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RFR vs BU
BATTLE
REPORT:
PepaG~(RFR) vs -HB-PoSeR[BU]/~Q~NooM[BU]
Map: Ashrigo
Players:
PepaG~(RFR) (yellow zerg, top left)
-HB-PoSer[BU] (orange zerg, top right)
~Q~NooM[BU](purple protoss, bottom left)
Time: January 1st 2000 19:28
Written by: Ronald~(RFR)
NOTE: colors of PepaG~(RFR) are in blue to ease your viewing
To begin the New Years I went to parties and stuff then decided to go online, I see PepaG online so I ask him to go on b-net and play some games.
Just like any other day on bnet me and
PepaG~(RFR) would hang around and play a few games and if nothing
much was going down in our channel we would go elsewhere to scout
for action. We found it in the BU clan channel. To my suprise PepaG~(RFR)
jokingly challenged the 2 BU members that were there to a 2v1
match and much to our surprise they accepted. Not wanting to be
left out of the action I asked if I could observe and maybe even
write a Battle Report. After some tough arguing about my lag they
decided to let me in.
As the match started and after all players
gave me shared vision I saw that PepaG~(RFR) had spawned
zerg at topleft, while his opponents -HB-PoSeR[BU] and ~Q~NooM[BU] had spawned zerg at topright and toss at
bottomleft respectively.
PepaG~(RFR) started off with a second hatchery at his natural
then a pool and pumped drones. When his second hatch finished he
put down 2 sunkens next to it and started an extractor at both
bases. -HB-PoSeR[BU] went pool, extractor, hatch at main, then started
putting up sunkens. ~Q~NooM[BU] went for 2 gateways then assimilator.
It wasnt long until the combined scouting
efforts of -HB-PoSeR[BU] and ~Q~NooM[BU] revealed that PepaG~(RFR) had expanded
early and, as a result, may be vulnerable. Soon 4zealots and
8lings were parked just out of reach of PepaG~(RFR)'s sunkens. They charged in and met with 2sunkens and
about 20lings. The invading lings were torn apart by double their
number in defending lings backed up by 2 sunkens, the zeals seeing
this backed off and reatreated to the safety of high ground at
the ramp outside PepaG~(RFR)'s natural.

~Q~NooM[BU] did a good job of containing PepaG~(RFR) just to his natural. ~Q~NooM[BU] expanded to
his natural while -HB-PoSeR[BU] was more aggressive and decided to expand twice,
at his natural and at the mineral only spot at 9o'clock. PepaG~(RFR) had teched up to a greater spire and was now
morphing guardians. He decided to send about a halfdozen Mutas
south to deal some damage to his protoss opponent before he had
any substantial anti-air and maybe even knock him out of the
game. On his way he happened upon -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s
unfinished hatchery at 9 o'clock and began ravaging it.

Eventually it got cancelled and the drone
was killed also. PepaG~(RFR) flew past ~Q~NooM[BU]'s natural
expansion and into his main to see what key buildings he had and
therefore determine what kind of threat he posed. The mutas ran
into 4 dragoons and PepaG~(RFR) was feeling confident that he could eliminate this
resistance and continue killing off ~Q~NooM[BU]'s base.

But just then a corsair warped in and this
was enough to persuade PepaG~(RFR) to retreat his mutas only managing to kill
1dragoon. While this was happening PepaG~(RFR) used freshly
morphed guardians to slaughter the containing zeals unleashing
30~50 lings to wreak havoc on ~Q~NooM[BU]'s base.
Lings, mutas, guardians and devourers tore down ~Q~NooM[BU]'s natural expansion, easily overpowering the few
zeals, goons and lone cannon defending it.


Next to go down was the main toss base.
The lings came in wave after wave and razed the toss structures
in no time. About a half dozen corsairs fought valiantly to save
their base but were soon slaughtered by the many devourers and
mutas constantly arriving on the scene. -HB-PoSeR[BU], in desperation sent over 20 scourge to help save ~Q~NooM[BU] from elimination but unfortunately they could do
little against PepaG~(RFR)'s swarms of lings. Desperate to see out the rest of
the game ~Q~NooM[BU] hides a pylon at the bottomright start spot and
also deep inside -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s main base.
-HB-PoSeR[BU]'s natural expansion was up and running and started a
hatchery building at the bottomright natural and was now
upgrading to a greater spire.

To protect the weak in heart and the old I will not post the pictures of the bloody massecre that happened in ~Q~NooM[BU]'s base. I will leave it to your mind, so you can imagine the horror and fear in the eyes of the probes as their nexus burns down into vapor....
PepaG~(RFR)
, taking his major victory in stride, decides to
expand to the mineral only node at 9 o'clock.

PepaG~(RFR) now has a large pack of mutas (probably 30+)
hungry for enemy zerg blood. He rallies them, along with a swarm
of lings, to just outside -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s base. PepaG~(RFR)'s lings begin hammering on -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s natural expansion, targetting the spores so that
the mutas can lay waste to the expansion unchallenged.

-HB-PoSeR[BU] sends a stream of lings to defend his natural and
his superior numbers secure the survival of his relatively fresh
natural expansion.

The fall of -HB-PoSeR[BU].... |
-HB-PoSeR[BU] puts up a defiler mound to assist him in defending
the onslaught ahead. Tired of waiting, PepaG~(RFR) flys in his swarm of mutas and decimates -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s natural expansion,

who is now left with only 1 source of
economy, the natural at bottomright. In an attempt to buy himself
some time, -HB-PoSeR[BU] performs a sneaky move and starts attacking PepaG~(RFR)'s main base with 2guardians he had been hiding from
view for quite some time.

With some quick clicking and the odd
profanity PepaG~(RFR) managed to kill the guardians and not suffer a
single loss.
Back at -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s base he
begins to morph lurkers in anticipation of the massive crackling
swarms waiting on his front door. Right about now PepaG~(RFR) discovered -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s only
source of economy, the natural at bottomright, and immediately
trashed it with a wing of mutas.

Then he tore down ~Q~NooM[BU]'s pylon at the bottomright start spot.

Now ~Q~NooM[BU] was left
with only 1pylon and yet remained in the game undoubtedly to
cheer his teammate on.
PepaG~(RFR) with unchallenged map control proceeded to extend
his resource flow by expanding to the bottomleft start spot and
the natural.

He also began morphing some of his mutas
to guardians and devourers in preparation for the dropping of the
hammer. In the following battle -HB-PoSeR[BU] put up the
most spectacular show of determination. PepaG~(RFR) sent in his swarms of lings up the ramp and were
slaughtered immediately by lurkers and hydras under dark swarm. PepaG~(RFR) lost about 100 or so lings this way. Then -HB-PoSeR[BU] baited PepaG~(RFR)'s guardians and mutas with hydras then cast dark
swarm

...resulting in dead mutes and guards with
unscathed hydras. This kept going on and with the help of
multiple spores and a few devourers

...-HB-PoSeR[BU] managed to wipe out PepaG~(RFR)'s entire
forces. But with 6hatcheries and 3fresh recource nodes at his
disposal, PepaG~(RFR) replaced his troops in no time.

-HB-PoSeR[BU], all mined out and out of cash, made a last dying
attempt and sent out about a halfdozen hydras.


These were hunted down and killed in quick
succession and as PepaG~(RFR)'s guardians started to raze -HB-PoSeR[BU]'s base he had no choice but to concede.
Victor: PepaG~(RFR)'s
SCORE IS HERE:

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