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| A Crazy and Interesting 3 FFA | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 09/06/99 02:09 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 7, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for KitNorja: 6.1667 |   | A Crazy 3 FFA
Pre-Game Stuff:
The Game: 3 FFA
The Map: The underused Lost Temple =)
The Players:
Our Hero, KitNorja(DPP), Random Toss at 12:00
The Newbie, Andymarine, Random Terran to 9:00.
The Enemy - Pyrotoss (I think)- Choosen Toss to 6:00.
Early Game
I find my nexus warping in at 12:00. I go 7 pylon, 8 gate, 9 pylon, then assim, with a zealot at my choke in there somewhere. Another gate, more probes, 3 more Zealots, and I'm rolling. I decide I might as well try and do a little reaver dropping, so I start up that path once I get a cyber core. I've added a forge to my base, with a pylon, shield battery and 2 cannons to my choke.
Now, through out this whole first 5-10 minutes of the game, Blue has been sharing vision with me, even after several times of me telling him I am not allying, this is a FFA. Yellow explains that FFA is free for all, and he gets all upset saying "Why didn't you tell me that!?!"
*sigh*
I have a shuttle by now, and take a probe to the upper left island. I always try to expand to an island first, before my natural for some reason. I always feel unsafe in my natural =). While that starts up, my reaver has popped out, and blue is under attack I believe by yellow.
Did I mention at the beginning when blue kept asking whose team he was on, none of his SCV's were moving. About 7 minutes in the game he didn't have a Barracks. *sigh*
"andymarine has left the game"
Great. One on one.
Well I was going to drop on Blue, but now he's gone, so I find the left-back of yellow's base open, and drop the reaver. He kills quite a few probes and zealots before dragoons show up and end both the shuttle and the reaver's lives. =[
I vow to avenge their deaths.
Suddenly a horde of zealots and goons show up at my door, mad as hell. With a little micro, my 5 Zealots last a little longer, but the choke is overrun. I order up 4 goons, to add to the 4 I have, while he pounds on the pylons at the choke. Thank god. That gave me time to save my ass.
My first 2 goons pop out just as he moves to attack. Then 2 Zealots. I finally beat him back, with the pylon burning, but no other building losses other than the ones at my choke.
I want better defense at my choke.
I build more Zeals, and a reaver, 2 pylons, and 4 cannons I think with a shield battery at my choke. (See Pic)
Meanwhile I have teched up to Temp, and gotten observers ALL over the map. I am surprised he has no expansions at all. Hm.
Mid-Game
By now, my island expansion is rolling, and I've got meager defenses, and a gate there, bringing my total up to 3. (Mental note: Make more gates).
I pump out some Temp and get Psi when a shuttle with *gasp* 4 Zeals pops out in the middle of nowhere on the place of my main. [Insert Psi Storm sounds here]. That killed 2 off the bat, then my goons wiped out them and the shuttle. I get a Stargate, headed towards Corsairs.
I expand to my natural, mynarding 8 probes from home (others went to my first expansion earlier). I put one on the cliff over looking my expansion to warp in 2 cannons, and the others warp in 2 pylons, nexus, and ass. A Temp and Dark Temp quickly join them, the cannons come to join (see pic).
I see something yellow at 9:00's mineral only expansion.
I laugh to myself.
He is expanding THERE. I check his natural.
Nothing. I let the base get established, he's got cannons to the northeast, towards my main, but nothing in the back. I scoot a shuttle around, and drop happy reaver #1 and #2. They chat a while, sip some tea, and throw scarabs at their defenseless robotic counterparts. Many a probe die. Some zealots charge up, and get one hit before all dying. I take down the nexus, the 2 gates there, robo facility, temp archives, and the pylons and cannons, losing one reaver that inched too close to one cannon.
More yellow.
This time at my choke. Like 6 zeals.
I laugh again.
They charge, goons fire, reaver fires, my zeals hack away. They live maybe 4 seconds.
Recap:
I've got 2 fully running expansions going, I've got all the tech items, working on alot of goons and arbiters, with 12 corsairs with d-web. He has 0 expansions. I'm ahead =)
MORE Yellow. This time at his natural.
I laugh some more, moving my shuttle with the surviving reaver from his last expansion and drop. Kill the pylon, cannon, and probe before archons and zeals show up to dispatch.
I move in -1- Dark Temp a second later. I kill all 12 probes, and nearly get the pylon before an observer shows up. Oh well.
I decide to let him have that expansion, because I've nearly got a doom drop/recall ready =)
Lots o' goons.
End-game
Now he gets greedy.
Obserer # 451246 reports that an expansion attempt is starting at the southeast island. I grab 2 Dark Archons and 2 Goons.
But I notice a Dark Archon standing guard. Hmm. This could be only a little more difficult than I thought.
But once the nexus, assimilator, and a pylon start, he picks up and leaves.
"WTF?" I say to myself.
He is starting a naked expansion.
Mwahahaha.
I drop the goons, kill the pylon, and move my observer over to watch for any shuttles.
What do you know, over the horizon comes a shuttle.
This cannot be allowed. One my Dark Archons yells out:
"NO SOUP FOR YOU, ONE WEEK!"
So I got a free Dark Archon and normal Archon =)
This is when he called "gg".
Great game, for me at least =)
Lesson's Learned
1.) Block your choke effectivly.
2.) Allow no more than 1 expansion, at all costs.
3.) Observers rule =)
4.) Reaver's are pretty awesome against probes =)
Now, battle shots!
Sorry about not cropping the images or making fancy designs like YRM. =( I only have paint to work with here people! =)
Go for the Gold!
-KitNorja
| | Battle Shots! | 
Allow only one. Notice the burning pylon that my DT harmed =)
NO SOUP FOR YOU, ONE WEEK! =)
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