Starcraft AI blog

Steamhammer and Tyr terran by Simon Prins played a hilarious game on Moon Glaive. I think that Steamhammer decided on a 3 hatchery before spawning pool build (it’s not entirely clear), but the zerg build became confused because Tyr’s scouting SCV delayed the natural hatchery, and because Steamhammer has an issue on this map where it sometimes sets its bases down unexpectedly far away. The build as executed was hatchery-pool-hatchery, with the third hatchery in Tyr’s natural because zerg hadn’t located the enemy yet. Something similar happened almost exactly a year ago in a game versus Krasi0.

Tyr reacted differently than Krasi0: Tyr ignored the zerg base in its natural!

The marines fired at the zerglings, but the hatchery and drones were in plain sight, and they just didn’t care. Their job, I gather, was to guard the natural against zerg attack, and the functioning zerg base was not an attack. They took their orders literally! Steamhammer was also unworried, and mined minerals contentedly.

Tyr was bright enough to figure out that it had to expand somewhere else, and planted a command center at what would normally be its 3rd base position. The zerg play was disorganized, but the terran play was more disorganized, and Steamhammer won effortlessly.