"permission to warp in sexy-bengalaas for this"
-Raistloaf
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| High Noon, showdown 1v1. | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 06/03/99 03:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 8, Min: 8
Lifetime Rating for |RAID|: 7.2500 |  | can't figure out for the life of me how to add pictures :) I will have to regretfully leave some great shots of this game out of this report.
[High Noon]
Well, the time had come, 2 protoss warriors took up the challenge, a 1 vs 1 on showdown. I was started in the top left, and he recieved the bottom right position.
The game began with my usual showdown early build (pylon on 7, 2 gateways, 2 early zealots, then move on to a cybornetics core and dragoons/range upgraded dragoons). As I began to build up a lone probe wandered into my base, and after taking a few potshots at one of my probes, decided to throw an assimilator up for me. This was going to delay my gas, and hurt my early game dragoon build, and I knew it. At this point my first zealot arrived and began pounding on the assimilator, followed by a second zealot. I was expecting him to allow the building to finish, as the 100 mineral investment was more then worth the fact I would have had at least 15-20 seconds of gas production held back, but he op'ted to cancel the assimilator before it finished, and the game was on.
[Anticipation]
An early zealot left my base in search of enlightenment, I sent him in move mode directly into his base for some scouting, and found what I was expecting, he was putting up a robotics factory. In the meantime, I was producing dragoons and had began the range upgrade (4 dragoons were standing there at the time, soon to be 6). At this point it hit me, he was going to drop a probe on my cliff and attempt to cannon my minerals. Quickly I started a robotics facility of my own (his was at around 300 hp/shields completed at this time), and moved my dragoons 3 to the southwest end of my base and 3 to the northeast end (on the edges of the map, in an attempt to prevent a shuttle passing). I knew my shuttle wouldn't come out until well after his completed, but I figured the tine required to cross the map would counteract this fact (and was banking on my dragoons to stop the shuttle). Sure enough, it came, and the 3 dragoons on my southwest end managed to blast it from the sky preventing the drop entirely.
[Cannon Time]
I decided to try a similar attack, and placed a dragoon and 2 probes in my shuttle. I dropped a probe at my island expansion in the northeast corner, and continued south with the shuttle. Carefully I approached but found he had taken inspiration from my dragoon defence and had some of his own. I backed the shuttle off and dropped the dragoon on his island expansion instead (to help prevent his taking of this spot) then flew home. At this point I was working on getting a reaver up, and starting the climb to templar (citadel of adun was warping in), and I felt fairly confident that my skills in templar use and expansion containment could hold him off bases. It was at this point I saw something warping in on the cliff above my island expansion. Sure enough, 3 cannons were coming up. Quickly I dropped 2 dragoons behind the cannons and had them take the pylon out from beyond the range of the cannons, however some damage was done, 3 probes lost. At this point I started my templar production and psi storm research. In the meantime he had taken it upon himself to put cannons up in the very center of the map (on the cliff overlooking the 2 main expansion points of the map). By the time I saw them warping in, I knew it was too late and thus decided to take the mineral only expansion south of my base in hopes the increased mineral flow would make up for the fact he had a good expansion coming up. I quickly sent 2 dark templar I had built after my first few high templar to harass the expansion, however it was quickly reinforced with 2 templar, 5 dragoons, and an observer (then cannoned) so I was forced to retreat, with only 1 dark templar surviving, with hp in the extreme red zone. I sat him on the left side of the center cliff, far enough away that he wouldn't get spotted/hit by cannons, but close enough to see anything passing through, a few minutes later I placed a similar dt on the right side. I had built 3 starports in the meantime (2 at my isle expansion, 1 at my main) and began corsair production. While this was going, I began building a defensive position north of the middle expansion, defending the choke leading to my bases with 5 cannons and 2 shield batteries (reinforced by 3 templar behind the cannons, and a reaver). Quickly seeing this, he brought his dragoon force to bear, attempting to break my defence before it was completely warped in, but 3 quick well aimed psi storms had him in the retreat and losing goons left and right.
[The Fleet]
Now I knew he had 1 expansion, my observers were watching the other spots, and I had a dragoon on his island, but though this was good news, the expansion he held was a key one. This and the fact that he blocked the choke well enough that I knew he'd soon be expanding to both the isle expansion behind him, and the mineral expansion above him. I had some upgrades for my air attack/armor (1-1-0) and a fleet beacon finished warping in, so I decided I would bank my current mineral reserve on carriers as a last ditch effort to break his control of the center and turn the game in my favor. As these were building he began expanding to his island (my dragoon held off his first attempt, but he came back with a templar/dragoon/probe to get rid of him). Many petty skirmishes were happening at the choke above the mineral/gas expansion on my side of the center, he would send goons up, I would fend them off, I'd send goons down, he'd fend them off, when finally at long last, my carriers came out of orbit prepared to kill. I had already researched the capacity upgrade and was filling with interceptors while beginning to research disruption web. I gathered them with my 5 corsairs and headed toward his southwest island expansion while building an additional 2 carriers at home (waiting on the cash for a third). Carefully my covert fleet followed an advance observer along the west wall of the map, avoiding detection and launching a suprise attack against the island, killing the templar stationed there before he could respond, and quickly making rubble of the few cannons and nexus before turning tail and making a hasty retreat. Then I used them to hit the cannons on the center cliff, as I knew if I could clear that cliff, I could cannon it myself to stop his mining, or use templar off it to do the same. He made repeated attempts to psi storm the carriers, but I simply kept retreating to the shield batteries and healing all damage, keeping perminant damage to their hulls at a minimum. I was also relying on psi storm of my own to keep his own templar away, and my dark templar stationed on either side of the cliff proved efficent assassins vs the evil templari. Now I had control of the cliff and after a few failed attempts (him psi storming my probes on the cliff etc) I managed to get cannons warping in. My 3 shiny new carriers arrived and I finally was able to make an expansion of my own on the north side of the cliff, as my cannons pounded his probes and assimilator below.
[HOLY CRAP!]
Now I was feeling confident, and flew my fleet east and south, to hit his mineral only expansion he had just started. I did just like on the west side, by flying an observer in advance in an attempt to suprise him before he had templar reinforcements in the area. This proved to be a wise move, as the observer suddenly flew over a sea of blue units. I looked down and in awe realized what he had been doing with his minerals and gas. Not carriers, not scouts, not corsairs, he had built the most damn templar I had ever seen. At least 15-20 sat in a decent sized clump, with more moving around. Quickly realizing the carriers weren't going to do too well vs this many templar, I backed them off. Suddenly I had a thought, I have a reaver, I have a speed upgraded shuttle, and he has one hell of alot of clumped templar :). I quickly grabbed my reaver a templar and a probe and headed them toward the mass of templar, dropping the probe and the templar on the cliff above his mineral expansion along the way. The probe began cannoning his minerals as my shuttle flew directly above the mass of templar and released the reaver. Immediately 5 templar went up in a puff of smoke, followed by 3 more, then he psi stormed the area which only served to kill another 2 templar as my reaver got off a final shot to kill 1 more. I then harassed him by flying around my shuttle a bit, occupying him as my cannons began to warp in, and trying to draw psi storm over his own men (he wisely declined to cast hehe). As his expansion began to be hit by cannons I decided to use this moment of confusion to hit his dead center expansion (it wasn't able to mine due to the cannons on the cliff) and clear it out quickly. Now in desperation he attempted warping his remaining templar gathered up into nearly 9 archons, and sent thim along with his massed zealots, only to have them chewed down by carriers on the cliff, and my choke defence/psi storm. He had lost, I had won, and as my carriers approached the ghost town he called a main base, he called me a unit hacking lamer cheating bastard, then promptly disconnected.
The day was mine, 2 stepped upon the field of battle, only 1 left victorious, and a good time was had by all.
Lessons learned:
1: It is nearly impossible to get a good ladder rating playing random opponents. Out of 10 games, 8 enemies disconnected when they lost.
2: Battle.net records ladder games poorly. This game he disconnected in, I got no win or loss or disconnect, but he actually got a WIN! How sick is that? He disconnects, and gets a win for it hehe. I honestly wish I could have figured out how to post screenshots so you could see him saying, and I quote "you unit hacking lamer cheating bastardz" showing up just below the "waiting for players" window :).
3: High templar rule :).
4: The damn offensive assimilator is a bitch of a strategy.
Hope that was a decent read :), even without the pictures,
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