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| Dark Templar as Techno-Ninja (2vs2 rivalry) | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 08/01/99 04:08 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for Raistloaf: 6.0000 |  | Map : PGL Rivalry
Speed : Fastest (duh, they insisted)
Phenobarbitol : Terran 10:00 (Brown)
~=DK=~Zathcha:+: Terran 2:00 (Teal)
(top)
versus
(bottom)
-=NukeMasta=- : Protoss 8:00 (Orange)
Ironfist_2000 : Terran 4:00 (Purple)
Observers : Raistloaf
Bob_the_Newt
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To be honest, things went pretty fast in this game, but I promised these guys a BR, so here it is.
All players started out pretty standard.
Brown went double rax, teal double rax, orange double gate and purple triple rax, with brown going "relatively" early gas and academy. (His comsat was up early too, hehe)
Orange scouted out brown 2 mins into the game with a brave probe, he was branded as number 6 out of the nexus, pic#1.
He saw the two rax, and it looked as he was heading for an offensive-assimilator-warp(tm), sneaky thing, but two angry scv's got him first.
All terrans proceded with clogging up their ramps with bunkers and marines, orange stuck with zealots and later goons, which he could have placed a little closer to his ramp.
A short while later, a nice combined force from the top team attacked orange with a mixture of largely marines, some firebats and a few medics. As you can see from pic#2, NukeMasta should have clogged up his ramp better, and he lot his 11 zeals and 1 goon or so in this slaughter. With a better high ground advantage, I wonder about the outcome:-?
The top team lost all but some firebats and medics, and started to harass orange's probes and pylons. They took down some probes, and was roasting a pylon, but purple arrived with 9 marines and quickly cleared the area.
Orange had two dark templars out, and they helped too.
(Orange had some probes dance lambada with some firebats, it was pretty cool :])
When the top team realized it was DT roaming around, brown sweepscanned, but too late to retreat his few bats.
Now, you should think that both top terrans saw this and reacted accordingly, but hmm, read on, hehe...
Anyway, purple clogged up oranges ramp with his marines while his ally was rebuilding. Bottom team had no doubt taken a serious blow by this, and considered their next move.
Orange went up to the teal terran with his two DT along with some marines from purple. Their move was quite good.
Purple attacked the lone turret and took it down. He then sacrificed his marines and got one of two bunkers ripped open, all the while orange managed to sneak one dark templar into the compound UNNOTICED so far...
And what did they see ? No turrets by the minerals, and no comsat attached either, and still teal had an academy up.
Just 3 rax pumping men, an scv making a 4'th rax and plenty unfortunate workers. I commented this to the other observer, Bob, and we both started exchanging laughs and he had some hillarious comments..
Haha, it was funny indeed, watching the DT first take a good look of the place, laughing a bit, and then take down peon after peon, in a way that would make the ancient ninjas proud of this techno-assassin, pic#3.
Offcource, the other top ally, brown, did sweepscan after a LONG time, and did a much too fast immediate comsat after that, maybe because of teal screaming for detection...
The DT took out all workers I think, and now purple was chewing up teals ramp with M&M's which gladly joined the frenzy.
At this point, teal shouted "I surrender" several times, but soon after lifted all his flying buildings and headed for his brown ally 10:00.
Many of them were shot down at the top middle node by purples marines, but two rax made it to browns "safe" haven at 10:00, burning. And teal still had close to 3000 min in the bank i remember him saying. And no living scv's, what a pitty. :-/
Orange expanded to bottom middle, and quickly fortified it with two photons, before he started mining.
I was wondering, why didn't brown help his mate during this ? Well, he attacked orange with 8 marines, 4 medics and a lone firebat, but oranges plateu was well defended by 6 goons, 8 zeals and 2 high templars. They just shrugged :P
Pic#4.
During this, brown expanded to his gimme just below him at 10:00, and made a bunker at both bridges leading south from here, with a turret at the right bunker leading to the middle. Annother rax and factory was also promptly put up here. Then a brown vulture was going south to lay some mines i recon, but an orange goon found it, and orange did a nice dual attack on both bridges at the same time with goons, zeals and two high templars. It was pretty fun to watch :)
(Pic limit is 5, so no pic of this here, but i'm going to do a little cut'n'paste next time maybe)
Purple arrived with some 4 tanks, and together they took down the brown "natural" pretty fast.
Brown had his ramp pretty clogged up, and a nice psi-storm took out many marines, pic#5, but the bunker survived this attack, and the HT & goons were killed.
Bottom team had just 2 tanks supported by a lone goon left in browns natural, and then 3 wraiths arrived, uncloaked...
They took down the goon and tanks, but purple had a sizeable force of tanks, marines and medics halfway up the map...
Orange expanded to mid-right about this time.
Teal was alive and commanded 8 marines at this point, and was in relatively good spirit, although the top team was contained into browns main. Brown had some infantry, tanks and a science-vessel, but decided to leave and said "GG i guess". His teal ally was VERY upset about this, after all, it was he who had lost his main, but brown conceded nevertheless.
Purple came in hard with M&M's, but teals brave marines was overwhelmed. At least teals soldiers died standing up, instead of being turned into soulless zombies like browns infantry was when their commander surrendered.
Bottom team won !
Elapsed time 22:58.
Lessons learned:
-Dark templars are great against two terrans, especially one without proper detection...
-If you are guarding a ramp, be sure to clog it up good, thus taking advantage of the high ground.
Phhew, first br... It's late in norway and I'm hungry !
(Too bad about the MM Tourney 8[ )
| | Battle Shots! | 
Pic#1-And the orange probe takes a look around browns main...
Pic#2-The terran force did break through...
Pic#3-The ninja DT was just starting his scv-assassination...
Pic#4-The orange protoss defended better this time...
Pic#5-Good psi storm, but the toss troops died short after...
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