One can find many similarities between the way our life is and the way Starcraft 2 works. To be honest

I often tend to make this kind of observations, since life is a game right? It can be a serious game sometimes or the complete opposite, but mostly depends on your perspective. So lets start from the basics of the game.

You spend your first years in the place you are spawned, usually, learning some of the fundamentals of macro (food, cloths, shit, etc) as well as some micro management. Remember when you wanted water and just pointed at the ceiling for 5 minutes? No harm being a noob at this early point. Happens to the best. Some attributes like driving the bicycle hands off or eating while watching a movie will be acquired during this stage. Also as you grow older you learn a lot more about resources and how they are the most important thing in people’s lives. So you start trying to plan out how you are going to accumulate the required resources to expand. This being a BO1, with cautiousness. You don’t want to Nexus first in this map. Notice that even if you had the additional resources of 3-4 bases at this stage, you wouldn’t really know how to spend them properly. You’d most probably end with a big bank but no way to spend it.

So there is school-college-moving to a new town, getting a job somewhere else, or whatever. That place will be you second base. One base will start to feel too weak to you at this point. You will laugh at the face of the past and start looking for the next move almost immediately, since now you know the drill. You have acquired skills, sharpened up your decision making and can now

efficiently spend your 2 base resource flow. You have scouted with your observers and know what the approaching threats are. That’s when infestors kick in.

Life’s cost has only growed all this time. The hardships and the new dire realisations are becoming all the more obvious just like fungal growth. Time is of the essence as the competition in the global arena starts. Could it be that two bases will not be enough for that? What you need is more resources and skills. You made mistakes. Some macro mismanagement, probably a supply block or building too many pylons at once can cost you in this game. You need to believe that everything will be alright and use everything you’ve got exceptionally to the smallest detail. You need nerves of steel, multitasking, sim city in every single area, complete map awareness. You don’t want any runby’s. You got to finally get the composition needed to have a chance in this game. Broodlords are imminent. Just like the rent, or the end of the world.

You have your 4 colossi, your blink stalkers and the new additions for your army are becoming a necessity. Archons, mothership, storm, high templars, warp prisms (prisma). After that, all will come down to positioning and the mental limits of your opponents. It is somewhat possible that he won’t split. Like the way he would be ill when it was time for him to get to that interview, or drop the ball. Then you will have a chance that the AI won’t fuck up, that you will control everything perfectly, win the battle decisively and hold his zergling, ultra, infestor, … , remax with some considerable army left to try to kill some of his hatcheries deep in the creep. Now everything should be kind of ok, if you didn’t take damage at your mineral lines throughout the game.

Fuck it. twobase-all-in that shit.