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He is also equipped with
the ling speed upgrade which he was able to get with his beastly one drone on gas. So he
groups his lings together, and kamazakis them into Silent's base. Silent however, was
low on troops since he had been teching a bit. He only had 3 zealots and 2 goons, and
realizing this, takes about 8 probes off of minerals, and using godly micro that only
Imports can do, is able to dispatch of all the lings with only a few zealot casulties.
However, he was forced to take probes off mining duty which hindered his economy quite a
bit.
They arrive
quickly with their speed upgrade and immediately start pounding on one of Strike's gateways.
The gateway falls quickly, before Strike can save it, as he quickly sends his 3 dragoons and zealot to
dispatch with the lings, again having to send several probes because of his lack of
troops. However, this time, the lings are much more successful because of the fact that Strike doesn't have
as many zealots. The dragoons fall quickly and the probes as Strike's godly kali micro fails
him. All his attacking probes fall before he is able to kill the last lings with his few
remaining probes. Again a short silence is present, but as before, it is short lived, as Tool sends another 12 lings to finish off Strike. GGs and "dah"s are said, as is
"rematch".
and by the time Strike's zealots
reached the oppositions base Tool had 6 hydras. Strike, seeing these, along with a sunken and a couple of lings,
decided that he would be best to preserve his troops. So after running his poor zealots
through a trap of hydra spines, he somehow managed to keep them all alive, although
sustaining damage.
knowing that he will need detection
for Tool's lurkers. Tool has snuck a drone out and expanded to the North West natural,
which i didn't even notice until he whispered me something. Well, i guess if i didnt
notice it then maybe Stike wont do much better? =P
Tool
has finished researching lurkers by now, and once finished morphing 3 of them, heads off
east towards Strike's base. Once the 3 lurkers and 9 hydras reach their destination, they flank Strike's base and
head in from the north. There, Tool gets some potshots on some chatting zealots (probably
bitching about how they can't get become templars) before Strike orders them to shut up and
haul their ass outa there. 
They meet up with Strike's 4 goons,
and a battle commences with 4 goons and 5 zeals vs 9 hydras and 3 lurkers. At first, Tool has the
advantage, mostly on account of the fact that Strike left his observer on the other side of his base ... very gosu
move. Detection is 2gosu4 Strike =P Once mr observer arrives, however, the tide of the battle
changes - but not enough, as Tool's surviving 3 hydras and 2 lurkers chase away 2 of Strike's damaged
goons. The lurkers unburrow and the hydras slither south to Strike's peon line, where the
lurkers again burrow, this time in the back of the probes, while the hydras fire upon a
cannon. This causes Strike to run his probes away in fear of being raped by lurker
spines. However, 2 fresh goons arrive, and with the help of the 2 veteran ones, they kill
the hydras, and once finished, smack around the lurkers, along with a freshly qued reaver.
Personally i would have chosen the first, except with mass ensnare and
broodling along with infested terrans (oh i'd find a way to get them). But Tool is a -fool- so
he chooses option B. Even before his first attack is blasted to zerg hell (Sp|nE's
useless thought: or do all zergs go to hell, making the word hell itself completely
unmeaningful for them, which would inturn explain the recklessness of the swarm - sort of
like arab soldiers when they thought they were all going to heaven for allah ... or in
zerg's case, the OVERMIND ... shit i'm really insightful ... alright from now on zergs are
known as arabs), Tool has another 11 hydras on the way to Strike's base. They get
their about 10 seconds after his original attack is finished off, and get some free shots
on a robotics bay before mr reaver comes over and fires his first volley, killing 3
hydras. Seeing this, Tool focuses fire on it and is able to kill it before it fires
another shot. However, reaver #2 finished building before the first one died, and shortly
after the first one dies reaver #2 fires it's respective volley, killing 5 hydras. The
next scarab finishes off the remaining 3, creating a bloody mess of blood and putrid
smelling gore, probably making the dragoons wish they were dead again (for the 45th time).
At
about that time, Tool's spire has finished morphing there, and he morphs a few scourge, either
because he is trying to be wary of drops or he map hacks. I think he hacks but it is open
to discussion. Anyway, if he does hack, he is pretty stupid because the shuttle bypasses
the route that the scourge were taking, and by the time Tool notices, it's too late. The
scourge kamazaki into the shuttle, killing it, but one of the two reavers manage to escape
out of it. Tool here makes a critical mistake by attacking the reaver with drones while
simultaneousley making a sunken colony, instead of maynarding his drones to the north west
main. We all know that reavers > drones, so the result? Tool loses 9 drones until the
sunken takes down the reaver.
In
conjunction with this he expands to the upper right spot. He reaches Tool's base, unloads
his reavers, and instead of finding the 24+ hydras that he was expecting, finds 3 hydras,
2 mutas, and a few scourge. This is because Tool had been rebuilding his economy, powering drones from his 3
expansions, as well as building anti-dropship/reaver mutas/scourge. So there really isn't
much else to say other than Tool's main was easily taken down. He managed to escape many a drone
though, and still had 3 expansions, compared to Strike's 2, so he was still in the game. The above pic is probably the
most exciting fight that took place in that "battle".
However, several bad ass goons arrive,
killing the lings and chasing the mutas to the north east natural. Strike notes this,
and sends his 7 goons up the ramp to the natural. There they find a sunken, a morphing
creep, as well a couple of mutas - a battle which the goons should have easily won.
However, Tool somehow pulls some gosuity out of his ass and fights off the goons,
causing Strike to retreat 4 damaged ones back to the north east main.
Tool,
having 3 gas geysers, is quickly able to hatch a large force of about 12 mutas. He moves
them to Strike's north east 
expansion, finding about 7 goons and a
cannon. The mutas engage, and quickly bring down the cannon and start hammering on the
goons, with the loss of only 5 mutas. Strike sees this and sends his set of goons that had formerly killed
Tool's
main, who were at that time outside of Tool's northeast expansion. Strike micros some of his goons away
from the mutas, causing several of the mutas to chase after the goons. The remaining few
mutas start attacking Strike's probes. Unfortunately for Tool, about 12 goons arrive, and Tool's mutas
remaining 6 or so mutas die easily.
During this, 
Strike has to carefully move his
goons up the ramp, because if he didnt they walk around drunk as goons usually do when
they try to attack high ground. Doing this, he takes pretty heavy sunken and muta damage,
but once he gets up the ramp his remaining 8 goons do moderate damage, killing all 3
sunkens and 4 mutas, before retreating his 3 goons back down the ramp.
and heads
towards Tool's northwest bases. Tool sends countless zerglings at him, the the archon does its job
nicely before dieing, and the goons finish them off, with the add of an observer to find a
lurker. Tool keeps sending mutas and lings at the remaining 7 dragoons, but the goons
stand their ground, and are victorious. Reinforcements soon arrive, and head towards Tool's northwest
natural. The closest things they find to opposition there are a bunch of scared shitless
drones, who are easily destroyed.
Strike's very formidable force of at least 24 goons and a couple
templar then proceed to move to Tool's north east main, where they raze it very easily. All that
remains for Strike is to kill Tool's western island expansions, and he does this in most
humiliating with an archon drop .. keke^^. Tool however, with lots of gas, made an assload of queens, and got
broodlings, so he was able to produce this humorous site:
Tool starts off the game in most cheesey fashion. Once his scouting probe sees
terran, he realizes that he has an opportunity to be gay. So he promptly throws up an
assimilator on Strike's gas mine.
The cheese travels south, and once the cheese arrives,
consisting of 8 marines and 5 scvs, Tool attacks with 2 zealots, trying to stall them, giving time for
his cannon to warp in. The zealots do the job well, sacrificing their pathetic lives for
aiur. Tool realizes that he needs to stall the cheese even more, as his cannon is
slow and putzy to warp in, so in desperation, he uses his probes. He kills a marine before
retreating them, as he realizes that its not worth losing many probes just as fodder. He
lets the marines move towards the cannon, and they start to fire upon it. However, the
cannon is able to warp in in time! It starts firing upon the marines, and with the
addition of several probes and 2 fresh zealots, Tool is able to live through the "nig of a pickle". Strike retreats with
5 marines and an scv.
Tool, knowing he has some solid
map control with his dts, decides to expand to the lower left main. He also starts getting
regular templar, preparing to unleash that spell that you all know and love, psi storm. Strike continues to
mass infantry, probably having 30+ at this point. He skimps on the machine shop add-on for
his factory, instead getting a starport. To the side, Tool tells us what he feels about
bathing
Tool moves one of his templar up
towards the infantry, and throws up a storm at several tighly packed infantry. Strike micros
however (wow!), and only loses 4 marines. Tool, despite using only one templar, decides to merge 2 of them
into an archon, while attacking with his 2 zealots. But then i see his gosu plan come into
action, as his 2 flanking templar come in and start turning marines into red mush. After
the templar are done, the archon only has to kill a marine and 2 medics, and is left to
deal with an imcomplete CC.![tool's kill ratio was 102:31 =]](http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/9845/scores3.gif)