Terran's supply; Sunmi's army advances on the 12 o'clock expansion, and although a few of his marines are plagued, the zerg fails to do any significant damage, and can only watch as his two defilers and his expansion are blown away.
Current Position
SagaSunmi
Running Bases
2
2
Supply
71/129
122/144
Upgrades
2-2-0
2-3
Resources
minerals.gif29/vespene.jpg211
minerals.gif502/vespene.jpg1077
Unit Count
SagaSunmi
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Counterattacking, Saga sends a small force of lings to 4 o'clock, forcing Sunmi's SCVs out of the area and making him lift the CC, leaving one ling there to prevent it landing. Sunmi moves out towards six o'clock, but finds no expansion there; both armies eventually meet in the middle. Two extra vessels have come out for Sunmi, and though he loses the majority of his marines, all of Saga's ultralisks are irradiated to death and the attack is halted. With two bunkers now built at 4 o'clock, small ling harassment will no longer be effective.

However, Saga's intent is not small harassment any more; his main army, consisting of an ultralisk and a modest pack of lings, destroys both bunkers with ease and once again forces Sunmi's SCVs to evacuate. However, Sunmi has six vessels, and Saga only five ultralisks and a ling force; his last defiler was killed by some marines. With no scourge around to stop the vessels, they fly forward and irradiate all of Saga's ultralisks, and a defiler which was just hatched. He then proceeds to irradiate his vessels and fly them over Saga's drones at his second natural, killing most of them and forcing the drones at his 10 o'clock expansion to evacuate as well. With no income left, Saga launches a last-ditch attempt and attacks Sunmi's army with his ling/ultra army; however, the ultras were severely weakened by the recent irradiates, and his army is easily mopped up. With no way to get back into the game, Saga gives up. GG.
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Saga's army is vaporised for a final time.

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