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| 2v2: A titanic struggle! | | | Author: | | | IP: | 24.112.1XXXX | | Date: | 12/19/99 10:12 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for Fallousy: 7.0000 |  | Alright, the traditional dibs and dabs.
This isn't really a report, so it would be cool if it wasn't rated=)
Anyhoo...I was wandering the pubs looking for a 2v2 when I hopped into a game created by in-sane.
For those of you who don't know the participants of this game, I'll give you a brief rundown.
in-sane: Also known as Cop~Priest, and a bunch of other nicks. Reached a ladder high of 1550+ with terran I believe.
[e]homer: Heh, his name is homer=) About 1300+ I believe, not sure what type of race he played.
Pretty~Boy: Some random guy who had to have been smurfing, because he was really really good=0
Fallousy: A really bad player who computer stomps a lot. His ladder high is about 1100 due to incessant chobo bashing. He is also known as Chris.Tan and all that cool stuff. Now that I think about it, he is not Chris.Tan. Rather, he is Chris.Tan's biggest fan because everyone knows how cool Chris is.
*Note: This game had no pictures because...I didn't think I would battle report it and I'm too stupid to use pictures=(
The Game. (2 versus 2)
The Map: Lost Temple
The Teams:
In-sane (random to zerg) + [e]homer (random to protoss)
Fallousy (starting terran *cheers!*) + Pretty~boy (starting terran)
The game begins with in-sane landing zerg at the 12:00 position, homer landing protoss at 3:00, pretty~boy landing his terran at the 6:00, and yours truly landing terran at the 9:00.
The build orders were fairly regulatory for a 2v2 matchup, pretty~boy and I both went:
8 depot
10 Barracks.
12 Barracks.
Here's where we branched off.
Pretty boy went for a refinery then tanks so we could put some more pressure if the toss decided to do some crazy cannons.
Fallousy decided to go for a more rush orientated build of 3 barracks followed by a refinery and an academy and later on tanks.
At least...that was the plan=)
After some scouting from our joyous scvs, we found in-sane to be going with a standard 2 hatchery / spawning pool build. He would later on prove to be going for mad zerglings and hydras with heavy lurkers (What else vs terran=)
[e]homer also went fairly standard with 2 gateways then gas I believe.
Enough with the build orders, here's how the game went.
Round abouts when Fallousy had 14 marines or so, pretty~boy came under attack from a double rush consisting of zealots and zerglings. Luckily, pretty~boy had the ramp advantage and was able to sustain the rush suffering minimal losses.
Right after the rush was stalled, pretty~boy hollered at fallousy's newbie bum to launch a counterattack on the evil protoss ([e]homer)!
When the terran forces arrived outside the evil protoss base, they immediately charged in only to find 2 cannons warping, 1 zealot I believe and approximately 5-6 dragoons. Stimming up, the marine forces were able to tear down the warping cannons and all the protoss forces. However, they sustained heavy losses to themselves and were left with a dwindled force of about 6 of fallousy's marines, and 2 medics from both sides. Deciding to annoy the protoss, fallousy charged his marines into the peon line and started blasting probes however due to the constant troop production of homer, and reinforcements from in-sane, the attacked was held off.
Right after this attack, both the terran commanders had factories started up and not wanting to let their opponents get into their groove, sent another small terran armada towards the protoss. THis time, both commanders had stimpack researched and several medics. Unfortunately, 2 cannons were already found on the ledge of the protoss ramp as well as various ground infantry. Not wanting to be deterred from their goal, both sides stimmed up and charged. Somehow due to the medics sexual suave I believe, the terran forces managed to overcome the protoss once again and charged into his peon line. I believe by the time the terran forces were dealt with, homer was left with about 7 or so probes. Both terran forces had engineering bays now.
The sad thing here was that in-sane though sending troops to assist his partner was generally left untouched and able to power. So he charged about 2 lurkers towards each of the terran bases to contain them. Pretty~boy was able to destroy the lurkers and moved his troops up to just outside the zerg base. The force of about 3 tanks and 12 or so marines with some medic backup was able to hold it's ground for a long while, severely hurting in-sanes troop count.
Fallousy, being the newbie he was had to wait for his tanks to blast away at the containing lurkers. Once he got 2 tanks, he scanned outside his base and blew away the evil zerg presence. It was about this time that both sides had started starports and eventually science facilities. Pretty~Boy had managed to scrounge up an expansion and fallousy was attempting to float to his natural.
While fallousy was busy setting up his expansion and transferring some scvs to it as well as fortifying it with 1 bunker, 2 turrets and a tank, Pretty~Boy decided to take some initiative and launched an attack on in-sane (zerg). Here, the terran commanders realized that not only did insane have control of his natural expansion, he also held his homers mineral natural. When scanned, it was revealed that homer had also managed to take his natural.
Not wanting to be a complete potato in the game, fallousy decided to be a pain in the ass and do a tactic that had felled him many a game before. With 2 recently produced dropships, a force of 2 tanks 6 marines and 2 scvs were sent to the zergs natural expansion. In the meantime, pretty~boy had managed to get his expansion up fully online and was pumping troops constantly. He had managed to raze in-sanes mineral expansion, but not without suffering heavy losses.
Making due with the ample distraction that pretty~boy had provided, fallousy unloaded his dropship cargo and hastily began constructing a turret and bunker with his 2 scvs. When they were set up, another turret was constructed, the marines hopped into the bunker, and the 2 tanks sieged up. Basically, in-sane was unable to deal with this fortified stronghold on his ledge and was forced to give up not only his mineral natural, but gimme as well. Both commanders realized that he was down to one base, and the prospects of winning were approaching reality now.
During all this, homer had been struggling to take control of the middle of the map via constant battles with pretty~boy's forces. Psi storms flew everywhere, tanks were destroyed, templar were irradiated, but in the end, pretty~boy's forces and homers had managed to destroy each other creating a stalemate.
Unsure of what to do, Fallousy being the newbie he is just sat there. Suddenly, he had an epiphany and constructed 2 command centers to float to the top left island and his mineral only expansion. When scanned, it was revealed that both the islands were free of the enemy presence and safe to expand to. Seeing as how he had an excess of income, but still incredibly poor in terms of macromanagement skills, fallousy upped his barracks count to six, made another factory bringing his total to 2, and another starport bringing his total to 2.
Due to the glories of scanning, the commanders were able to find in-sane trying to expand to his own mineral expansion in an attempt to increase his income. Fortunately, the terran lieutenants would have none of this and hastily sent a strong force of science vessels, tanks and marines down to destroy it. Despite many reinforcements from red and hydras from in-sane, the expansion fell. About this time pretty~boy began to take the bottom right island, and fallousy's mineral natural and island natural finally came online.
Realizing that in-sane was essentially dead, fallousy got cocky and attempted to take control of the middle that had been a cockpit for countless battles. However, his forces ran head first into those of homers and due to some impressive psi storming, were obliterated into nothingness while homer managed to sustain no damages. (That's skill)
Pretty~boy realizing that his partner was an idiot, again sent a huge force of tanks and marines and medics and science vessels towards homers natural only to be with an equally large force of troops. Alas, both sides completely annihilated each others forces.
Fallousy was beginning to get annoyed and just as his upgrades were nearing 3/3 for his infantry (tanks still at 0-0, doh) he loaded up the exact same dropship content of 2 tanks, 6 marines and 2 scvs to go and drop on homers natural. These forces were accomanpied by 2 lovely science vessels. While his forces were unloading on the ledge, a patrolling dark templar managed to get a few swipes in but was eventually taken care of. A turret / bunker / turret formation were quickly set up and once the tanks sieged, the probes began to die!
In-sane, not wanting to let his partner suffer a grievous fate like he sent an party group of queens (6!) to broodling the tanks. They succeeded but not before 2 of their lot were irradiated by the science vessels. Still, the ledge was left with an intact bunker and 2 turrets so it was still a factor. About this time, fallousy and pretty~boy simultaneously charged their entire armies of tanks/science vessels/marines/medics/firebats into homers natural just as homer had unloaded a dropship of 4 zealots to take care of the ledge presence. Alas, his natural was razed and as pretty~boy moved into homers main, fallousy stimmed his rines, and charged his tanks back into in-sane's still intact main base. Just as both main bases were being razed, in-sane unloaded a heavy drop of hydralisks on fallousy's island expansion, despite falling the terran forces had essentially won as homer was left with nothing but a pylon hiding somewhere, and all in-sane had left was the island expansion he was starting up. Dropships were sent up and vessels irradiated the patrolling hydras and that was game.
Gg's were exchanged and victory belonged to the terran commanders!
Just some afterthoughts.
- A terran / terran force is actually pretty damn hard to stop on land maps. As long as you stay agressive, they can overcome a lot.
- A terran/terran force beat a protoss/zerg combo! Cool.
- Cliff sieges are freaking annoying.
- Pretty~boy is good, and were it not for him, fallousy would have definetly lost.
- Fallousy sucks quite hard.
- Terrans are bitches=)
Cheers
Regards,
Fallousy
Chris.Tan's admirer.
And a bunch of others.
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
This is my first battle report, and doesn't actually need a rating because it's so gay. Pictures suck too=0 Ciao
Honestly, I didn't expect to win this game because our opponents were really good and I suck but it was fun=)
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