Starcraft AI blog

Here’s a recent pro game Snow (P) - Sharp (T), in which Sharp expanded behind a bunker somewhat like Krasi0, while Snow repeatedly ran by the bunker with dragoons much like Locutus. The game was played in KSL season 1 in group B on 3 August.

A point to note is that Snow tried to keep 3 dragoons inside the terran base. When the count fell below 3, it was time for another runby. 3 dragoons can kill an SCV in 2 volleys, or a tank in 3 volleys, so 3 dragoons are much more powerful than 2. (Versus a tank you’d prefer 4 dragoons which kill in 2 volleys, but with only 2 dragoons it takes 4 volleys—3 dragoons was the right number for this specific situation.) Also, Snow camped the single factory with the dragoons and felt no need to seek out other targets. Everything dangerous was going to come out of the factory, and if you can stop production, you win. Terran was forced to defend there.

Games like this remind me how far we have to go. It was so similar to a bot game in some ways, and so different in others. Compared to Locutus and Krasi0, the human players knew better what they needed to do, and were much better at coordinating their units to do it.