An Effective Tactic - #2 Going for Gold S4 - 1v1 Ranked - Planetary Annihilation Titans

[@johannesr2911]

I love your vids and the RTS Genre, keep going, great work!

[@DanRTS]

Thanks for the kind feedback! Glad you enjoy them :) always more coming 😁

[@matthewbadger8685]

Excellent vid, thanks for posting. For the boombot spam, you can usually defend with dox as they shred boombots and trade positively. I think factory disparity was a big killer this game since you didn't have enough units on the map to defend all your metal or harass theirs.

[@DanRTS]

Thanks mate, appreciated. Thank's for the strat here. I will get more bots coming out next time!

[@TheRich107]

"Ok I am going to get a transporter and drop a"... I start to get excited, this is it he is finally going to vanguard drop... Nope 😢

[@DanRTS]

Haha I will do it one day, for you rich, for you.

[@TheRich107]

You weee building metal extractors and enegey when you were floating both. Use that as a signal to build more fabs or production.

[@DanRTS]

Yea. I've started to notice this more now. It tends to happen when I'm distracted by the opposition and fail to look at everything happening!

[@MrTBSC]

locusts are definitively not rubbish ... your opponent just didn't use them well except in 30:15 .. have them dropped in a power or production line and ... that line is gone

[@DanRTS]

I'm totally with you, locusts can be great if managed correctly, but they are very weak units and this player was sending them in blind :)

[@allenwalkden8079]

You need metal storage early on, you wasted loads 👍

[@DanRTS]

Definately did, store it, or use it! So many things to think about under pressure :)

[@aidanwarren4980]

You lost this one because you stopped expanding after grabbing the metal in your base. It seems like you just never queued up a second group of fabricators until you needed T2? Maybe I'm not paying enough attention to the run, but I see you build your first 3 fabs, then nothing until you panic about T2. I'd say this is a classic case of getting so caught up reacting to your opponent that you forget to expand your own economy. Back when I played (I made an earnest attempt at Gold a couple summers ago, only made it into Silver before classes started back) I would include two or three fabs in the build order for one factory. Something like "make 30 dox, then 3 fabs". I usually had too many fabs by late game, but it kept me on pace in the early and mid game. Whenever I wanted to select some idle fabs, there were usually a few in the base ready.

[@DanRTS]

Hey, thanks for the tips and for watching! Yea I failed in doing so with this game. I normally do 3-4 fab opening, but the first 2-3 would be 'one offs (using ctrl)' and I'd leave one in the queue. I think I failed to do that this game, and then got flustered when I kept being hit. It's a lot to think about when you are running around defending!

[@detemegandy]

please get hotbuild :)

[@DanRTS]

Heh I do have it but only tend to use it with the very first lot of commander building. Not in the habit of using it all the time as yet!

[@detemegandy]

@@DanRTS now you just need a click blocker

[@DanRTS]

Haha I really do. Sometimes I'm better at using it, today's vid I think I'm a bit better! Edit: heh actually, I'm not better at all in the next game. I will try to remember!