"In fact the wounds inflicted by these mines were so horrible that the other terran commanders morality forbade them from using the wicked things. Much to Vegas's satisfaction."
-Johhny_Vegas
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| I go back to Vanilla SC and open up a can of Whoop Ass. | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 06/04/99 12:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for .Praetor: 8.2987 |  | I didn't want to find IE again, so no pictures. Sue me. Or Johnny, whichever of us has the worst lawyer.
So anyway, my father is learning Starcraft for fun, (he's even got a home network, it's awesome) and is on a business trip. A lot of downtime, very good. So I'm playing, mixing it up in NoHunters (I took down 34 of a team with a doom fleet before my last pylon fell, oh well). Upon hearing Eric (my father) wants to play, I go back to vanilla and create channel Fowler. After a few one on one games, where I school him a bit on the Terran arts (he's loyal, gotta respect that).
After I double nuke his base (for the 3rd time?), we decide to play as a team. No one showed up on Lost Civilization, so we played on Lost Temple. Two people showed up, burppppp and LoveGoodHead (LGH). Well the game started out normally, they both chose protoss and warped in at top and left. I warped in on right, and Eric warped in on bottom. He was terran, of course, so I made sure he was well on his way to a bunker and then firebats. Not too worried, I get a pool, an ovie, 6 lings and another hatchery. Let's go scouting. As I exit my base, an ovie fallys to cannons in burpppp's base. What? Cannons. And there are 2 (count em, 2) pylons at the entrance to my base. What? Both players are offensive-cannoning me? I nix that in the bud with my 6 lings, and begin to chortle. Being new to b.net, I inform Eric what had been attempted. That was when he disced (laptop, hotel phoneline, AOL, 'nuff said). Dang, a 2v1. Still, they had been a bit cannon crazy. Not too worried, I decided to tech.
Tech you say. TECH, that's foolish, crazy, idiotic, even! Well common knowledge says in a 2v1 your only choice is to mass troops and take one down in an all or nothing bid. This is hogwash. You just have to get really good at killing opposing units. I set up another hatch at my natural, and make some more lings, having already gotten gas. I upgrade to Lair. When that is done, I start a spire and a queen's nest. At my expansion, I make only gas workers, with plenty of minerals at my base. I scout LGH, yep, he likes cannons too. I upgrade my spire when I can, and get 8 mutis. I've got some min, so I get some lings and drones. Now LGH attacks, with about 12 zealots, maybe a few more. I yawn, thinking the game is lost, and send in my lings. A few seconds later, I remember my muti, and attack as well. Here LGH made the mistake that could have kept them in the game, he went after my drones, not my newly morphed Greater Spire.
I lose most my drones, and bought more till I had only 400 min left. Then I morphed 8 guardians. I attacked burpppp, killing 5 cannons at his choke, then 8 dragoons (which got a guard and wounded 4 others, then 5 cannons in his main. I start working on probes, and notice LGH has warped in a pylon at the ramp pylon? I finish killing the base.
I lose another overlord at the south base, where Eric had started. I send my next 6 Guards down there, killing 5 cannons, and the nexus. Burpppp was eliminated before he could start an expansion at the top left island. I kill LGH's 2 cannons at burppp's choke!!! 2 cannons. I chuckle. I have a ton more gas, so I make some scourge, 12 to be exact. I send 2 to get burppp's shuttle for kicks, and advance on LGH's base with 2 groups of Guards. I kill a bunch of cannons, lose 3 guards in the north group to being lazy and using attack move, and 3 guards to a scout at the south base. Oops. I bring down my scourge and send 2 at it. There we go. Wait. Scouts take 3. DANG!!! I send in another scouge. LGH heads to top left island to expand again. I send 2 guards to mop up any buildings, and 2 scourge to take out the shuttle. Another scout warps in, gets a guard, and I take it out with scourge. I have 15 mutis built up now, so I attack at LGH's now defensless base, and am killing it. LGH is silnet. I say good game, bring my last 2 scourge into view, and morph my 15 mutis into guards inside his base. I miss the dev picture down there.
The 15 guards all evolve at the same time, take one MASSIVE volley at the nexux, and LGH is eliminated, without saying a word.
-Never give up.
-Cannons are awsome, but they don't win games.
-Scourge are handy, but only if you micormanage, too many people forget one of these two things.
-Teching works in a 2v1 too!!!
-Some people are decent. Maybe quiet, but they don't disc or accuse of hacking, even when they get a serious beat down delivered. |
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