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| Terran v. Protoss...temple | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 06/05/99 10:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for [GNG]Jaab00: 7.0000 |  | Ah, it was late at night, my brain was too fried to play ladder. So I decided to make a 1v1 melee instead, where the competition isn't as serious and intense. (usually) I advertised it as "1v1 Friendly, fun game" as to shoo away all the jerks. Eventually GP500 joined up, the good lucks were exchanged, and I clicked start. I chose terran, I need practice, he chose toss. I was happy, terran v. toss is my weakest game. The map was lost temple, and we're off!
Early Game
My cc landed at the 9 o clock position. Starting off with the typical terran build, depot at 8, rax at 10, rax at 12. When the depot finished I sent that scv to scout. GP500 was at the 12 o clock position, the first spot I scouted. I saw a pylon and a gateway, and an assimilator with 3 probes already collecting gas. He had only one zealot. I assumed a dt rush and proceeded to make my academy, refinery,comsat, and engineering bay in that order. As soon as I could afford it I began the marine armor upgrade, key against dts, making them use 2 swipes to kill one marine. I made a bunker at the top of my ramp, and filled it with 4 marines, dissapointed they didn't get to go romping today. I was cranking marines, and when the bay finished I made a turret by the bunker. I started my factory around this time. Then a probe of his came up and got shot to smithereens by my bunker. He saw my turret. I comsatted him and saw what his plan was. A citadel of adun, temp archives, and robotics facility had been constructed. Dt drop. Acting accordingly, I threw up 2 turrets by my minerals, a bunker, and began siege mode research. When my minerals built up I ordered up a tank. the tank pops out and I move it to my cherry spot by the CC. Right about now I see a blue dot appear. Making a mistake, he flies his shuttle too close, and my bunker and turret open fire. HE manages to drop one dt before the shuttle explodes in a shower of sparks and flame! This dt evaporates to the gauss fire blazing from my well placed bunker. GP500 then comments
"Nice play."
Mid Game
After removing the dt threat, I figure we would both be building up for a bit. We both expand to our gimme expansions. I throw up a 2nd factory and begin making a starport. I get the add on and make a dropship, hoping to cliff siege him at his natural. I comsat above his cliff, lo and behold, pylons and cannons. doh! Setting that idea aside, I move my dropship to the cliff by my natural so If he cliff cannons me, I'll know what's going on. My exp gets up and running, and I figure I'll go for some mass tank/goliath/M&M action. I put two marines on patrol moving through the 6 o clock position and it's natural, and the 3 o clock position and it's natural. We slowly build up. Im aggressivly upgrading my infantry, and my tanks with 2 armories running. I notice that dropship still has the cliff siege cargo in it. I decide to use it to expand to the bottom right island. I drop off my units, start the cc, and fly the ship back home. Little did I know he had an observer there watching me the whole time. Soon enough a speedy shuttle flies in and flops 4 zeals on me. Blam, forget about that expansion. Sighing, I return to making more units, I have 2 sci vessels. I get a nice large army of infantry, 30 or so marines, 10 medics, 3 firebats. I then comsat both islands to see what's up. He has cannoned off BOTH of them! I mutter to myself "oh, crap." If I don't act soon, I'm gonna be floating in interceptors. So I head off...
Late Game
I move my infantry force down the ramp and at the head of my natural. I bring my 12 tanks, 10 golaiths, and 2 vessels along. I notice a blue dot by my force. An observer! Drat! I lose the element of surprise. I move up golaiths and remove the observer. Right then a psi storm crackles and tears up 10 or so marines. crap! If he supports this well, It's over. I siege up my tanks clumsily, they are pretty bunched up. But I have 12, no temps are getting near to take advantage of this. Then I hear the weird buzzing sound. Dweb! Doh! I unsiege quickly as a squad of zealots, dragoons, and templar attack my position. I move back and siege up again. He had 5 or so corsairs at the time, but comsat shows he had 3 stargates cranking them. I send one marine as pointman to check out for any ambushes. I come across a small group of goons. Nothing major. Stimming all my infantry I charge in and blast those spiders. My gols and tanks are hot on their heels. I make it to the mouth of his natural. I siege tanks, carefully this time! Spread out, dweb may hit 2 tanks at best. I mix in goliaths, and infantry. corsairs are fluttering all about, tossing an occassional dweb. 3 corsairs go down to golaith missles. I comsat the ridge. Drat! 4 or so carriers, 5 or 6 templar, and a big wad of zealots. These carriers are positioned perfectly too. I get covert ops add-on and crank some ghosts. Around this point I notice I'm dangerously low on resources. Considering I have an excellent position on the map right now, I go ahead and expand to 6 o clock and it's natural.I shift some scvs down there, and soon enough my cash starts rolling in. However, I know he's still got those islands, and that bothers me. I can't tank drop the upper left island, the cannons are too well positioned. But the right island has some space, so I get a ghost and load him in a dropship. My nuke silos on the expansions finish up and I make one nuke. Carefully watching my blockade, I don't want to lose control now. A wad of corsairs comes up, and I think he makes a mistake here by accident. He had 8 or so corsairs all dweb the same tank. This is almost pure white. He then throws a TON of zeals at me.I have out-upgraded him however, and the zeals are shredded. He did send temps behind these zeals though, and gets off some good storms ripping up some infantry and 3 or 4 tanks. The tanks are quickly replaced.
"Nuclear missle ready"
Yea baby yea! I drop the ghost off and cloak. I bring along a science vessel. Targetting the outermost cannon on his island, I shoot the nuke. Comsat revealed only one templar on this island, and no observers. I don't think the templar can reach with psi storm, but I have dmatrix ready to cast in case I see the templar move. Well, the templar actually ended up hiding in the corner to dodge the nuke! Blam! a bunch of probes go down and a couple cannons. I can't reinforce this attack, I haven't made dropships. Oh well did the job. Checking back on my blockade, I comsat his ridge and see 6 carriers. He is still behind on upgrades, and I notice 4 of these carriers are a lot closer to the edge than usual. Bringing up my trusty saboteurs, I lockdown these 4 carriers and let my gols finish the job. My nuke is finished. I move up to nuke his ridge, but I see a blue blip on the map at my two undefende expansions at 6 o clock, and it's natural. A shuttle drops a reaver and pops a bunch of scvs. I run all the poor scvs away and bring down 2 tanks from my blocksade to remove this reaver. I also begin making wraiths at my starports to harass the shuttle. HE picks up the reaver and goes to my 6 o clock exp and I run those scvs too. The tanks show up, and I siege. He picks up the reaver. I unsiege and move away. This goes around, i'm stalling until my wraiths come out. They do and I begin shooting this shuttle. It runs away, and my wraiths ended up getting it, I think. I replace the lost Scvs. I comsat and see 4 carriers. I lockdown the 2 that are close, kill them, and during the confusion irradiate a few temps. At this point, he says GG. Whew, I didn't think I had him yet. He still had a force of zeals and temps. And those carriers make the push really difficult because of their positioning, they screw around with the AI and make my gols go nuts, and just cause confusion in general. Nice play by him. I say GG, and such. The game was really long, I don't know how long, close to 2 hours I think...sorry, I didn't have many good screenshots to take =(
[GNG]Jaab00
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