Theoretically, semi-mechanized play is much more lethal than mechanized play.

And from an economic point of view alone, semi-mechanized play is more economical than pure mechanization. This is because the same amount of crystal ore is required to make a machine gunner and a minelayer, and a machine gunner only needs 50 crystal ore, and a minelayer car needs 75 crystal ore. And after there are more spear troops, plus stimulants and nurses, fighting the Protoss troops, especially cannon fodder like forks, is actually much more powerful than minelaying cars. And the gunners are made very fast, and they can also be used against the air, and there are two teams of gunmen, transport planes and air troops, so you don't want to be next to the tanks at all.

In the past n years, many players have been studying this semi-mechanical style of play, because the evolution of interstellar style of play is from theoretical impossible to possible. The evolution of many interstellar tactics is really a bit like an advertising slogan by Li Ning, everything is possible. Just like n years ago, who would have thought that if there were four or five anti-aircraft turrets built in the Terran base, the Wyvern would still be able to enter? Now the Zerg players who have a good effect of the Wyvern Tail Flick can even throw the Terran alive with the Wyvern in the face of the vast number of anti-aircraft turrets of the Terran.

Some theoretically sharper tactics and playing methods are like an open martial arts cheats, and whoever can use them well will laugh proudly.

One day, comprehending and using a sharp martial arts to dominate the world is also an irresistible temptation for N players.

But after so many years, there has never been a top master who can dominate the world in the competition with this kind of player who is theoretically more powerful than pure mechanization.

Zhang Peng has also thought about this problem when he is pursuing the speed of the limit.

In fact, the answer to this question is also very simple, one of the fatal wounds of semi-mechanized play is that the vitality of the spearmen is too fragile, and the Protoss happens to have lightning soldiers, golden armor and other types of troops that can massively kill and injure spearmen. The theory of semi-mechanized play is to avoid being mass-killed through the running, anticipation, dodging, standing, and formation of the spearmen, and while reducing the number of casualties as much as possible, it is necessary to constantly replenish the spearmen. Because avoiding being mass-killed is certainly not the same as not being killed. When a fragile class like a spearman fights with a Protoss troop, there must be a lot of casualties every second.

In this way, this semi-mechanized style of play has too high requirements for the Terran players, just imagine, in the middle and late stages of the battle, when the Protoss has already ** barracks and rioters, the semi-mechanized Terran tank factory will definitely not be less than three, and the spearmen want to make up for it, and the barracks are at least at least six or seven. In the battlefield, you have to constantly play the position of the spearmen, dodge with stimulants and always pay attention to the movements of the opponent's troops, and always control your own formation, while constantly making up so many barracks to do soldiers together, and you have to keep filling up the soldiers and the existing surviving soldiers.

These... Just a non-stop formation is already very irritating.

And the troops of the Protoss are much more streamlined than the Terran troops of this semi-mechanized style of fighting, with forks and forks plus some dragoons and some lightning soldiers, these troops are even simpler than when fighting other confrontations.

Therefore, if the Terrans want to use this semi-mechanized style of play to win against the Protoss, the level and amount of work may be more than 1.5 times that of the Protoss opponent.

It is very likely that professional masters are 1.5 times taller than their opponents against amateurs, but in general competitions, when they play offline matches, they are all masters, and the wins and losses between masters, especially in terms of drilling, are only one line behind. It is not easy to say that a person's level and amount of work are 1.5 times higher than that of their opponents. Therefore, this style of play is an absolute weapon in theory, but in fact, few people can achieve good results with this style of play.

Because the level and amount of work can't keep up, that's the key.

But now, this Bulgarian player Oslo actually uses a semi-mechanized style of play, is he so confident in his own work?

Zhang Peng was a little awe-inspiring.

When Zhang Peng was a little awe-inspiring, in the eyes of Wu Yingda and others, who watched the live broadcast of this game through the Internet and were very familiar with Zhang Peng, OSLO's style of play was simply a bit ridiculous.

After winning the championship in the ESC China qualifiers and returning to CUHK, Zhang Peng's level had reached the realm of Dacheng, his hand speed exceeded 500, and OSLO was one or five times higher than his skill level, which was absolutely impossible.

In fact, Zhang Peng was indeed a little too cautious for a while, if Oslo had Zhang Peng's 1.5 times the amount and speed, then he would already be invincible in the world. Then it is really the world's martial arts, only fast is not broken, just with this fast word, you can be invincible. The reason why Zhang Peng didn't even think about this simple reason for a while, and was a little too cautious, one is because he is not experienced enough, and he still doesn't know the CG and ESC competitions thoroughly, in fact, just like the Chinese men's football team, a team like the men's football team has entered the men's football World Cup, CG and ESC, a world-class top competition, is also like the men's football World Cup, some good and bad, but not like the men's football European Cup or something, the average is a little higher. Just like the year when the Chinese men's football team entered the World Cup, the level may not be as high as the national team of a small European country that is not in the stream, in the ESC, although some players represent a country, many countries do not even have a professional league, and the level of the qualifying players may not be as good as a player in a Chinese second division league. And Bulgaria happens to be the kind of real amateur players who don't have a professional league, that is, they play there purely by interest, without the support of professional clubs, and they don't know much about the players. Second, because I went to a strange country and participated in this kind of on-site international competition for the first time, the atmosphere was completely different from usual.

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Oslo was quick to push it out.

When he launched it, Wu Yingda and others, who were watching the live broadcast from afar in China, were taken aback.

Because they found out that Oslo's head did not enter the water, Oslo's troops were not spearmen with the semi-mechanized advance of nurses and tanks, he did not do BA, but he quickly got out of the tank, and after getting out of the tank, he just pulled some SCV and rushed out with the spearmen.

As soon as these SCVs cooperated with the gunmen and tanks to rush to Zhang Peng's sub-base at the bottom of the slope, they were building bunkers, supply, and air defense.

Oslo's style of play is actually a mutated building obscene blockade play.

This style of play is a bit of a threat to Zhang Peng, because this style of play is not the same hard-working style as the semi-mechanical style of play.

"The way foreigners play in Europe is indeed a bit weird."

The general building obscene blockade is a single barracks double blockade, so that there will be more tanks and minecarts, and the pressure on the front will be greater, but this kind of double barracks of OSLO, at the beginning, the number of spearmen is large, and it can also suppress the Protoss at the same time, there is no need to make so many tanks, there will be more resources to do anti-aircraft turrets.

But as soon as OSLO's style of play came out, Zhang Peng was completely relieved.

"This guy isn't that good at that level."

Zhang Peng just saw that Oslo's posture was very ordinary, just by the position of the spearmen and SCV and the tank when Oslo attacked. Zhang Peng is indeed a competition-type player, and as soon as he found out this, he already reacted a little funny that he was too cautious. "If this guy's amount of work is one or five times that of mine, isn't it even more powerful than Nalan Rongrong? It's stupid for me to think that. ”

And as soon as he reacted, Zhang Peng felt a little funny when he saw Oslo's style of play.

Zhang Peng's feeling about the game now can be said to have reached the realm of Dacheng overlooking the battle situation and knowing the landscape in his chest, although now OSLO's style of play is extremely threatening to Zhang Peng in the eyes of others, but Zhang Peng does look a little funny now.

Because as soon as OSLO's SCV, gunmen and tanks were launched, OSLO continued to build anti-aircraft turrets around Zhang Peng's base, and at the same time, OSLO at the exit of Zhang Peng's slope was also constantly building buildings to block the road. This looks like a blockade on the outside, but Zhang Peng has already felt that this style of play is simply a paper tiger.

Most of the initial resources were spent on anti-aircraft turrets and blockade buildings, and the mining could not be opened for a while, and it seemed that an encirclement had been formed, but in fact the real blockade firepower was not enough.

In fact, I don't have to do anything now, as long as I honestly fight for a while, and then I can fight hard.

***

Zhang Peng just made up four barracks and kept sending troops, and when Zhang Peng came out with eight forks, a bunch of dragoons and a transport plane, the speed of the forks had just been upgraded, Zhang Peng directly used a transport plane to brave the attack of the anti-aircraft turret and Bunker, and threw four forks down, and then Zhang Peng commanded his troops to fight a strong fight, and directly hit out, and then went all the way into Oslo's hometown and killed Oslo.

"Holy!"

In the second game, what made Zhang Peng cry and laugh was that OSLO actually adopted almost the same style of play as the first game, so Zhang Peng could only do nothing again, and honestly beat OSLO to death.

This kind of play that doesn't have to do anything else, as long as you are honest and hold back at home, it is just like playing on the computer, Zhang Peng felt that it was too easy for him to win 2-0 when he walked out of the game room. Zhang Peng thinks that this European player may indeed be entertainment-oriented, and he doesn't care much about winning or losing, otherwise how could this guy use this style of play in two games?

"Ah, what's he calling?" But what made Zhang Peng a little dumbfounded was that as soon as he walked out of the competition room, he saw Oslo yelling angrily at him.

Zhang Peng thought that OSLO was entertainment-oriented, and such an obscene blockade was originally the most restrained by the strong rush of the Protoss, and the Protoss couldn't rush out, and he couldn't even get out of the transport plane, and he used this trick to kill the N multi-Protoss opponent in China, but in the first game, he was actually rushed to death by Zhang Peng. In the second game, he felt that he had not built enough buildings to block, so he made even more vigor. But just when he was very energetic, Zhang Peng honestly rushed down and beat him to death.

"Oh." When Zhang Peng walked out of the competition room, there happened to be a Chinese ESC staff member next to him, and when he heard Zhang Peng's question, he said to Zhang Peng's translator, "What this player is calling there is, why do you have two anti-aircraft turrets, and your transport plane still dares to throw a fork and fork down." ”

"I don't want a transport plane to hit his bunker and turret, no matter what kind of transport plane, as long as the forks inside can fall. What does it matter if the transport plane is dead. ”

"He shouted there again, why is he blocking so many buildings, your troops are crowded like that, how can you still fight out?"

"It's because his buildings are blocked too much, so many buildings and anti-aircraft turrets, and the real firepower is so weak, my troops can withstand it when they slowly knock down the buildings and go out."

"He shouted again, then why can't he always beat the opponents of the Protoss he encountered before?"

"Can't get out? So how do I know? ”

Zhang Peng was asked by Oslo's question, and Oslo couldn't get an answer.

But the truth of the fact is actually very simple, the previous Protoss players of OSLO did not see the situation as clearly as Zhang Peng, and when they saw such an extremely obscene blockade of OSLO, they immediately thought that they couldn't go out head-on, so hurry up and airdrop it or something. But I made a transport plane or something, but I found that the outside had been made into an anti-aircraft turret by OSLO, and I couldn't fly out. In this way, when you come back to develop the front, when you want to hit out from the front, the firepower on the OSLO front has been slowly replenished, and it will naturally be suffocated to death.

Although Zhang Peng was asked by Oslo's question, but when he saw that the time of the two games added up to less than half an hour, Zhang Peng couldn't help but feel a little proud, and when he walked to the rest area of the players, there happened to be a camera aimed at him, Zhang Peng couldn't help but throw a flying kiss at the camera, because he thought that at this time, maybe Guo Xixi, Ai Jing and Mi Wei were all looking at him.

"It's pretty fast." But just as he was throwing a kiss at the camera, he suddenly heard a somewhat stiff but familiar voice again.

As soon as Zhang Peng turned his head, he saw that it was ipxterran who said such a sentence to himself.

As soon as he saw ipxterran, Zhang Peng was stunned, because he thought that ipxterran was also the first round of their group.

Is his game over?

Looking at ipxterran, who was already sitting in the rest area of the players, Zhang Peng subconsciously turned his head to look at the electronic scoreboard, and at a glance, Zhang Peng immediately saw ipxterran2:0erian.

ipxterran, this guy actually played faster than me, and he was already 2-0 against him.

And such a thought flashed in Zhang Peng's mind, and Zhang Peng immediately couldn't help but say in his heart. He immediately felt that ipxterran's sentence was very wrong.

It's pretty fast.

This sentence matched the tone and look of ipxterran just now, and it was obvious that although Zhang Peng played fast, he was still too slow compared to him.

NND, and when Zhang Peng thought about it and turned his head to look at IPXTERRAN, he found that IPXTERRAN was already turning his head to look at other games. This made Zhang Peng even more unhappy, and he couldn't help but snort in his heart, "Okay, then I'll compare with you first, who is faster!" ”

***

Zhang Peng's second opponent is Zerg player Mobile from Lithuania.

In the first game, Mobile used a 12D external double-base style of play, and as a result, Zhang Peng directly used the three-barracks fork Rush, and in less than nine minutes, he directly forked to death Mobile.

In the second game, Mobile no longer dared to start with the slow economic flow of the blood pool, but instead used the relatively safe O9D start. But this time, Mobile was also directly forked to death by Zhang Peng with Probe.

Zhang Peng's third player is Minsk, a Terran player from Ireland.

In the first game, Zhang Peng directly took the opening of the field camp fork, and after the fork crippled Minsk, the first dragoon rode out and directly let Minsk play GG.

In the second scene, Zhang Peng stole the building needed for the hidden knife in the wild, and stole the hidden knife almost in a straight line, hacking Minsk to death.

In these two rounds, Zhang Peng only took less than 20 minutes, and he was the first to complete the game in each group.

After defeating the Irish players, completing the group competition, winning all three games, and taking the lead from all the groups as the first in the group, Zhang Peng waited until ipxterran also finished the game, and deliberately said, "Uncle, you played quite fast." ”

***

When he heard Zhang Peng say this, ipxterran just smiled slightly in his heart, and his evaluation of Zhang Peng dropped by one point.

ipxterran, of course, knows very well why Zhang Peng said that.

Obviously, this junior kid is not convinced, and he is calling at himself.

But the more this is the case, the more ipxterran thinks that Zhang Peng is not good.

In this way, all of a sudden, Zhang Peng, who provoked him to play rush in a row, was so popular. No matter how high the level is, it's just a reckless man.

Such an easy impulsiveness, in a real duel, can you still play well?

Just using a few words and actions before a game can already affect your state and mood.

There are so many European masters that you might not meet me if you go to play in a game with a state and emotion like yours, so you have already gone to the lower bracket.

***

When Zhang Peng said that sentence to ipxterran, Huang Qian found that Zhang Peng was wrong.

Originally, Zhang Peng's surname itself was hot and violent, and it was normal to fight several rushes in a row, but as soon as Zhang Peng said that, Huang Qian, who happened to hear it, couldn't help but secretly ask Zhang Peng, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"It's nothing, that uncle ipxterran provoked me, I'll let him see who is the fastest." Zhang Peng smiled and replied softly to Huang Qian.

Huang Qian suddenly became nervous, "This old fox, he may have deliberately stimulated you." ”

Zhang Peng smiled, "It should be possible." When I first said that, he didn't seem to be angry at all. ”

Huang Qian breathed a sigh of relief, "Then it's good if you feel it, this guy is an extremely difficult opponent, especially after a long time, he has become a fine, when Fang Shaoyun met him before, you have to be careful, don't accidentally fall into his trap." Don't play so fast in the next game, don't rush again. ”

Zhang Peng smiled, "No, I'm going to rush in the next game." ”

"What?" Huang Qian's eyes widened, "Zhang Peng, don't deliberately get angry with him, this is a matter of national honor." ”

"Don't worry, Brother Huang Qian, I understand this." Zhang Peng patted Huang Qian.

"Then don't use rush."

"No, I still have to fight fast, and I have to rush."

Huang Qian was speechless. Is there something wrong with my head, or is there something wrong with you? ”

"There's nothing wrong with it." Zhang Peng smiled: "I'm just going to do it." ”

"Will it be calculated?" Huang Qian was stunned.

"yes, didn't he provoke me to get emotional and angry with him? I just continued to play rush and make him think I had been tricked. ”

"That's right." Huang Qian nodded, and suddenly couldn't figure it out, "Wait, then what's the benefit of you doing this, just make him think that you are not dry and easy to provoke?" As far as I know, this old fox is surprisingly stable, and this Gu Cheng's notebook also says so about him. Even if he looks down on you, he won't be very good at underestimating the enemy when he fights. If you do this, you will rush every game, and the risk of playing the game is greater. Comparing the two like this, I don't think you can afford it. ”

"I don't want to rely on him to underestimate the enemy to gain the upper hand over him." Zhang Peng smiled, "This time I want to be above board, and simply defeat him to take revenge." After a pause, Zhang Peng looked at Huang Qian and asked: "If it was you, you provoked an opponent and let that opponent rush every game, but when I met you, it was also rush you, but you couldn't stop it, what would you feel like?" ”

Huang Qian was stunned.

Following Zhang Peng's question, Huang Qian couldn't help but think about it. If your opponent is provoked by yourself, you will definitely be very proud, but when he beats him, he is rush, and he can't stop it, and he will be rushed to death quickly. This is definitely a fatal blow to self-confidence.

This is definitely a bigger blow than knowing that your opponent is going to rush you, but you still can't block it.

Zhang Peng actually wants to give ipxterran such a fatal blow as soon as he fights with ipxterran?

And he actually has the confidence to also use the Rush style of play to ipxterran, and rush it out in one fell swoop, what kind of confidence and momentum is this?

Thinking of this, Huang Qian couldn't help but take a deep breath.

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