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Ap`Taktiks in a somewhat risky play, decided to expand to the 3 o'clock natural expansion. Given the sheer number of hydralisk soon to be in play, it was a ballsy move on Ap's part. As part of his preparations, Ap`Taktiks took 10 zealots and spread them out in a vertical line stretching across the map's center.  Understanding that the expansion
would immediately come under fire once discovered, Ap began building 3
cannons positioned so that they could layer fire into
the choke entrance, precisely where incoming hydras
would stumble about while attempting to return
fire.Crazy stumbled upon the expansion attempt with a drone (don't ask me why he sent a drone) and immediately sent all 18 of his hydras to engage the building cannon defenses. Ap saw the movement with his extended line of zealots and immediately withdrew his troops in a desperate delaying action to allow his cannons time to finish.  In the ensuing race to the expansion, Ap was able to marginally outrace the speed upgraded hydras with his unlegged zeals, then was able to engage the superior numbered hydralisks effectively enough that his cannons were able to complete. Here Crazy showed a glimmer of intelligence by retreating his remaining troops knowing that his forces did not have the critical mass needed to defeat both the zealots and cannons should the zealots retreat to the finished cannons. Having successfully managed the games first major engagement, initiated by Crazy, Ap`Taktiks moved his remaining troops two screens north from where he had engaged the hydras, expecting subsequent attacks. |
| Blitzing 101: |
This was Crazy's first attempt to take the pivotal mine:  As you can see, it did little more than water the tree of gayness with the blood of slugs. As you may have noticed in the GIF, Ap has not yet achieved Dragoon range, though he does have Nike© shoes for his pimp zealots. Aside from coming away with this little tidbit of info, Crazy's foray turned out not to be a complete waste as he had expanded to the 6 main and upgraded to Lair while his hydras were being thoroughly raped. Unfortunately, Ap's successful defense had absolutely no effect on Crazy's ability to select larva from 6 hatches and produce hydralisks. Ever eager to kick Ap in his big brass balls, Crazy blitzed it again:  
 The meatgrinder quickly became known as the place where hydras came to die. After 4 seperate blitzes and 5 withering storms, 2 hydras were all that remained to "press" the battle. Sensing that he had reached his limit of exploitation, Crazy spat hydra phlem on the effectively isolated Nexus for a few moments, then ran his two veteran hydra off a ways and burrowed them.  Satisfied with his ability to rape the 3 natural at whim, Crazy expanded twice more to the 6 natural and mineral-only, slapped down a queens nest and spire, then Maynard transferred some drones to 6 while building a second hatchery there. His hatchery count now stands at 10. Meanwhile, Ap had begun a nexus at the 3 main.  Frustrated by Crazy having sent secondary blitzes at his main with the singular goal of stalling reinforcements, Ap`Taktiks now found himself with a rather sizable unit advantage having successfully held off ~50 hydras with 2 templar, 2 dragoons, 10 zealots, and 4 cannons. Perhaps a bit flustered by this game having been completely dictated by Crazy's actions thus far, Ap force marched his 16 zeals, 4 goons and 4 templar to the map's center. Upon seeing massive Zealots back by Templar moving out to do him like Fishburne in Hoodlum, Crazy proceeded to run screaming bloody murder like, well, that chick in Scream. I love Neve Campbell. *Casper is away (Drooling over pics of the nubile Neve Campbell).  Yeah, I know she hardly ever screamed in Scream. It was at this point that I noticed Ap`Taktiks had allowed his robotics facility to sit idle all game. As a Protoss player, I can see how this might've been a problem especially seeing how Crazy was well on his way to a Hive, and therefore, a ph@t vial of Crack. I felt worried for my little Zealot homies. |
| Two hydras,
twelve Monkeys and the randy Templar: |
Apparently bored with all this standing around, Crazy decided to throw units at Ap`Taktiks' troops randomly.   Or so it seemed. The madness
continued for a good minute, with Crazy burrowing hydras in plain sight,
only to have them stormed by Ap's randy Templar and their itchy trigger
fingers eager to summon storms on the seemingly
braindead troops.  You were correct. While Ap`Taktiks had been managing the battles, Crazy had unburrowed his 2 veteran hydra and had long since been attacking the undefended Nexus. After having cleared out each and every one of Crazy's hydra from the map's center , Ap finally noticed over his announcer that his expansion Nexus was slowly burning to the ground. Crazy's 2 elite hydralisk had put the Nexus in the red. Ap`Taktiks moved to save his Nexus with his victorious army. Would he reach it in time? In short, no. A boom echoed across the war-torn battlefield as the beseiged Nexus buckled under the persistent hydra fire and exploded.  And just like that, a mere two Hydralisks had thrown this game competely in Crazy's favor. And far off, seated upon a folding chair in a dreary dorm enclosed within an obscure corner of the United States of America sat a young man with the Battle.Net nick of Ap`Taktiks, upon whose bowed head 12 drunk Rhesus monkeys each wearing little miniature pointy-coned brassieres danced a jig. |
| How big is infinity?: |
 Now left with precisely this many
minerals in his main, Ap`Taktiks was officially in a world of
hurt. Especially with Crazy in position to initiate the "Build infinite hydras then leave to eat while Shlomo goes nuts trying to kill em all" strat. So he did what any sane man would do in this situation.  To his credit, he placed the cannons on 3's cliff and NOT in his main. Crazy countered by adding 3 more hatches, and upgrading to Greater Spire. Crazy, of course, found the cannons and sent in the Guards, but succeeded only in providing me with this pretty shot:  Past the point of caring about his "loss", Crazy got prepped to get his game in gear. And he did. And Ap`Taktiks died. |
| The answer is Pretty Damn Big: |
 Met by an endless stream of
hydra/crack from Crazy's now 15 hatches, Ap`Taktiks was slowly
driven back into, then relieved of both his main base
and natural.   Victor: Crazy 
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| This report has been a Casper...© production. |
both players commenced with their initial
builds.
he decided to build 2 additional
sunken colonies seeing that his zergling/zealot ratio
was rather weak. That done, he began collecting gas from
both geysers, then quickly brought his hatch count up to
6 once he had the minerals while pumping a ridiculous
amount of drones from his 4 active hatches.