"At this point, I remembered I had not built an academy yet, so after I whacked myself in the head a few times, I built one"
-Ativus
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| bleh | | | Author: | | | IP: | mblt-ac0XXXX | | Date: | 06/10/04 10:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
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Hanging around in nohunters, trying to find a decent game in the list of pubbies since noone was on, micromachine happens through and asks for a game. 17 game losing streak nothing, I'm gonna play. Blah blah blah, lt blah blah, I have it won blah blah, fuck up and die, typical of my recent games. Watch the replay, hope for somebody else to come through...nothing. So, we re. I don't remember who created the game, but we faced off on Winter Conquest. Which is most famous, at least in battlereports.com terms, for being the site for the first round of the World War Threeway FFA.
It's always a comforting thought playing random on a large map, especially when you're opponent chooses, but no such luck for our hapless hero. So, I'm forced once again into the uneasy position of facing an unknown opponent, but at least he is too.
I had drawn the bottom start position, with my brown Command Center and 4 scvs ready to carve up some...whatever the hell was out there. A semi-decent split ensued followed by hotkey and rally point spamming. I build a depot on 8, followed by a rax on 10. Once my depot finishes, the scv runs out to figure out what we're up against. I put my 2nd depot down at 12 and my refinery at 14. Another depot on 16, and put 4 scvs on gas as soon as it finishes. I build 3 marines and put them behind my wall, just in case things go wrong. I've scouted the entire right side, without seeing a thing...go ahead and build the factory. Finally, I find the bastard, he's expanded to the top starting position. My brave little scv continues on to find the zerg main, though I'm sure he'll get toasted.
I didn't find my opponent until my factory was basically complete, so I decide to do something a little different. Goliath drop on a zerg. Maybe not the best idea, but I have been able to tech, after all. First off, I throw my 3 marines at his expansion, just to get his attention. Then I put up a starport, with an armory right afterward, followed by another factory. My scout arrives at the top left position, ascends the ramp and gets toasted by a sunken...I mourn, I also see a finished lair, pool, hydra den and no units. We're both teching merrily away. Remember those 3 rines? Well, they get to the expansion, but, because I seem to be moving slower than molasses, they all die to 1 not very well placed sunken.
I'm in no immediate danger, so I start an expansion CC and an academy. I keep both factories pumping, and my one rax is flashing away, I may not be using m&m, but that doesn't mean I can't throw a few rines in the mix for flavor. My acad finishes, I have to rescue the poor, claustrophobic scv from his prison behind it, and put him on the other side. Then throw 3 goliaths and 2 rines into the dropship and head for that expansion. With a low troop count, I may be able to take it out, at the very least I should be able to force him to turtle. As my dropships flies to its destination, I float my cc to my mineral-only natural. I drop off my cargo, return the ship, and maynard about 14 scvs to my expansion. Yet again, I don't micro my attack, and only manage to kill about 6 drones before getting smoked by the 2 defending sunkens. Not that good of a drop, but it should do some mental damage. I build a wraith for scouting purposes...or actually more for preventing scouting. I like to keep the information flowing only one way...and I'm the one with the comsat, after all.
My wraith finishes and I send him to the lower left main, check for expos and prepare to escort my dropships. These dropships, all 3 of them, are filling up with goliaths and marines at my main. I hit my supply limit, so I begin 2 depots and another CC, along with the damage upgrade for metal units. I send my wraith to the edge of his plateau, fire on his overlord there, but run when he does. My dropships fly by another overlord on route, and I blow him up real good. I land my troops behind the mineral line, scan, remove the lurker and lay waste to the poor innocent drones. Now that I have you back on my side...I'll continue. About the time the last of them die, 6 hydras and 4 lurkers come racing in. Two lurkers pop before they can burrow, the other 2 get under while the hydras die, then I finally scan and kill off 1 of the lurkers, but I already lost to many to deal with his ling reforcements, and the last lurker lives.
Well, I still have the momentum, though I haven't exactly been capitalizing on...well, anything. Back at home, I begin researching siege and charon booster, and add an ebay and another factory. I load up 2 dropships to see what I can do at his main now. They move out again, with the wraith leading the way, he stops to fire on the heavily damaged extractor, and goes boom. Actually, I take that back, he went BOOM! as did both my dropships. They only unloaded a tank and 2 goliaths, which were quickly dispatched by the defending hydra-lings. I also managed to send my other dropship which had loaded 2 more goliaths to the edge of his plateau, where it also got hit by scourge. Don't you just love when you fuck up your hotkeys? Thought so. I managed to lose a wraith, 3 dropships, 6 goliaths, 1 tank, and a vulture while only killing a single lurker and drone. This attack would not get a cost-effective memorial from Mark4. In fact, it would probably receive a, "What the hell were you thinking!?!" from Ma |
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