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| I bust out of the tank push! Finally! | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 10/03/99 08:10 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 6, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for HolyAnarchy{GK}: 5.8333 |   | Whoo! I finally did it without help from an ally, while using zerg. I BUSTED OUTTA THE TANK PUSH! Whoo! I know all you nohunter's pro's do this all the time, but I've had probably 10 or so losses due to the tank push. And, it was against fellow NWTR-Nohunters user, Vinnie-AoK! Ya'know, he was -=Serberbus=-, i think that's how its spelled.
The main attraction:
HolyAnarchy{GK}, the tank push breakin pimp, headin out west at the 9:00 position with his zerg Hommies.
Vinnie-AoK, who is AoK, Randomed Terran at 12:00
The map, of course, is The Lost Temple.
Welp, as soon as the game started:
Vinnie-AoK: Zerg, eh?
HolyAnarchy{GK}: Yeah, practicing up with em
Vinnie-AoK: Your dead.
Uh oh. Why why why am I always gettin this matchup? WHY! I never asked for it! Anyway, I went 10/9, then started a hatchery ta my gimme...which probably made the difference in the game. I did the 10/9 trick again, then made a pool, then did it the THIRD time, and made a hatchery at my ramp. I was pumpin drones from my exp and main now, with the odd zerglings. In ran a SCV named...ummm...Twip to my natural. Twip was ripped apart by my doggie friends, because we never get to play anymore. Grrrr. I started 3 creeps at my natural, then had 1 done, 2 morphing when a pack of 8 marines raced to the outskirts of my creep. I invited Vinnie in, but he declined, then I saw why. 2 SCV's, named Mark and Johnny, started bunker outside of my natural.
BUM BUM BUM. The tank push I had feared hadn't taken long to start. I then thought of my favorite zerg ground units, the lurker. I got my main and natural going, and then noticed something...a bunker was close enough to my cliff for a long ranged thingie to hit...maybe a tentacle? I started 2 sunkens on the right side of my cliff, and destroyed the bunker...(Insert evil laugh here). My lair finished, and I made 5 hydras and started overlord transport. My initial plan was to drop some lurkers on the cliff above his push. I ran 3 lurkers down and burrowed, killing Mark, and a group of M&M's, before 1 or 2 tanks cut me down. Doh. Now I had a bunch of gas coming, and morphed 3 more lurkers. Transport was now finished, and I started Speed.
I morphed 3 more lurkers, bringing my total to 8! I dropped 3 on the cliff, and killed a tank and turret, then everything was out of range...=(. Oh yeah, my 2 sunkens and ramp hatchery had been destroyed, thanks to 3 tanks and a floating ebay. Then I thought of something...kick him in his balls, or another important part of his body. I loaded 6(!) lurkers into 3 ol's and started the long float to his main base. Speed kicked in. Now it was a moderatly long float. =).
When my party squad arrived, I saw 1 turret next to the Refinery, and that was it... I dropped the lurkers onto his main and ran in burrowing. I killed a bunch of depots, 4 or 5, and all the other buildings not near his choke that weren't able to lift off.
Back at home, I had been busy. I had 12 hydras now, when I noticed a single wraith and science vessel above my lurkers. The wraith veryyyy slowwwwwly was killing off the lurkers, and 1 was irridated. I started a Queens Nest and Spire at home, loading up the 12 hydras. I dropped them and killed the wraith, but the vessel ran away. I chased it...right into 2 tanks and a group of M&M's. Hey...where did THEY come from? I ran another 8 hydras intto his push...HEY! IT WAS ABANDONED! I broke through, killing Johnny, a bunch of turrets and 2 bunkers. I now was evolving a hive at my main, and made 6 scourge. I loaded another 4 lurkers 4 hydras up, and dropped them, following up with scouge. BLAM! MY burns was irradicated in a Nuclear Meltdown. How ironic.
My hive was done, and I started getting...what!? Can you guess? Vinnie Did! I was evolving a greater spire, while making mutas and hydras and lings, oh my! My greater spire finished, and I morphed 9 mutas into gaurdians. I was now at something like 1230/45. Yikes. I expanded to the 6:00 starting position. I also loaded up 12 hydras with gaurdians and plopped them down on the left of his main base. I ran the gaurdians into the bunkers and M&M's, killing them...but, there were 5 or 6 wraiths pounding on them! My hydras tried to kill them, but were cut down by fresh tanks...I even sent 24 lings and 12 hydras up his ramp, and I cleared his main.
No defeated message. It was now time to go home, because I was at my friends house. I ended up being 14 minutes late coming home. I ran 24 hydras to the ramp of the 3:00 main, and a group of goliaths and wraiths abused the high ground avantage and made short work of them...wow. This happened many more times, until I realized that if I was any later home, I would be grounded. We allied, and I also saw he had the island at the bottom right.
El Lessono's Learned.
o If you get tank pushed, do what I did! Drop their main. Chances are, they will have a ton of troops at the push, and Little defense at their main, aka Al La Vinnie. They will usually abandon their push and run back to defend their main, so you can kill their push.
o There are other options to push-breaking, aka Broodling, cracklings under sawrm, ultras under swarm, gaurdians...the list goes on...but my way was quick and fun too!
o Lurker's still own terran infantry, no matter how you slice it. For cost, 6 lurkers can kill an INSANE amount of M&M's.
No pics guys, once again, I was playin at my friends house...sorry. |
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