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The Dark Temple

     Meet The People

BB-Chargon  Protoss: 3:00: the main crop from your local funny farm. This guy is Certified Insane. He needs to use more common strats to win games, or he'll start winning all of his games. Duh.

IceD-Tree Protoss: 6:00: This guy wanted to be in a TheRubberDucky battlereport so bad, that he stayed up all night having me obs him own people so bad. He lost only once out of 7 games, along with another 4 way tie (I still think mark4 won that one though) Two of the games were against BB-Chargon. Also, he played an FFA where he got hold of a SCV, and was left alone with 7 islands for a long time. Here's what happened.

Spicoley Terran: 9:00: Normal old Terran strats, but can he pull it off in a Dark FFA?

I_Hate_Medics Terran: 12:00: Apparently, he hates medics. Why, I do not know. Probably the same reason that evil doctor turned me into a walking, talking, bath toy.

Let's Start this damn game!

      After nearly 36 hours of careful deliberation over the title with three conflicting views, held by me, myself, and I, I begin to write this battlereport. Yay.

         Each player begins with the rather boring behavior found in people who mine minerals rather than RUSH RUSH RUSH. They two races, (Not teams) had similar build orders. Both Terrans seemed to be going for a build order that would allow them to produce large amount of Psi-Storm fodder very quickly, while both protoss seemed to be going rather quickly for the spell that makes fodder out of terran infantry.

        IceD-Tree was working on his Templar archives, and had a probe on the outer edge of the bottom left island building cannons. (On the low ground of the island) BB-Chargon now had a dragoon, and 2 zealots (0/1/1)  on his ledge, hoping to defend any drop. I_Hate_Medics dropped 1 wraith, 2 tanks, 3 scvs, 4 marines and 1 fryboy landed on the the ledge, easily removing the defenses. However, a reaver had just finished, and was dropped with a dragoon to try to stop it.  Both tanks and 2 infantry units were lost. Fortunately, a bunker adds +2 range to the marines, so they were able to destroy about 1/4th the probes at the expansion before 3 dragoons and a new reaver destroyed it.

       IceD-Tree was defended against a Turbo Newbie, so that he wouldn't have the same problems that BB-Chargon did. He had 3 cannons, a shield battery, and a stargate on his ledge. Spicoley had 2 tanks next to his gas geyser at his natural, but that might not even be enough. Since he hadn't been in any conflicts yet, he expanded to his 2nd natural.

     Blue, who just got recon with an observer for white's base, felt he could easily destroy it. 12 zealots 5 dragoons and 1 probe all  made their way up the terran ramp, where they met with 12 marines and 3 tanks, 2, unsieged. Thinking this was merely a social call, I_Hate_Medics called out "hi" only to be ripped to shreds by the psionic blades of the zealots. The attack completely destroyed white, leaving his base to be destroyed by a lone zealot.

     Spicoley and Yellow, currently the most powerful forces on the map, could have easily run over BB-Chargon at any time. Instead they chose to fight. Spicoley now had both his naturals running smoothly, same for yellow, except he also had an island mining furiously.BB-Chargon was starting an expansion at White's old natural, rather than just taking his own 2nd natural. (Which would later be one of the most valuable resource nodes on the map) IceD-Tree had added several corsairs, now with Disruption Web to his army.

     Furious that his attack was driven off by a much larger attack, Spicoley should have placed tanks on the cliff at his plateau that could hit the dragoons away from the expansion, making it easier to push him out of the base. Instead of doing that, 5 tanks, several marines and goliaths stopped just below the cliff that can drive dragoons away. At the same time, IceD-Tree sent several Dragoons and Zealots to where he thought blue's second natural was, but turned out it was empty, except for a BB-Chargon observer. Back at Yellow's second natural, Arclite fire began to tear down the nexus. Psionic Storm made fodder of the marines and most of the goliaths, but the remaining tanks and goliaths proved to out match yellow's forces there greatly, forcing the dragoons and zealots at blue's second natural to retreat.

     Clicking back to the dragoons, IceD-Tree realized they were being attacked. BB-Chargon lightning was called down by the templar of both sides, but the reavers that BB-Chargon had easily destroyed the dragoons, leaving IceD-Tree without any army to speak of, and down 1 natural.

        The tanks and golaiths tried to take yellow's natural, but dragoons and templar on the cliff weren't going to be completely put out of the game yet. The tanks were killed after many psionic storms, and took atleast 10 more dragoons with them.

      BB-Chargon had been relatively quiet for the last 15 minutes, creating a Doom Drop to end all Doom Drops. Well, not really, but he did take both his 2nd natural and whites 2nd natural. He had 5 shuttles full of protoss goodness, and 4 corsairs attack Teal's 2nd natural,with distruption web over a tank, 2 bunkers and a turret for added safety.  Tanks from above ground and goliaths produced at the factory there easily destroyed the attack, but suffered losses of all the SCV's there. (which put him not mining minerals, until the CC's he had could produce more.

  To coutner the attack, he sent a few tanks and goliaths to take out White's 2nd natural. Unfortunately, IceD-Tree also wanted to attack that, and had an observer there, so he was able to attack the tanks with a dark templar, until a Science Vessel was able to show up. Yellow's forces retreated, as soon as it was discovered that BB-Chargon actually wanted to defend his expansion, with 5 shuttles worth of uninvited guests. Spicoley also retreated, leaving BB-Chargon with no one to play with. The nexus remained at the expansion.

    BB-Chargon wanted the island IceD-Tree currently held, even though it was empty. The photon cannons on the outside ring of the island were d-webbed. 4 shuttles came in, and invaded the expansion, while 3 0/0/1 IceD-Tree corsairs tried to hold of the superior numbers of 0/1/2 corsairs coming from blue. The fact that BB-Chargon also had dragoons on the ground didn't help.

After the expansion fell, IceD-Tree sent a lone Dark Templar to close the nexus at white's 2nd natural, it stood there for a few minutes, not attacking until 9 of teal's marines came over and did the same thing. The darktemplar attacked the nexus, kiling it, then killed all of the marines. At the same time, Spicoley had destroyed Blue's 2nd natural with his force of goliaths, tanks and marines, and was steadily working his way into white's natural, currently held by blue.

Let's take a short time out to look at what the minimap tells us.

      As you can see, Spicoley is attacking white's natural, currently held by blue. If BB-Chargon loses that expansion, and Spicoley gets it, it could mean that Spicoley will win. However, Yellow's expansion has more resources, and has a larger army than teal, but teals tanks could still beat the dragoons if spread apart properly (To negate the effects of d-web)

    However, the attack was discovered quickly, and BB-Chargon was able to    hold it off with troops from his main.

     Spicoley and IceD-Tree, IceD-Tree who had the most mineral excess (almost 8k) expanded to the same spot, white's 2nd natural, previously held by blue.

        Since Spicoley needed it more, he started mining at the same time the cc started, un aware that the nexus was warping right above it. IceD-Tree knew about the expansion, and decided to attack. Unfortunately so did Blue, and he attacked at the same time.

         Now that he had been evicted from teals expansion,