Hey guys! Time for another battlereport for you to read, and its written by no other than myself :D No heavy pics in here, even you DSL users should be able to load it. Don't even try to view this with Netscape, the pictures will just overlap the text... save yourself the agony and download Internet Explorer.

Some times in NH, there is a brief pause in the chatting. Nobody knows really why it happens, but games are formed and sometimes even played. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Oh well, might as well do the best of it, and make a report! The players are well known to everyone who has a rightful claim to be a true NH regular  =)

The players I'm talking about are SlingsNArrows and Shepherd, facing off in a 1on1 deathmatch on the ladder map known as Rivalry.

The game is started after some kinky words, and the players starts to build up their bases. Slings is zerg in the top left, and Shepherd is terran at the bottom left (in case the picture didn't load or you're stoooopid).

Shepherd builds a supply depot, and what follows is two barracks. Slings on the other hand first gets gas, and then expands to his natural. Shepherd's scouting SCV reaches the hatchery before it is done, and starts attacking it. Slings morphs a spawning pool rather late now, and a third hatchery next to the one that is under attack at his natural. Right before the hatchery finnishes, a marine arrives and starts attacking the hatchery too. By now the pool has finnished and soon a group of six zerglings chase the terran menace away before the hatchery is destroyed, killing the marine.

After repulsing the early attack, Slings puts down a sunken next to the expansion hatcheries, and starts morphing his lair (remember the early gas?). The SCV that was a part of the initial attack on the zerg expansion has now come back to the main terran encampment. Upon hearing the story of the horrible death of the marine that died there, Shepherd sends out a squad of four marines, two medics and the very same SCV to get revenge. The squad holds their position for a moment outside Slings natural and then attacks.

As you may conclude from the image, the attack was again repulsed, and by the same zerglings as the last one.

As you might have guessed by now, Shepherd has an academy, providing him with sexy medics. He has also started his third barracks to increase marine production. Shepherd is soon fit for fight again, with ten marines with two medics for "healing". They start moving north. Meanwhile in the zerg base, the lair has completed and Slings has built a hydra den. My observing partners say he's going muta/ling, but since he does have a hydra den and a lair, and his enemy is concentrating on infantry, I think its safe to say that Slings is heading for lurkers. Back to the 12 m&m heading for trouble.

The squad has been marchin into the north east. They gather at the top middle expansion site, and settle down for some love making. But since there are only two medics and ten horny marines, they decide to save it 'till they come back to the main base, where more medics are waiting. Shepherd agrees with the decision (he wants some love too when those medics get back, he's in love with one of them, called Ursula) and the squad moves out. Let's see what happens shall we?

Yeah thats right folks, Slings got raped! The m&m marched right by his expansion defenses and wiped out his entire peon line. Ouchie. After the marines have slaughtered every peon in the area, they lay the smack down on a few hydras and zerglings, before a squad of four hydras can kill the remaining marines. After the marines have died, the first lurker finnishes its morph, but it can do little to replace the dead drones. Slings also slaps down a sunken lext to the lair, in case Shepherd feels like raping him again.

After inflicting this kind of damage to his enemy, Shepherd expands to the bottom right corner, where he begins contruction of some starports. A group of marines and a tank are thrown at Slings without breaking through defending sunken / hydras, but still killing many of them. Slings decides to expand at this time too. He also says something about the drop that Shepherd executed earlier. Slings never realized that the marines sneaked in the back door :)

Slings prepares a lurker drop and builds two evolution champers in his main for upgrades. The overlord with the lurkers head south and it reaches the bottom middle expansion site before it halts. And there is stays for now.

In the terran base, two engineering bays are working full time on upgrades, and Shepherd is massing infantry along with a few tanks.

Shepherd moves his army of m&m and a tank north, and sieges the tank at the foot of the bridge connecting Slings natural with the island south of it. Once sieged, the tank starts blasting away at the hydras on the other side of the river. The hydras obviously feel that violence is bad, and dances around in an attempt to soften the terran agression. Shepherd however, is in no mood do party, and orders his stimmed marines to attack the almost dead hydralisks.

Final assault indeed, the marines easily slaughter the defenders and then proceed do rip the zerg base apart. The winner is Shepherd!

For those who honestly care, the scores.

Not much to discuss here, the terran expansion was online pretty fast and gave Shepherd a rescourse advantage.

Good game boys!

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