LOCALgHOST wrote:https://dawnofwar.info/esl/match/37170355
Not exactly sure what you hope to demonstrate with this rep...?
You built 3x tics against 3x gaunts and consistently sent your tics into unfavorable situations.
Yeah, 2x tics lose when they go up against 3x gaunts. That's probably how it should work...
My initial thoughts were that 3x tics are not a good build against nids since they can't put out enough dps to really push them off. If he'd gotten 2x terms with toxin sacs you'd be in a far worse position since the tics wouldn't be able to do anything but bleed. However, on reflection if you'd gone Sword of Flame sooner and used it on the tics then they probably would've won a lot more of those engagements. You might have even not needed the havoks, and definitely wouldn't have needed 2... As it stands I didn't see flames used on tics at any point of that game and also never saw them worship. (although perhaps I missed it)
You literally won every skirmish where the squad count was even and if you'd been faster with your dark flames you probably would've traded your tics for 2 (possibly 3) squads of gaunts. As it stands, your 2 tics nearly wiped his warriors when they were surrounded by 3 squads of gaunts thanks to backlash. If your sorc or one squad of havoks were there you would've driven them all off. If you'd been fast with dark flames you could've wiped his warriors on retreat, doomblasted the gaunts behind you and gotten away with your tics.
He couldn't do anything when your havoks went into a garrison except walk away if his Barb strangler warriors weren't around and yet you still put them in garrisons when they were around...
You consistently left your havoks alone to guard points when his lictor shut them down with stealth/hook on multiple occasions.
He invested extremely heavily in T1 with 3 gaunts and 2 warriors along with feeder tendrils and pheromones. It absolutely had to pay off for him and all you really needed to do was keep it even and out-tech him.
I'm not claiming I would've played this any better, and of course hindsight is perfect. And I don't necessarily disagree with your feelings about gaunts (with the caveats mentioned in other posts). Except with Chaos... This is not a favorable MU for nids imo...
I don't think this is a good support for the point you're trying to make. There's too much wrong here.