Game: WC3 TC Alpha for StarCraft: BroodWar (get it at www.infoceptor.com)

After trying a 2v2c and finding it unplayable due to sprite overload bugs, me and -pitt- decided
to test our mad WC3 skillz in a head-to-head matchup

Map: Lost Temple

Players:
necrosausage!! - purple Demons - 12 starting spot
-pitt- - blue Orcs - 9 starting spot

I start with a power build of 12 Hatch at ramp - Pool - Hatch at xpansion
(Hatcheries cost 400mins btw) while sending my Overlords to scout - I found
-pitt- being Orc at 9, and going for a heavy tech build with a Lumbermill (CyberCore)
and an Ogre Mount (Citadel) already done, heading for heavy ground with Grunts/Trolls
(ZeloGoons) with Wraith/OgreSpirit (DT/Archon) support.

I sent my first 12 Demon Spawns down to his base, overwhelming his defense of 5 Grunts
and wreaking some havok in his peon line, but I was soon killed by some freshly made troops.

I was not idle in the meantime tho, and was amassing a force of StormRiders (Hydras) and
Demonspawns, while building 3 Evos for upgrades and morphing to Lair, later researching
Infernals (Lurkers)

After I built a 4th Hatchery and amassed a sizeable army, I found I was ready to attack -pitt-s
warping expansion at 9 natural, and so I gathered my forces and went ahead


my sizeable force of DemonSpawns and StormRiders marches to battle

The two forces collide at -pitt-'s xpansion...


diiiiiieee!!!

... but he ends up clearly winning the battle ...

duh...

... and marches towards my main to revenge his fallen brethren. He ends up killing two
of my hatches before I finally can beat him off with the help of my newly morphed
Infernals (Lurkers) and some BoneDemons (Scourges), to which I teched in the meantime


he is running away from my burrowing Infernals into my peon line - I have a Sunken there tho,
so he does almost no damage

Time to do MY counter-attack! I take all my troops and go towards his main, killing a few
Grunts on the way whose rally point seems to have been set to my ramp...

When I arrive at -pitt-'s base there are almost no defenses there, he shows one thing that
you can say about this game for sure: you need waaaayy godlier macro skills than in
normal SC/BW, since the build times of most units are a tad lower and they are cheaper,
my macro was quite sucky too tho, but I have an excuse for those 1500/800 -
-pitt- just killed two of my Hatches... :)


random scenes from the end...

Ok ppl, if -pitt- has not been faster than me than thats it - the first BR on WC3 TC, which is
a game that really amazed me at the first tries, but is hella buggy how I later found out.
Its only an Alpha Version yet, so there are:
- still Zerg buildings and Overlords for the Demons
- still Terran wireframes and a normal ComSat for the Humans
- a VERY disturbing bug that I think is like the Valkyrie nofire bug caused by sprite
overload - 2v2 are made unplayable, cuz already in mid-game ur units stop to fire
- random crashes
- a funny thing that i think to be a bug - Demon Peons get INCREDIBLE fast on long
distances, like 2x the speed of an upped Vulture - talk about peon scouting :)

But all in all its just awesome - there is so much new stuff and new strats to be thought of,
I wonder if its more balanced than BW :), its too early to tell

All I can say is: grab it and try it out yourself, you wont be disappointed

BR by necrosausage!