The game began with me asking for a 1v1 to observe. I had recently downloaded PaintShop and, having been used to the simple MS Paint, had been quite overwhelmed. I needed a game to BR and The.Confessor said he was willing. He got an opponent and the game was set. (Aren't those circle things cool as heck?)

Players-

The.Confessor - White Protoss

ArcImpulse - Yellow Terran

Map: Lost Temple

The.Confessor drew the 6:00 position and ArcImpulse started at the 12:00 plateau. ArcImpulse began construction of a depot and barracks at this ramp, indicating a wall-in. The.Confessor opted for a double gateway build. Arc sent his scouting SCV first towards the 9:00 main as did The.Confessor, there the two workers met and exchanged Pokemon cards (noone is safe) and then proceded to their next waypoint. The yellow SCV decided to construct an extractor in the Protoss base, as it was his next destination, a token of good will, or a device of war, the Protoss knew not. Knowing that his opponent had seen his double gate build, Confessor decides to make the first move offensively. Leaving the half built extractor to be, he assigned 4 zealots and some probes to an attack squad. Off they set towards the terran's base in hopes of finding an underdefended colony, or at least some beer. Arc had not been idle or foolish, however, and his wall-in was complete with 4 marines standing behind the cover of a depot. This was his only defense as his workers busied themselves with the collection of gas and the construction of a Factory.

The Attack was wisely pulled off, however, when The.Confessor saw the wall in. His unhappy, but sober, zealots meandred back to his base. As the last 3 zealots started away, they halted. The.Confessor was leaving them to see if they could possibly cause some future raucus. Arc now had one Factory with a siege workshop and soon vultures started to appear. A second factory and a starport were also being constructed in the confines of the Terran wall-in. The.Confessor made his own tech jump, this one to Dragoons. He had sizeable army of the quad-limbed cannons at his base when he moved his 3 zealots in to scout ArcImpulse. They found that the 4 marines had wondered out from behind their depot and now were fair game for the Protoss warriors. 3 of the marines fell quickly whilst the other one fled up the ramp and to the safety of the waiting vultures. The remaining zealots fled when the defeaning boom of arclite fire split the air.

The zealots ran back a space and waited by Arc's mineral only expansion. Soon they were joined by the rest of The.Confessor's army of Dragoons and Zealots. At the same time as this gathering, Arc had loaded up and sent off a drop ship containing four vultures. The drop aimed for the lower left corner of The.Confessor's main. The drop ship halted at the very edge of the cliff, however, for at that time, The.Confessor's forces had entered Arc's main. The wall-in soon fell and the front guard tanks perished. Arc had attempted to start and expansion at his natural, but the attack forced him to withdraw his CC and run his SCVs back into his main. He lost many, before they Dragoons finally climbed the ramp and started to blast away at his tech buildings. Luckily he had 2 tanks pop out of the Factories just then and he had SCVs ready to repair them. The drop ship now unloaded its cargo on The.Confessor's mineral line. The probes quickly ran, but not before a large portion of their number was destroyed. Dragoons waiting at The.Confessor's ramp charged the vultures and made quick work of them. The dropship escaped unharmed and returned to Arc's wounded, but functional, base.

Both of these attacks managed to do a fair amount of damage, now we would see who could take their attack and make a move, either offensively or through tech. Arc decides to rebuild his natural expansion and erect a third factory. He now begins production of tanks and vultures. The.Confessor warps in a Nexus at his natural as well as his mineral only. He reinforces these investments with 8 goons and 2 cannons. 2 starports appear in his main as well, and a fleet beacon soon follows, indicating corsairs with d-web. The.Confessor begins patroling with his first 2 corsairs, and discovers a drop attempt by Arc. Arc had loaded up yet another dropship with vultures and was heading for the same place he had instigated his first drop. This time, however, The.Confessor was prepared with 4 waiting Dragoons. The vultures grenades had little effect on the heavily armored dragoons, and soon they vanished in puff of high grade alcohol and shrapnel. He chased the dropship a little ways with his corsairs, but veered off as it neared it's home base. The headed off for the top left island and found that he had a Command Center building guarded by 3 turrets. The corsairs retreated back their stations and awaited further orders. The.Confessor takes this oppurtunity to attack with 12 dragoons. He finds an underdefended expansion at hisopponent's natural and makes short work of the SCVs mining there. The CC once again lifts off and retreats to the safety of Arc's main. Soon arclite fire starts pounding the opposing dragoons and blue soup coats the ground within seconds. Arc now moves out his 10+ tanks and vulture support towards the Protoss main. The push sets up just in range of the mineral only expansion.

The tanks pound on the Nexus and the guarding Dragoons start forward and then retreat, waiting for D-Web support. The corsairs come onto the scene and start laying down the D-web, but to no avail. The tanks have been accompanied by a Science Vessel and soon the corsairs had been EMPed. The tanks moved out of the D-Web and resumed their firing. The Dragoons surged foward and fired away, but the soon were overwhelming by tank and vulutre fire. The.Confessor surveys the scene and looks at his defenseless main and realizes his obvious defeat. And with that The.Confessor leaves the game. Back in NoHunters GG's were exchanged and the players went their own ways. Congratulations to both players and to ArcImpulse on a game well played.

Thanks for reading, and look forward to some "Totally Radical*" new BRs.

"Esto Esto Esto Esto Esto Esto Esto"

-Albert Einstein

*Also know as "Gnarly", "Tubular", and "Bodacious".