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Not to say that I crushed a noob because I was not a noob, just to say I was the better noob.

In the practice league, there are always destructable rocks blocking of entrance to your main and natural, sometimes even protecting your third. After figuring out about the protection the noob novice maps give me, I decided that expanding was very safe and so I double expoed in the beginning of the match. The map was (I think) Novice Steppes of War. I was a Protoss, he was a Terran.

So I'm just sitting around, heavy macro-ing (that's how to beat noobs) and chilling out. I have a couple dozen army units by the time I decide to move out. I break down my rocks and head out the very short distance to my opponent's rocks and break them down. I did not move in because I wanted a larger ball to beat him decisively. So I set up a proxy pylon near where his rocks were, and I wait.

By this time, I have the basic production buildings; the gateway, cybernetics core, robotics facility, robotics bay, and a starport. Of course, by now all of my gateways were warp gates. I had several of them.

So, even though he had a sensor tower all over his base, I went in with an observer. I scouted his third expansion-- nothing there. I scouted his natural-- nothing there. I flew into his main and found several battle cruisers and a not-very-scary marine/marauder ball. I thought to myself many things-"what a noob-one base battlecruisers?","oh gawd battlecruisers," and, most importantly, "I can take this."

So with my ball of 20 or so stalkers, a dozaen zealots, five colossuses, and 5 void rays, I completely wiped him out. Or so I thought. It turns out there were another half dozen battlecruisers in my base. So I went back and destroyed them. Easily.

After successfully winning the base race, I went back and cleaned up his one base. Nothing happened. I was confused, but not for long. I sent my observer one way, my army the other. My observer caught them first, the tail of a pair of flying barracks.

I went in, and even though he did have a base mining, and a small group of units, it was an easy cleanup.


So what do you think? How noobish is one base battlecruiser, when three bases were well protected by rocks?

i really hate getting paired with noobs who can't play, the rest of my team was fine but the one idiot decided to do a probe rush and lost all of his production without doing any damage. Im just really sick of getting stuck with idiots crying

I hate the rocks that block the ramps of your base in practice league. Sure it prevents cheese like 6 pools and cannon rushes, but you can't FE or get in an early scout. Very frustrating.

Your opponent wasn't that bad though. At least he seemed to have an idea of what he was doing. When I was in practice league I played against a guy who thought he could take out my base with a single thor, and couldn't even a-move.

You can never be too harsh in a league game. The harder you kick their a**, the better you should feel.

That's probably the more ideal way to go about it. I wouldn't have the patience or perseverance for that though. xd