the kitchen sink
A SCHNAIL game. This human player was able to cope with every aggressive trick Steamhammer tried, and it tried several, but not able to keep up macro at the same time.
Zerglings and ultralisks are under the dark swarms, invulnerably shredding everything. Of the ensnared marines to the left of the swarm, the majority are also plagued. Only the most recent spell shows.
When its economy is strong enough, Steamhammer switches quickly from midgame play whose goal is to hold on and not fall behind, into the endgame with power moves. As a human player, how does it feel to face so-so play for most of the game, holding after no worse than a bit of a scramble, and then be abruptly overwhelmed by a prodigious army that seems to have all the tech and be able to do everything simultaneously?
In the following game between the same players, the human was the aggressive one, moving out and repeatedly destroying zerg expansions. Steamhammer never built up its endgame army. But with the terran army away from home, mass zerglings overran the terran bases. Keeping up with AI macro is mechanically demanding for the human player. I expect it’s good practice, though.
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