"You know what, vram, you're right. It's not like I won with any actual skill on my part...."
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| ZvT...got supply? | | | Author: | | | IP: | 1Cust178XXXX | | Date: | 02/13/01 02:02 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for [i]Yatrix: 5.5000 |  | First off, I would like to tell you that there will be NO pics in this report for I had no Idea I was going to report this game. And if I knew I was going to...theyd not have worked anyway. Besides, after seeing a Breeze report, why bother? I'll just feel small anyway. =) (gw, Breeze)
So, w/o further ado, I present my ZvT game vs my clan buddy [i]Robotech.
Beginning game stuff: Map: this new one everyone is playing nowadays...Lost something...Lost Nipple...Tenant...Teargas...TEMPLE! Lost Tempple! that's it. I spawned as zerg at the 3 spot and he landed his flying saucer at 9. Now, normally, i am weak at this matchup. I am not sure why, but I think it's because I fear stim...AHHHH! STIM!!! AHHH!!! nah, it's all in my head, I am sure of it. My zvt usually consists of either an expand to muta or a lurker contain to mass expand. This game, I was thinking lurkers outta one base. Robo's terran usually starts with an early expand or rush to vessel because he knows I almost ALWAYS go lurkers first. predictible, but something about spines kill rines...anyway.
So, as I powered some drones and sent out my ols for spotting and scouting, I made hydras and lings, choosing to tech a bit slower, knowing my opponent likes to expand fast vs zerg. so, I thought, i'd get some depot razings or finish him fast with 12 lings or so and about 4 hydras. well, I move up the ramp and find some rines guarding his wallin so it's a no go there. i lose a hydra or two and retreat. this is when his tech hits me. he is using a NOW commonly used tactic vs zerg, the wraith rush. he took out a few overlords and got alot of my lings with 3 wraiths. i am thinking, no big deal, they arne't razing machines, my base'll be fine. so, I make an evo chamber so i can leave my base w/o worrying about my drones. he continues to kill about 3 or so ols putting me in a psi hole as i get pissed off. i get those afformentioned spores up at my main and at my NOW lair, get ol speed and start the lurker upgrade at my den. during this time, he has expanded. i also expanded to my natural. most players know, zerg must outresource the other races to win. medics mean terran forces outlast zergs, so they don't need a huge econ to punk someone. zerg, losing units at all times, need a large econ. so i decided to contain and expand....and expand...and expand. soon, i conceded his expansion as wraith/tank/turret/bunker held it. i expanded to 12 and my tertiary at 3. hoping to double him in exp's and get macroing. I sent a small group of 5 lurkers to outside his tertiary at 9 and then started sending all of my hydras there as well. cointainment can suck as terran, it really can. well, during my scouting exploits, i found he floated to the top left corner of the map. so that's 3 bases for him...4 for me...i didn't like that a whole lot. I have an advantage, albeit a small one. not good enough for a terran as good as robo's. so i expanded to 12's tertiary and then to it's natural. (btw, the 12 tertiary is secret. NO ONE scouts it until endgame, i swear) so, now i have alot of cahs and a small contain that really is easily breakable as far as tanks go. Robo's units of choice, were wraith/tanks. LOTS of wraiths tanks. well, i didn't go muta, so i am not worried about wraiths so much...cuz hydras own them...but tanks....hydras die alot to tanks...so i wanted muta...oh, but the wraiths....hrm....what to do (econ getting bigger) waht to do (HOLY econ)...well, i added more and more hatches pumping hydra/ling and teching to hive. as i was getting complacent with my contain of 5 lurkers and about 30 or so hydras, he decided it was time to destroy me (as he often does tvz). he starts to come at me with wraith/tank and some vess. i am talking about 20+ tanks and 24 wraiths. now, that's a formiddable army if you ask me. he is 2,2 on both i do beilive and all my gruond units are 2,2 as well. so i am find there...but i have too much cash sitting and he is coming out to take the map from me. i do what any zerg would do...i send all my crap at him like a whore. hydras and lings are flanking from 6 or 8 directoins and take out some of his tanks and wraiths. ENOUGH of them to slow his advance anyway as i tech to the goodies only lategame zerg brings...DEF's and ULtras!! yah, baby. time to get medeval on soemone...but will i have the time to do it?
a small lull occurs as i get up to about 15 hatches and fully upgraded range units and 2 atk, 3 armor melee units...but most importantly, i got defilers. terran killas...dirty lil' scorpion wannabes...yah..time to kill...time to mai...OH HELL!!! he comes out at me exp's at 6 now with wraith/tank from hell. now, alot o you are thining, wriath? vs zerg? hell ya. they are good vs zerg. tanks keep the hydras busy and wraiths own the lings when u have 20+. and ols don't last long with that many...so he advances to my 6 tertiary, one of my many bases. i decided, it's time to halt his production. his advance would be a problem stopping so i conceded the bottom half of the map to his attack. i ran my 10 ols (i think 10) of lings/hydas/2 defilers around his advance at 6 and took them up the bottom right side of of his 9 base dropping their wussy cargo. lings/hdyras vs terran? c'mon...BUT...defilers were the difference. i sat down some swarm and sent my bugs to working on those depots. he sent his wraiths over and just watched. NOTHING he can do vs it. to say the least, i got ALL of his depots and alot of his tech, but he had his army still...as i was killing his supply, i was pumping ling/hydra/ULTRA outta my hatches while he killed my exp's at 6 and watches his base fall.
after eating ling after ling after ling and hydra after hydra and (accidentally) one of my defilers, my drop was over. but, at what cost? his entire main base and supply. he had 2.5 running bases including his new tertiary expand and i had 5 running bases. ideal in zvt, zVanything, really. during that time, he aslo killed my secret 12 tertiary expand. that hacker!!!! j/k, robo. u know i love you (err, own you). as his army at 6 and his army at my tertiary at 12 were converging at the middle, i sent in the zerg army from hell. 5,2 ultras, 3,2 crax, 3,3 hydras and defiler/queen. his tanks/wraiths were grouped nicely for plague...OMG! i got like 12 wraiths and 6 tanks with one as my massive machine of zerg units came barrelling in. that was the best of the largest battles with the drop/exp killing/middle attack and then final large attack with teh plague.
Closing out the terran: after the last middle battle, the rest of the time i took 6's bases again (just to spite him) and macroed outta those hatches and just sent wave after wave of hydra/ling/ultra until his back broke. a terran's base is the hardest of ALL bases to break into with a choke, but with ultras, they DO fall. as a side note, despite the game being over, he had a tank on his ramp...so i brooded it. hehe. i love brood. it's so...demeaning...but i had to rub it in, because lifetime, i am like, 7-281 zvt vs robo. hehe.
i think...let me repeat, i THINK i have overcome that terran bug i have. i sometimes try to tech too much, sometimes not enough, and just forgo macro when i have the cash. that's the key, tech with support. not one or the other. hydra/ling will die to terran. so will just pure techs like lurkers. mixing them is good.
overall, the game was very exciting and not a blowout. if i spent my money well, it shoulda ended earlier. but robo insists he coulda ran me over at any time. hehe. he said it was the defiler that saved me. duH! why u think i used it. i'd also like to say that robo is one HELL of a terran vs toss or zerg or other terran (GAY! GAH!!).
thx for reading my report those of you who did. i hope my writing was okay, it was 4:30 am and the game was a week ago. =) the obs in the game said it was a great game to watch as the battles were always large and spell casters were used. small 6 ling vs 6 ling micro battles are fun and all...but something about 200+ units fighting just gives me chills... this was a great game with units you rarely see and strats that aren't common such as wraith/tank vs zerg. it can work vs zerg and terran. toss has storm, so nothing works vs that. hehe. j/k. and queen/defiler are rarely used vs anything. plague/swarm are necassary late game vs terran. it can make you so much more diverse. ultras in swarm can't be killed minus a yamato. hehe. anyway, thx for another gg, [i]Robotech. just remember, [i]Yatrix owns you...mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
God Bless and take care,
[i]Yatrix |
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