Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:50 pm
So I wanted to start a little project to get this gameplay forum concentrated on gameplay again. I'm going to be commanding more games in the coming days and I'll be logging all my losses here. I want the community to criticize the games as to what could've been done better. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM ONLY - flaming will not be tolerated. I've talked to dome and he will be removing posts that are flaming and not actual useful criticism.
What I would like is for the entire community to contribute to this thread. If you've commanded a game and lost then I want you to post a recap in the same format i'm going to, and then learn from your mistakes with input from the community.
I'll be make the first post:
AEnima vs. K10xBai@ELEM
Med/Med High
Boron
TF EXP vs Giga EXP, SUP, TAC
7v8
-I push my tp low with my ref behind it and my op mid
-I want to push my tp into the middle sector to secure the expansion rock and aid my expansion - but the enemy team gets there first and kills both my scout and my tp
-My op plants high on his side and his op plants high on my side
-His tp and ref plant in the mid right and he starts mining it
-We try to go on miner o but fail to kill any miners - they manage to grab one while we're out on miner o and push our disadvantage
-I had been partialling bombers as a backup and we get bombers up and decide to go kill their op
-We get the op and try to roll on their tp/ref but its too late - they have their expansion up and ints. We get decimated at the aleph
-I get another tp and push it high and into his back sector and rip my expansion in
-They continue to go on miner o and kill more miners - we fail to get any
-Game spirals out of control and we find ourselves getting boxed in by giga cons and they have heavy ints
-They slaughter the last two miners as I push them forward into our expansion and the game is basically over at this point
-Terran joins and it becomes a cluster$#@!, but game was over long before
So this is an example of a write up - nothing too detailed, just an overview of what happened in the game.
As an example of constructive criticism - it could be things like:
1) Tp push was too aggressive - needed to plant it shorter by one sector
2) Your miner o needs to be more coordinated
3) Exp vs. Giga seems to have cost you here
4) Miner defense is lacking - perhaps there's something wrong with the way you run your miner chain
Those are just examples that come to mind - I would hope the community is going to give insights that are harder to find but again that'll depend on the quality of the write up if the person isn't actually there.
So there you have it. I'll be continuing to post my logs as I lose games and I welcome community feedback. I also encourage others to do the same. It's an almost impromptu ACS - no need for a strict program to get feedback on your losses.
EDIT:
MAP LIST:
http://pk.dras.us/users/TheBored/Maps.html
http://www.freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.php/Maps
What I would like is for the entire community to contribute to this thread. If you've commanded a game and lost then I want you to post a recap in the same format i'm going to, and then learn from your mistakes with input from the community.
I'll be make the first post:
AEnima vs. K10xBai@ELEM
Med/Med High
Boron
TF EXP vs Giga EXP, SUP, TAC
7v8
-I push my tp low with my ref behind it and my op mid
-I want to push my tp into the middle sector to secure the expansion rock and aid my expansion - but the enemy team gets there first and kills both my scout and my tp
-My op plants high on his side and his op plants high on my side
-His tp and ref plant in the mid right and he starts mining it
-We try to go on miner o but fail to kill any miners - they manage to grab one while we're out on miner o and push our disadvantage
-I had been partialling bombers as a backup and we get bombers up and decide to go kill their op
-We get the op and try to roll on their tp/ref but its too late - they have their expansion up and ints. We get decimated at the aleph
-I get another tp and push it high and into his back sector and rip my expansion in
-They continue to go on miner o and kill more miners - we fail to get any
-Game spirals out of control and we find ourselves getting boxed in by giga cons and they have heavy ints
-They slaughter the last two miners as I push them forward into our expansion and the game is basically over at this point
-Terran joins and it becomes a cluster$#@!, but game was over long before
So this is an example of a write up - nothing too detailed, just an overview of what happened in the game.
As an example of constructive criticism - it could be things like:
1) Tp push was too aggressive - needed to plant it shorter by one sector
2) Your miner o needs to be more coordinated
3) Exp vs. Giga seems to have cost you here
4) Miner defense is lacking - perhaps there's something wrong with the way you run your miner chain
Those are just examples that come to mind - I would hope the community is going to give insights that are harder to find but again that'll depend on the quality of the write up if the person isn't actually there.
So there you have it. I'll be continuing to post my logs as I lose games and I welcome community feedback. I also encourage others to do the same. It's an almost impromptu ACS - no need for a strict program to get feedback on your losses.
EDIT:
MAP LIST:
http://pk.dras.us/users/TheBored/Maps.html
http://www.freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.php/Maps
How many players on each side?Any attempt to enh miners? (Game was probably lost at this point anyways, but it'd at least keep you in the game a bit longer).Why did your tele die? Patties, or was it sent into a swarm of Giga scouts? Who was the scout that let the con die, so we can shame him? And why did you trust this obviously incompetent pilot in the first place?