"The observers are always the master tacticians :)"
-~CattleBruiser~
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| Recall Rush | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 10/15/99 03:10 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for patheto: 6.2500 |  | This is not really meant as a BR, so PLEASE don't rate it, ok?
I was looking around nohunters, and eventually found (=Blank=), who offered a game on dire. Lag~monster aka Omnipresent_one joined and asked to be the observer, a request that we gladly granted him.*what has changed that ppl want to observe crappy players like me?*
I chose toss, he randomed and got terran. First look around showed me that I was on the NW island.
Anyway, I did a totally crazed-out strat i had thought up somewhere in the lower-quality regoins of my brain. I started of w/ pylon on 8, gate on 9, then gas, core, 2nd gate, stargate and citadel of adun almost simultaneously, 3rd gate,templar archives, arbiter tribunal. In the meantime I was getting a nice little troop of zealogoons from my three gates. I also chose to add a forge for detection in the form of cannons.
Lag~Monster:"patheto is doing some weird shit"
As my arbiter popped out, I had just started researching recall, and I send it to scout the two southern islands. When we wasn't there i send my arbiter home, in order not to risk it to wraiths. On the way back, it flew over blank's expansion, SW of his main. at around this time, blank scouts me with a wraith.
(=blank=):"WTF?"
Lag~Monster:"Told you"
The wraith escapes, but the ones who I now noticed chased my arbiter do not. They were welcomed by 5 goons, and several were shot down.
Time for the big strike. Entering from the north, my arbiter flew into his mineral line and recalled about 10 zealots, 2 probes and 8 goons into his base, but got downed by 2 turrets and a bunker. My forces eventually cleared the island, at which point he surrendered. If he hadn't, I would have started an expansion there, while getting another zealogoons troop at home, and perhaps getting some air units or at least shuttles.
So, what do YOU think of this strat? If i had taken about one minute more, I could have gotten hallucination along the way, making my arbiter's approach a lot safer, PLUS providing possible follow-up with storm.
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