Screwy triggers for a screwy map
Players: Coolman... brown protoss
Death_{NAS} red protoss
[Silencer] dropped
JAB584 blue terran
This is my first battle report, I'm a little sketchy on the details, as that I have a very short memory.
I see a room called 4 on 4com R U GOOD ENOUGH? I was in the mood for a short game, so I joined up. I picked random and drew terran (yuck), while everyone else picked protoss. Silencer was dropped the second the game started. It turned out that the host had slimmed it down to 3 comps, so I figured it would be easy. Boy was I wrong.
I went for my usual - tech to battlecruisers - so I went 8 on rax 9 on depot, and then a bunker, depot, depot, bunker and so on...until I got a good enough economy going to support my cruisers - I put up 4 ports and 2 armory and a facility and began building --- "cannot create new units"
WTF? I asked myself, I tried again, with the same results. Everyone else had similar luck. We found that you could only build your units when you killed enemy ones (I've never played with this---interesting---trigger on before) so I grabbed the 8 tanks and emptied out my bunkers and set off to kill an so I could start building.
After losing most of my 1/0 stimp and U238 marines, my tanks run for cover managing to wipe out a yellow zerg expansion. Everyone else has similar luck. I manage to scrape together 12 2/1 wraiths and go hunting. I raze another yellow expansion before reurning to help brown fend off an attack - and scrape together enough kills to build 6 battlecruisers. My cruisers get done in time to help brown finish off yellow's main base - red finishes off purple. I attempt to take out teal - but retreat my cruisers for repairs. Damn those scourge.
The rest of the game was relativly quiet - until teal attacks - around 2 dozen hydras and 10 ultras attack with guard/scourge support. Brown loses his main and quits. red goes down the same way seconds later. Now I'm all alone - but they can't build any new units and I slaughtered most of thiers when they attack my main and expansion. I'm left with only 2 cc's and 5 refinerys. Ouch. I manage to rebuild and get around 2 dozen goliaths and attack purple - wiping out 2 purple expansions and a yellow one - just as my expansoin goes down. Ouch. Then I get hit with a bigger force than the one that killed off brown - I'm done.
This game could've ended in a half hour had that stupid trigger not been set - the map resembled Big Gay Hunters (god I am soo sick of that map) and I bet the trigger was an accident. Another spot on my record, but a good learning experience - yeah right.
JAB584 signing out.