"Unfortunately, guardians do not do nearly as well against carriers as he thought"
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| Battle of the | | | Author: | | | IP: | dt121nb9XXXX | | Date: | 02/14/00 09:02 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 3, Max: 9, Min: 9
Lifetime Rating for Probe: 8.4286 |  | Welcome!, to another battlereport of mine. This particular battle took place a week or so ago, the very night I posted my Titless Battlereport. I was asking for a 1v1 in nohunters, (With me observing, whee!) and quickly Molagin and Mentos shout out, "Me, me!". I quickly create a game, and the battle is off" The Battle Of the M's" !
The Map:
The Lost Temple (Surprised? I promise my next br will be on a different map :P)
The Races:
Mogalin, Randomed, Received 84399c colored Terran, according to HTML, at the 9 o'clock position.
Mentos, (I Believe he picked zerg) Received the race he picked Zerg, with the Yellow color, henceforth changed to blue for your viewing ease, at the 12 o'clock position.
The game commenced. Both players began building their base, with supply sources, unit producing structures, and many many peons. Mogalin decided to get a little weird, and did an unorthadox build, which looked something like this: (by the way, if you don't know, the numbers represent approximate supply numbers)
8 supply (at choke, starting a wallin)
11 rax (contributing to the wallin)
14? CC (completing the wallin)
Upon doing this Mogalin messages me "as you can see im doing this for the good of the BR". Well, thats good, but on the other side of the map, Mentos has different plans. His construction looks a bit like the following:
10/9 trick, overlord
13 hatch
14 pool
drones
 During that time they were building up, however, Mogalin's scouting SCV found a drone with Mentos Freshest Drones painted on it, heading to his natural expansion. Mogalin, thinking fast, builds a bunker right where the drone would've plopped down and turned into a hatchery. The drone begins attacking the scv, and right when he loses the SCV to the drone, he cancels the bunker. Shortly after the drone morphs into the hatchery anyways. way to go mog
Mogalin's Command Center is finished, and floating over to his natural expansion, where 6 newly ordered marines from 1 barracks await. Mogalin then maynards some(heh) of his SCV's to the new expansion, however, being early game, he sends 12 of about 18, thus causing me to receive a message:
"mebbe i sent too many"
maybe=P (he knew I was gonna say that)
With 2 sources of income now, and SCV's being constructed at twice the rate, his economy is boosted. Mentos didn't want to feel left out either however, and his expansion is working well also.
 Around this time both players get a little bloodthirsty. Mogalin sends around 9 or 10 marines on attack move to Mentos' choke. Mentos sends around 16 zerglings to Mogalin's choke. The zerglings and marines collide right outside Mogalin's second natural expansion, and quickly Mogalin moves the marines back to the help of some SCV's before he loses all his marines from being outnumbered. The zerglings tear into the marines, while the SCV's get free hits. Mogalin loses all his marines to the raging Zerglings anyways, but his last few SCV's fight incredibly well and kill all of the zerglings (around 6) losing 0 scvs. Mentos comes out slightly ahead in the resource cost effectivness of the battle, but it dosn't matter.
 During that battle, Mogalin started on a factory, a starport, 4 or so more barracks, and another engineering bay. He begins dual infantry upgrades, and gets a tank. Mentos expands his area of attack also, with a spire about 50% done. Mentos has some very good recon, with overlords patrolling expansion areas of the map, and zerglings around resource nodes as well. If you look at the minimap, im sure you would agree that nothing will get by him without him knowing it.
Mentos has been ammassing Mutalisks, and once he gets around 12, he sets off. His target is Mogalins natural expansion. The Mutalisks fly in, and just as soon as they attack the Missle Tower, they are driven off. A large group of M&M was sitting next to the tower, and so the mutalisks obviosly did not want to be slaughetered. Mentos could have stayed out of range and hit the refinery and SCVs, but apparently he wasn't thinking, and he moved them back to his base.
Mogalin starts construction of a second Command Center, and Mentos starts on a few queens, while ammasing hydralisks and zerglings near the choke of his base. Mentos has also since expanded, taking the 3 o clock main and natural, and now has them working.
Mogalin makes the next move, by loading up a dropship with M&M, and sending it on a direct route towards Mentos' main. The dropship then hovers on the edge of Mentos' plateau, and is spotted by Zerglings and Mutalisks. The Mutalisks attack, and the zerglings cover the ground. With some comments by Mog and Ment, he eventually unloads... 1 ... marine, and it is quickly killed. That has got to be the most useless attack in the game, folks.
Mentos then moves his ever growing group of Mutalisks to the right side of Mogalin's base, which just so happens to be right in sight range of his structures. The Mutalisks sit there, seeing the structures. The structures sit there, seeing the Mutalisks. Nothing happens for at least 30 seconds.  Then, Mentos finally remembers that he has some Mutalisks, and orders them to attack. They tear thru the base, destroying a tank, a turret, and some SCVs. The Mutalisks, fearing the supply depots might revolt, immediatly run off , letting the depots happily twirl away. wouldn't want to be gang raped by a group of depots, now, would we?
Actually the mutas were scared off by yet another group of MnM that Mogalin manages to pull out of nowhere, but the supply depot story is better.
Mentos then pulls a very interesting move. Having previously constructed a Queens Nest (to obviously get a Hive and Greater Spire), he creates 1 Queen, 10 or so scourge, and sends all this down with the addition of a mutalisk outside Mogalin's natural expansion. [the mineral only one] Just with his luck, (or maybe he scouted) a floating Command Center looms overhead. The scourge crash in to the CC, the Mutalisk draws fire, and the Queens flies full speed ahead with a course directed at the CC. What could be happening? You guessed it, the 'infest-the-command center-at-your-opponents-own-heavily-defended-base' trick. Being the lethal tactic it was, the Command Center gets a response from Mentos, but soon the Infested Terran building explodes from marine/turret/bunker/ fire.
 Mogalin now knows that Mentos hasn't stopped Mutalisk production (Which he should've cuz M&M > Mutalisks in every way except mobility) so he dosn't throw down, but hurls down (with his left hand even) another starport, and an Armoury. He begins producing wastes of money err Valkyries, and in very large numbers. Mentos has been busily ammassing troops, and now has Overlord speed, as well as transport sacs (whee). The Valkyries are busily running around the map in absurd locations.
Fun Fact: Zealots say "Thats absurd!" as one of their affirmative responses when you tell them to do something.
Mogalin gets restless, and sends a smallish group of M&M out to attack. (Smallish compared to the rest of his army, probobly around 14 marines and 3 medics) He runs into the middle of the map, guass rifles-a-blazing. He stimpacks up, and with his 2/2 upgrades, compared to Mentos' 0/1, slaughters countless numbers of Hydralisks, Zerglings, and Mutalisks.
I'll estimate the amount of stuff they murder (NO EXAGGERATION)
24 Zerglings
12 Hydralisks
12 Mutalisks
Now, 14 marines costs 700 minerals, and an extra 200 minerals and 100 gas for the 3 or 4 medics. Total: 900 minerals , 100 gas.
compared to 24 zerglings 600 minerals, 12 hydralisks /me whips out his calculator 900 minerals and 300 gas, and 12 mutalisks, 1200/1200. Add that all up, /me whips out his calculator 2700 minerals, 1500 gas. Not including upgrades, Mogalin completely slaughtered Mentos in the cost effectiveness of the battle. Not only that, his freaking units lived!
Mentos decides now would be a good time to counterattack, and loads up a bunch of Hydralisks inside the bellies of Overlords, and has 3 Devourers and 1 Mutalisk for escort (what an airforce). Mogalin's hunks of scra... err Valkyries just so happen to be on duty to patrol around his base, and run into the clustered group of Overlords with their air escort. The Valkryies (numbered eight) quickly tear into the flesh, killing the air units almost instantly. However, the overlords unloaded their cargo safely, and quickly were pelted enough to get the message to run away. The hydralisks then unload umm... armpit after armpit of spikes into the Valkyries sitting there.(thats where they come from you know, im serious, I got the plastic figure they came out with.. tho the damn things arm broke) Mogalin is smart enough to move his EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE VALKRYIE ARMY away before he loses too many.
The Hydralisks then start to rittle the outlaying starports with green spikes. Meanwhile Mogalin let his killer group of marines and medics continue their rampage, and targeted Mentos' natural expansion. Back at his main base however, he told the frontal defenses of his natural expansion (once again consisting of M&M armies that grow out of nowhere) to assault the hydralisk force. Assault they did, and the hydralisks destroy the marines single file 1by1 till enough marines stack up to fight effectivley, and kill the remaining hydralisks.
That last battle just happend to be Mentos' last chance at winning. The super heroic marine force that Mogalin sent to attack Mentos' natural sortof killed...everything. They destroy the natural expansion, and his main base with little resistance. Blood and little uprooted Zerg Buildings lay everywhere.
 
 Mentos does however contribute to the kills tag on the marines, by suiciding around 40 zerglings in to them, again. He loses his main, to "10 troops" as Mog says. He is not completely dead however, as he still has the 3 o clock main and natural.
Mogalin has been producing MASSIVE numbers of marines this whole time, and decides to end it quickly by attack-moving 6 or so control groups of M&M into Mentos' last bases. The natural falls with little resistance, except for an ensnare (eheh). Mentos has been grouping Zerglings and Hydras, and sunkens at his last base. The Terran troops charge. The Zerg troops charge. The Zerg troops die. The Terran do not.
 Mentos has the top left island, but he knows thats its over, and only stays long enough to destroy a Command Center that was floating over it with mass spores. He leaves with a GG, as does Mogalin.
Moral of the story:
UPGRADE YOUR FREGGEN TROOPS! :)
Thanks for reading, please comment (even if you're a lurker!)
-probe
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