Your personal trainer team

[Lu_Xun_17]

Tonight 8pm Voodoo, i challenge you for a rust remover Bo3
(this will probably be noob bashing for you, but well ^^ )

[Lu_Xun_17]

Nice game there :

243223-Lu_Xun_78.fafreplay

1vs1 cool syrtis vs Voodoo

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[RikD]

Thanks for setting this up

I''m a new player and already got some help from one of the trainers, helped a lot.

Ofcourse, once i master the basics i'll be willing to return the favor by explaining them to other new players.

[Myrdral]

Add me to the trainer list please. USA GMT-5

I am willing to play unrated games to help players learn and have fun. We can team vs AI or spar up to you. I also like to host lower unit cap team games for those of you with low-end cpus.

For other trainers:
I find it useful to teach players with adjustable game speed and infinite timeout settings. Lower unit cap and supremacy victory conditions are also useful. Basically, you can make game settings that are much more noob friendly than the default settings. Although, the trainees should be made aware that assassination 1000 unit cap is most commonly played.

Unit database is in my opinion an essential for learning this game so I would also encourage new players to use it frequently. I would teach the players how to navigate the unit database and understand all the stats like turret yaw, range etc.

[n00blet]

Can someone analyze this replay and tell me things that are good and things I should have tried. I am Guile in game.

I was doing well in the beginning but then I kinda screwed up with the power and started losing map control.

Thanks

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[uberge3k]

The replay is only 22 seconds.

[n00blet]

The replay is only 22 seconds.

Whoops. Its actually this one:

261012-Guile.fafreplay

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[uberge3k]

The first few minutes were good. Your build order was solid and you nicely protected your expansions.

It started going downhill at around 4:00. You let your top expanding engineer go out unprotected, and it needlessly died. You let a bunch of engineers and tanks pile up in your base, and stopped making energy.

Remember that building energy costs quite a bit of energy itself, so if you're stalling, don't put a bunch of engineers on making more power as you'll just stall more. Pause your air fac and put 1-2 engies on making power until things stabilize.

You left a lot of tanks in the bottom of the map that could have killed his expansion. Your engineer would still be protected, as there's only one path of attack, so moving the tanks that were with it forward has very little risk.

At 9 minutes, you could have charged in and killed him with your ACU and tanks. He didn't have enough to stop you, and only had range on his ACU - not rate of fire.

After he gained air superiority, it was pointless to continue making ints as they were instantly killed as they were built. Adding AAs to your queue earlier would have stopped his bombers cold.

Sending your army to his ACU + army was perhaps the worst mistake. Whenever you choose to engage units, it should only be when you're as sure as you can that you'll come out ahead and kill more than you lose.

After that the game was basically over - you didn't have nearly enough mass to match his production, and he had too much of a lead with army size. However, you had a lot of surplus energy - you might as well try a hail mary, and stop everything to make t2 air, gun, anything unexpected.

I'd be happy to practice with you if you want to try these things.

[n00blet]

Thanks for having a look at it. Will definitely try to keep these in mind.

Its hard to find 1 vs 1 matchups with US east coast time so I will definitely be messaging you for some 1 vs 1s

[Voodoo]

Hi Myrdral, how is your FAF or gpgnet name? Sry but your new for me.
I need also some more infos.