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Aenslaed vs Fox^1, Not On Temple!
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Author:BW-sux
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Date: 06/09/00 07:06
Game Type: Starcraft
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Report Rating: 8.0, # of Ratings: 2, Max: 8, Min: 8
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4th BR  
The "Before the BR information"

1) As I have done in all of my other BRs (except the piece of crap text-only I wrote),all image editing is done in MS Paint.
2)Please comment on this BR, but don't make lame pop-up windows. I wan't real advice. I can't comment on my last report because I can't press OK to "probe is cool~".

Now, onto the report.


Aenslaed
vs.
Fox^1

Before game
This report starts in nohunters, with Fox^1 demanding me to BR him and Aenslaed. The game was first started on Lost Temple, but I boldly told them I wouldn't report a game on temple unless it is for a tournament. So I ask them if I could recreate the game on my observer-friendly version of Rivalry.  The soon-to-be combatants then say they don't mind if I remade the game on my map, especially Fox, since Rivalry is his favorite map (he said it in one of his Questions of the Day). So after Fox says he has beer and oreos, we start the game.

Fox^1, who was the winner of my third BR, randoms and gets Terran at the 10:30 start, while Aenslaed, winner of my 4th BR, also randoms and draws Protoss at the 4:30 start. I think to myself, the starcraft gods have looked down on me, and have given both of the combatants the color they triumphed with in their respective reports by me, as well as their opponent being the race they beat. If you didn't understand what I just said, don't worry. It doesn't pertain to this report.

BY POPULAR DEMAND... ALT TEXT!!!!



Early game

Fox goes for a Heartcutter-style wallin at his ramp, then factory, factory, academy depot, and gets a lot of anti-toss metal. 

Aenslaed gets a pylon on 8, then gate, pylon, gate, cybernetics core, citadel, templar archives, then a robotics facility.

During Aenslaed's build, Fox puts down about 10 mines around Aenslaed's natural. Aenslaed sees this and starts the robo facility, as well as putting a cannon at his ramp and a few around his peon lines. He also gets dark templars and a few zealots at his ramp. When Aenslaed get his observatory done and builds an observer, he sends it to the natural expansion, as well as some various units, to clear the minefield. After this happens, Fox brings his vultures to the center and his first tank to the bridge and they start pounding on the few units there.  During the battle, Fox takes his natural. 

mines > zealots

After a short wait, including Aenslaed taking the 6:00 expansion, Fox attacks again, this time being at Aenslaed's new expansion he has taken. Fox brings down about 4 tanks and somewhere near 5 vultures, mines the bridge between 7:30 and 6:00. Aenslaed, also notices this force and moves most of his troops to his new exp. Fox makes it pretty far, but his tank push is eventually stopped by a constant, steady stream of zealots with track shoes.

Tanks are cool!


More explosions and metal and stuff

After this battle Aenslaed and Fox each attack each other simultaneously. Aenslaed drops Fox's main with 2 zealots and 2 dark templars. During the drop, Fox's 10 or so tanks arrive at Aenslaed's just-finished nexus at his natural. The drop on Fox only destroys a depot, due to the 10 tanks that Aenslaed now faces and must pay more attention to. Aenslaed attacks the sieged tanks with zealots and the mobile tanks with dragoons. I thought to myself "Aenslaed won't win this," and he doesn't, but he manages to take down 3 tanks before his defenders die. Now Fox's tanks unsiege and start their way up Aenslaed's ramp, where another tank explodes from cannon fire. So Fox now has 6 of his 10 tanks left. As the 6 tanks are moving up the ramp, Aenslaed attacks these with 3 zealots and a dragoon on top of the plateau and 3 zealots below it, sandwiching Fox's tanks on the ramp itself. This ends the threat of tanks for now, and Aenslaed lives to fight again.

Who likes fire?

It is now time to check upgrades.

Fox's Upgrades:See next upgrade pic for alt text.

Aenslaed's Upgrades: Upgrades = the first step to ownage.

After a short wait and Aenslaed taking the 3:00 expansion, another battle occurs when Fox's vultures and Aenslaed's zealots and dark templars collide at the bridge between the 12:00 expansion and the 1:30 main.  No commander really wins, as both armies get slaughtered, Fox's vultures die from the zealots and DTs, most of Aenslaed's infantry die from mines, and a couple tanks brought in by Fox for support. 

Fox then mines up the bridges connecting the ground where the battle in the above paragraph was. While he is creating minefields on the bridges, Fox runs into a probe and a zealot, which die without killing anything. Seeing this, and thinking, Fox is about to get 2 expansions ,with relative ease, Aensaled sends 5 or so zealots to the 1:30 spot, and destroy the 5 or so vultures there, due to upgrades. The zealots cross the bridge and then trigger some mines, which kill them.

Another mines own melee units pic.



How about micro battles?
The next battle comes when Fox attacks Aenslaed's 6:00 expansion with about 8 vultures. Fox mines up the area he attacks just after the vultures arrive at thieir destination. This attack force is retreated soon after becuase a couple scouts pop out of 2 stargates at the expansion Fox attacked.

Fox then drops 8 marines behind Aenslaed's minerals at his 3:00 expansion. Aenslaed sees this happen and moves 1 zealot and 2 scouts to fend the attack off. The zealot nearly kills all of the marines off, and the scouts finish the job. Only a few probes die from this.

Soon after, Aenslaed moves 2 zealots and 2 scouts to deal with the 1:30 main Fox has taken. Fox has 4 goliaths sitting at the mineral-only defending. What results from this is a skirmish where Aenslaed moves in his zealots, then they get shot at, then Aenslaed moves in the scouts and retreats the zealots, goliaths attack scouts, zealots move in while scouts move out, repeat. Doing this, Aenslaed kills the 4 goliaths and keeps his 2 scouts (yes that's right, scouts), but he loses his zealots, which are then replaced by 4 fresh zealots.

Fox now mines up the bridge connecting 1:30 and 12:00 resource nodes. Aenslaed moves his zealots, backed by 2 observers, across the said bridge. The zealots dismantle some mines, but take a lot of tank and vulture fire and die fiery deaths, while the scouts mentioned in an earlier paragraph die from goliath missles during this fight.

Another gosu collage done in MS Paint.

Aenslaed moves 4 more zealots up to the 1:30 expansion, which also get owned by mines, vultures, and goliaths, but also do most of the job they were supposed to do. They kill a few vultures and goliaths before dying.

After another 4 zealots that get rid of the defenses on the bridge, Aenslaed sends up another 4 zealots which fail to do much. 

After this, Fox sends a ghost to the tip of his mineral-only , paints the land behind Aenslaed's minerals at his 9:00 expansion, and launches a nuke without cloaking the ghost. Aenslaed finds the little red dot and moves his probes out of the way. The nuke lands and manages to kill only one probe.

That was about all that nuke did.



The abrupt, gay end!!

After a short break in the action, Aenslaed attacks the war-torn bridge between 1:30 and 12:00 resource nodes with 4 carriers. The big gay blimps, along with some ground backup, take down Fox's occupation there. The carriers move on to Fox's 12:00 expansion, and destroy most of the defenses there. Four battlecruisers arrive soon after, but they are too late and die quick, fiery deaths, along with the rest of the defenders that died horribly from the homosexual balloons of death. GGs are then exchanged, and Fox leaves the game.

Carriers are homos.
 

Winner: Aenslaed

-TvP is imbalanced (well, most of you reading this report already know that).
-Aenslaed never made one high templar during this whole game, and he only made a few dragoons throughout the course of the game too. If Fox had got some wriaths, those would have most likely turned the tide of a few battles.
-Lockdown would have helped too,.
-Paint is cool (although Photoshop is better and it is taught in my computer tech class).


A quote from Bob_the_Newt

I end this report with a quote from Bob_the_Newt, because he makes so many hilarous quotes and I had the chance to see him open his mouth and say one.

No alt text needed here.

Now please give me many comments about what I should do better and what you liked.

BW-sux
 


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