
Well when I woke up this morning I was in a battle reporting kinda mood. I had a TvP replay of Deez Vs a korean gosu but it was not action packed enough for my liking and not worthy of reporting.
So I had a bit of a dig through my downloads folder (you never know what your gonna find down there) and I found an awesome PvT of Danny going up against my pal Deez. So sit back, stare at my purty pictures and enjoy the BR!
The map of choice is the temple of doom (hey at least it not PvP).
Danny lands his ultra cool purple CC at the 12:00 location whilst Deez warps in his brown colored nexus at the 6:00 starting position.
Danny has randomed terran whilst Deez pre-selected protoss. Danny goes with a standard terran wall in and scouts with his depot building probe. Deez warps a pylon on 8 and scouts in a clockwise direction.
Deez goes with a standard build order VS a random opponent with gateways on 10 and 12 supply. Deez then begins a zealot and another pylon before his scouting probe reaches Danny's base and reveals his terran identity!
By this time Danny has almost completed his wall in while Deez switches gears and begins warping in an assimilator and a cybernetics core.
Danny's first factory is completed before Deez's cybernetics core is finished warping! Thats the advantage of being a random player!
Deez creates the begining of a containment as his first zealot arives in front of Danny's base and sits their along with the scouting probe.
Danny begins another factory whilst adding a machine shops to his existing one, at the same time Deez begins pumping goons from his 2 gateways.
Danny sends out a marine to check if Deez is containing him, the marine is quickly cut down by the probe and zealot duo.
Danny has begun researching spider mines and is producing vultures from both of his factories. Deez is continuing to produce goons and has begun to research the range upgrade for his ever growing squad of dragoons.
Danny sends out a loan vulture who lays a small mine field at his ramp before running Deez's small blockade. The poor little probe is assasinated before the evil vulture darts pasts Deez's zealot.
Deez begins warping in a nexus at his natural expansion while Danny, obviosly intent on breaking the containment, has begun production of tanks. It is important to note Deez has been sending all available Dragoons to reinforce his containment after the murder of his beloved probe.
Danny begins constructing a command center inside his base, looks like the push will be made soon! Deez sends his zealot charging (more like ambling actually) up Danny's ramp only to watch him get vaporised by 2 mines and a tank shell!
During this time Deez has climbed the tech-tree and has begun observer production for the invitable task of mine spotting.
The push is on!
Danny lifts his CC and lands it at his expansion while lifting his barracks and sending out all available troops. An SCV goes on ahead to see the location of the containment and is put to death by Deez's Dragoons.
Danny's tanks seige up, his vultures lay mines and a few dragoons are slaughtered before Deez moves his crab walking containment force of dragoons back.
Both players have a fully operational expansion by now and Deez ups his gateway count to 4 while expanding to his mineral only, what a macro whore!
On the other side of the map Danny is pushing out further and has added another factory, Deez lost a few more goons to Danny's push!
Deez realises that he lacks the offensive power to halt Danny's push and pull his goons back to his base, Danny is in control of the map!
Danny rebuilds his engineering bay (it died scouting) and also begins constructing a starport. Deez now has gas in abundance and is investing in the templar tech tree!
With his control of the center Danny feels confident enough to take over the 3:00 mineral only. At the same time Deez begins warping in 2 more gateways and begins upgrading from 2 forges! Deez has also begun researching psi-storm from his templar archives.
Deez begins warping a new nexus at the 9:00 main and sends some dragoons to the 9:00 mineral only. Danny continues to push into the center and loads 2 tanks into a dropship and heads for Deez's natural.
Deez has troops positioned on all sides of Danny's push and is preparing to make his move! Deez is probing Danny's push for any weakness's, Danny's tanks are spaced perfectly however and he has not over extended himself and inch!
Danny lands a CC on the top left island and has begun mining from the 3:00 mineral only, he is determined to stay even in macro terms! Danny 's attempt to turbo newb Deez's probes was a minor success, it killed some probes but Deez was quick to respond and shut it down!
Deez is now producing units from 8 gateways whilst Danny is producing out of 5 factories, Deez clearly has the macro advantage!
Whilst Danny continues to tighten his strangle hold on the center Deez continues to macro by adding a nexus inbetween 9:00 natural and mineral only (seige tanks are within range of the mineral only) and he adds 3 more gateways bringing his total to 11!
Deez hits his supply limit and sends troops creeping along the right hand side of Danny's push. Deez plans on flanking the push from both sides while driving up the center with his main force! In theory it sounds good but how well will it do?
With lightning quick speed Deez orders all 3 attack groups to hurl themselves at Danny's push! The intitial wave of troops has minimal affect but the next wave crack the push open with abundant use of psi-storm. Deez's troops dwindle in number and soon the offensive is halted, Danny was forced back to mineral only at 3:00 however!
Danny is quick to reinforce his push while Deez is content to rebuild his army from what is now 12 gateways. Danny is still only able to pump out of 5 factories due to severe gas problems!!
Danny is keen to take away Deez's resource advantage and mobilises a force of 10 tanks which raze Deez's nexus at the 9:00 natural. Deez is quick to counter attack and runs a team of 10 zealots along the right hand side of the temple and attacks Danny's CC at the 3:00 mineral only.
Deez notices how weak Danny's push is at that point and hurls every troop he has at Danny! Danny calls his attacking tanks back save 4 who assault Deez's 9:00 expo.
Danny loses his mineral only expo and his entire push is shattered. Danny sends in his vulture reserves in an attempt to quell the rampaging zealots.
Deez was able to fend of the attacking tanks at his 9:00 position!
Deez uses every troop for what its worth and storm blankets every one of Danny's units. Continues reinforcements from Danny's base are the only thing which allowed him to hold off the offensive!
Although Danny has
Deez at bay for now
Deez has no intention of letting it stay that way, he added anothe 3 gateways bringing the total to 14! During all the action Deez was able to slip 4 Dark Templar into Danny's natural expansion where every single SCV was slaughtered before help arrived.
Danny then launches a cavalry run with around about 20 vultures. With extensive hit and run tactics, coupled with great mine placement Danny's vultures kill vast amount of Dragoons and Zealots!
Danny's cash flow has slowed to a crawl and Deez has no intention of easing the pressure, infact, he wants to increase it! Deez loads 3 shuttles filled with troops and heads for Danny's island expansion.
All 3 shuttles are shot down but not before they unloaded their deadly cargo. Danny's slim defence of 2 tanks prove to be no match and Deez razes the expansion to the ground!
Danny goes for broke and begins seiging Deez's mineral only. Deez attempts to destroy the tanks but a large minefield decimated his attack force.
Deez rallies his troops and prepares a two pronged offensive on the push, one attack from the 9:00 expo and the other from Deez's main.
Deez attacks and with excellent use of psi-storm the push is broken once again. It is important to note that Deez has mined out his main and his mineral only and he in no longer making full use of his large number of gateways.
Danny is now in real trouble and only has about 4 tanks defending his base. Deez charges in and Danny fights him every step of the way, repairing tanks microing vultures but the mighty Deez warmachine slowly plows through Danny's base.
Danny is eliminated and the victory goes to Deez, but boy he had to earn it this time!
This game was a perfect example of how to use macro, micro and flanking tactics against a tank push. I honestly believe that without storm and those flanking manouveres Deez's macro would not have been able to carry the day!
Well I hope you all enjoyed my BR, post lots in the comments section as you probably know by now im a comment whore. I got 55 comments last BR so you guys have to top that!!
Bye all Furious!!
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