Introduction: This is my first battle report, and I worked a lot on it, so it probably has lots of mistakes due to lack of experience. Please don't flame me on the comments =(

On a usual night at SLR's channel, fish and Tao decide to play a 1on1. There were 6on the channel including me, so they picked a LT obs map. Tao picked T, and fish picked random. Unfortunately fish got T too.

At the end of this battle report you will certainly hate TvT's and avoid that matchup at all costs.

Game Starts

Fish starts at 12, putting his scv's to mine and building more. He gets a depot with the 9th SCV below his mineral pact to the right. With the same SCV he gets a rax above the ramp presumably for a wall. He gets gas when the rax is half constructed. Instead of walling, fish gets another barracks on the ramp, which he cancels it, and builds 2 factories right away..

Tao starts at 9, getting a supply depot with the 8th SCV, in a position for a wall, finishing it before fish's first depot. He then scouts with the SCV that just finished building. With another SCV he gets a barracks to complete the wall. He gets gas and another supply depot at the same time as fish. Both players seem to go for the same, heavy metal. Tao builds a factory at the same time as fish, and finally his scouting scv finds fish's base at 12.

BoB wanders around scouting and annoying Tao's base first. He found it very boring so he went to fish's base to make friends with some scv's.

Knowing each other's position the players finally decide to make their moves. Tao gets an eng bay below fish's cliff to scout, while he is getting his second factory. With 2 factories done, fish builds a starport presumably for a drop. By this time fish has a slight advantage since he has more SCVs then Tao and 2 facts and 1 starport building vs. 1 fact and one building fact, although only now fish's scouting scv finds Tao's base and gets killed by a marine.

Fish's starport is finally finished, and he gets a control tower soon after. An academy and an eng bay are also being built.

By this time both players are pumping their first tanks. Tao sends his tanks to meet his scouting scv that is above 3's min only. He sieges them and makes a few turrets with the scv. This is the beginning of this very (boring) tactical game. Fish's first dropship arrives and takes one tank, one vult and 2 marines with it. Still unaware of Tao's tank/turret wall, he passes the dropship right through getting damaged by one of the turrets. Since Tao saw the dropship coming, he defends his base getting a couple of turrets and 2 tanks not sieged yet.

Fish decides its time to exp and so he builds a cc on the main to lift it up and land on the exp safely.

The dropship finally arrives at Tao's main, but only unloads a tank and a vult because it got killed by a turret, taking the 2 marines down with it. This drop didn't quite go as Fish would like, only killing 2 SCVs before getting destroyed by the 2 tanks that Tao had protecting his economy.

Tao now has the upper hand, with Fish contained(kind of), he builds a cc on his main, to lift off and land on his exp. He is forgetting about making more SCVs. He gets another CC, this time on the other side of his main, to lift off and land on 6's main. Fish gets two armories to try to upgrade faster then Tao.

Fish now seeming very nervous, is having trouble deciding what to use against Tao's tank/turret wall.

Now follow some moments of (boredom) tactical movements. Tao has now his nat and 6 main, but still Fish has higher cashflow due to lack of scv's from Tao.

Ok back to the game...

Fish gets a few dropships with some tanks and SCVs and gets 3 main.

Troop Count:

Fish has 13 tanks, 6 goliaths, 5 vultures and 5 marines.
Tao has 11 tanks.

But still Tao has the upper hand since Fish seems out of ideas to destroy Tao's containment(kind of).

Nothing happens in the next 3 minutes.... Fish gets some more tanks, goliaths and vults and Tao gets more tanks on the containment. Fish also gets 3's main secured, and building now some factories in it.

MASSACRE
On a crazy attempt to brake Tao's containment, Fish sends ALL of his troops to fight it.

Fish's Casualties: 9 tanks, 5 goliaths, 5 vultures, 5 marines, and Betty The Medic.
Tao's Casualties: 3 tanks.

I'm not sure what was going on Fish's head on that psycho attack, but I'm sure he was now thinking "gg".

Tao has his main, his nat, 6's main and a cc going towards the top island. All of his exps have few scv's.
Fish is only mining from his nat and 3's main, with tons of SCVs on the nat, and very few on 3's main.
Both players are filled with money, but due to lack of imagination they don't know what to do. TvT's suck.

With help of Comsat fish finds Tao's 6 expo and immediately sends 3 dropships with 4 tanks and 7 marines, while Tao keeps sending tanks and goliaths to his containment at 3's min only.

Tao is now expanding like a whore, building a cc in 6's nat and another to lift and drop on the bottom right island.

A funny moment now, Fish and Tao both try to expand to the top left island with flying cc's but Tao gets there first. Fish then lands the CC right next to Tao's.

After those boring moments, Tao tries to destroy Fish's expo at 3 with a couple of tanks, but gets killed by tons of vultures built from the 5 factories Fish now has on 3.

The dropships which were supposed to destroy Tao's 6's main, and were only now commanded to do so. Encountering no defense, they successfully destroy it, but fail to kill the cc that was going for the island. While this happens, Tao sends a dropship with four goliaths to the top-left island, and damages fish's CC. As Tao notices Fish attack on 6 he sends a couple of dropships, but he's too late. The two forces are dangerously close, but no action occurs

Tao sends another suicide mission to kill 3's main, but the 7 goliaths and 2 tanks fail miserably to the 3 sieged tanks and the tons of vultures.

MASSACRE 2
Another attempt to destroy Tao's containment(kind of).

Fish sends 13 tanks, 6 goliaths, 2 vults and 3 marines. All except 2 tanks died.
Tao's Casualties: 7 tanks.
Right after, fish sends about 20 vults from 3's main but only kills 2 tanks, getting all of the vults killed.

The tons of scv's on Fish's nat have mined all the minerals there were, leaving fish with 3's main, versus Tao's 4 exps, although still with few scv's each, they provide a bigger cash-flow then Fish.

Fish decides to change from tanks/vulture/goliaths, to the flying pieces of tin AKA wraiths. They manage to kill of some tanks on the containment(sort of) but the turrets kill most of them.

Fish now manages to expand on 3's natural, while more and more reinforcements arrive from Tao. With about 25 tanks and 8 goliaths, Tao finally decides to attack Fish's main. He manages to kill the tanks on the cliff, but also losing a couple in the process. He advances slowly while building turrets with the scv's. Fish now has about 30 wraiths, 20 of them right next to Tao's main planning some attack, and 10 attacking the tanks that were not covered with turrets yet.

Fish's wraiths try to attack the main but there were too many goliaths lying around so they redirect to the top-left island and kill successfully but with a few injuries by the few goliaths and turrets Tao had protecting it.

Tao continues he's attack, but too slowly, allowing fish to make more tanks and siege them above the cliff making it very hard for Tao. Fish manages to kill all of Tao's tanks and goliaths, but when he was moving the tanks closer to the cliff, more tank and goliaths arrive, killing them easily. Tao's reinforcements break through and start to kill the factories. Fish had a lot of stuff on 3's main and uses it to clean up the 5 tanks that were destroying the main base. I guess Tao didn't know fish had an entirely new main base at 3 o'clock. They destroy the tanks easily and immediately start a counter-attack.

In a couple of minutes the game turns around completely, now fish sieging his tanks below Tao's nat, having some trouble against the tanks up the cliff. Now Tao is in real trouble, only having 124 minerals, and only mining from 6 o'clock nat with 7 scv's.

It is already clear that Fish already won its only a matter of time for him to have enough troops to kill the tanks on the cliff.

Fish finally discovers Tao's expo at 6 o'clock nat, and kills it with the tanks he used to kill the expo at 6 main earlier in the game. He then TN's Tao's nat at 9 o'clock nat and kills with 2 tanks a some wraiths, the gas mining scv's, the cc, and a couple of tanks Tao still had there.

Deja vu: now with total control of the map, Fish decides to take the bottom-right island where Tao had his last expo. Tao then leaves.

Mistakes

Fish: Fish had alot of trouble to destroy that strong tank/turret containment. He should have expanded the whole map while Tao was only concentrating in that spot. I can't think of other major mistakes fish done except some lack of imagination through the whole game.

Taoist: Taoist had the map totally control. But Fish was still able to win. Tao should have got A LOT more scvs in each expansion, and A LOT more factories. He should have also been more aggressive.