Welcome to battle 156846 on the Temple Grounds. Today we have 2 little known StarCraft players. Shadowman321 versus master_jaso. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Welcome to Wraithfighter's second BR. His first battle report was only text and color. But alas, he forgot his greatest BR weapon, CLARIS HOME PAGE!. By simply copying the html from Claris HP, he gets what you see today. Any way, let's get on with it.

Thanks to Spring Break, I have a ton of time on hand. I COULD spend this time doing something worth while, or i could waste it in style playing SC!. Obviously I chose the latter. After playing and watching a few games, I decided to find a game BR worthy. This game was close enough.

This game was originally supposed to be a 3 way ffa with all players randoming, but one person left after start. Here is the Mini-map and players at start of game.

As you can tell, Master_jaso, from now on to be known as master, got zerg and ended up at 6 o clock. Shadowman321, from now on to be known as shadow, recieved the brave protoss at 3 o clock. I chose terran so i could BR and got 9 o clock.

After being in an scv duel, one of my scvs, Johnny, survived with 10 hp! I hid him and my cc so the game could be watched easily.

Master did the one thing I was not expecting him to do. He got gas as his first building. He amazed me even more when he expanded too!.

Sigh, right now I thought that if Shadow could take the initiative and strike now with any zealots he had, Master would lose. I am glad that didn't happen. For a while nothing really happened. It was scouting and build up. I snapped a few pics of the ramps but didn't decide to put them in. Soon though, 10 zealots leave shadow's base to attack master, to see if he could end it fast.

VS

It looked like master would pay for his early exp and gas, but alas, the early exp and gas actually helped Master because he managed to morph 4 lurkers by the time Shadow's zealots got there.

The four lurkers followed the zealots home, where they fell to cannons and those same zealots. Both sides took this time to expand and build up. This brings us to the first exp count!

The expansion count now is 2 to 1, in favor of Master. But not for long. You see that yellow dot at the 9 o clock main? That is a zealot. He and 3 other zealots attack the exp.

Master has a large army under his command. He could easily send his army to kill the zealots, but he has a more dastardly plan. He decides to attack Shadow's main head on.

Now truth be told, I have attacked with many more hydros than this, and these hydros do an excelent job, considering thier numbers. They encounter a small protoss force, probobly on their way to attack Master. The goons and zealots retreat and the hydros follow.

A few Goons and Storms later, the force is estiguished. No cannons die, and the hydros are just plain massacared. This was the turning point of the game. Because...

NOW SHADOW IS WINNING THE EXPANSION WAR!

Shadow now has the lead easily. A zerg player needs lots of men, and even more resources, to defeat a toss player. Master realizes this and decides to attack the new 9 main expansion. I realize this and shudder, remembering that zerg mutalisks attack with richoches, and i remember about poor ol' johnny SCV, stuck there.

The Mutalisks waste the cannons with a little bit of damage, and start on the probes. But new cannons and reinforcing dragoons kill the mutalisks.

Master does not give up easily and, thinking he can easily destroy the base, decides to drop a buncha hydros.

The control group of hydros are wasted by goons, cannons, and a storm. Two retreat and do something absolutley evil. THEY KILL JOHNNY SCV!

Johnny got off a fusion cut before he died, and the murderous hydros were incinerated by more goons. Shadow, who is now in a large lead, decides to end this. Using the many gateways he has across the map, he decides to attack with goons and templars. AND he succedes too!

What you see exploding is many guardians, cut up by storms and goons. The goons march up the ramp and into Master's base, finding little resistance.

This Game was really good. Not much micro, but a lot of good macro. It was very hard for Shadow to win, but Master made the folley of not saving his expansion instead of attacking Shadow's base. Sorry about the pic coloration problems. I take pictures on a iMac with shift+?+f3. It gets a good screen shot but not in gif form. Good job to both Shadow and Master.

This has been a report from WRAITHFIGHTER!