I take this opportunity to expand in the bottom left, while he expands in the upper right.  I also get Fuzzy (read: Panda) and tech to T3.  I’m going to finish him off with Tauren/Walker.  Together with a sizeable army, I head up to his expansion.  He’s got a bunch of rifles, some breakers and a couple of heroes.  I’ve got more melee than you can shake a stick at, a bunch of zerks and a Kodo.  No contest.

And it was no contest.  I microed poorly.  Actually, it seems as if I didn’t micro at all.  He blizzards my zerks, steals my roar and jams up my melee with some well placed farms.  I get both halves of my ass handed to me.

And now he’s pushing on my expansion in the bottom left.

But in the words of an immortal black clown: ‘Fuzzy don’t play that.’  His AM/MK hit the wall against Fuzzy, and they are driven back.  Man, watching this replay hurt badly ‘cause I really had shitty micro.  I should have been resurrecting tauren right and left.  I think it was because I was working too damn hard on my thesis that I’ve been neglecting my game.

So he gets pushed back and Fuzzy barely escapes after dropping the hammer on the rifle casters.  My opponent takes this opportunity to expand to the top left start position and I take this opportunity to make good use out of pulverize.  I end up losing my farseer, but on the bright side I end up trashing his expansion.

At this point I’ve got a single expansion in the lower left start and my opponent is establishing himself in the bottom left expansion area.  I reassemble a decent force, get some potions and send in another attack onto his only income producing mine.  There are a couple of big differences this time, as both sides have massive heroes (level 6+) and my micro decides to show up. 

I’m expecting the bolt/blizzard/focus fire on poor Fuzzy’s head, so he goes right into Earth Wind and Fire.  His MK goes into Avatar, and we begin laying into each other.  The fight was kind of like Rocky IV, where Rocky and Ivan Drago lay into each other with haymaker after haymaker.  My Tauren die, the lazy bastards that they are, so I force them to get back up.  A brilliant hand to hand fight ensued between Earth and the Avatar, where the Avatar was clapping, while the Archmage blizzarding on the combatants.

But Fuzzy don’t play that.  Fuzzy don’t care shit about the weather or the noise, especially when he’s like the Earth.  Eventually Fuzzy and the Avatar run out of ultimate time and the melee continues.  Drinks are on Fuzzy, and of course the game ending Breath of Doom comes shortly thereafter.

My opponent was good, my micro was bad, but cash is king.

-HC