Star Blog #48

YES! played some Starcraft 2 last night.  Did a couple of 1v1's (50/50....fucking cloaked banshee's ruining my life) and then did a couple of 2v2's (placed in silver) and some 3v3's.  In our last 3v3 my buddy who plays random got Terran literally rained down the nukes on these chumps lol  he estimates he launched 15 nukes.  I have watched the replay yet but I know I heard nukes going off all through that match lol we won of course :)  All-in-all a pretty good night - until we had a power failure but we were only going to play one more matche anway.

Todays map will be Antiga Shipyard

I like this map quite a bit.  Your natural is nice and close and you can protect it pretty well because it has a ramp (kind of a wide ramp - but I still like the ramp vs. no ramp). It's kind of a large map and so more often then not it is going to end up being a longer more macro oriented type of game.  Don't get me wrong you will still encounter (or be able to use) some of the early all-in / cheese plays but it is just a little less viable given that your opponent could be so far away from your base.  One thing to watch is if a terran spawns to your right he can setup seige tanks in his third and rain down fire on your main!  Destroy the rocks at his third before this happens - do it early and that will make it much more easy for you to counter this type of play.  This is also a pretty good map for the zerg players who like to spread out and macro up.

It's a big map and most matches will probably go to 3 base + type of game.  Harass lots (use drops - especially you protoss players with the new better Warp Prism).  Make sure you take out your opponents destructable rocks before you need to - then you won't have to fight that fight when the situation is critical - get it out of the way early.