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| The Shocker On After Shock | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 06/19/99 07:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for [BL]Legion: 5.3333 |  | well it started off as a normal day on bnet untill I saw johnny_vegas. Now I had head he was a pretty good player and decided I wanted to see how good he really was. I asked him for a 2v2 game and when he made it it was on aftershock (big surprise). The teams consisted of me and my clan mate [BL]Bizkit vs Johnny_vegas and -=1999=- with Big-Penis actting as an observer. Vegas and 99 went terran while myself and bizkit let fate choose our races. I spawed as the powerful protoss at 5 while my allie wound up the plentiful zerg at 9. After some quick talking between ourself's bizkit decided to go for early ling/hydras followed up by lurkers while I went for my specialty with toss the fast/massive continuous goon/reaver/templar drop. We scouted and found vegas as terran at 7 and 99 as terran at 12. A keen eye on the minimap allowed me to see some troops outside my base and I immidiatly called for help. At about 4 min into the game I had only aobut 2 cannons a half built zealot and a just building reaver. That is the problem with fast drops as it leaves you light on the deffensive end. My suspicions were confirmed when I saw marines from both players enter my base. As 99's marines (about 5 or so) began taking on my cannons vegas ran his marines into the back of my probes just out of my other cannos reace and began building a bunker. Seeing this happen I used 3 probes to kill the scv before the marines got them and my allie killed the remaining marines from 99, but lost all his lings in the proccess. More marines came (about 5 from each) at this point with only 1 cannon out of rage, 1 hurt zeal and a half built reaver I was deffinately in touble. Useing my zealot to distract the maries and forcing some into the cannon before it died I bought enough time to get the reaver and kill the marines. I then told my allie to lauch a couter attack against vegas and his 7 or so hydras were killed before takeing out the frontal bunker(damn high gound modifiers). What noone realized was that I had a second robotics bad on the oposite side of my base and within 1 minute of fighting off the attack I dropped 2 reavers into the back of johnnies base. His lone bunker back there died quickily and the tank never had time to finish getting seige mode. I killed all his workers and moved onto other targets as he lifted off his buildings just as about 12 of his stimmed mariens came in on the reavers. Using precision micromanaging(see how important it is?) I was able to load and unload the critical reaver before it was destroyed and forcing the marines to hit the other one. this worked well but left the reavers with about 5 HP each. a tank came in and finished them. I secaped with my shuttle and immiadly my allie fell under attack from 99. His natural expansion got hit by 3 or so tank , 12 marines and some bats and medics. The sunkns died quickly and I told my frined to send his remaining hydras on a suicide mission against the tanks. This worked killing them all just as I dropped 2 more reavers to supprot him. This stopped the attack cold and I loaded them up again and dropped vegas's base from the opposite side. This time he and his allie easch had a tank in his base so I dropped next to the tank and killed it then loaded up and went at the other. this one was protected by a bunked that killed the weakend reavers as they dropped but not before killing the tank and some more precious workers. my shuttle on the way back was intercepted by a wraith so I immidiately expandedf to my natural threw up some more cannons and sent got observers and another gateway for pumping more goons. Just then my allie said he wa gonna attack and I told him to finish him because I had severly weaked him. Bizkit attacked with a lurker and about 10 hydras which forced vegas to lift off and run. I send a shuttle load of goons to the side of vegas's base and began shottoing down his buildings as they came by as well as a few wraiths. Then 99 sent a DS of M@M to help out vegas but he droppepd them right into a lurker field and they died withougth taking a shot. GG were said by all and johnny surrended. His allie stated that the early attack on me had cost him far to much to recover from and seeing my ability to kill his wriath with ease he conceeded.
All in all a well fougth game with many back and forth moments!
Things I noticed in this game:
Early bunkering or any form of early attack can be devistating to your economy if it fails.
Constate communication with your allie can win you games. By knowing what we were both doing we addapted well combined strategies offensively and deffensively.
Always help your allie if he calls for it. Even if it looks like he can handle it. He may accident;y make a mistake.
[BL]Legion out.
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