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| 2v2 slaughter! | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 10/17/99 09:10 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 3, Max: 8, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for NOOGIE: 5.8462 |   | BATTLE REPORT
Map Name: Lost Temple (my favorite map)
Connection type: IPX (local-area network)
# of players: 4
Players, races and location:
NOOGIE (me) - Protoss, 9:00
RHODELTA (my ally) - Zerg, 12:00
CELINE (enemy) - Zerg, 6:00
PAT (enemy) - Terran, 3:00
SUMMARY OF BATTLE:
The game started pretty typically with me building up to 6 drones and sending the 7th one to warp in a pylon and search for my enemies. I find CELINE first and my Probe attacks her drone, which kills it, then I rush it back and go 3:00 and find Pat's base. I warp in a gateway when the pylon is built and build 2 more Probes to harvest. I returned the damaged probe to my main base just in time to build another Gateway. My first zealot comes out just as I build a Forge and another pylon. After my second zealot came out and my third & fourth is building, I build another gateway as soon as I had the minerals (I also build some Probes to harvest minerals)
The action starts with CELINE'S zerglings, 8 of them, entered my base and encounters my 3 zealots. I destroy all of the zerglings but am left with one badly injured zealot. I build 3 more at the 3 gateways while I warp in an assimilator and build a photon cannon near the ramp. With a scream of "For Aiur!", my lone injured zealot attacks CELINE's base only to be killed by her Sunken colonies (2 of them). I build one more cannon, a pylon, and some probes to harvest some gas, all the while building zealots at my 3 gateways as soon as I get 100 minerals.
I build a cybernetics core while building another photon cannon. At this time I had 14 zealots and 4 photon cannons.
I decide to expand to my expansion just outside the ramp and move the zealot force to guard it while a probe builds a pylon and nexus.
A detachment of marines attack!! Aided by some Medics but fortunately no Firebats, I destroy the attack force from Pat, losing 5 of my warriors in the process. After the pylon was completed, I proceeded in building 3 photon cannons and in building a Starport back at my main base.
I also build some dragoons and some more pylons.
After building the starport, I warp in a fleet beacon, and upgrade my ground attacks and singularity charge.
At this time, Celine rushes with a dozen or so of range-upgraded Hydras, which I destroy with my zealots and dragoons. The attack was followed by 6 or so Mutalisks which I also kill with my dragoons and photon cannons. I build a robotics factory and build another starport while I upgrade the carrier capacity.
My ally was being attacked by siege tanks and marines so I bring in a dozen of my zealots and help. Three were left after the battle and they stayed at his base. I build more dragoons and now I have 20+ of them in front of my expansion. I build a shuttle and scout to see if the corner expansion is already taken above me. It was, by Celine. Surprising to see though that it is defenseless!!
I build 2 more stargates and warpin 2 carriers. I was being hard-pressed for gas so I needed that expansion bad. I build another shuttle. My attack force consisted of 2 dragoons, 3 zealots and 2 probes. I quickly take the expansion with no losses and warp in a pylon a nexus and an assimilator while my dragoons take up defensive positions. I make the shuttle return to my base to pick up 4 more dragoons and place them around the base which is immune from ground attacks (it is elevated.)
Meanwhile, a large group of Mutalisks have invaded my main base and since I didn't have cannons there, just two where my minerals are, I rushed a couple of dragoons inside my base, cursing the ramp which was usually a blessing to me and defended my base. I was expecting this so I had built 2 corsairs which helped a lot. The mutalisks, unable to take the damage, retreated. I build an observatory, some pylons around my base.
All this time I was also building more dragoons. Now I have almost 30 with level 2 weapons. I'm thinking of attacking when Pat attacks me with 4 siege tanks, something like 4 goliaths and a squad of marines + 3 or 4 medics. I defend my first expansion but with great losses. I lose 10 of my dragoons, mainly due to the cursed siege tanks.
Right now I have 5 carriers and 7 corsairs ready so I fly my carriers off to Celine's base and wala! find her base mildly defended with dispersed spore colonies! I quickly destroy the spore colonies as her Mutlisks (a horde of them) attack my carriers. My corsairs kill a lot of them before she switched the mutas from attacking carriers to corsairs. By the time she did tho, it was too late. Her muta horde is now an insubstantial amount, around 7 of them which she flies off, I assume, to another of her expansions. I destroy her base, entering the ramp with 16 dragoons and an observer which flied over, killing the several lurkers that defended her base. I found a bunch of Hydras too but they were easily dispatched by my dragoons and carriers.
I also see that my ally has attacked Pat with cloaked wraiths. I am pleased, but my pleasure turned to horror when I saw the wraiths get hit by an EMP rocket which rendered them visible to Pat's large number of Goliaths.
The goliaths served the wraiths a bunch of missiles, charon-boostered style and the wraiths retreat, losing most of their number. RHODELTA had destroyed Pat's starport tho and I was pleased.
Meanwhile, I build more dragoons and send my carriers (now joined by another one, now 6) to the right side of the map, seeing Celine's last (i hoped) expansion. I attacked with my carriers and my dragoons. I lose 1 badly-damaged carrier to grouped Hydras to her expense since my Dragoons slaughtered them while they group-attacked my carrier. Her mutas, now again a substantial horde, destroyed another of my carriers as my Dragoons struggled to bring them all down. I forgot to bring my corsairs! Leaving my Carriers at macro for the moment, I take my corsairs which was still hovering over Celine's last base and send them flying towards her expansion, bringing down a lo tof the wraiths. The rest was taken care of by dragoons. At this time, I had 4 carriers left, some badly mauled by the zerg forces. Celine was eliminated. I still had ALOT of dragoons tho, especially left at my base.
I relax a little bit and I see RHODELTA attacking Pat's base (actually his expansion outside the elevated starting point) with siege tanks and wraiths. His wraiths retreat once again as they are pounded by missile turrets and bunkers but his 10 siege tanks are an awesome force to behold. They shattered the bunker with ease and destroyed the turrets in front of Pat's base. He lines them up beside the ridge and places them all in siege mode. Pat manages to destroy 4 of them but his forces are really being mauled by the unexpected attack (I had sent an observer by request to spot for his tanks)
Grinning, I join in the attack and launch all my dragoons, actually, 3 groups of 12 dragoons (hotkeyed as 4,5 and 6) to his base. I assault his 2 bunkers along his ramp with disintegration bolts, finally destroying them. Pat's base was an open city!! My dragoons romped around his base destroying goliaths here and there. He had some siege tanks in his base which I also destroyed by sheer force of numbers. I destroy the turrets lining his base and I send in the carriers. Unfortunately, I didn't see the valkyries that were in the right most edge of the map. It inflicted lots of damage against my carriers before I was able to destroy them. Pat also had 7 battlecruisers which was very daunting. I didn't see them. They were apparently headed towards my base!
Crap! Good thing that the BCs were slow. Along with RHODELTAS forces, I destroy Pat's base just as his Battlecruisers enter the scene. HAHAHA.
That's it! =) whew, what a typing excercise..
Our total time was 48 minutes. My total killed units is 306 while I lost 64. I built 163.
Any comments, tips, helps, strategies, things I could've done better would be very welcome. Thanks!
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