Welcome my 2nd BR on Ko[b]ull, 4th BR overall. As you remember from last time, Kobull completely decimated Korean. He had no chance. Will he sucecced on another pvz on an unknown map? We shall see.

Pregame Prediction

Well apparantly Kobull is very hungry and is ready to blame a loss on it. Determined to be able to BR a good game I got out a pencil and got ready to watch a normal game. If only I knew...

For those of you who do not know about Forsaken Valley (probobly all of you) It is a 4 player map with 12 expansion spots. 10 of them are mineral only, 6 of them in a valley inaccessably from ground only. There are 2 other gas expansions, one on the each side. Very basic unit's friendly with the low amount of gas, but heavy tech units are rare. BTW, you need air units to get to the lower mineral spots. Wierd, Huh? Given the dificulty of reading yellow on white, all things relating to Kobull will be in Blue

As the game started I see a fully black screen. Grrr, the maker of the observer map forgot the ability for the observer to see all. Any way, Aura and Kobull quickly ally with me and I get to see the build orders. Aura goes for a very early gas going extractor, pool, hatch, and 2 sunkens. Kobull goes the same order as last time, which is pylon, gate, nexus at exp, pylon, and gateway. Again both sides go for fast cash. But Aura decides to attack after a little wait.

Kobull had sent a zealot to scout and that guy gave Kobull a little bit of time to prepare. All of the lings were exterminated with the loss of only that one zealot. Kobull, with no cannons and 3 Dragoons, now has to fight a follow-up attack!

So with driving off that attack, Kobull decides to retaliate. Why attack a fully defended main, when you can kill a defensless expansion?

So both players are hella mad! Aura loses a mutalisk when chasing the zealots back. Remember that since Aura has Mutas, he has a Spire, and since he has a Spire, he has a Lair. He has researched OVIE SPEED AND DROP. 4 ovies come into Kobull's main. WHAT ARE IN THEM! Remember that Kobull has no observers or cannons. Think. LURKERS!

Another close call, this time defeated with the aid of storms. This time Kobull lost a lot of men plus his NEXUS! If this keeps up... Well it could. For Kobull, right after clearing away the last of the lurkers, has to fight another drop!

Kobull survives this attack with the reinforcements from his exp. It appears the early exp has WEAKENED Kobull because he has his forces split. Interesting! But that weakness has almost disappeared. Why? Kobull's Main is in ruins! Only a few pylons and a gateway remain. Soon another attack comes!

Sigh. Most of the guardians didn't even attack the rest of the main. Only one guardian decided to go for the main kill. The rest were eliminated by goons and storm. Kobull is fed up. Aura is wiping him all over the valley! He decides to try his luck attacking an exp!

NOT THE LURKERS! ANYTHING BUT THE LURKERS! With no portable detection the army is just destroyed. Now let's look at the exp chart!

The score is 3-2 in KOBULLS favor. With all the attacking, Aura has been too distracted to expand! But one problem: One EXP that Kobull controls is under seige by Lurkers! Neither side is budging with cannons keeping the lurkers at bay. Eventually some guardians come to finish off the damaged expansion. Aura has almost complete control of this match. He has destroyed Kobull's main, forced him to stay on the defensive, and now is mining like heck. He is also being a complete nuscuance with his queens. By simply Broodlinging anything he can, he has reacked havoc on all attacks. But the time has come, he muses, to pay a visit to the Pseudo-main that is in the Lower Left mineral only. Can Kobull survive?

NOOOOO! THE MAIN HAS BEEN SAVED! With excelent storm usage and a buncha ground units, the attack is successfully thwarted. A four or five dozen zerg units give their life to try to defeat the base. Only a few protoss units die do to good micro. But what is this? A strange event has taken place at the old Kobull Main! It looks, it looks like.......................

A NEXUS!

Believe it or not, that is a new picture! The old main has been resettled do to lack of interest by Aura. Just when you think you've killed something...

Any way, Aura has no knowledge of this and decides to use the major abundance of minerals and make a shitload of zerglings! He sends a drop of hydros to attack the Lower right mineral only! WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

Thanks to the dts and storms there the hydros do not kill the expansion, but hurt it badly. Just as the hydros are dispatched, guess what charges into town!

What can I say? I SAID A SHITLOAD OF LINGS! Ain't that a shitload of lings? After destroying the exp, the lings head into the lower right main and die to storms and zealots. Kobull is wishing for revenge! He has the troops, he has the guts, and he has a target. SO WHY NOT? He sends a contingent of zealots, dragoons, high templars, and an archon into Aura's mineral only!

FINALLY KOBULL WINS A BATTLE! Although he took heavy losses, Aura took far more as lings, hydros, and queens all die defending the area. Good thing that Kobull didn't go into the main, for the 24 lings would have murdered the poor souls. Right now both players are thinking about quiting just because they are SO DAMN TIRED! I believe it has been an hour since the game started. LONG! They are wishing for a draw, but neithers side will actually conceede a draw. THEY WANT TO FINISH! Fine by me. More PICS! Aura has a HUGE ling army. I mean there are 6 dozen of those things. Aura is still not aware of the retaking of the main and he decides to end this game. He sends his army at the mineral only main. Can Kobull survive this assault?

AURA IS VERY HAPPY! He thinks it is only a clean up job from now on. With the Mineral only squashed, all he has to do is find the remaining bases. But check out this shot:

DAMN. THAT'S A LOT OF ZEALOTS! He has 6 GATEWAYS producing these things non-stop! He also has a trio of bases in the valley! But that advantage will end soon.

The 2 valley exps in the south are destroyed easily, for no army is stationed there. Remember that all of Kobull's robotics facilities were destroyed in the Mineral only. He has no way to shuttle troops between the valley and the top. After reloading his army in the ovies, he sends them on a drop to finish off Kobull. Bad idea. Kobull has a small air force and look what happens!

Two overlords stopped long enough to get some troops out, but not enough to save the ovies. All 6 died to antimatter and this was very signifigant. Why? Think. We are in the extremely late game. Almost no gas left. Few mineral patches not claimed. The loss of 6 overlords are 600 minerals themselves. If they all had lings in them then he lost a total of 1800 minerals. Ouch. Major loss. Here is the army situation now. Both sides are concentrating on mineral only units. Kobull is making zealots non stop and using the rest of his gas to make archons. Aura is making mass lings and using the last of his gas to make hydros and lurkers. NO AIR. The fleet you see in the pictures above is old. Kobull has no stargates. Meanwhile, Kobull asked for a pause. He had to clear his intestinal track from the meal he had during the mutalisk rush. In lay man's terms. He had to take a shit. While he was gone, Aura gave me a secret piece of information.

WOW. Aura does of course have a pair of mineral exps but he is not mining them very hard. He decides to try and finish this. He sends all of his units on a drop. IS THIS THE END? I hope so.

ARGHH! WILL THIS GAME NEVER END? The zealots and archons manage to defeat the drop with noticable casualties. Kobull and Aura decide to rebuild. Aura, after getting a ton of lings, sends them on a drop. WILL THIS FINISH IT?

Aack! IT WAS AN AMBUSH! The lings dropped right into a trap and very few protoss casualties were caused by the battle. But Aura is not done. He builds as many lings, hydros, and lurkers as he can and sends them on the attack!

Everyone thought the game was over. The zealots were being owned by lings, hydros, and lurkers but 3 archons with some other zealots come to save the day with an amazing final battle. A few more skirmishes happen but after a few minutes KoBull disconnects, leaving me with a draw on my hands. So then, WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD HAVE WON THE GAME? Reply in the comments section and I will tally up the votes, seeing WHO IS THE VICTOR!

Lessons Learned:

• Zerg rule on Forbidden Valley with their cheap transportation.
• Archons+Zeals+Observers>lings+hydros+lurkers
• Beware of the early game muta rush
• It ain't over till it's over.

Seriously though, it really isn't over till the last base has fallen. Kobull made a great comeback into owning the skys and ground. If it weren't for both players defensive prowess, this game would never had lasted as long. The lurkers really helped BlueAura defend his bases and attack Kobull, and if it weren't for the choboness of both guys, this game may have been over sooner.

This has been aProduction