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| Island Hopping for Dummies (nothing personal) | | | Author: | | | IP: | athe530-XXXX | | Date: | 04/01/00 11:04 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 8, Min: 8
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Looking around in the pubbie rooms for a game did not prove as succesfull as i had hoped at first.Some kiddies arguing about how imbalance is caused because Protoss have no nukes and that Terran marines should have 150 point shields,a spam bot whispering about how Bambie and her friends want me,and only me to come by their web site and watch them do things their mothers wouldnt even think about,and some random lamer trying to convince me how easy it is to make money from surfing the web and how he made 700$ in their first week can get in your nerves quite fast i assure you.
So i decided to check out nohunters and find a game to play.
There,some random people where arguing on how imbalance is caused by the 0.003 more seconds that an SCV takes to gather minerals,a bot advertising how cool this new "31it3 warezzzzz fr33 s1t3" is and some others,flaming people that think the net-money deals are true.Ahhh,i felt just like home...
Looking around the endless chatter,i noticed Praetor=Fenix looking for a 2vs2 on Island Hop.Quickly,i messaged him,and along with about 20 more people asked to watch the game.Soon enough,3 more players where gathered and we all moved to chanell fenix and set-up the game. Praetor hosted,and everyone joined with me as an observer.After a bit of chit-chat,cussing and bashing the game began....
The game started with Praetor as Blue Terran commander at 3.InSo randomed to red Zerg at 7.Zzap got white Protoss at 10 and Archos started with purple Terrans at 12.
[Build orders]
Team 1
Praetor started with a cheesy rax float aiming Zzap's main.Rax's dont fly that fast though and he managed to get a factory and a starport before that floating building was even close to landing.
InSo started with a fast gas,and upgraded to Lair before considering a second hatch.
Team 2
Archos's build order was almost identical to Praetor's.Fast gas,rax and then factory and starport.
As for Zzap,he teched up fast to shuttles and reavers while getting goons out of his 2 Gateways.
[But what about the flying rax?]
As much as i'd love to see a Rax float work i didnt have the chance.Zzap found out just in time,and with a couple of Goons killed the 2 Marines that were just trained and drove the building away.
Early game went smoothly with Praetor getting a Science Facility,InSo geting Mutalisks,Archos gathering Wraiths and Valkyries and Zzap,with his newly warped Shuttle tranfering a probe to his 6 o'clock island and setting up an Protoss island resort (widely known as "expansion") there.
[First Blood]
With his 12 Muties,InSo atacks Zzap's main base.Bad timing though,since he had to turn them back when 2 dropped Dragoons,a Valkyrie and a Wraith start tearing through his drones and Overlords.The Mutas are quick to wipe the floor with the goons' faces and Archos' flyers turn back.
After geting rid of the threat to his base (but not without losing lots of drones and a few Overlords)he turns the Mutas to Zzap's expansion.The defense there was to say the least sparce,with only a cannon on-line and a couple still warping.Archos' Wraith and Valkyrie were close-by,but were not fast enough to save the burning expansion.
[Can you say Cheeeeeeese???]
It looks like Praetor's got a liking to cheese :).He starts getting Battlecruisers out of his 2 Starports.In the meantime InSo started morphing Hydras in his base.He sends his Mutas again to Zzap's expansion (which he had finnaly secured with 3 cannons and a Dragoon.After a few Mutas started popping InSo pulls back his forces and moves them around Zzap's island and over Zzap's peon line.It was a delightfull sight watching probes getting ^ahem^ probed by the Mutas,and an ever more pleasant sight watching Valkyries popping a few mutas before InSo ordered them back.
While this is happening,Archos expands to the island to the east of his main while Zzap gets his expansion working ^again^.
Praetor has expanded to the island to his South,but Zzap seems to have different plans.2 Reavers are dropped near the Command Center and cheerfull SCV's are no longer cheerfull.(hard to cheer when you're blown-up huh?).A few marines that were sitting nearby joined the marines to their in-many-pieces fate.
InSo tries to hit Archos's main with his mutas (those mutas were extremely long lived,lucky suckers!)but Valkyries and Wraiths drove them away with no casualties on the Terran side.The Valkyries hunt down the Mutas but InSo protects them behind Praetor's turret line while at the same time sets a couple of hatcheries in the island to the lower middle.
[Drop Time]
Here comes the turning point of the game.InSo loads up 6 Overloard with Hydras and makes the round trip to the back of Zzip's base.With no defenses there the hydras land without problem.The Hydras land safely and probes start going "boom".Unfortunatly for Zzap his Goons and Reavers were dropped at InSo's expansion.Only a few Goons were there to defend and in the end Zzap's base went down in flames.
InSo didnt go without losses himself though. Valkyries made short work of his Overlords at Zzap's while Corsairs were ripping apart his Lords at his main plus all the hydras that he had just dropped were left stranded on Zzap's (former) main.
Also at his expansion 3 Goons and a Reaver were droped along with Wraith and Valkyrie support from Archos.He did manage to hold his base in the end though.
[Time of Destiny]
It was time for Archos to do something.With his allie without a main,criplled and left out for the rest of the game he had to pull a good move for both of them to stay alive.3 Dropships were loaded with Marines and Goliaths and were dropped in Praetors main along with a few cloacked Wraiths and Valkyries.The mixed Terran army seemed to have the upper hand for a while,but with some help from InSo's hydras the drop failed.
That fight sealed the fate of Archos and Zzap.InSo atacks and destroys Archos's top left expansion and Praetor repairs his BCs and moves them to the enemy terran base.Zzap,with one foot in the grave did manage to make a reaver drop in Praetors lower right expansion but for no good.Mutas and BattleCruisers were already gathered just outside Archos' main just waiting for the morphing Guardians to hatch.A valiant attempt by Archos with a pack of cloaked Wraiths didnt make a difference with Praetor having enough com-sat to keep the wraiths away.
No matter what Archos did though the game was lost.In the end his expansion was razed by the combined Zerg/Terran force and the game finnaly belonged to Praetor and InSo.
The rest of the game was just the 10 minutes that the BCs and Guardians took to reach Zzaps base :) and Archos hiding suplly depots inside Praetors island.
Lessons learned:
1: Dont lose you main
2: Ever
3: I mean it.
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