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| Terrans vs Extended Prot Rush | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 06/27/99 03:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 9, Min: 4
Lifetime Rating for Etarenicni/PrinceCharming/Slicer: 7.2500 |   | Me: White Terran, bottom right
Him: Yellow Protoss, bottom middle
Map: Char Magma
Game: Capture The Flag
Okay, so I get bored of melee and decide to play some other game type in the vain hope that people will actually join. Two did. (the first guy left in under a minute) The other guy had a hideous record and sounded like a korean so I figured "He's a walking pile of gibs. I'll kick his ass easy." So I went my usual Terran build, early expand with some D.
Then he zealot rushes me with 3, then another. I laugh as my bunker pounds them into hell. I get academy, factory, comsat, and sat him - he has 4 gateways! "Geez.", I think as I make another bunker, get U-238 shells, and a few bats, medics, and vultures. I figure he's goin straight zealot for a while.
And he rushes me with zealots, and I repel them with minimal losses. And again. And again, a few more losses as I only have two bunkers, mostly marines, and no stim. I'm trying to tech and expand, but it's difficult as he has zealots following my flying CC.
I send a fairly large force of marines, meds, and vultures, as I see a cyber core in his base from comsat. I figure he's startin to tech.
He has 12+ more zealots! My guys die to it, he manages to get down to my base again, and we do the bunker/marine shuffle again. The attack is again repulsed. I get +1 marine attack, stims, and start to tech heavier.
Then I try to expand to my natural. Again, a large force of zealots, this time plus a goon, comes to my base. "WTF? Does this guy even know what high-tech units are?!", I think, as he reaches my base yet again and they all die.
I search for his expansions with comsat. He has none. At the rate he's spending minerals, he'll die of attrition.
I try to expand to my natural again, get an expansion going top left.. then 16+ goons come and visit! My natural expansion dies, I never got Tanks, some Spider Mines help- but my main weapon is bunkers and just a lot of regular marines. I also had three cloaked wraiths helping out. He sends more zeals after that. When I kill the last force of his, he says "ally". When I was in the middle of typing "yeah right you fuckhole, you tried to rush me all game!", he left. I continued, comsatted, and found his minerals GONE. I still had lots available for mining.
In the end, I killed like a HUNDRED of his Protoss units, while he only killed 71 of my Terrans.
What I could have done:
- More units. I had a good size stockpile almost all game.
- More SCVs. I only had about 1 1/4 per patch.
- Expand to other places, he didn't know where I was going.
- Tanks.
- More mines might have helped.
- More cloaked wraiths earlier. He had no detection.
- I seriously don't think he understood CTF at all. I could have probably dropped an SCV in, got the flag, loaded it back up and got home fast.
What he could have done:
- Used higher tech units (DUH!)
- Expanded.
- At least _tried_ to run around the bunkers to my depots and some SCVs out of range.
- Upgraded. He never did, even with all those units.
- Understood that large forces of Prot ground do NOT work too well against bunkers, mines, and terrans in general!
P.S. B&H do SC part 2 is coming out sometime soon, with more Terran shield screenshots :) |
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