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| The BEST Land War ever, I swear-- 3v3 on Flooded Plains | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 05/22/99 06:05 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 8, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for [FLS]prozerran: 9.0833 |   | **** Warning ****
This report is fairly long because the game itself was long, intense, and extremely exciting.
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At 5am in the morning, without sleep and stuff, I pleaded the offer for the last game tonite. Well, I had teamed with Johnny_Vegas the whole night, and we figured, hell, we're a helluva team too! [i]Templar created the game on Flooded Plains, a 192x192 map. Despite the terrans nature of lack of mobility, Johnny still took this challedge and went for a 3v3. Players are [i]Templar, Pavenet, Johnny_Vegas, me, and 2 other dudes (sorry, forgot names) =(.
I got random toss, warped on the middle-right, Johnny chose his usual might terran, landed on the top left, and our partner drawn protoss on the bottom right. I sent my 9th probe that had just warped in my first Gateway, and located our first opponent, Pavenet, as protoss at the top right position right above me. Johnny's scouting SCV, however, discovered a zerg of our oppoenent in middle left. I went straight to 3 Gate zealots early on, while Johnny was gathering a horde of marines, and my other partner going for earlier gas, but 2 gate zealots. When my 3rd Gate warped in with about 5 zealots at home, our partner was mysterically disconnected. At that time there were no conflict yet.
With one less partner, I was encouraged by Johnny to hang in there, instead of accepting an offer of ally-vic from our kind opponents due to our unexpected loss of a partner. When I got 7 zealots, I asked Johnny to join this early force to rush the zerg. The zerg had 2 sunkens and a few zerglings, but the zerglings are no match for marines, and sunkens are no much for my zealots. Nonetheless, I suffered heavy loss in that attack, reducing my 11 zealots into only 3 left. I believe it was due to the zerg's ISP problem, that he got disconnected when his drones are being blown up.
With 3 Gate producing zealots, I got another 12 zealots fairly quickly, and immediately joined Johnny's force of marines/medics and vultures to attack Pavenet's protoss at the top right above me. He went for early goons from 2 gates, but not enough for our combined force of zealots and marines to take them down. Most of the buildings were taken down, but at this cruxial moment, [i]Templar had gathered a sizable force of marines/bat/medics to attack johnny's half emptied base!! We immediately pull back our attacking force to repel this terran threat, but some of Johnny's buildings were on fire, and for quite a while that johnny's SCV were running away from the invading force not mining. However, I believe Johnny had minimal loss of SCV though.
Using the 3 gate advantage, I thought it's still early enough to overrun the terran base with zealots and dragoons. I attacked with about 10 zealots and 4 dragoons, and, as I had hoped, reduced half of the terran base into ashes. Nonetheless, this attack was only successful because [i]Templar was sending his marine force on the way to Johnny's base again! With a poorer economy, those marines had posed a big threat to the safty of Johnny's base; however, being an *ass* that I am, I continued to pounding on the terran main base until his CC and many other unit supplying buildings were gone. I hope that the terran would pull back those marines to save his own base, but he didn't. Johnny was forced to fly his buildings to the corner to escape from the assault. At that time, Johnny had already gotten an expansion, and so had I.
When I thought I was cleaning up the terran base, several dragoon intercept with my reinforcing dragoons on the way. There were a few fights in the middle of the map, but the tide was turned when Pavenet attack my main with around 8 goons from everywhere direction into my main. he killed a number of pylon and my only cannon, and started pounded on my nexus. My returning troops barely made it there to keep the nexus survive. Pavanet had also teched to DT, as he tried to attack my goons with DT; but thanks to johnny's close attention even at my base, he com-sat and the revealed DT are dead quickly.
However, the nexus didn't last long enough when Pavenet suicide 6 dragoons to kill it shortly afterwards. Now I'm back to one base. At this time, Johnny grabbed another expansion and finally recovered, even better then before! We realize that the previous attack of our opponent had crippled our minerals, so we had to make up for resource disadvantage. With the aid was 3 siege tanks and 3 more later on, along with numerous unstoppable com-sat, my 12 goons were able to hit the toss exp on the top right corner with little loss, until [i]Templar's mass wraith saved the day. Nevertheless, the nexus and all the pylons were gone.
Now it seemed like that our opponent had called for cloaked units now: DT and wraiths.I quickly put up several cannons in each of my expansions (I had 3 now, only two gas though, and I never rebuilt my nexus at home because it was carelessly blocked by my cannon which I had for defense earlier on after the fall of my main nexus. At this point, Johnny had taken the advantage that we were on the attacking side, got 3 expansions in total as well.
However, when my first wave of dragoon tried to assault the bottom right corner, the excellent defense of cannons and dragoons had repeled my dragoons with little loss of his. He took this golden opportunity to attack my 1st expansion, with his fresh upgraded dragoons and at least 2 groups of wraiths. Fortunately, with the production of 6 gates at home, I was able to constantly build a sizable force when they hit. Again, with the aid of Johnny's com-sat, and teh mighty fire power of two siege tanks that Johnny sent to help me, I was able to eliminate all the intruding dragoons and the wraiths were forced to retreat.
After tasting the unmatched ground-air superiority of my massive dragoons fire, [i]Templar decided to try his luck against Johnny with his wraiths. I didn't look much at Johnny's base because I was busy of my own, but I did notice that some [i]Templar had damage several buildings and took out marines/tanks until Johnny superior ground to air units repelled the wraiths. At this point, I was feeling guilty of relying Johnny on doing all the mobile detection problem all across the map, thus I started to produce observers of my own. Once I had spare, I send them to all remaining mineral area. At that time, we decided to attack Pavenet's base on the bottom right again, only now with my 1/1/3 dragoons and valkeries and wraiths from Johnny! The cloaked wraiths are no longer much trouble for my dragoons since Johnny's Valk smoked them to ashes in no time. =) After the cannons and wraiths were fallen, that expansion fell too.
Without wasting time on this deserted protoss base now, I pulled all of my dragoons with newly warped ones to attack anything on the way. I encounted 6 BC, but to my surprise, my initially 16 upgraded goons were able to kill the unupgraded BC's. At the same time, Johnny was leveling the re-established main base of the terrans with goliaths, marines, and tanks. (were they really your goliaths johnny? I wasn't sure whether they were yours or [i]templar's)
With 6 Gates in the end, endless waves of dragoons were marching at the terran and protoss base in the buttom left corner, and our joint pressure was forcing their defense line further and further back, thanks to Johnny's tank with superior range. [i]Templar finally cannot take the force when my dragoons took down more BC and one exp. [i]Templar concede as we eliminated his last building, forgeting to offer an ally victory for him. We allied with Pavenet in the end as he claimed surrender to our mighty joint force. =)
The game, I believe, lasted for about an hour.
Most frequent says in the game:
"com-sat at ******* please"
"let's get their expansions at ******"
"shiet!"
"We're dead...."
"He disc'ed??? WTF!"
I don't wanna post anymore about lessons and other stuff, cuz I'm extremely tired and it's 10am with me haven't slept since yesterday. Hope you'll have a good time reading this. |
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