"I truly am the master....comedian.....of protoss air"
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| Drain Game | | | Author: | | | IP: | 24-216-9XXXX | | Date: | 02/05/00 01:02 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for TheBestCow: 6.6667 |  | This is going to be a text-only report. If you don't like them, well ... you suck. =)
I had had a very stressing Saturday morning, being forced into a slave-labor relationship, cleaning the whole house (well, not really...). I logged onto B-net, looking to vent my frustration on someone.
If you want to go straight to the report, scroll down.
Well, it turns out I got owned. I haven't play SC in a while (tsk tsk) and was a little out of practice. First game I picked Terran against his toss. I tried the wall-in, but he got through with an early probe, and harassed me. I get 3 'rines out, and a tank, when 8 zeals run through my wallin, and whoop me. Hm.
Next game, all most identical thing happened. All though I caught him expanding early with a few cannons as defense, I expanded also. I had a bunker set up covering my home CC, filled with 'rines. I scan, he's got reaver tech, so I start on a tank to help protect. Well, in flies a shuttle, drops a reaver, starts popping SCV's. I micro some troops, but this takes away from me being able to counter attack, or set up adequate defense at home, and also from making enough SCVs at my expansion. He runs me over with goons and templar.
The Real Game
I search for one last game, I am really frustrated now, I've just been beaten by 2 Toss against my Terran, which I like to pride myself in.
Game Name : 1v1 Temple
Players: TheBestCow - Random Zerg - 6:00
Opponent : (can't remember name, sorry) - Random - Terran - 3:00
Report:
My hatchery finished morphing. Zasz left me with an overlord and four small drones. Do not fail me, or the Overmind, young one. If you are able to take this planet for the Swarm, you shall quickly become one of the Overmind's favorite cerebretes... keep this in mind...
And that was the last I felt of Zasz.
I 'cloned', as the humans called it, my four workers to seperate patches of the minerals from which I would take the planet for, and began hatching a new worker for my cause.
I will not fail you, Zasz, or the Overmind...
I did not let my mind wonder further. I continued to hatch more workers until I reached almost my critcial mass, where I could no longer control th- my Swarm alone (8/9 supply). While the workers continued to mine the minerals, I hatched my first overlord, as the one Zasz had left me had been sent to the northwest to scout for the enemy.
After the overlord hatched, I immediatly got another drone, and morphed a spawning pool, so I could hatch my Zerglings.
My overlord found nothing at the 9:00 position, and was sent north towards what I knew was the northwest island.
Herbie, my first hatched overlord, was sent to the cannon heading into my nearest expansion, to watch for incoming troops. I quickly got an extractor, and hatched 8 zerglings. I sent one out towards 3:00, as my overlord had found nothing at 12:00. The poor zergling never had a chance, as he ran into a group of marines and medics standing at his choke. Terrans. I could feel my mind race, that could be an attack force. I was glad I had set up a hatchery above my choke, and a hydra den. My original hatchery was about 75% done morphing into a lair.
If I could get lurkers, I felt I could hold him off enough to get a good standing economy. I was getting a little low on minerals, so I took a chance and sent a drone out to my natural, morphing a hatchery there, and maynarding 4 drones there from my main, while producing more drones, zerglings and my first 2 hydras.
Trouble was brewing. I could feel it. I knew I had to hold onto my natural, or at least mine enough minerals to make up for the loss of the hatchery there if it were to fall.
I needed more security, so I morphed 4 sunkens around the hatch. Strangly enough, no attack came. Thats ok with me. Dumb terrans. I set up an extractor here also, having 3 drones on it. My Lair has given me the ability to offer my overlords some upgrades, and I take them, getting speed first, then ventral sacs.
I send out a drone to 9:00, hoping to eventual set up a strong hold there, in case my main should fall.
Still no attack. I begin to wonder.
Suddenly, my drones scream to my mind, an eerie sound that the whole of my swarm can feel. We are under attack. From what?
I look around. No enemy troops. What's going on? Ka-CHOOM.
Tanks! Drat! A turbo-newbie! I round up some troops while running my drones out of range, and gather them in my overlords. I could strike his home, or try and stop the turbo-newbie.
I take the latter option, dropping off 8 lings, 4 hydras and 2 lurkers on my cliff, sending the lings in first. He's got 2 tanks and a bunker finishing. I get smacked down. I know I am going to loose my natural. I start drone production at 9:00, sending the 10 or so survivors from my natural out to it to begin mining.
What to do? What to do? He's probably got his natural, I've just lost a big source of income, and have a slowly starting 2nd form of income. I plop down 2 more hatches at my main, wonderning what is going through the terran commander's head. I morph 12 more hydras, and get an evo. chamber to start on the hydra attack upgrade. He doesn't push his attack past my natural, leaving the sunkens there for some odd reason. 9:00 is coming along nicely, all though it has no protection. I throw down a Spire and Queens nest, thinking Guardians or cracklings.
I expand two more times, to 9:00 natural and then the northwest island, hoping it goes unnoticed.
Suddenly, more 9:00 hatch is getting pounded. A large force of marines, medics, tanks and a Science Vessel have decided to ruin my fun. Hm. I hatch some zerglings at 9:00 and the natural there, and 12 muta's at home.
[Author's note]: I doubt I can portray in words how intense this was for me, I was losing income left and right, struggling to hold on to ANYTHING, the turbo-newbie still held my natural, and now I was losing 9:00. My lings hatch, barely scratching the tank. As the vision disappears from my screen, I see the force move towards 9:00 natural. I move my mutas in. They come down hard on the marines, wiping them out, and start on the tanks. My base at the natural is REALLY overflowing with drones, as I sent all I could from 9 and from what was left of my original natural. The SV starts irradiating, eventually leaving me with 4 mutas to his one tank.
Muta > Tank :)
I begin a new hatch at 9:00 and decide I need to strike him. I round up another group of about 12 mutas, and fly over the middle of the map, dodging the turbo newbie and ending up over his cliff. I attack move his mineral area, and the SCV's disappear rather quickly, to my surprise.
Meanwhile, I've started drone production at all my expansions, and a Hive at home. My 24 hydras are at 3/1 right now, and mutas are 1/0.
As the last SCV explodes, 4 irradiates pop up. I give up on the attack force, letting them attack the CC there, figuring he will have to spend at least a little on repairing it. Things are looking up. But nothing is working, he seems to have very good micro with his troops, especially SVs. I load up 6 Overlords with hydras (they are full) and move up the west side of the map, in the area I control. I hatch more mutas at home.
I eventually end up over the little cliff above 3:00 main. I see only 1 turret in my vision and a bunch of SCV's just sitting around. My overlords start unloading, one is popped, but not before dropping all of its cargo. The SCV's immediatly start attacking my hydras, I must say it was rather humerous, damn humans...
Sparks were flying, SCV's exploding, Overlords dodging turret fire. . .
Hydra > SCV
Turret > Overlord
I start my hydras on attacking his command center, just to get rid of the annoying com-sat there. I then start attacking his first barracks, quickly taking it down, but then the calvary arrives, a large squad of marines stim up and move in, but I take them down, losing all but 4 of my hydras, which work on the 2nd barracks, but die to tank fire before taking it down.
I have another group of mutas, and move them over to the 3:00 cliff, morphing 6 into guardians. Death again rains down upon the poor SCV's (poor SCV's? I've heard they get a pretty damn good salary, and look at all the chicks DEON gets?). They are quickly wiped out, along with the CC there. I take no losses and retreat, down towards the southern island. I find a just completed CC and one SCV. They are quickly dispatched.
I also remove the turbo newbie from my natural cliff and restart my economy there. I now know I have the game in hand. He has not attacked in quite a while and I have four expansions. I load up more hydras, and drop them off at his main, taking down some supply depots.
Without a word, the commander quits.
I watched gleefully as the terran command center lifted off, troops ran to dropships, bunkers abandoned. Mess halls left littered... there was nothing left but abandoned buildings. I move some drones in the general direction of the base to check for anything left behind, but before they reach the area, my overlords witness a great fireworks display as every building explodes in a blaze of light... leaving ... nothing. Nothing but the Swarm to rule the planet...Zasz will be pleased...
I hope u enjoyed the report! Congrats if u got this far!
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