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| The 'Handler is in! | | | Author: | | | IP: | adsl-34-XXXX | | Date: | 11/15/02 09:11 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 9, Min: 8
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Hey everyone on BR.Com, I finally got tired of not doing BR's and figured I would do one, even if it is Starcraft. There is still somewhat of an audience for that, right?! Or maybe I'm just living in the past. Either way, this is my first REAL report in a while and I tried really hard and put weeks into this one, so I hope you all like it. Actually, I just can't skateboard cuz I tweaked my ankle and now I'm stuck inside for a couple-a weeks with nothing to do, so I am BRing a game.
It is so fucking hard to find a good SC/BW game to report nowadays, what with War III and all. I thought this game definitely deserved to be reported, because there was a lot of back and forth action and some Gosu ass strategies. So here it is, the first PooHandler BR since forever, under Broken Asshole Productions. Enjoy.
Both sides get to mining and eSu.DReaMe sends his Overlord to the 9 o'clock position and starts scouting in a clockwise direction. (orky)Asmodey opts not to scout with a probe in order to keep his production as high as possible. At 9/9 control, eSu.DReaMe makes an Overlord and then once his money gets back up to 50 minerals, he makes an Extractor, then a Drone and then cancels the Extractor, to get a little advantage on production. (orky)Asmodey makes a Pylon by his ramp and 9/9 psi and then makes a Gateway almost immeditately afterward, and then sends the probe out to scout.
eSu.DReaMe starts a Spawning Pool at the same time that (orky)Asmodey begins warping in a second Gateway, still at the ramp. This is about the time that the first Gateway finishes and he starts Zealot production. Both players find eachother at exactly the same time and eSu.DReaMe morphs an Extractor on (orky)Asmodey's geyser to halt productions, which it does, because it took (orky)Asmodey a considerably long time to get rid of it.
This is about where the action starts with a quick recon rush with a pack of 5 or 6 Lings sent over for surveilence of (orky)Asmodey's base. eSu.DReaMe also gets a second Hatchery out by his  ramp and a third at his natural expansion. (orky)Asmodey, feeling he had more than enough for the job, rounded up 5 Zealots and 2 Probes and began a march across the temple to eSu.DReaMe's base. They meet with a group of Lings at eSu.DReaMe's natural and start up a little brawl. Due to some quick thinking on the part of eSu.DReaMe, he manages to take out all 5 Zealots, with one Ling to spare, and chase off the 2 remaining Probes. During the onslaught, (orky)Asmodey makes a Cybernetics Core and begins to warp in a Citadel of Adun, while simultaneously sending out another group of 5 Zealots. This attack works even less than before, and (orky)Asmodey loses all of his Zealots AND the 2 Probes.
(orky)Asmodey starts researching faster Zealot movement and warps in a Templar Archives, a third Gateway, and a Forge. After all the early game expanding, eSu.DReaMe finally starts a little bit of teching and morphs his Main Hatchery into a Lair and, afterwards, morphs a Hydralisk Den, and immediately starts evolving Lurkers.
(orky)Asmodey brings 5 Zealots and a newly-made Archon and start yet another march across the map to eSu.DReaMe's base. But, on the way, eSu.DReaMe sneaks a large group of Lings past (orky)Asmodey's marching army and head into (orky)Asmodey's base and go after the Probes, which forces (orky)Asmodey to bring the aforementioned army back to his own base to fight off the attack which he successfully did. He then rounds up a couple more Zealots to add to his army and gets to eSu.DReaMe's natural, only to be greeted by 3 Sunken Colonies and a decent group of Hydralisks. The 3 Sunkens are disposed of, but sadly, so are all of the Zealots and it is up to the Archon to fend for himself. Meanwhile, back at (orky)Asmodey's main, he warps in another Archon and a couple more Zealots and starts to warp a Robotics Facility in.
 On the other hand, eSu.DReaMe uses his new Overlord abilities to pick up 2 Lurkers and hastily drop them on the edge of (orky)Asmodey's main plateau. He tries to burrow them at the mineral line, but there are 2 Photon Cannons guarding the Probes, so eSu.DReaMe must settle with a position to the south of the Assimilator. What eSu.DReaMe doesn't know is the (orky)Asmodey had an expansion being built at his natural, and it is a pretty nice one, I might add, complete with it's own Pylon and Photon Cannon. The burrowed Lurker manages to do very little before (orky)Asmodey warps in an Observatory and an Observer and is able to kill the Lurker with an Archon.
A few seconds after (orky)Asmodey begins warping in the Assimilator at his natural, eSu.DReaMe sneaks a Lurker through the front line of 2 Cannons and gets the the Natural's mineral line, where he prodeeds to burrow and halt (orky)Asmodey's economy for a short time. While this is happening, (orky)Asmodey bring 2 Zealots and 3 Dark Templar to eSu.DReaMe's natural, but are quickly chased off because of a group of Hydras and a couple of Overlords sitting around for detection purposes.
(orky)Asmodey gets an Observer out and brings it over to his Natural, where the Lurker sits and attacks the Assimilator. The Observer uncovers the Lurker's position and ORKY sends 2 Zealots, a Dragoon, and an Archon to take care of that little problem, then takes that army, adds it to the group of Dark Templar from the above paragraph, and head back over to eSu.DReaMe's natural for another try, but on the way they encounter a large group of Hydralisks and 3 Overlords ready to drop them on (orky)Asmodey's main plateau. The Overlord picks up the Hydras and dropped them on the pleteau. (orky)Asmodey's group ran up his ramp as fast as they could and met the Hydras at the drop, where they were quickly put to death.
 Meanwhile, back at his base, eSu.DReaMe started another expansion at the minerals in front of his plateau. He has 2 Overlords and a huge group of Hydras and Lurkers protecting it. (orky)Asmodey goes for another attack on eSu.DReaMe's natural, but sees this new expansion and attacks it instead. They mainly go for the Hydras at first, taking them out in pairs very quickly, but eventually just open fire on anything they can find in their vicinity. Feeling overpowered though, (orky)Asmodey makes a quick retreat and starts a plateau natural of his own, in front of the 3 o'clock main.
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In case there was any confusion about the expansions of our 2 players, (orky)Asmodey has 2 expansions. One at his natural, guarded by 4 Cannons, and one at the 3 o'clock plateau, which currently has all of his buildings warping in. On the other side is eSu.DReaMe with a Hatch at his ramp, an expansion at his Natural with 2 hatcheries, one expansion at his plateau with a Sunken Colony, and moprhing Hatchery on the bottom right island. I hope that cleared things up.
 While (orky)Asmodey is still warping in his 3 o'clock plateau expansion, eSu.DReaMe comes in with a huge group of Lurkers and Hydras and start tearing everything apart. (orky)Asmodey has a group of some Dragoons, a Zealot or 2, an Archon, and a Templar; which now has Psy Storm and comes in handy in this situation. eSu.DReaMe's attack only destroys a warping Cannon before it is pushed back by (orky)Asmodey's forces and eventually destroyed.
 (orky)Asmodey realizes that he is going to need more reinforcements and starts warping 2 more Gateways at his main. eSu.DReaMe drops 12 Hydras on (orky)Asmodey's plateau and all (orky)Asmodey had to defend at his main was one Dragoon. Before (orky)Asmodey can even get an army up to his main to take out the Hydras, the Hydras were able to destroy a Cybernetics Core, Robotics Facility, and the Nexus. (orky)Asmodey finally brings up a few Dragoons, an Archon, and a Templar, but the damage was already done, and eSu.DReaMe picked up his Hydras and brought them to safety with the loss of only half of his army.
  With far superior upgrades, (orky)Asmodey bring a large group of Archons, Dragoons, and Zealots to the center of the map, on the way over to eSu.DReaMe's base, but meet up with an army of Hydralisks on the way. But, like I mentioned before, (orky)Asmodey had way better upgrades and chased off or killed the Hydra army. (orky)Asmodey's army makes a turns to the west and it leads right into yet another expansion of eSu.DReaMe's, with no protection, an easily takes it apart. Some Hydralisks come from behind to try to stop the attack, but the Templar turn around and 1 Psi Storm takes care of them all.
(orky)Asmodey adds about 5 more Zealots to his army and goes over to eSu.DReaMe's plateau expansion to fight. A Templar is sent in first to break apart or kill the groups of Hydras, and then the rest of the army is sent in. (orky)Asmodey kills a good amount of units and buildings, but nothing too significant.
eSu.DReaMe knew it was time for action and loaded a shit load of Hydras and Lurkers into some Overlords and brings them to the back of (orky)Asmodey's natural. Unfortunately for him, eSu.DReaMe only manages to kill a few Probes before they run away and a bunch of Zealots and Dragoons come in and take care of the Hydras and Lurkers. This is also about the time that (orky)Asmodey got his main plateau expansion with a Pylon and 3 Cannons.
Obviously (orky)Asmodey is getting ready for a huge attack. He has 4 Shuttles and is pumping out a ton of Zealots and Dragoons to put in them. There is a huge army at both his main and his 3 o'clock plateau expansion. (orky)Asmodey brings a huge army, mainly consisting of Zealots, over to eSu.DReaMe's bottom right island expansion and systematically takes it apart, piece by piece.eSu.DReaMe put up somewhat of a fight, bringing Zerglings in through his Nydus canal and hatching a few Hydralisks, but he is forced to abandon the cause and go about his business elsewhere. At the same time (orky)Asmodey brings a mass of Zealots to eSu.DReaMe's plateau, but the attack fails and all of the Zealots die, and immediately after, he drops the remainings Zealots and Templar from the island attack at the back of eSu.DReaMe's natural. This turn out to be successful, by destroying eSu.DReaMe's defenses and crippling his economy before finally sucumbing to Ultralisks and a bunch of Lings. At the exact same time as he was being attacked, eSu.DReaMe sent some of the excess Ultras and Lings to tear up (orky)Asmodey's now unguarded natural.
 Once eSu.DReaMe fended off the drop at his natural he sent his remaining 3 Ultralisks and a few Lings to (orky)Asmodey's main and start tearing shit up. And the fact that (orky)Asmodey used all his units on his prior attack and had no defense at his main didn't help either. eSu.DReaMe was able to destroy about 3 Gateways, and the ones that weren't destroyed no longer had power because eSu.DReaMe also destroyed the Pylons. Eventually (orky)Asmodey warped in a couple Dark Templar and a Zealot, but to no avail. (orky)Asmodey was still overpowered and without economy. And if that weren't enough, eSu.DReaMe also dropped 2 Lurkers on (orky)Asmodey's plateau expansion and started killing the probes. A couple of Dragoons were brought out to help that, but they died in the process. The Dragoons were succesfull in killing the Lurkers, and vice versa.
After that, a Lurker was brought up (orky)Asmodey's main to help the Ultralisks out in the assault on ORKY. A single Zealot was dropped on the mineral line of eSu.DReaMe's plateau expansion, but 6 freshly hatched Zerglings and a Sunken colony were more than enough to chase it off.
 (orky)Asmodey puts a Templar and a Zealot in a Shuttle and starts flying it around looking for somewhere to attack, and even with a bunch of Ultralisks and Zerglings on it's tail, (orky)Asmodey drops the Templar behind the mineral line of eSu.DReaMe's 9 o'clock natural expansion and kills all but 2 Drones. The Templar is then picked back up and flown to safety.
There has been a big change in map posession since the last update. (orky)Asmodey has been reduced to his main plateau expansion and about half of his main is intact. eSu.DReaMe on the other hand still has his main, ramp hatchery, natural, main plateau, and the 9 o'clock natural expansion. The odds would seem to be in eSu.DReaMe's favor, but upon further inspection one would note the fact that (orky)Asmodey has a better economy than eSu.DReaMe.
 The shuttle that held the Templar and Zealot went back to (orky)Asmodey's main and picked up a newly warped Reaver and heads back to eSu.DReaMe's 9 o'clock natural, and the Reaver manages to either kill or chase off the Drones on the mineral line. The only downside to this drop was the there were 2 Scourge waiting at the natural and killed the Shuttle after it had dropped the 3 units. Extremely unfortunately for eSu.DReaMe, just as he brings his Ultra/Ling/Hydra army to the 9 o'clock natural under attack, (orky)Asmodey flies a new shuttle across the map and picks up the Reaver, Zealot, and Templar before they are put in too much danger.
All is quiet while both sides try to rethink their strategies a bit. (orky)Asmodey puts a Probe in a shuttle and brings it over to the top left island and sets it down, followed by 2 Dragoons for protection of the newly forming expansion. Sadly the attempted expansion fails when eSu.DReaMe drops 8 Zerglings on the island, which quickly destroy any opposing units.
 Although the expansion ended before it really even started, (orky)Asmodey still had a very respectable army building up in his main which he packed into 4 Shuttles and brought over to eSu.DReaMe's 9 0'clock natural. The drop was enough to chase away a group of Ultras and Lings and (orky)Asmodey destroyed the entire base in mere seconds. But once again, Scourge took out the Shuttles and (orky)Asmodey was forced to move to the next base on foot.
 Meanwhile, eSu.DReaMe, trying to take advantage of the fact that (orky)Asmodey's units are away, eSu.DReaMe sends a huge fuckin group of Lings to see if he can take (orky)Asmodey out before (orky)Asmodey can take him out. They reach (orky)Asmodey's main plateau expansion and start attacking everything in sight, but (orky)Asmodey put all his Probes in the way so the Lings can't get to the Cannons. (orky)Asmodey is able to get his group of Zealots and Dragoons to the expansion and fend off the attack. eSu.DReaMe does manage to kill a bunch of Probes and raze the Nexus, putting a damper on (orky)Asmodey's economy.
 With both players' economies low, (orky)Asmodey and eSu.DReaMe struggle to put together anything that could quite resemble an army, or at least make an attack that counts. (orky)Asmodey drops a Reaver on eSu.DReaMe's main plateau mineral and kills all but one Drone. This means that eSu.DReaMe only has 4 Drones now, and hardly, by any standards, what I would call an army. On the other hand (orky)Asmodey has many Probes taking in lots of money at his main plateau expansion, but nowhere to put the minerals. His Nexus is still warping in at this point, but at least he has a pretty decent army consisting mostly of Zealots with a couple Dragoons and Templar.
 eSu.DReaMe realizes he needs to get some money quick and builds an expansion at the 3 o'clock natural. Also, (orky)Asmodey's Nexus at the plateau gets done warping in and his mining commences. The army that eSu.DReaMe does have starts searching the map for any loose units just standing around, and he finds a couple of Shuttles, which he destroys with Scourge, and a Dragoon and Dark Templar, which are easily taken out with his army of about 15 Lings and 2 Ultralisks. Sadly, a Shuttle transports a Reaver to eSu.DReaMe's new 3 o'clock natural, sets it down, and in one swift shot, kills every Drone at the mineral line. He then picks it back up and starts to ride away, but the Shuttle and everything in it are struck down by the mighty Scourge.
(orky)Asmodey brings another Reaver to the 3 o'clock natural and seriously terorizes the shit out of every unit there and keeps eSu.DReaMe occupied. Then (orky)Asmodey brings in a group of about 7 Zealots as well, and destroy everyone and everything on that 3 o'clock natural base. This is basically the end of eSu.DReaMe, he has no Drones to mine and only 35 minerals. He has 2 Zerlglings and 2 Sunken colonies and that is the extent of his defense. eSu.DReaMe realizes that trying to fight at this point is a lost cause to the fullest so he leaves. The winner of this long, Gosu as hell game is.....
Welp, there you fuckin' have it. It took me about 2 weeks of nonstop working to finish this, but I finally got it done and it was worth it. I hope you enjoyed it, and if not then "FUCK YOU!" O.K. J/K. But please feel welcome to leave any comments and constructive criticism in the comments section. Peace.
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