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| Is Skill > Imbalance? | | | Author: | | | IP: | adsl-63-XXXX | | Date: | 06/14/00 08:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 4, Max: 9, Min: 8
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Saturday Night, strolling into NoHunters, I catch a 1v1 in the making. Considering the skill level of the two competitors, I did not want to miss out. OrcManiac is under his A-X name of Assassin-X. Big, bad, hardcore Canadian Frenchy with no mercy for the weak. His opponent is Casper... Casper has much talent in SC, as well as is a good natured person, with a cool, calm exterior. Will Casper¡¦s skill, combined with the imbalance of the matchup be enough to defeat orc? Or will Orc¡¦s lack of pity crush Casper and his weak-heartedness? Find out here...
In yet another ChinksWithGuns battlereport...
Orc warps in as brown(his name has been colored to yellow for easy reading) toss at 6. Cas gets orange zerg at 9.
The two start their respective builds. Orc does a pylon, gate, gate, pylon build and Cas goes for hatch at natural on 12 and another hatch next to it on 13. Wishing to whore in peace, Casper issues a request for Orc:
Orc ignores this in silence; his hard attitude will give no mercy to Casper. Orc, after finding Casper in the first spot he scouts, sends 3 probes and 3 zealots to cheese his natural. Casper repels it with a well placed sunken as well as some ling micro.
Casper, seeing a short break, puts up gas at his main and natural. Orc, seeing as he is being out-resourced, warps in a new nexus at his natural to keep up with the zerg. Casper then expands to the 12 main and 12 natural, then something strange happens. Orc sends three zealots to the 12 o clock main to destroy it, forcing Casper to cancel it before it dies. Casper then opts to expand to the 12 Mineral-Only Natural as well sends a group of lings to protect his 12 natural from the 3 zealot hit squad. Little did he know, Orc sent an extra 8 zealots and razed Casper's natural RIGHT as it morphed in.
'Maybe Orc scouted with a probe?' you say. I didn't see a probe leave. 'Maybe he was scouting with his zealots?' you say. Who scouts with 3 zealots? The way I see it, either Orc was hacking, or he has some sort of french-canadian psycho-kinetic power. You be the judge. Here's what Casper had to say:
Casper sends a dozen of hydras, which he had been teching to all the while, but they stood no chance against Orc's zealots, which had recently received their leg upgrades. Casper retreats back to his base, as does Orc, who has, at his natural, a force of about 2 dozen zeals, a couple of cannons, and two templars with psi storm. Casper has also re-expanded to 12, and Orc puts up two Forges for dual upgrades. Casper decides to test the effect of his whoring, and sends all his hydras, numbering about 40 to Orc's mineral-only natural. He takes some time to spread them out to be less affected by storm, but suddenly Orc takes the initiative (hacker?). He lands some good storms, and lives to see another day.
Casper currently has 4 hatch in his main, pumping hydras and rallying them to the front of Orc's base, as well as has his natural, 12 main, and both 12 naturals. Orc, although only has his natural expansion, is up in upgrades. Casper also simultaneously takes all expansion spots at 3 o'clock. All looks good for Casper... But it's time for Orc to bust out.
Armed with level one attack upgrades, Orc's zealots, goons, and PLENTY of templar slowly take out the hydras bit by bit, they had been spaced out by Casper to prevent massive psi damage. He slowly pushes his way through, until he is able to warp a nexus at his mineral only.
Doesn't orc look sexy?
Because of Casper's large amount of hydras, Orc stops production on zeals a bit, and powers more heavily on goons. Orc has a nice army of goons/temps.
Casper keeps sending small squads of hydras in groups of 6-12, which do little to nothing. Orc is gradually getting a huge army. When looking at all of Caspers expansions, he has very few gatherers or defense. I can picture Orc's ominous grin as he begins to overwhelm Casper. He takes out the 3:00 mineral-only, then goes to the 12 main. He also kills the 3:00 natural and main, with a mere 8 zealots, which could have easily been prevented by a few sunkens.
In retaliation, Casper sends more hydras to take out Orc's mineral only natural, dancing them into the probes, forcing Orc to fry most of his probes. He concentrates fire on Orcs nexus, but his hydras are destroyed, leaving the Nexus with a mere 36 life. Orc begins his final attack.
He takes out the 12 o clock mineral-only natural with aide of a few archons.
Casper's main is taken with ease.
Lessons learned:
- Upgrade
- Protect expansions so you don't lose them to 3 zeals.
- Put gatherers at your expansions
- When a Toss has the same amount of expansions as a Zerg, the Zerg is in deep shit.
- A-X hacks
- A-X hacks
- A-X hacks
- Skill > Imbalance
Thanks to:
-Nobody..., No not ::nobody::, no one. I did this shit on my own. Well, thanks to Orc and Cas for playing a great game.
This has been another presentation
Once again,
By someone you've never heard of
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