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| March of the Clones: Nahdur vs Cashew-of-Doom, NWTR League Game | | | Author: | | | IP: | bgm-34-2XXXX | | Date: | 02/20/00 02:02 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 9, Min: 8
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March of the Clones
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Map: Dire Straits
 Nahdur
 Cashew-of-Doom: Red Protoss
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Round 1: NWTR League Game
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 The Game begins:
After a quick CC float, I observe the map, Cashew has gotten the
SouthWest Corner, and Nahdur has taken the coveted SouthEast Corner.
Both Selected Protoss, and both know that the other chose protoss,
so they begin their respective builds.
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Cashew's
Build Order:
8 Pylon
9 Assim
12 Gate
13->Gas
14 Pylon
14->Gas
75% Done->
Pylon/Core
Pylon/Citadel
Robo Fac/Arch
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Cashew and Nahdur both use the 8 Pylon, 9 Gas, 12 Gate Opening.
However, due to superior peon micro early on, Nahdur gets his gate, and
consequentially his Cyb Core before Cashew does.
As soon as his Cyb Core finished, Nahdur immediately got a Robo Facility,
and continued building probes, and dragoons.
Unfortunately, Nahdur forgot an extra pylon until late, and this
set back his war machine.
Cashew, however, constructed not only a Robotics Facility, but
also a Citadel of Adun, timing it so the Robo Facility and Templar Archives
Complete at exactly the same time.
However, in the time it takes for Cashew to Construct his Arch,
Nahdur constructs a Shuttle, an Observer, and uses the
Shuttle to drop a probe off at the nearby Island, then picks up a Reaver/Goon,
and tries to drop it off behind Cashew's Probes.
Just as it appears that Nahdur is gaining the lead,
Cashew drops in with a couple of zealots and a reaver.
With that kind of decisive blow, you would think that Nahdur would be
shaken, but not so, he micros his shuttle quickly and uses the existing
ground forces to finish off the reaver, and finishes off the zealot with
his probes and the shuttled dragoon.
Cashew picks up his shuttle and flees home. With his wary observer,
Nahdur spots the Dark Templar, and makes a cannon to deal with the
potential threat.
He also takes his now damaged dragoon and reaver and attempts to drop it
into Cashew's Peon line, where it is smashed by a protective Dark Templar,
and a resident cannon.
Cashew doesn't hesitate and counters Nahdur with 3 Dark Templar, Barely finishing
off the reaver before the Cannon Finishes.
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Nahdur deftly uses his Shuttle to save his dragoon from
the templar, but without an observer, the dragoon quickly falls
to the Psionic Blades of the Hidden Warriors.
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Quickly Calling his only Observer to return to base, Nahdur makes a desparate
attempt to save his main with a lonely Reaver. However, with Cashew's
Dark Templar still on the prowl, no Reaver is safe, so using
the Robotic AI of the Shuttle, Nahdur quickly loads the metal
critter into the safely of his Shuttle.
Rushing back to the safety of the observer, Nahdur unloads his reaver
and attempts to deflect the Dark Ones with a holy blast of a scarab.
Defeating one with a quick drop-and-lift, Nahdur flies around his Probes
and makes another pass, hoping for a similar victory.
He Succeeds, and rids himself of the DTs.
Finally, after so much turmoil, a moment of silence covers the field.
In this narrow time period, Nahdur builds two Dragoons to ward off
any other aerial assauts.
However, Cashew cannot tolerate peace of any sort, and quickly shuttled
2 zealots and a reaver into Nahdurs Main.
Quickly dispatching the Dragoons,
The Reaver went Straight to work, destroying most of Nahdur's Probes in
a single strike.
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With that loss, Nahdur concedes the victory for the NWTR
League to Cashew.
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Map: Dire Straits
 Nahdur
Cashew-of-Doom: Blue Protoss
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Round 2: Revenge
Immediately following his narrow defeat, Nahdur svenge
called for a rematch, and after a quick change (Cashew went Terran once =)
another PvP began.
svenge began in the South West this time, and Cashew in the North West.
Cashew asked whether they should do the same strats again, but svenge refused,
saying that would be dumb.
Cashew decided "Hey if it works once, it will work again" and goes for his Robo/Temp
Build Again.
svenge, at first seems a bit slow, as he appears to forget a pylon, and doesnt get his Robo.
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svenge, on the other hand, goes for a completely different and risky idea.
Mass
Carrier
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 Pumping out a Quick Coursair, svenge decides to get a look at the competition.
However, since he doesn't know where Cashew is, he sends his coursair in a counter
clockwise direction, taking the longest way possible to find him.
On Spotting Cashew, svenge realizes that Cashew is following the exact same Build,
and begins extensive construction of cannons to defend his base while his very first
Carrier builds.
About this time, Cashew gets his first reaver, which happily builds scarabs inside its
big hull.
Cashew similarly gets cannons, and chases away svenge's lone coursair, who escapes with
40 shield damage.
About this time, svenge's very first flying banana arrives. He quickly begins construction
of intereceptors, and moves to defend against any possible drops.
Cashew, however, takes a less aggressive stance, and uses the time
to expand to the Isle between the two of them.
Sadly, svenge quickly finds the upstart colony, and uses his powerful interceptors to smash
the pitiable probe.
Cashew attempts a quick DT/zealot drop, but a svenge's next carrier stops that threat cold.
Cashew tries to expand to the top middle island, but yet again svenge's carriers take out the probe.
Deciding to go onto the defensive, Cashew Builds a second Robo Bay, and decides to go
massive Goon Drops.
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Swiftly bringing down Protoss Justice,
Cashew slices into svenge's main, taking out 2 cannons, and 2 two pylons.
svenge, who was using his Carrier/Coursair to try to rape some of Cashew's
probes, was defenseless against the onslaught and had to retreat from Cashew's
main in order to defend his home.
Unfortunately for Cashew, Protoss justice works two ways,
and once svenge's Carriers returned home, they made swift
work of the pathetic ressurected Templar.
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Though he might appear to be predictable,
Cashew was no fool, and immediately took the chance
and tried to expand to the top middle island, but
svenge's wary Coursair spotted and chased the little
shuttles back to his main.
Deciding that if he can't expand, he'd better attack,
Cashew loads up 6 Dragoons and tries to make another
Dragoon Drop of Death.
However, svenge's Carriers are not as happy about
the idea as Cashew was, and quickly dispatched the
fleet as it passed the middle island.
Once the 2 remaining Shuttles arrived at
svenge's main, the Carriers waltzed and
destroyed the 4 dragoons without a scrape.
Now that svenge was assured of a complete advantage
over Cashew, he expanded to the islands between the
the main bases, with his Carriers as everpresent
Defenders of the base.
Despite the apparent failure of his Robo/Temp Technique,
Cashew is by no means a static player, and he adjusts
his own strategy accordingly.
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Deciding that the only way to fight air on dire is
with air, Cashew threw up two stargates and began
pumping Scouts, but keeping them well hidden in the
recesses of his base so that the full magnitude of
his Covert change could be inflicted.
Deciding to play it safe, svenge immediately built
three shield batteries at his expansion and used them
to begin systematic rape of Cashew's Dragoon Forces.
svenge also began shuttleing Probes from his main into
the island.
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Now with 6 fully upgraded and operation Carriers,
svenge decides to go onto the offensive, and
sneaks his carriers around the back of Cashew's main.
Cashew, oblivious to svenge's plans,
fortifies his southern border with his entire
scout fleet, hoping to avoid any
further losses of his Dragoon Warriors.
svenge, grinning in his belief of a total
victory, Boldly instructs his carriers to take out
Cashew's Vespene geyser.
However, Cashew quickly spots the Banana fleet over
his main, and sends his scouts to take out the
Carriers single handedly.
Despite svenge's advanced Choreographical ability,
Cashew's 7 scouts easily defeat 5 of the 6
Carriers, and decimated the machines of destruction.
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Cashew has pulled of a decisive victory,
losing only 6 scouts, but defeating 6
Carriers. In resource terms, Cashew defeated 3300 minerals
and 1200 Gas with only 1800 Minerals and 1200 gas.
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However, the strains of battle were too much for
Cashew's disabled economy to handle, and he
concedes the victory to svenge.
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Stats
 This has been a Kakkara Korperation Production:
-AlexanderYoshi Email Me at AlexanderYoshi@geocities.com
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