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![DL`Jay vs. [GNG]Tadashi](http://www.angelfire.com/games/xtravistx/br3/title.jpg)
The tanks finally arrived and laid waste to the cannons while their vulture escorts mined the area in the wake. This done, the tanks, marines, and firebats quickly demolished the expansion. SCVs quickly constructed bunkers and turrets. All the while, DL`Jay built an enginnering bay to float up the ramp and spot for the tanks. He seemed pretty confident with a powerful tank push well underway, the beginings of an expansion at the 12 o'clock natural (which is odd because on LT, terran cannot have an add-on there), and 2 factories, 2 barracks, and a starport at home.
Despite the wasted expansion, [GNG]Tadashi was not ready to fold. Indeed, he built a citadel of adun, templar archives, and a robotics facility during the fray. Once he had 2 templar with sufficient mana, [GNG]Tadashi had the templar, accompanied by 8 1/0/0 leg-enhanced zealots, charge the seiged ramp. After 2 well-placed storms, he was able to kill off a bunker and all the tanks before another bunker full of firebats (complete with a one man scv repair crew) stopped him dead in his tracks.
[GNG]Tadashi decided that it was again time to break out of containment and sent a force of about 12 3/0/1 zealots, 2 templar, and 2 archons to accomplish the task. He caught DL`Jay with his tanks unsieged and seized the opportunity to annihilate the bunch with his small force and a few well-placed storms. DL`Jay then sent a force of 18 cloaked wraiths and a few science vessels to [GNG]Tadashi's relatively detectionless main. His wraiths met little resistance and were able to attack feely. However, the non-upgraded wraiths were able to cause little damage due to their sheer lack of firepower. Back at his 12 o'clock expansion, DL`Jay was pumping battlecruisers out of his three starports.
[GNG]Tadashi then launched the most effective offensive of the game by sneaking an arbiter into DL`Jay's main. Once there, it recalled a force of 5 dragoons, 10 zealots, 2 templar, an archon, and an observer. DL`Jay had few ground troops to defend with and after taking out the static detection, [GNG]Tadashi was able to totally destroy DL`Jay's main, suffering few losses himself. DL`Jay tried to counter with his wraiths, but a single, well-placed psi storm managed to kill all 18 wraiths. This offensive was the turning point in the game, as now, DL`Jay had little production power for ground troops and was forced to go for air units.
Then, DL`Jay tried to sneak an expansion by [GNG]Tadashi at the 6 o'clock natural near DL`Jay's somewhat crippled main. Unfortunately for him, [GNG]Tadashi noticed the building and managed to quickly dispose of it. To counter, DL`Jay sent a force of 7 1/1 battlecruisers and a dropship of repair scv's to [GNG]Tadashi's 9 o'clock base. Though they met resistance from psi storms, archons, dragoons, and cannons, the battlecruisers managed to survive and lay waste to the base. DL`Jay then greedily and foolhardily decided to attack and finish off [GNG]Tadashi's main with his force of about 10 battlecruisers and SCVs when he should have scouted for expansions. The plan failed when a force of 15 dragoons and 5 templar met them at their destination. After several psi storms, the badly injured battlecruisers retreated to the dead 9 o'clock main. In a very wise tactical decision by [GNG]Tadashi, the dragoons followed the bc's home where they were slowly being repaired. The ambush surprised DL`Jay and the dragoons managed to take out most of the battlecruisers.
DL`Jay still had another force of six or so battlecruisers and used them to launch an attack against the newly discovered top left island expansion. Cannons and templar sat in wait and, when they were attacked, damaged the battlecruisers who were quickly finished off by some freshly warped in scouts.
As you have probably guessed, it was DL`Jay's idea to name the battle report what it is:
