"My attempt to kill 3 Protoss players with lings, hydras and lurks went down harder than a drunken 90-year old woman with a broken hip."
---Gemini--
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| Every man for himself | | | Author: | | | IP: | athe530-XXXX | | Date: | 08/07/00 07:08 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 5, Max: 10, Min: 8
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First of all
warnings were warnings are due: This report contains a rather
unhealthy amount of images. So much in fact, that i can hear
the lynching group of the non-cable owners assembling outside
my home and getting ready to tar and feather me for wasting
their bandwith. I wont tell you all the usual crap about
learning archery, wash your car, count your socks, get an
enema etc while the report loads, just let the bloody images
finish! :) If any of the images time out and fails to load
just right click on the not loaded image and select "show
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with you.
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Hello ladies and gendlemen
and wellcome to this battle reporting extravaganza brought to
you by yours truly! This week, you shall have the opportunity
to observe 3 excellent players fighting it off in a Free For
All for the fame, glory and extreme sexyness that is undoubtly
bestowed upon anyone that wins in one of my
reports.(uh..rrrrright, dream on) So get comfy and start your
favorite mp3s (or feed your modem's wheel mouse if you're
SCV~007 and pray it wont get tired before the loading is
finished:) ) as we follow our 3 contestants in a fight to the
death (or 30.000 miles, whichever comes first).You will have
the opportunity to watch action, romance, drama and some inane
alt text to go with it ^_^
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Sweet jumpin' jehosophat!!!! It's a custom
map!
The map that this bloodfest will
take place is one of Bob_The_Newt's maps called
Tranquility. It's a 4 player map in the Twilight terrain
and has some similarities to the widely used Lost
Temple. Each main base has a natural with gas and a
second natural without and there are 2 islands in the
top right and bottom left positions. There is a river
running diagonaly through the map and cutting the
battlefield in two and the 2 sides are connected with
two bridges. I can already see the startegy psychos
screaming "IMBALANCE!!!" in the top of their lungs as
they see the map. As you can see Pure's Protoss forces got the 12
o'clock base, Latto's
Terran armada was graced with the 9 o'clock one, and
Nuclear's Zerg swarms
were creeping at 3'clock. Why am i writing this since
you can see it in the minimap? I'm just weird like that.
:| Also keep in mind that none of the players had a clue
how the map looked like.
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"What
the hell is going on in here?" Shouted private Latto with surprise. Around him, a
terran base was erecting from nothing, SCVs working on a
Command Center and marines hurrying to get their equipment.
"The Zerg are here! And the Protoss too!" shouted a
firebat that stoped to catch his breath."We have been ordered
to take them down.. both."
"God damn! Not again... like
we havent had enough with the damn zerg so far...
"
Latto starts the game with a depot
and sends one of his SCVs to scout to the North. When he
finds Pure's natural he
starts a Command Center there! After that rather... uh..
unorthodox start refinery and baracks are constructed.
Pure starts
with a rather defensive build, a steping stone to power
later in the game. He warps his first Pylon at 7, then a
Gateway, an extra Pylon, then an Assimilator and a Cyber
core. After that he fortifies his choke with 2 cannons
and 3 zealots unaware of the Terran outpost at his
natural.
On the other side of the map Nuclear goes for a more
conservative build, as he begins with a hatchery at his
main base first, then spawning pool and gas, and after
discovering his 2nd natural starts a hatchery there.
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First
blood of the game flows when Latto finds Nuclear's expansion at his 2nd natural
and orders a bunker to be constucted there that is soon filled
with 2 marines firing at the hatchery. Nuclear counters by starting a creep
colony just outside the bunker's range forcing Latto to get his marines out to stop the
morphing sunken. And just then Nuclear's zerlings from his main base
come swarming just as the sunken is finished. The marines,
outside the safety of their bunker are cut down fast by the
zerlings without Nuclear's
armies suffering a single loss of life. To the west Latto's forces arent doing very well
either. Pure discovered the
expansion and is forcing the Terran commander to abandon his
outpost. Latto can only watch
with dismay now from his floating CC as Pure is warping cannons and spreading
zealots and dragoons over his former expansion.
In the meantime Nuclear is doing what is widely known
as "expansion whoring(tm)", as he secures his 2nd natural with
sunkens and expands at the 6 o'clock natural placing 2
hatcheries there, his beggining to dominate the east side of
the map. Early game is closing to an end as the three
opponents are getting their guns ready for the mid game
mayhem... Pure has now
secured his natural and is slowly mining from there, while
getting the templar tech.
Latto is still licking his wounds from
the fall of his offensive bunker and losing his expansion. He
is gathering marines,medics and tanks and is turning his eyes
to the North again, to the base where he was kicked out a few
minutes ago.
To the east, Nuclear has expanded without much care,
as he knows that he wont be the primary target from any of the
two other players.He has secured 2 expansions, has a Spire up
and is gathering mutalisks.
Latto wants blood now, and he moves 8
marines, 2 medics, 3 tanks and a vulture in the outscirts of
the Protoss expansion. Arclite cannon echoes outside Pure's base as the tanks seige and
unleash Latto's revenge upon
the zealots and Dragoons that were guarding. One of the tanks
is turned into flames and exploding masses of iron from
friendly fire when Latto's
other tank fired at the last 2 of Pure's zealots. And just as Latto is ready to reclaim his lost
territories ... a psionic blade flashes in the darkness...
Pure's caped assasins cut
down the marines one by one, leaving only their blood on the
ground and memories of not hotkeying your Com-Sat, as they
move closer to the tanks and the last marines. Latto comsats, Pure pulls back, spider mines explode,
in a deadly dance for a few seconds. Latto's poor mine placement didnt help
much to stop the templars and in the end the base holds, with
losses for both atacker and defender.
"All i remember is one of the
SCV's rising his head to see what the shade that covered the
mineral field was, excpecting maybe a Battlecruiser... like
the Dominion was promising us for so long... and then he saw
them... A flock of mutalisks, screaming as they flew over the
unprotected Terran base, it was the last thing he ever saw, he
tried to run blindely in terror only to find himself alone,
between 4 of the winged nightmares. The last thing i remember
is the marine in charge shouting to retreat, and our base
lifting off... I thought i was gone for but then... the
mutalisks ignored us, flying off to the northeast...
Latto could only watch as Nuclear's mutalisk armie tears through
his peon line. Around 20 SCV's die by the ricocheting missles
as Latto was desprately
evacuating his burning main base and setting a turret ring on
his natural. Latto is getting
ready for his last desperate stand.. and then the mutas
just... leave. Nuclear
descides to let Latto live as
he moves his mutalisks to the northeast to join with the rest
of his flyer army.
But Nuclear's "tour of terror" isn't done
yet. He flies his mutalisks over Pure's worker line this time, taking
down 2 cannons and getting ready to hit the exposed probe line
when Pure sent 4 dragoons to
slow down the mutas. Apparently Nuclear thought that more goons were on
the way and again pulls back his mutas, this time aiming at
Pure's expansion.
Pure has 5
cannons loosely placed arouns his natural. "Loosely" is a key
word here, as the mutas are able to focus fire on each lone
cannon alone and take them down with minimal losses. And again
he pulls back when goons again show up just in time drive away
the winged killers. Pure
again tries to hit Pure's
main, but this time to no avail. Pure has wisen up and has a few goons
and 4 warping cannons there, more than enough to scare away
the mutalisks.
Still Nuclear wont give up, as again is
terrorising the Protoss natural with the mutas, taking
potshots on probes until the dragoons come to drive them away
again. Nuclear, abandoning now
hopes to hurt the Protoss forces moves the mutalisks to
Latto's base again. The terran
commander had 2 bunkers there, but only one full, and in the
end, dispite 3 SCVs repairing, the bunker goes down in flames.
The mutas, after leveling the Terran base move on to the
expansion, only to find themselves amidst turett and marine
fire and Nuclear is forces to
retreat the to his base.
And
then the zerling hordes atacked. Nuclear descides to simply overrun the
Protoss forces as he unleashes more and more zerlings towards
Pure's base and morphing 12
guardians on the high gound over the Protoss natural. Just
then, all hell broke loose over the battlefield. Nuclear's forces, from bad control and
overconfidence are cought on the move divided. The zerlings
attacking from the south-east of Nuclear's bases are cough on the move
by Latto's marines, who is
finnaly back into the game. And over the Protoss natural the
guardians where falling one by one to the fleet of corsairs
that Pure has been secretly
assembling. Only a small portion of the zerlings from the zerg
main and the 2 nearby expansions ever reached the Protoss
base. The 3-0-0 dragoons and a small number of zealots fought
bravely but in the end fell.
Only about 24 zerlings made
it alive up the ramp and started atacking random buildings
while Pure is desperately
warping cannons. In the end the cannons with the help of 2
newly summoned dark templars emerge victorious over the
zerlings.
It was
time for revenge... Countless of his Protoss warriors were
laying broken before his eyes, their death a proud sacrifice
to defend against the zerg swarms. Pure ordered his fleet of corsairs to
move over the Zerg base, where Nuclear, confused and disoriented was
trying to recover from his failed atack, still not knowing how
his plan could go so wrong...
Pure's revenge was like a templar's
storm, fast and reliable as the corsairs flew over the empty
zerg base, hunting and killing dozens of Nuclear's bunched up
Overlords
And things took the shape of chain explosions
for Nuclear as he could only
watch his empire crumbling to ruins. The corsairs found the
larger bunch of his Overlords gathered to the South of the
Zerg base, starting their deadly dance, taking down the
Overlords until none of them was left on the air. And from the
west, where Nuclear was for so
long mining unhampered Latto
was taking his part of the revenge, sweeping through the
almost undefended zerg bases to the south-east and to the
north-east.
Latto sees the window of opportunity
open again, realising that both his opponents are hurt bad.
The zerg is unable to defend his own bases, and the protoss is
still trying to recover from the atack that almost took down
his main base. Latto seiges 3
tanks in the bridge near Pure's 2nd natural, where the protoss
commander has recently expanded , blowing up some mining
probes. But Pure was able to
react, as he gets 2 good storms frying a few marines and
goliaths but failing to kill any of the tanks. Latto seiged his tanks closer to the
Nexus this time barely killing the nexus before Pure atacked the lone tanks with 7
zealots and then throwing the zealots right into the laps of
marines and goliaths guarding the other side of the bridge.
But Nuclear is not yet done for. Dispite of
the Corsairs patroling over his bases he has a large amount of
cracklings and Ultralisks that he puts into good use sending
them to Latto's base. The
Ultralisks make short work of the marines, and even the SCV's
that Latto is using to defend
in desperation, and in the end Latto has to float his buildings once
again to survive. To the east Pure has taken the offensive as he
storms Nuclear's main with
about 20 zealots. Nuclear
barely defends the assault by hatching zerlings on the spot,
but when he thought he was done Latto with his few remaining focres
walks up the ramp and finishes off the zerg main.
Pure isnt doing better than Nuclear though. The few remainings of
the zerg armies, after destroying everything they could put
their claws on, so to speak, at the terran base are attacking
Pure. The rebuilt expansion
at Pure's second natural
falls fast, then Nuclear leads
his Ultras and lings up the ramp, that is guarded by 2 archons
and a high templar. The archons were not enough even with the
help of storm though, but in the end a strange wallin helps a
single cannon to take down the heavily injured Ultras, forcing
Nuclear to give up and take
the observer position.
Latto, after mowing down the last of the
zerg buildings moves his last forces, 15 marines, a few medics
and a cannon outside Pure's
natural again. And once again Pure is saved by dark templars.
Latto has no detection at all
since his com-sats were destoryed from Nuclear's atack and is forced to
retreat where his natural once stood.
The
balance of power has changed now, so lets take a look at each
player's condition. Pure is
away mining from his 2nd natural to the Nexus at his natural
and is warping a Nexus at the top left island. Latto on the other hand is very low on
scv's but has a Command Center to the 6 o'clock base's 2nd
natural, another one at the 9 oclock's 2nd natural and one
more at the half mined 3 o'clock natural.. As for Nuclear he ... wait a minute! Isn't
Nuclear an observer now? Well,
he's supposed to be observing but he has built a hatchery in
seclusion at the lower right corner and a spawining pool there
and is mining full time from the base at 6 o'clock. If
Pure allows Latto to build up for 5 minutes and get
detection then he is dead. Except if... except if Nuclear still has some cheese to
deliver...
Nuclear, showing his bad manner side
first sends zerlings to Pure's natural killing the mining
peons there as well as 2 dark templars (he's visioned
remember?) and then takes down the nexus only to die when
trying to get up the ramp. His second cheese attack is at
Latto's mining base at the
6'oclock natural where he terrorizes some mining SCV's and
forces Latto once again to
float. After that he continues to the Terran base at the 3
o'clock 2nd natural where he also gets some SCV kills and
damages the Command Center until it floats too. Latto sends his marines to intercept the
lings on their way back, but without any medics around the
cracklings beat the marines with ease.
Latto is pissed this time for the loss
of SCVs and mining time and sends 30 marines to take down the
last zerg base, at the same time when Nuclear drops8 zerlings to the Protoss
expansion at the top island. Latto atacks the Protoss main this time
only to realise that his last mining base was atacked this
time by Pure's zealots and
dark templars. Com-sat'less Latto tries for a last desperate assault
at Pure's main but templars
and zealots there deny it once again. Latto, with his last buildings burning
down admits defeat, and Nuclear follows the same fate soon when
Pure finds his hidden base
with corsairs and brings it down with ease.
Winner:
Nuclear~SCV
this line intentionaly painted black
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