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| Zerg as Protoss???!!?!??!?!!!?!??!!? | | | Author: | | | IP: | svwebw03XXXX | | Date: | 07/20/00 11:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
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Zerg player playing as Protoss, OMG!!!!
Map: TRANQUILLITY (This is a 2v2 map, very much like lost temple in that there are naturals to the 4 mains, 2 islands on the top right and bottom left of the map. The only difference is that the middle area is not open, there are barriers and there ar only two pathways to get from one side of the map to the other.)
Players :
Denboymich as Protoss at 12:00
Vs
Onehairymonk (aka Bulletant) as Terran at 06:00
I am usually a pure zerg player but after getting my ass kicked by Onehairymonk's Terran, I decided to try Protoss for a change since I had had some practice with them in 2v2s.
Having had only less then 20 games experience with Protoss in 1v1s in my whole time on Bnet, I had no idea what I should really do vs a good Terran opponent. Having been taught several build orders by a couple of good Protoss buddies I had, I decided to go with a power build to 3 gateway dragoons with range upgraded as soon as possible.
Initial Game
Initially I wanted to throw off my terran opponent,Onehairymonk in case he scouts me, by making a zealot early while having 2 gateways, so as to make him think I am doing a standard 2 gateway towards hard zealots. I had in fact been pumping probes non stop to power my economy so as to support mass dragoons later on.
As soon as the scv scout left, I made gas and cybernetic core. Although the scv comes back to scout my base, I was well on my way to researching dragoon range while making 2 dragoons and my 3rd gateway was being warped in. My own scouting initally sees a wallin and I assumed Onehairymonk was going heavy metal as several minutes later, I see his vultures zooming around laying mines.
Unfazed at all, I had already had a robotics facility warped in by that time and I make the observatory so as to sight the mines as soon as possible. At this stage of the game I have a dozen or so dragoons with 3 zealot support.
Lucky Break
Feeling that it would be better for my bunched up goons to wait in the middle area so as to maximize their offensive power since they had range researched, I move them out of my base while my observer was moving out first towards the middle area. Luckily as my observer was zooming to the middle area, I see a bunch of vultures just coming through the bridge that connected the 2 halves of the map.
Onehairymonk immediately retreated back across the bridge at the sight of my protoss forces while I was taking care of the mines laid around my side of the map. I chase after the vultures and totally take them out when I glimpse to see a force of 4 tanks and several vultures frantically setting up nearby. I immediately move my dragoons close towards the tanks and wipe them out at very little loss to me. This is where I start to get my break because I had caught the terran forces on the move which is where they are weakest and I still had control of the middle with most of my forces intact.
Not wanting to needlessly waste my protoss forces to his sieged tanks and wall in at his choke. I send my forces back to my natural and expand while making a reaver bay and a drop ship. I also build a forge for upgrades and cannons.
Mid Game: Gay Drops
In my scoutings again, I see Onehairymonk laying mines while setting up sieged tanks and bunkers at his natural while expanding. At this time I had speed researched for my drop ship of a reaver and 2 zealots, so I decided to shift click a path going along the top left of the map and then down and back towards the left side of the 06:00 terran main. While I did this, I make another forge for dual upgrades and 2 more gateways for a total of 5. I also make a few cannons at my mineral line at my main after being scanned by Onehairymonk , and I also put probe scouts in the other 2 empty mains at 03:00 and 09:00
Although a SCV scout was at 09:00 while my shuttle flew by, I still caught Onehairymonk off guard because I dropped my reaver and zealots to find no defense at his mineral line. I take out a good number of SCVs before I had to retreat and save up my reaver for later use when his tank was sieging around his comand center.
Happy to see that I have really slowed down terran, I retreat with my shuttle towards the right of his map and while going back up, I see Onehairymonk's natural base up and running with good tank/mm/tower/mine defense.
Very confident with myself now, I make more upgrades and 2 more gateways at my natural while hotkeying my troops towards the natural. I also have templar archives and speedy zealot uprgaded to combat mass tanks. I also decided to try my luck again at terran main since my observer sees only mines and 2 towers defending his mineral line. After taking out the scv scout at 09:00 with a zealot, I ventured again with a dropship of 2 reavers and drop them just out of range of the towers.
Although some of the mines damage the reavers as they slid towards the mineral line, my sarabs are automatically targeting the towers, so a bulk of the scvs escape before I could do any serious damage, and in desperation in trying to get them, I load up my reavers and drop them only to be slammed by sieged tanks further inside Onehairymonk's base. While trying to flee with my damaged reavers Onehairymonk's goliaths take out my shuttle with them inside.
Not breaking a sweat however, I had at this time decided to perster my terran opponent with more gay drops by dropping 2 templars at the ledge overloooking his natural and laying waste to his scvs while loading back my temps and running away : )
Another Break For Me ^^
Extremely pleased that I was doing so well, I move my force across the bottom half of the map. Glad that Protoss have invisible observers, I see Onehairymonk moving a force of 15-18 tanks and a bunch of mms and vultures towards my force while I was moving in Onehairymonk's direction. In the confusion I am able to take out some of the tanks before they retreated back a little and siege up. Seeing this I retreated my goons since the area we were in was narrow, and I immediately sent in my speedy zealots while storming all the bunched up tanks.
This is the most important battle as I took care of most of his tanks and the subsequent goliaths and mms that were flanking me, while I still had half my protoss forces left. Leaving my mass templars and several zealots, I move the rest of my newly made forces towards the left side of the map to check the 03:00 main since I had seen some goliaths come from that way. I see a working terran base at 03:00 natural and take it out soon after.
Seeing terran use science vessels to emp my temps and defense matrix his forces while Onehairymonk slowly tank pushed his way towards my standing army that were occupying the entrance to the choke of 03:00, I make corsairs to hit at the SVs, while researching disruption web. There was no need for gay web however, because terran makes one last attempt in taking out my protoss units. Although Onehairymonk does a superb job of using his science vessels to do 3 emps on my temps and defense matrix his upgraded tanks/goliaths and 3-3 mms, I was lucky that I still had several templars in the back with enough mana to lay waste to his forces that were in a narrow pathway while my mass speedy zealots and dragoons took them out..
The end of the game was just basically rolling over his natural and main, and Onehairymonk conceded the game.
AFTER GAME THOUGHTS
You may all feel like this is really a basic game and Terran did poorly, but I wrote this Battle report, because this was my 4th Protoss vs a good Terran opponent in a 1v1 ever since I played on BNET. So I was very pleased at my self : ) Onehairymonk is a very good player, having seen him beat many good opponents, but there were several trump cards I used on him.
I played upon the fact that he knew me as a pure zerg player and the only times he has seen me as protoss is when I basically open with hard zealots in 2v2s, and being an overall sloppy player after that. So I assumed Onehairymonk would not see me go dragoon rush with reaver/templar drops soon after since I rarely do them.
I was also lucky in that I always caught terran while he was on the move and the battles were always where his terran forces were cramped in a narrow area so my storms always did maximum damage. I also feel what prompted Onehairymonk to try to attack me so many times in the late game is because while I was doing all the drop attacks, my unit building was non existant, so my protoss forces were relativly puny. I was just lucky enough to have hit “T” in panic to use up my gas and so I had around 10-15 templars all the time, while only having just 12 zealots and less then 6 dragoons as well.
One final note is that, I had played a game earlier in the evening versus Ashcar’s protoss, and he ran me over in mid game because he had 1-0-1 versus my zerg units wihthout upgrades because I was so nervous I just forgot :P so I did dual forge upgrades instinctivley right when I had my natural, and this helped out because Onehairymonk had 3-3 for his heavy metal and 3-3 for his MMs.
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