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| Battle for Pride | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 10/21/99 10:10 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for Lord@newbie: 5.0000 |  | Greetings Cats and Kittens of the Gaming world, today I had the pleasure of watching two very good players duke it out in Starcraft Combat, Faith.Forever!! and @MarineDance. Both of these players have astounding Unit Control and I aspire to play like them. The Setting is Between the River Styx, a 96 x 128 map that has found its way into SC history as one of the most popular ladder maps in earlier seasons, before it was stricken out. These two old school players have no qualms about Styx and choose it as there feild of battle.
It was interesting how the game came to be, an arguement broke out about who had the better micro, Faith said he could micro goons like no other and @MarineDance said his micro was the best so after some heated looking smileys they busted out the game and asked me to watch to judge the Microing challenge.
Faith spawned top as protoss and Marine as terran middle bottom, they both choose to pick races. Faith started with his famous triple gate build.
8 pylon
9 gateway
10 assimilator
11 pylon
12 gateway
13 gateway
14 pylon
On 14 pylon Faith scouted only to find he scouted to late and had been bunkered in. With graceful ease Faith put up a cybercore and elegently placed 4 on gas while producing non stop probes. I thought faith took quite a risk in not making any zealots and jumping straight for goons. The Cybercore finishes and quickly range is upgraded, a 4th gateway is placed and the natural taken.
@MarineDance started with this build more or less, most of my attention was focused on faith since that was where all the action was:
8 Supply depot
11 Barracks
13 Supply Depot
14 Barracks
Refinery
Non stop marines goin on, this is where he bunkered Faith after scouting and seeing no troops, then Marine powered fast for vultures / tanks by putting up 1 factory followed closely by another.
Faith finished range and his expansion very close together, Faith "maynard transported" 9 probes down to the expansion while producing non-stop. With the 12 goons he had build pryer to range he microed his goons into there range of the bunkers and let loose. Faith Busted out and proceeded down to Marines base.
Marine felt the effects and mined in his own base placing tanks in an almost akward position behind the mines.
Faith suspecitng the mines starting heading reaver / observer tech while pumpin his economy. Microing very nicely faith sent 1 dragoon in setting off a lot of mines then proceeded in with the 11 goons left followed up by 12 fresh being sent from the 4 gateways up top. Reavers proceeded to be brought down as the massacre of @MarineDances base occured.
GG's were busted out, and the winnner of the micro goes to Faith.Forever!! who through the whole game only lost 4 units. He goon dances like I have never seen, even with the tanks, after one tank hit runs it back and then forward again. GG guys. These two are exceptional players and I congradulate both of them.
Overall Scores:
Faith.Forever: 54000
@MarineDance: 31000
Time Elapsed: 17:04
Battle Report by:
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