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| First-BR! Text Only. | | | Author: | | | IP: | e2h2p24.XXXX | | Date: | 02/14/02 07:02 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 4, Min: 4
Lifetime Rating for Puma: 3.5000 |  | Hi, welcome to my first br, sorry no pic’s because this is being done in ms-word!?! But look out for my next report as is should be a lot better. This game took place about 3 days ago and I forgot to save it so pls don’t flame me to much. This game started as was going to be a 2v2 but after the three of us waiting around for around 5mins (everyone else was away playing BGH! Bah Humbug) we finally got bored and purple~puma suggested a ffa, all accepted and the game was soon underway. Here is the vital info:
Game : 3 player ffa
Map: B Bath (I know, but at least it’s not LT for a change)
Players:
Purple~Puma (Terran) Well known in the b.net Europe community, has good terran play with amazing firebat drops being his trademark. His zerg is not bad, protoss is his weakest race with early zeal rush being his only good strat.
ICE-Bob (Zerg) Part of the rather cool ice clan, renowned for having good players, bob has great zerg skillz, his muta micro is spectacular with great lurker placement being his speciality.
ICE-Kiss (Protoss) Protoss is not kiss fav race, being a predominantly zerg player although his defence is strong and he loves to go mass scouts for some pure bb-gun POWER!
Early Game
Purple~Puma has started by landing a dirty old CC at the 6 position, he clones his SCV’s to perfection with the first four mining madly while a fifth is on it’s way, on 8 he builds a barracks at the choke and on 10 it is followed by a supply depot to start a gosu wall in. Seconds later a second barracks is finished right next to the first and a second supply depot is also started all the while cloning more SCV’s as quickly as possible. A bunker completes the wall in and a refinery and academy are started at exactly the same time with a Comsat being built on the completion of the academy.
(Note: at this point no one has yet bothered to scout)
At this point from what I can tell ICE-Bob has been given a creepy old hatchery at the 12 position while ICE-Kiss has started at 3 with his lovely probes, his favourite was a little probe called Bolarp who had beaten a zegling single handedly.
Purple~Puma’s first comsat was soon seen twinkling over the 9 o’clock position where it revealed a new hatchery of ICE-Bob’s with around 7 drones working at the mineral line, for protection it had 3 mutas 4hydras and a small pack of zerglings. By now however Purple~Puma had three working barracks an almost complete factory and marine range upgraded with stim soon to come. So to quell this early expansion puma sends around 8marines and 2 med’s to help out leaving 8 marines in bunkers + another 2 homeless one’s wandering around aimlessly.
First Attack (At Last ;-P)
The brave marines congregated outside the choke of the zergling expansion awaiting orders, the order came to attack and it came fast, the marines went barrelling into the zerg base finding nothing guarding the choke but seconds later were set upon by a small group of around 10 zerglings. The zerglings were dispatched with only 3 losses to the marine count due to some fine micro with the waiting medics, seconds later though a force of 3 mutas came flying in from the back targeting the medics with about 3 hydras flanking them, the marines and medics were dispatched in record time. Purple~Puma sent a second wave of marines into ICE-Bob’s base but they didn’t fare much better.
As of yet little had been seen of ICE-Kiss and his noble protoss warriors, but that is all soon to change.
Mid Game
Thus far, the players have not said much to each other, this makes the tension in the game rise, as no one knows what the other is doing. Suddenly a massive attack comes knocking on the door of Purple~Puma. The attack is made by ICE-Bob, he has a mix of about 8 mutas, 2 lurkers, 20 lings and a few hydras. The attack smashes headlong into Puma’s wall-in, with the mutas being on the front line they go straight for the bunker with is firing madly at them, the group of lings seconds later join in the attack on the bunker and the sound of burrowing lurkers can be heard. ICE-Bob’s first attack is soon disposed of by the might of the bunker and the valiant SCV’ repairing it, a group of around 10 marines are standing behind the bunker joining in the fun whenever they can. The lurkers that had burrowed re-appear (now numbering 3) and move into detection range of the turret placed next to the bunker, the marines in the bunker take pot-shots at the lurker but only I can be destroyed before the lurkers take out the turret and bring the marines fun to an end.
The lurkers now bring the bunker into the red with the help of a few more mutas, Purple~Puma gets off a quick Comsat but the bunker explodes before it can do much real damage. Puma’s first tank soon pops out and sieges up just a little too close to the lurkers, chaos ensues, marines run in firing their gauss rifles into the ground at the evil lurkers as comsat makes the sky sparkle, the tank is firing it’s deadly siege fire and being repaired by 2 SCV’s. The tank explodes seconds later but ICE-Bob is now down to 1 badly injured lurker and 2 mutas which are taken care of by some stimmed m&m.
The action doesn’t rest though, 6 more zerglings race over from ICE-Bob’s main before the last muta has fallen from the sky. Purple~Puma has not as of yet had the chance for his wall-in to be rebuilt and has only 1 tank and around 8marines, the lings are dispatched with few losses but the “conga line” of lings are noticed by a large group of ICE-Kiss’s zealots sitting in the middle of the map. The 13546364 (10) lots move in for a closer look and find the badly battered defences of the terran, though the marines and tank fight bravely 4 zealots still survive and are soon joined by 2 more. The mighty SCV’s soon join the fray and take down three of the zealots before being completely destroyed themselves.
1 last bunker remains as a defensive building sitting beside the CC along with a burning barracks floating down by the mineral line, the zealots now number 5 again and set into the bunker, a lone SCV (the only one left repairs as best he can but the bunker explodes soon and by the time the last zealot dies only 2 marines remain. Before anyone has a chance to do anything else another line of dancing lings comes running into the bas killing everything except or a floating cc.
G.G Purple~Puma (Who now takes up observer status with his floating CC, heading for space at the 7.30 position)
End Game
The world suddenly becomes a little clearer as the fog of war lifts and the bases come into full view. ICE-Bob has fully working bases at the 12 and 9 positions, which show a good amount of tech with a hydra den, a grater spire morphing in, 2 evo chambers and a lair (along with other stuff). He at this point however has not defence (i.e.: sunkens or spore’s) and his standing defence amounts to only 15 or so lings, 2 mutas and 1 hydra spread between both his bases, even a small attack at this point could completely devastate him.
ICE-Kiss on the other hand has just taken the now deserted 6 and is cannoning the choke, his main has 2 starports and 3 gates which are flashing continually along with around 5 cannons at his main choke and a few dotted around elsewhere to discourage drops. Interestingly he has no goons at any point through the game, his standing army at the moment consists of only scouts and zeal’s.
With the stage set for a walrus of a finale, both players mass units, ICE-Kiss goes for erm… more zealots (now numbering around 17) and some more scouts (now at around 5). ICE-Bob goes for many-many speedy lings, 6 freshly hatched guardians, around 7 mutas and 3 lurkers who just happen to be lurking around the centre decide to join in.
The attack soon starts with ICE-Bob’s guardians moving to the centre and taking shots at ICE-kiss’s defending cannons at his main, the fist cannon explodes in a blaze of glory before Kiss can react, soon though his MIGHTY scouts move in to take down the pesky guards. 1 guard hits the deck quickly and a second is in the red when a group (4) of ICE-Bob’s mutas come in to help defend the guardians. At the end of the scrap, the scouts come off victorious with one of their number remaining, there are however still 2 guards left who have just taken the pylon in-front of the defending canons out, with no detection 2 of the lurkers now move in to cause mayhem.
A probe hurriedly throws up a new pylon and strangely does not get attacked by the lurkers, by the time the probe is finished however the lurkers have destroyed all but one of the defending cannons, ICE-Bob’s many lings rush past the one canon and into the main, they run into a large group of around 10 zealots which start to massacre the lings, the one surviving lurker however soon comes into the fray and zealots start dropping like flies. ICE-Kiss tries to send in his other pack of zeal’s from his expo. But as they get to the centre, they are ambushed by a pack of burrowed lings, the lots are obviously not on attack move and a few fall to the lings before ICE-Kiss notices.
The zeal’s manage to clear out their main but with only 2 left, ICE-Kiss has not been macroing very well and has very few troops left, ICE-Bob on the other hand has a good group of lings which run into Kiss’s main, past his 2 zealots and straight into the mineral line, some hydras come and take out the 2 remaining zealots and soon the main is being raised to the ground. At the same time, ICE-Bob is again using his guardians to attack the defensive cannons outside what is now ICE-Kiss’s main. The same thing happens here as did the 1st main, lings and lurkers wipe out the defences, with no way back ICE-Kiss thanks all for a GG and leaves.
WINNER: ICE-Bob
Lessons:
Never play 2 members of a clan in a FFA, they will just double rush you!!!! (DOH!)
If ICE-Kiss’s macro had been better he could have easily won the game
As always, scouting is vital, 1 small attack could have taken out ICE-Bob completely because he had no real defence.
Thanks for reading, I’d appreciate some constructive criticism in the comments, remember this is my first BR. (Look it for my next one with pic’s which always help)
~Puma~
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