Pop Quiz! What do you get when you mix storms of a psionic nature, lots of artillery, and a game that gets frustrating for both players! You guessed it! TvP on the Lost Temple. Ah, I can hear the imbalance complaints now! Well, let's see how this version turns out, shall we? Welcome to...
The Battle for the Lost Toilet...er Temple!
The Scenario: |
That's right! It's the Lost Temple(when is it not.)
Ok, well let's meet those players and get on with it already eh?
Hailing from the coveted 6:00 position on Lost Temple is the Omnipresent OmniLing! This everpresent zergling was able to wrest control of a protoss tribe and warps in immediately to prepare his troops for fierce combat against the Terran aggression. The Protoss were OmniLing'schosen race
Meanwhile, the Stalwart Terran commander RaN.eVince of the prestigious Random division, set down his command center at the 3:00 starting position. Immediately the SCVs began to appear en masse and the Terran War Machine was ready to roll. The terran army was hand picked by eVince
Also to be noted was my fellow observer Ghar, who although believing in no TvP imbalance whatsoever, was a cool guy and a source of constant quotes throughout the game, It was a pleasure observing with you Ghar!
The Build Orders:
The early game pretty much went as a standard TvP toss game does. OmniLing began with your standard Pylon, Gateway, Gateway, Pylon. This was followed a bit later by a forge and a cannon at his ramp and finally an Assimilator. 
Our Terran comrade RaN.eVince went for a heavy metal type build order and started by building a depot and a Barracks at his ramp. Soon a Refinery was built. After the gas started flowing 3 factories were quickly assembled at his main to begin vulture production.
The Early Game:
After the initial build orders were completed, the players began to tech in earnest. OmniLing Went built a Cybernetics Core, Citadel of Adun, and a Templar Archives while expanding to his natural and throwing up another Gateway. RaN.eVince expands to his natural as well and builds an Engineering Bay while producing a good number of vultures. eVince begins to lay spider mines on strategic locations of the map. After laying mines at his own natural choke eVince begins the trek towards OmniLing's natural with the sole intention of laying mines and creating general havoc.
The fun begins when a group of roving dragoons on a routine scouting mission begin to attack the vultures. eVince uses some excellent delaying tactics with his vultures in order to distract the dragoons while the spider mines do some real damage. eVince is able to contain OmniLing for a short while.
The Mid-Game:
OmniLing immediately begins production of a Robotics Facility in order to break away from the mine/vulture containment that is plaguing him. Meanwhile, eVince puts up another Factory at his main as well as beginning a Starport and Armory. Could a Turbo Newbie be far off? Only time will tell. eVince begins to show the signs of another offensive when tanks begin to pour out of factories like beer out of a drunk college student. A group of tanks and more vultures is added to the blockade at OmniLing's natural.eVince now takes the time to expand to the 12:00 main. At this time OmniLing has broken the blockade with a group of dragoons, Templar, and an Archon. He begins to rebuild his natural expansion. It seems he finally has his economy back in order. Taking advantage of the fact that he had dealt eVince quite a blow with the loss of that army, OmniLing expands to the 9:00 position.
Just when OmniLing thought it was safe to go out in the open again, the dreaded terran Turbo Newbie appears. Two drop ships filled with two tanks each unload their destructive cargo on the cliff overlooking OmniLing's natural. OmniLing is able to deter the Turbo Newbie by some excellent micro of a pair of Dark Templar, and a lot of luck as his shuttle was on it's way to DT drop eVince's natural.
After expanding to the 9:00 position OmniLing catches a glimpse from a passing shuttle of eVince's expansion at the 12:00 and sends a squad of spiteful Dragoons who quickly dismantle the token defense. eVince quickly evacuates his Command Center and Factory from the expansion and relocates to the far more secure upper left island expansion.
After the turbo newbie is thwarted eVince is thirsty for blood and begins to mount a major offensive towards OmniLing's main base of operations. OmniLing however has a group of defenders at home and another group on the way from the 9:00 expansion, and the battle is on! Thanks to a hefty helping of templar, the protoss Executor is able to resist the relentless assault of Arclite fire and concussino grenades. The Gatling guns of the goliaths fire continuously but to no avail as the offensive is soundly defeated.
Immediately after the collapse of the terran offensive OmniLing launches a counterstrike using a ragtag band of Dark Templar,Dragoons, and High Templar. Using the staunch defense of Siege Tanks and Spider mines with the occasional Goliath. eVince is able to repel this latest attack on his frontier. But not without heavy damge from PsiStorms. Zealots follow up the attack but are unable to penetrate the Terran line of Defense.
The End Game:
There is a brief lull in the action after this latest offensive and both sides attempt to catch their breath. eVince takes advantage of this time to expand to the lower right island in order to give his economy the much needed boost to overcome the losses due to the great aim of OmniLing's elite high templar. Since he was finally feeling safe again, eVince tries once again to use the Turbo Newbie strategy on that poor sieged 6:00 natural while simultaneously floating a factory to the cliff overlooking the 9:00 natural. A dual Turbo Newbie! This attempt at a Turbo Newbie is also stopped cold despite the fact that 6 tanks were used this time as well as spider mines.
With the Turbo Newbie now out of the way OmniLing now takes the time to expand to the 12 o'clock main and gets his economy booming! A massive army of Archons, Dark Templar, High Templar, and Dragoons supported by Zealots begins to form up. As eVince begins losing units like crazy he knows the end is upon him and concedes the game. The frustration was beginning to mount as the Psi-Storms kept raining down destruction on any possible attack. A very entertaining game to watch, well played by both sides!
I'll leave you with some words of encouragement from our friend OmniLing
Well I hope you enjoyed the report, please comment and tell me what ya liked and what you didn't like! Thanks again!
~Naveed~ | 
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