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| 1v1 on (GASP) Lost Temple | | | Author: | | | IP: | usrns213XXXX | | Date: | 04/07/01 07:04 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
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1v1 on (GASP) Lost Temple
This is my first br so give me a little slack, huh?
Anyway, from the title you can pretty much figure out where we are right? Well here's a map anyway
So I'm sitting in my own little game start waiting for people to show up for a 2v2 when a miracle happened. Someone actually showed up. Then omg, another person popped up! =O I'm starting to actually think a game might start when... they both leave. AAHHHHH! Well to shorten things up, the next person to fall into my little trap I immediately grabbed. I asked him to take some pics for me from his point of view and we began.
WD (selected) peeked his head out of his CC at 12, while Who'sGotLag.IDO (random) (sorry about the red but Word 97 doesn't have orange) hid in the Nexus in shame at 9.
Who'sGotLag.IDO , I'll refer to myself in the third person for your benefit even though I'll talk in the first person (confused yet? heh), immediately began defiling the land and strip mining its precious minerals. I bought a discount pylon at full price with my 8th probe and then went double gate. After pumping more probes I expanded to my natural and then sent the probe to 6. Most terrans go wallin and effectively take themselves out of expansion denial at this point
My probe ran into a marine right before the valley between 6 and 9. Much to his delight, the marine immediately began playing pin the tail on the probe with hard, pointy steel. Thinking he was at 6, Who'sGotLag.IDO, sent the probe scurrying into the base to check it out. Oops, he wasn't there and my probe went pfft. Damn marine.
As soon as Who'sGotLag.IDO saw the marine, zealot production started immediately. 2 zealots were shoved through the gates, soon followed by a pylon and a cyb core at the main. Both zeals were sent to the natural's choke as they finished. The first zeal that showed up taught WD's scouting marine (party games boy) a new game, "Cut the Head off the Marine."
WD apparently went a detection route: depot at ramp, barracks, bunker, e-bay, depot at ramp, academy, depot at ramp, factory. The order might be slightly different but relatively the same. What was strange was his wall-in.
Who'sGotLag.IDO started to tech while pumping to now with 4 zealots, 2 dragoons, and then 2 more zealots. A pylon at the natural, forge at home, a 2 gates at the natural, and a forward pylon near the 9 min only were warped in.
Who'sGotLag.IDO's first 2 zeals and were guarding the natural choke, when WD's stimmed neighborhood greeting party came to the front door. The forward pylon went down first while 2 zeals and 2 dragoons hurried over from the main.
Who'sGotLag.IDO's first two zealots, eager to teach the marines internal anatomy, rushed forward and were cut down after killing only 1 marine (I had them flee as soon as I noticed the battle, then attack again, mistake). =[ The attack however gave the reinforcing zealots and dragoons time to assume formation and return the favor.
Troops continued massing on both sides, and Who'sGotLag.IDO dispatched a zeal to patrol between 3 and 6's mains. While WD's choke grew even more dangerous. Behind the choke, tinfoil and tape took shape into spacecraft (wraiths) and began massing to take control of the skies.
Who'sGotLag.IDO , wary of bc's because of WD's lack of expansions or attacks, began 3 stargates while observers took to the skies. (Yes, I've gotten kicked around by carriers and bc's when I wasn't ready many times)
Who'sGotLag.IDO expanded to the 9 min only while laying photon cannons to deter wraith attacks. Simultaneously, WD started blocking off his natural's choke while expanding.
For those who care, the shuttle was for dropping troops on the cliff. Nothing like a turbo newbie to ruin TWO expansions
At this time, WD sent a large force of m&m to his min only to secure it. Unfortunately for them, Who'sGotLag.IDO's observer was overhead and my mobile forces of 9 zeals, 4 dragoons, and 4 scouts were guarding the 9 min only.
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After the m&m's were munched, Who'sGotLag.IDO pushed into the area north of the temple and contained the terran's. Two gates warped in behind the containment force. 6 gateways, 3 stargates, + dark and high templar consume a hell of a lot of scratch so I expanded to the NW island.
While this was going on, WD had a siege breaking force assembled under the ramp. Who'sGotLag.IDO suspected that a siege breaking force would be coming soon, so he ran a "volunteer" in. The point of this was to catch the siege tanks out of siege mode and give them some low cost AC.
4 siege tanks and some m&m were waiting to go so... CHARGE!!! Unfortunately only some speedy zeals were available at the moment and well...
The dragoons arrived, but the zeals were dead and the tanks...
WD must have thought his dream came true.
Expansion time! NOT! Whew! Glad I saved those dark templar
The combination of dark templar and corsair/scouts kept the containment for the few minutes I needed.
With WD's army weakened and my island expansion online, the stage was now set for the final attack. My 6 gateways spat out a control group apiece of zealots and dragoons when the final attack began.
I hate to do this but WD's ramp bunker/siege tank combo was a serious threat so... sigh... disruption web. I feel so cheap now.
Since Who'sGotLag.IDO had another army forming at the choke and money flowing in, I expanded to 3 and 6's mains and naturals plus 3's min only as well. You never know, I might have needed them.
Sorry about the minimap but I didn't take enough pics. The changing viewpoints are because WW's pics are in there too. I changed the colors for you man... Give me a hug?
Oh, and this is the first pic. Forgot to include a starting title screen. (Tough, I'm not doing it AGAIN)
Learned anything?
- Kill protoss expansions!
- Expand against a terran wall-in
- Terrans: kill the expansion attempt
- You've read all of this before from better players so why are you still here?
If you see me online, try not to laugh to hard at my connection speed... please? |
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