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| Proselyte Tourney Fight | | | Author: | | | IP: | bgm-24-9XXXX | | Date: | 05/15/00 05:05 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 7, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for SlingsNArrows: 6.2000 |   | Well.. Due to my complete and total lack of html knowledge, this is going to be a text only report. ( Yes, I have pics. Yes, I took the time to make cool collages and gifs. Yes, I really am too stupid to put them up here without the aid of my trusty trellix web editor.)
Let me paint the picture for you. Proselyte.. a big name in star craft. Someone who fought his way to the top ten of Tao, then dropped the Tao ladder like a bad habit when he didn't get the Kali he had been promised.
Proselyte, entering a tourney, calls upon his personal Battle Reporter: Me :o)
Proselyte: "Battle Report ALL my games in this tourney or else I will continually newbie bash you! Bwahahahahaha!"
SlingsNArrows: "AAaaaaah! I'll do it you fiend!"
( Actually, I asked him if I could BR his games... erm.. same difference.)
Anyways, we soon find ourselves in Clan -Badly-. Proselyte is strangely keyed up and confides in me that he would really like to win the tourney tonight. I can almost imagine him like a purebred race horse at the starting gate, prancing and frisking, eager to leave the other horses far behind, eating the dirt his hooves kick up.
(Of course.. It's more like, a cerebrate wiggling around while he waits at the twelve o'clock start, eager to leave his opponents far behind in tech and economy, while making them eat hydra spines.. but whatever.)
Proselyte (From here on out will be referred to as Pro) confides that he is somewhat worried. He is at his brother's computer, and the feel is still somewhat weird to him. Still he is eager and believes that he can take the field of competition arrayed before him. The first match is called.
Proselyte Vs A^L^L^S^T^A^R
The map: Lost Temple (Not one word out of any of ya.)
Both players pick Zerg.
Pro stakes his flag atop a hatch at the twelve o'clock starting position while ALL plants his at the nine o'clock.
(Cynical Magician and Bane Are the Best Battle Reporters Out There Nowadays. heh.. if that doesn't cause comments, I don't know what will. But I do enjoy them best!)
For openers, both players scout with their ovies and neither get lucky. Then their paths diverge. AllSTAR does a 9/10 extractor trick, and then plants a pool. Pro meanwhile does a standard drones, overlord, and then hatch. He places the hatch just below his ramp, apparently to better cover his natural.
The first real action of the game occurs as ALLSTAR sends a single drone into Pro's base. Making it all the way to the still empty gas node, the drone then stops to build a creep colony within range of the hatchery. Pro takes about six drones off mining and quickly deals with the threat.
During this brief.. erm.. I guess you could say.. attack.. AllSTAR plants the roots of a hatchery firmly at the top of his 9 o'clock ramp. Soon after he sends six lings to attack. Unfortunately, they are stopped by about an equal number of lings just below Pro's ramp. Pro, stunning multitasker counter attacks with lings and takes his natural simultaneously.
The counterstroke of lings finds 4 of their "All Star" counterparts holding the All Star's ramp and a sunken morphing atop the cliff. Pro's lings, being "Pro" at the game of SC, retreat to hold All Star's natural.
Pro then completes an evolution chamber which I didn't even see him lay down. ( 3 actions at once.. too gosu for me :o)He lays down two creep colonies in his main, and another two at his hatchery below the 12 o'clock ramp. These all eventually become spore colonies, and he adds another two at his natural. Apparently the Proselyte Congress has passed a new air defense budget, eh? As a final measure of their spending plan, they drop a hydralisk down onto the creep of his main, within range of the spore colonies' defense of course.
Ironically enough, ALLSTAR has been pumping lings the whole time. His Spire finished before the spores at Pro's below-ramp hatchery did. However, without an expand, a large muta force was apparently too much to fund at this time. So, he kept up with the lings. He did build a force of two scourge and four muta though,apparently for anti air defense only at this time.
ALLSTAR takes his force of lings .. erm, about a control group and a half, and clears out the small Pro-Ling force at his natural. Then sends them just shy of the another force of Pro-lings at the bottom of the 12 o'clock ramp. Now that he has avoided any nasty line dance effects that long range travel might cause, he attacks.
As soon as the attack hits, Pro morphs every larvae he has handy into hydras. Unfortunately for the Pro-Lings, they are easily and quickly overcome. The AllSTAR Lings begin to rampage unchecked for about.. two whole seconds before a trio of previously hatched slow hydras clamber to the top of the ramp and look down.
Yep, you guessed it. Pro-sniper hydras. These fellows started taking shots at the poor lings from atop the ramp. Finally, after several more losses the All Star lings tore rooted the sniper hydras out of their mountain pass.
What will become of our hero?! His ramp is compromised!
( Nevermind the 12 hydra he built before, they are still morphing. Just let the suspense build my friends. Pretend.. pretend... pretend that ALLSTAR has a growing force of Mutalisks now... Oh wait, he does!)
During his ling attack ALLSTAR took the 6 o'clock main. Soon after the 12 hydras Pro had morphed hatch, and clear the ALLSTAR Lings out of Proselyte's base. Using a stray ling that had been sitting on his haunches collecting dust, Pro scouts all the land based expands. Pro also sets down a sunken colony below his ramp, to forestall anymore ling rushes into his base and takes his mineral natural.
That dusty old ling finds AllStar's 6 o'clock expand, and calls in to Pro. Soon after, about a control groups of hydras are sprinting very slowly towards the the base. Basically there was no defense, a few mutas started to go help.. but they were smart mutas and went home to AllStar's main.
So there you have it. AllSTAR is expandless, two sunkens and about eight mutas are all he has guarding his ramp. Meanwhile Proselyte has been cranking out more hydras. It takes a few moments to root out our favorite All Star from his plateau. Then the GGs are exchanged, and the players return to the tourney channel to report the outcome.
Proselyte advances to round 2!
(I guess he has dealt with the strangeness of the different computer)
( Ok, this is seriously pissing me off. Someone with HTML skill, if you want to form a BR team, I'm in. I'll write and send you the text. I'll also send you the pics to upload, make the gifs, titles, collages, etc. All I need you to do is save me from my ignorance of HTML!)
heh, comment please :o) Be harsh, I know I'm not too great. But this is only my second try. Check out my first at
http://embark.to/Nexus
Go to the games section there. If anyone want to link trade, or form a BR team mail me at Vinmail@aol.com.
Hmmm... Remember what I said about Cynical and Bane? what you think of that? eh all you fancy BRers? heh.. comment! |
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