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| Zerg Stew, Mmmm Beefy!!! | | | Author: | | | IP: | 98AA5E00XXXX | | Date: | 02/13/00 04:02 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for @}~MaKiTa~: 6.6667 |  | First Report!! by @}~MaKiTa~ HunTeR~LiZarD
Prelude - Mind Games
I was just chillin hoping to get in a quick game before bed. I joined into a 1v1 Temple game, with some funny symbols after it. Now I'm not a genius but I start thinking he may be Korean. I enter the game and here's this guy PuyoPuyo(funny symbols after that I forget) with Protoss already selected. Since I've been on a hot streak winning the past 4 games with Terran vs Protoss, I would select them at the last minute. He thinks I'm staying at random and changes to Zerg at the last second, while I get Terran at the last second. I don't think he liked this matchup.
Map - The Lost Temple
PuyoPuyo - Zerg(Top)
@}~MaKiTa~ - Terran(Right)
Ok the plan today would be the same as my dogg Seok, sidestep and hope to catch em from behind with Hworangs powerful flamingo art kicks, wait a sec that is Tekken. Ok here we go, snipe away with the rail across the arena and engage with the chaingun only after a successful rail shot, otherwise run and don't let him kill me, SHIT that's Q2, wrong game wake up dude. This is Starcraft, you actually need skill not fast reflexes or good aim, right???
Ok I am right and he is top, yippe I can siege his main! If I play right I should have this one in the bag. Thanks to reading most of HC's reports I know the recipe for zerg stew, M&M's with SV's. And I hear Dmatrix'd marines work good too. And since I'm psychic I know he'll lurker rush, and my motto is the 5 P's(Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance). So I would prepare correctly and whoop some ass.
I started out with 8 depot as usual, followed by 10 Rax. I saw his OL chillin over my gas which I didn't particularly like, I think he turned it around after. I sent my SCV and saw him gathering gas, and the pool popped soon as the SCV got there. Lurkers right??? Yup. The plan?? Same as Grrrr... did to Jester at i2e2(check YRM's report). Quick tanks and scanner with M&M's ASAP.
So I start to work on a factory and have 3 marines in the SCV line with my scouting SCV at the bottom of his ramp. If any lings came I would know, and squash the little buggers and frame them on the wall. I start my academy a little after the factory, and another rax soon after. By this point I figure I need to find out if he's going straight lurker or mixing in lings or hydras or both. I charge my scout in to get pimped by 2 sunkens he morphed at the top of his ramp.....Great I don't get to see. And I'll need to save my scanner for lurkers.
I start an Eng Bay and another rax, and figure that I can take his ramp defended by only 2 sunkens. My army now is about 12 marines with 3 meds and 2 tanks. I float my eng bay so that I can spot up his ramp and see 3 little buggers coming down....Yay, I was supposed to get there before the lurkers left. My guys are on the short trek to his base, and I take my third tank and put it on my cliff overlooking his ramp. Somewhere right by my mineral only exp, the lurkers meet up with the marines and tanks. I kill 1 real quick and the other 2 burrow.
Shit...I really don't want to waste a scan, I only have enough for 1. So like the pimp I am I just move back right out of range. And siege 1 of the tanks. If he gets up I'll knock him flat. "You bad manner" he says, "Oh yes I'll let you walk right into my mineral line and burrow k??" I reply.
My rax are pumping hard along with my fac, and now I have started a Starport and turrets around my main. And I finally send 2 medics into his main to see what he's up to again. (I still havent used a scan by this point) Yikes a spire is morphing and he has a good force of lings and hydras, with at least 2 lurkers in the main. They started heading down the ramp and coming for me.
Warning - Zerg is coming. I start a turret and a bunker by my mineral only expansion, since they have to come through there to get to me right??? Wrong. He pulls a good move out of his ass by walking all the way around the temple so that he enters from the bottom side of my base right around the majority of my guys. When I see them pound on my choke bunker I almost cry. "You got sacs??" I ask, "2" he replies. OMG they do have a sense of humor....Then he says "Walk around. I do tricks like you."
I unsiege my forward tank and start moving them back, I had a bunker with 3 marines and a bat at the choke, and 3 marines and 2 bats in my SCV line. He's hammering my bunker and burrows his lurker, I gotta save my main. When the bunker blows the bat dies but I run the marine guys back to the SCV line and rally point my barracks to the SCV line too. I would hit him with my forward guys first then hit him from behind with my guys from the SCV line, and god did it work. 3 Tanks were hammering away while stimmed marines and 1 scan tore down his lurker/ling/hydra attack. If I wasn't attacking from both sides I surely would have gone down right there. We both took heavy losses but he lost more. I scan his main and see some mutas, along with a QN morphing, with more sunkens at the top of his ramp. I scan the top island too, shit..he has a completed hatch over there already with gas.
Since all that fighting was going on I had alot of money, so I ordered up another ENG bay, Starport, Sci Facil, 2 Rax's and a Comm Center for my expansion. Then I started on a bunker and turret at my natural choke. He was wise not to expand to his natural. I transfer workers and since the money's rolling order up 2 more barracks. Send off some marines to scout. He's starting a hatch at 9 and his island is up and running fully. I scan his main and see the greater spire morphing, along with a buttload of Muties. I start more turrets around my main and start on an armory, I'm gonna need those valks and goolies.
Ok I have about 30-40 marines, 12 Meds, 4-5 Tanks and 4 Sci's. I decide its time to go kill something so I send them all to the middle of the map, he tries some muta stuff but I turreted my main and bunkered it up pretty good. (5P's) Scan his exp at 9 and see 2 sunkens 2 lurkers and couple lings. I know the mutas will come knocking so I start up 3 turrets out of view along with a bunker. I irradiate the lurkers and go in, and I see blood, lots of it. He had 3 more lurkers on top of the 9 choke that I did not see. I retreat my guys back to the bunker and then the mutas start a coming. I irradiate the middle couple and they go down hard. Then finish off the lurkers and base.
Scan his main again - 12 mutas and about 6-8 guardies. I got about 5 valks now and see some defilers. Shit, I'm not prepared for a ling/dswarm attack but I dont see any lings. Plop down more barracks, got about 8 now, at 2/2 with 1 fac and 2 starports. Pump marines from 6, meds from 2. Goliaths from the fac and Valk/SV from the ports.
The Final Battle
My pimp squad meets up with his Mutas, Guardies, and Crackling in the middle of the temple and what a battle it is. He plagues my valks but they are just too much along with irradiate and about 50 stimmed marines. Devos woulda helped but not won it for him. To add to the insult I dmatrixed my marines and started tearing down his sunkens and buildings, he called me bad manner again. And I said, "Should I have walked in a straight line and let you kill them??" he said "Yes" He offered GG shortly after and vision. I think I got the zerg formula down, M&M's valks and SV's. More hydras = more tanks, more mutas = more valks. Victory!!!
Lessons -
1. M&M's and Valks with SV support can pimp just about everything zerg has.
2. Make sure you keep up on production as your mineral count climbs, going to the middle of the temple and putting down 5 rax is a great idea.
3. Attacking from multiple angles and not in a single file formation is key.
4. Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, if I had not turreted my main heavily I coulda went down to muta harassment.
this is my first report, I'm still trying to learn how to put pictures in here, I dont know that much HTML and im still learning how to mess around with my pic editor, MGI photosuite.
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