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| This report sunks | | | Author: | | | IP: | 1Cust219XXXX | | Date: | 04/02/00 08:04 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 5, Min: 4
Lifetime Rating for WhOa-RedMan: 5.2500 |   | Aight, here we go.
I'm sending this in to prove that really really bad strategies in theory can actually work against skilled people.
Here's some basic info:
Map: Temple
Speed: Fastest
Races: Me: Zerg
Him: Toss
I started out with a risky build order:
8: ol
12: hatch at second exp (mineral only)
12: pool
13: hatch at natural exp
then drone to 15, and sunken ling to stop rush
I'm more of a micro player myself, but after a few thousand zerg only games I can macro zerg with my eyes closed.
His BO of the time (I happen to know it since he's a friend of mine, WooT-Method) was:
8: pylon
10: gate
12: pylon
13: gate
Then constant probes with templar tech working towards 5 gate off 1 exp, 7-10 gate off 2. He went mainly lot temp, with minor goons and dts.
I'd like to note that he can (sometimes) do this errorless macrowise (I hate his micro).
The game went like this:
He finds my expansion with a sunken building and 6-8 lings there, his probe dies, so he decides to tech faster and not risk the rush. I concentrate on a full power, like 90% drones and getting ling upgrades fast as hell (before lair finishes) and I go mutas. He powers almost as hard as I, but since he's toss he can make units constantly while mine are made in packs out of 4-7 hatches during this game. He secures his natural (not wasting cash on cannons since he knows I'm powering) and is pumping out of 5 gates now, chons, temp, lots, goons.
I've been constantly scouting him with lings, and it really helps me out (note: if you don't scout with zerg, don't play sc), cause with my upgraded mutas and lings being able to stop any sort of drop he'd do, I know he'll try for a frontal assult.
The thing is, I had been making sunkens. Lots of em. 10 of them to be exact :-). I figured it was justified by my 5 hatches and 3 full minerals lines, with 2 of gas (note that my scouting means he can't exp without me finding it within a minute of the probe getting there or so).
Anyways, my horrible waste of minerals in the sunkens (1750 to be exact, or the cost of 6 hatcheries, or 70 lings) actually paid off since when he hit with his attack upgraded chons temp lots and goons, I microed his chons to death before I sent in my mutas which microed temp and lings which harrassed him back to his base.
After his cursing ended (1.3 minutes), I had dbl exped to the western side and grouped out all over the center of the map. 8 groups filled with muta/ling (lings had crack at this time) and I had upgrades on him. He exped to an isle, and managed to storm my natural's drones once before mutas got the 2 temp and chon and shuttle. I killed his isle exp with massive mutas and he called me a hacker (an ongoing joke about how lucky w/scouting I am).
And that pretty much was game, he couldn't exp, cause if he comes out I balloon my units till his are in a line toward the center, then I hit from all sides, and he can't get enough storms off (I hate his micro).
He finally came out (with more than I expected) but I still managed to win, sending 24 lings at his natural and making two 2 overlord harrass drops on his main to kill production while his army was out.
Last comments:
Him: "GG, hacker"
Me: "I beat you with fucking sunkens LOL"
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