Dia protoss learning diaries - week 1

Holiday is over and so is over the flowing amount of time for gaming :(

Notes from aggressive play styles
-  picture in mind what you want and can ideally to do with your attack
    -  this would be either to contain or to destroy something?
- check from replays if more units or earlier attack - and how to identify
- exchange shields for hp
- detect if opponent is being greedy, punish from greedyness
  -  for detecting needs to have scout from exp sites
- detect if opponent lost too much, punish for loosing
- limit with sentries how many units you are fighting
- move damaged units away from taking fire
- keep tabs on their army size, but how ?
- if techs and pushes out, get out and do not lose anything
- when being aggressive follow your army - macro like 1 thing as fast as possible and get instantly back?
- macroing while being aggressive
- prevent reinforcements
  *destroy pylons
  * hit squad rallypoint lines
  * ff ramps


More specifics:
if terran has fresh bunker and no one in there, just walk by :D
sentries can by used to stop bunker repairs
if zerg takes 4th while u can't take 3rd -> 8gate

Sentry specifics:
put sentries against wall and wall off with ff if only melee
split armies with ff
separate reinforcements with ff
if ranged limit the amount of shooting units with ff

Blink stalker specifics:
4-5 stalkers on steroids

Aggressive PvP

From GSL 2014 Season 1 Ro32 :: Panic vs Ruin

Gate
2 gass (2 in each)
Core
Gate
warptech
stalker
momma
2 stalker
Gate
2 stalker

be probing all the time

Pro Benchmarks:
5:50 warptech
6:00 1st warp round
3 stalkers @ opponent

And then I forgot everything

Seems that I have forgotten everything I knew about sc2, LOL
at least regarding build orders..
Also seems that I don't have good notes here..

Openings were maybe something like this?

PvZ Forge fast exp
14-17 forge
17 nexus
17 gate
17 pylon
17-18 cannon
gasses

PvT 1gate exp
gate
gass
gass(?)
core
momma
nexus

PvP fast exp
12 gate
gass
core
gass(?)
momma
nexus

? what is "too early" for zerg to expnd? so that you can punish it with some nice warps?

How do I want to win?

PvZ
Punish too greedy ppl (--> gate opening would be better?)
Not allowing 3 bases for zerg mayb :3

PvP
Fast expand into chargelot archon <3
Or just basic colo stuff

PvT
Templas man, templars <3
Maybe trying oracles?
but seems that robo is a must..

How to I create my force?
When should I attack?
What do I die to? --> What deviations should I be prepared to make?

Focused mechanics practice #5

9) build workers from 2 nexai and click to see where the progress is
     build units from 2 gates to a separate warp pylon
     build units from robo
     move your probe around the map
     move your army or arrange units so that you will need to go to separate locations via minimap
     spent all the munny
     spent all the chrono
     make upgrades 

Making upgrades was surprisingly easy to learn, but it seemed that I lacked with my ability to make probes so I focused more on that. However, few things which were observed while making upgrades:

1) It is way easier if the forge is on a hotkey
2) It should be put to hotkey as soon as possible
3) Twilight needs to be made when upgrade is 50-70%, keep checking on this
4) Do not warp all the munny/gass to units: 100/100, 150/150, 200/200 are the amounts you will need

The gap in the probe production/chronoing graph below is from the point when I started practicing making upgrades

Focused mechanics practice #4

8) build workers from 2 nexai and click to see where the progress is
     build units to a separate warp pylon
     build units from robo
     move your probe around the map
     move your army or arrange units so that you will need to go to
         separate locations via minimap
     spent all the munny
     spent all the chrono to probes

At 1st there seemed to be some discontinueties in my probe production but it all became fixed during the practice.

Some HC parameter development:
I recorded how many probes I should have with constant probe production without (blue) and with (red) constant chronoboost. Thus, if I did everything perfectly I should obtain values close to the red line. I then divided the range between these two into 100%-units and tried to estimate how I did.

Focused Mechanics Practice #3

7)
build workers from 2 nexai and click to see where the progress is
build units from 2 gates to a separate warp pylon
build units from robo
move your army and separate single units from it (or practice splitting it first = easier)
arrange units so that you will need to go to separate locations via minimap
   i.e. storm workers, build hidden pylons, move observers, check opponent base 
build pylons to avoid supply blocks
spent all the munny

Zomg, was almost able to keep not supply blocking. The key seemed to be to look at the supply when ever making more units.