[IceBerG] – Protoss

vs.

("Bad guy") – Zerg

The battle begins on the map, Rivary. Protoss warps in at the top left and begins with a forge first build, attempting to capilize on early gas.

With the 12 probe, protoss begins his scouting. He ventures to the barron plains of top right and bottom right before stumbling upon the zerg at bottom left. With a hatch at his natural and a couple sunkens... the probe’s life force is extinmguished. At this point Protoss warps in a Stargate and a Citadel of Adun, followed shortly by a templar archives. With another geyser needed, Protoss sends a probe to the 9 expansion and sets up shop with 3 cannons... re-enforced later by a dark templar and a high templar. Once the expansion is up and running, the protoss warps 6 sairs and realizes he still has only one gate. Four more gates warp in shortly after. With dts and hts are churning out, protoss gets a little greedy and again expands to the 12 expansion. This is again fortified by dts, hts and cannons. Unfortunately, right as the nexus warps in, the expansion is under HEAVY assault from mass lings and hydra. After many a zerg is sliced, diced and stromed away.... the ol arrives. ;-( Dts don’t fair so well once detection shows up. The dt production switches to zeals in quick order. Although the 12 expansion is lost, a nexus is warped in at the natural.

At about the same time as the 12 expansion falls, the 9 expansion comes under heavy attack from lings and hydra. Unfortunately the attack message was missed during another battle and by the time the protoss reacts, only one cannon and 1 ht remains. The base is abandoned and falls to the zerg horde. With 8 zeals, the protoss decides to check the map and begins a clock-wise cleaning. There is a brief skirmish at protoss’s natural, but the zerg fallback as the protoss zealots find a fledging expansion at the 6 spot. Although the protoss attack is fought off, it bought the protoss valuable time. There are a few more protoss attacks but they fail to do much damage. The attacks did show about mass hydra defending. At this point the Protoss warriors realize that macro vs. macro against hydras with chokes... isn’t gonna work, especailly considering the protoss warriors are largely outnumbered.

With macro not working, the decision comes to put the forgotten sairs to use, other than stray OL hunting. A Fleet beacon is then warped, along with a robotics facilty. Eventually the sairs, 4 goons, 1 reaver, and 4 hts gather outsided of the zerg’s natural. A suicide zeal gives some recon showing 48 or so hydra defending. The plan is in motion is then in motion. The sairs lay a blanket of webbing as the reaver walks in, the goons and hts following along. As the first scarab is felt, the hydra enter the webbing. With a mass of storms, and some scrabs... the hydra all quickly fall. The protoss warriors lose nothing in the initial assault. As the natural falls, 7 lurkers show up to the dance. One lurker is dealt with by the reaver, but the reaver then falls quickly with no observers around. The reaver is followed by the goons. With worries that the attack has been pushed back, the protoss realize there is a fully charged ht sitting around doing nothing. Two storms later, the lurkers are gone. Meanwhile protoss warriors (zealots) with their thick skin are laying waste to the zerg base main. With the 6 expansion sure to fall soon, the zerg finally give their battle cry.... "GG".