"The pen is mightier than the sword (but not mightier than the arclite siege cannon). "
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| Terran vs Protoss On Lost temple! (My first BR) | | | Author: | | | IP: | spider-tXXXX | | Date: | 03/28/00 06:03 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for -}CummingBurd{-: 5.0000 |  | This is my first battle report and as you are about to see I suck.
Game: Vanilla SC
Map: Lost Temple (again)
Players:
Name: -}CummingBurd{-
Rating/Record: 1068
Race: Red Terran 9:00
Name: marinewannabe
Rating/Record: 76-99-3 (Hahahahaha chobo chobo chobo)
Race: Blue Protoss 12:00
marinewannabe is my friend who lives down the street from me, and when he called me for a game, I said yes (of course). In channel ztp, I did a stat check and found out his chobo record! I knew he had to suck.
Looking to give my friend Sean his 100th loss, I chose terran and he chose protoss at the last second
Let the Games Begin!
I start the game with my regular Heartcutter Heavy Metal build. I scout with my 7th SCV, and I see a pylon, a gateway, and early gas.
I hid my SCV down in the corner for further scouting and came back up again to see about 4 zealots, a forge, a cybernetics core. Hmmm... been about 10 minutes so far... what could he be doing? His zealots attacked so I tried to run away, but suddenly the computer said, "You are under attack". I looked back at his base and saw a pylon and and 12 photon cannons at his choke! Hahahahaha chobo! I had 8 upgraded vultures now, but cannons > vults last time I checked, so I began research on seige mode and some tanks
So That's What He's Doing!
I added another factory, scanned his main and scanned his natural. In his main was a citadel of adun and a templar archives, but I wasn't too worried because Dt's don't exist in Vanilla SC. I did my regular base scout with vultures, and laid spider mines in all of the pontential bases. I added a 4th factory, and went to attack the turtling toss with 15 tanks and 10 vultures. I began to lay seige to his bases. I killed the photons at his natural, put mines in front of my tanks, and sent the vultures in to demolish all of the probes at his natural.
I saw that my minerals were above a thousand, so I stalled my seige and built a startport and added a 4th factory, while queing up some more tanks.
Suddenly a dark shadow came upon my tanks..... Carriers! 2 of them to be exact.
Shit! I hate carriers! I scanned his base and saw 3 starports and a fleet beacon. He had also added another cybernetics core, and was upgrading furiously. I quickly made to armories, and began to que up goliaths, against the carriers. I made a wraith from my starport, and made him patrol the islands, added on a control tower, and made a dropship for a turbo newbie. After I got the dropship, I realized it would be worthless as carriers > turbo newbies.
As if the oncoming carrier threat wasn't enough, he was expanding to the 3:00 natural, which was shown by my spider
mine. I decided to wait to kill it, so I could waste his 40 minerals. I scanned both of his bases, and he had about 7 carriers, an arbiter, and 2 observers. However I had 14 1/1 goliaths soon to be 2/2. I floated a CC to the 6:00 main, and maynarded a bunch of SCV's there. I also added a 5th and 6th factory, a science facility w/ covert ops, and 3 more barracks for ghosts, nuking, and lockdown.
When the nexus at the 3:00 main was finished, I sent 8 2/2 vultures to destroy it. Doh! He had about 8 photons at the choke! shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit. I was clearly breaking Heartcutter's 1st rule: allow the Protoss 1 expansion. That is all. I was about to lay seige to it, when I scanned his main, and luckily saw that he was bringing about 11 carriers, 2 arbiters, and 2 observers to kill me...
The End is Near....
I prepared my forces. I put hold position on my goliaths, and prepped my ghosts. It was time for the final showdown.
Being the clever Protoss he is, he kept his carriers above my cliff, cloaked, and killing my gollies. I scanned, and with a flash of gosu, lockdown 4/5ths of his army. Suddenly, 3 lovely words flashed across the screen
Nuclear Launch Detected
Yes, I had focused the little red dot on his 8-9 lockdowned carriers and 1 lockdowned arbiter. I moved my goliaths away (they were 3/3 now, BTW, but so were his carriers), and the happy explosions commenced. I was so happy. He moved his unlockdowned army away, but brought it back again, hoping to win with 2 carriers and an arbiter. I simply lockdowned the carriers and arbiter and happily destroyed them with my goliaths.
Clean up time!
With his grand carrier fleet destroyed, I tank pushed his main with little resistance, and proceeded to nuke his expansions.
Lessons Learned:
o Terran Owns.
o Carriers suck.
o Lockdown owns.
o At all costs keep ur minerals below 1000, this is extremely important, and you will play very well by doing this.
o Hot keying comsat is fun.
o Goliaths suck alot more in Vanilla SC cuz you can't upgrade charon boosters.
o He didn't seem to be very chobo to me, even with a 76-99-3 record.
o With Heavy Metal, don't be afraid to change. I added 3 barracks cuz I saw the need for lockdown.
o Scouting is VERY important.
o Go Terrans!
o Hope fully my picture of a Cumming Bird will show up below here.
o This took a while to type.
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