"He flanked me from three directions. I circled the wagons, but these indians had plasma cannons and a really effective rain dance."
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| 2on2 Me & Partner Bust Out Through Early Cannons | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 05/27/99 06:05 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for TheQat: 5.3333 |  | OK this game totally ruled :) Map was Hunters (obviously 128x128 8 players); I was in the bottom left corner as yellow Zerg, my partner (Pharz) bottom center as blue Protoss. The opponents were orange Protoss (forgot name), left center, and white Protoss (Child_Molestor or some errant spelling thereof), top right.
So the game starts and I get to scouting with my ovy, find both opponents by crawling through the air straight north. Orange was putting up Gateways at the time, but by the time I got to white he already had a Forge and cannon finished. I escaped certain Overlord death just in time. At this point my partner and I figured OK, double rush. I went for three hatches early and managed to maintain my economy fairly well. A few minutes later, my partner goes to expand and finds 3 cannons--two orange and one white--up in our collective chokepoint. We attempted to double rush through that with Zerglings and Zealots but were defeated.
This resulted in a drastic change in strategy. I immediately thought of the anal raping possible via Mutas because of all the resources they had put into our choke. Then I realized it would just be easier to break through. We kept a close eye on just how many cannons orange and white were stacking in the choke; I also used overlords to identify one opponent expansion and one potential one. A minute or so into my lair building I slapped down a hydra den and a fourth sunken. . .but I never got attacked the whole game.
Around the time we were getting ready to attack (my partner with Dragoons and Zealots, I with Hydras and Zerglings), I finished ovy speed and already had ventral sacs (for expansion attempts). I got a really great idea all of the sudden. I loaded up nine overlords with 20 Hydras and around 20-24 Zerglings and promptly dropped on that little peninsula just north of the bottom left spot. Orange was expecting but could not defend and did not even immediately notice my raping his base because my partner was attacking the chokepoint cannons. I added some Zerglings to that assault and we broke through the chokepoint at around the same time that I destroyed the buggering orange Protoss' main base.
With my partner and I free of the constraints of the choke cannons, he immediately expanded and went looking for enemy extra bases as well. Finding one in the top right, he assaulted it but was mostly struck down by Dtemps just as my large former drop force got there with overlords. Orange was eradicated.
The rest of the game is a little blurry. Basically we smacked through to Child_Molestor's top center expansion with Dragoons, Zealots, Hydras, and Zerglings. After that he started begging us to ally. . .we showed no mercy. Destroying his main proved simple due to his lack of temps other than Dark ones, and I went on to chase down his lamer pylons all over the map with Cracklings. A great game.
The time was 38:34, I scored around 89,000, my partner 74,000, white 56,000, and orange 65,000, as I recall. While we clearly outplayed them, this is the kind of situation where all our opponents had to do was expand more and we would have lost terribly. Also, High Templars would have helped them a lot. Storm rocks all Zerg units, which makes it very hard to lead a frontal assault (especially on Hunters). So if you're ever looking to contain a Zerg + a Toss on Hunters, Templars, Reavers, and more than a few cannons will be key.
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