:+:NoMiCrO:+:
(Nomicro from
now on) met H-H--H-H
(H-H from now
on) in a 1vs1 Lost Temple Game. Both players picked their races,
H-H at the start
and Nomicro at
the last few seconds before the game started. Here are the build orders:
NoMicro:
9 Overlord
12 Hatchery
(At Main)
12 Spawning
Pool |
H-H
8 Pylon (at
ramp)
9 - Forge
11 Gas |
Either player
went for a normal build order really. Most Zerg go for their second Hatchery
below the ramp (at 12) or at their Natural Expansion. H-H's
Build order was just CRAZY! Could it work though?
Early on in
the game, Nomicro scouted
the 3 Main, finding nothing there. He then scouted 6 with a drone, finding
H-H's Base, with
a cannon just starting. The drone also saw that H-H's
Assimilator had just finished and started
attacking it. Then the drone was attacked by a Probe and nearly killed.
If this wasn't enough when Nomicro ran
his Drone back, it was killed by a newly produced Photon Cannon. Now, H-h
built a Gateway.
Nomicro
was also climbing up the tech tree, he started a Extractor and expanded
to his Natural. Once he had enough gas, he started a Lair. Then H-h
scouted his Zerg Enemy with a Probe, seeing the Lair being built, he sees
that Mutalisks will be coming at him. Is isn't really worried though, because
he has climbed up to the Templar Tech, but just to play it safe, he makes
several cannons protecting his Mineral Field.
First Attack
Despite having
6 Mutalisks Nomicro
doesn't attack first. H-h's
uses his freshly produced Dark Templar to kill several Drones at Nomicro's
Natural. Having no Overlords at his Natural. The Dark Templar is able to
kill 11 Drones, before the Drones run away. Nomicro
complains about not having sound on and that's why he didn't see the Dead
Drones yet. After there are no more Drones to kill, the Dark Templar runs
into the Zerg's Main, seeing what his enemy has. However a pack of Mutalisks
kills the Dark Templar, Despite, "RUN FOREST RUN" chants by H-h. |
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Revenge
Nomicro
has started to re-build his drones, but also decides it's time to attack.
With a force of about 7-9 Mutalisks, he runs half into into H-h's
base and started to kill a few Photon Cannons. Then BAM a Templar's PSI
Storm hit's a flock of these Flying Killers. Combined with the Photon Cannons,
this group is killed, now the second group comes and to kill the Templar,
and since the second group is very close together, a second Storm by a
different Templar kills most of this force. In the end, a lone Mutalisk
lives. This was a rather sloppy job by Nomicro
as he lived up to his name.
At this time,
Nomicro decided
it was time for a change. He made a Hdrya Den now, feeling that Mutalisks
where not the way to go.
H-h,
feeling good now, he expands to his Natural, and since he was "Cannon Happy"
he set up 5 Photon Cannons to protect his vital Expansion.
Calm Before
the Storm
Both players
felt it was time to change. Nomicro changed
to Hdryas and Zerglings, making the odd Mutalisk. He also decided to expand
again, taking the 3 main.
H-h
decided he would need Corsairs, more Templar, more cannons, Observers and
a Shuttle. He used these rather good. He made 2 Stargates, after he had
about 8 Corsairs he stooped making them.
When the freshly
produced Shuttle was made, H-h loaded 4 Probes and 1 Templar. First he
dropped a probe on his natural's cliff. Second he dropped a probe at the
bottom island. A Overlord at that base saw this but Nomicro
ran the overlord away, never attacking it. Odd I know...next H-h
dropped another probe at the 3 Natural's Cliff. If this wasn't enough he
ran the shuttle up, seeing the Hatchery at the 3 main. He ran past it though,
and dropped another probe at the 12 Natural Cliff. he built a pylon there
but it was destroyed by 2 Mutalisks. H-h
wasn't done yet though, he too the shuttle, ran is past the 2 mutes, drooped
the Templar in to Nomicro's
Main Mineral Line and let 2 Psi Storm's go...killing all but 3 mining Drones,
before dying to Hdrya fire.
Things are not
looking good for Nomicro at
this point. He has been cut down to 1 mining base at this point. Not good
at all.
Revenge
Part II
Nomicro decides
it's time to counter. He takes all this Hdryas and Zerglings and attacks
H-h's Natural.
Here's what happened...
As you can see,
the attack failed...big time. Storm and cannons easily handled the attack.
Tech Time
After that
attacked failed, both players decided to tech. Nomicro
started a Hive, and H-h
looked like he was going Carriers.
After awhile
of nothing happening, Nomicro
took 3 Queens to Brooding Templar's. However they ran into a group of Corsairs
and where killed, but 1 Queen did get to parasite a Corsair.
H-h
took the top island now and Nomicro
took the 12 Mineral only. Nomicro
had quite a few Cracklings at this time, as well as 3 Defilers. He went
to attack. H-h
had several Carriers and Corsairs. He also had 1 Dark Archon. Defilers
came first, but Feedback from the Dark Archon killed one. Carriers killed
another but the third was able to get 2 Dark Swarms off. Then the Crackings
came in. Then I saw one of the greatest use of Protoss Spell Casting EVER!
Look for yourself...
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How to counter
Dark Swarm.... D Web and PSI Storm! I was amazed by this. Crackings where
useless, and Storm killed them easily.
H-h
had a lot of Carriers and Corsairs now, and he upgraded them as well.
Nomicro
saw all these when he attacked, so it was clearly time to stop making cracklings.
What |
to do though.
Well soon I saw...
| Now what where
these? Guardians? Devours? Both? This could change the game. If Gaurd's
Corsairs and Carriers would easily own them. If Devs, they could do a lot
of Damage to the Corsairs and Carriers. But storm would get them. However
Hdrya's and Cracklings might be able to mop up the mess. He both, their
wouldn't be enough Dev's to destroy the Carriers and Corsairs, and the
game could be over. What where |
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they though? Soon
I found out. The Cocoons popped open showing me...
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Only 3 Cocoons
where left and they turned out to be Dev's. However with Mostly Guardians
thing's where not looking good for Nomicro. He made more Devs with a few
other Mutes but would it be enough? Nomicro decided to attack...
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As you can see,
it took all his Air Units outside of H-h's
main base and attacked. What happened? See for yourself...
Things where
really looking bad. Once last time, Nomicro
tried to use Hdryas to kill this enemy but Storm and the Carriers handled
it. Also H-h had
Arbiters. Moved up, once Nomicro
saw the Carriers/Corsairs and Arbiter, he quickly said "GG". H-h
also said GG and the game ended.
Scores
| Overview: |
Units |
Structers |
Resources |
Total |
| H-H--H-H |
89155 |
10565 |
46714 |
146434 |
| :+:NoMiCrO:+: |
52375 |
3255 |
40398 |
96028 |
| Units: |
Produced |
Killed |
Lost |
Total |
| H-H--H-H |
176 |
165 |
16 |
89155 |
| :+:NoMiCrO:+: |
292 |
11 |
168 |
52375 |
| Structers |
Contruced |
Razed |
Lost |
Total |
| H-H--H-H |
84 |
1 |
5 |
10565 |
| :+:NoMiCrO:+: |
14 |
2 |
1 |
3255 |
| Resources |
Gas Mined |
Mins. Mined |
Spent |
Total |
| H-H--H-H |
13576 |
33138 |
37538 |
46714 |
| :+:NoMiCrO:+: |
11468 |
28930 |
35575 |
40395 |
Lessons
Learned
Just because
someone does a Newbie Strategy Early doesn't mean they suck
Protoss >
Zerg late game
Mute Rushing
isn't always good few Protoss
Spell Casting
is COOL
Second BR's
are better than the first ones.
NEVER let
a Protoss out mine you when you are Zerg!!

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