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This battle, like all others, took place on that enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in some fried dough, Lost Temple. Now I will show you a map image to spite you and insult your intelligence.
Now that that's out of the way, on to the battle. Ano warped a white nexus in at 6 o'clock, and Zan landed a shiny red CC at the 9 o'clock. The battle was on, the box was locked, it's SC fighting time.
Yes, Ano's scouting probe had quickly reached its destination. The small automaton fiercly battled the building, dodging the deadly swinging fan blades like a mosquito on crack. But when the SCV in the pic finished that barracks, the warrior retreated.
Soon, goons from Ano arrived at the wall to cause pain and general discomfort. The two legged blue goop containers took shiny disrupter shots at the now repaired depot. Zan responded with two SCVs to repair, pulled directly from his mineral line. The drag(oon) queens then fired on the hapless workers, who repaired each other. At this point, a tank rolled out of the factory to quell the tossticles, and Zan sent four more workers to the depot. As the fighting started, a third dragoon joined in. The depot was repaired near-instantly, but the goons soon focused fire on the tank. Two of the SCVs went back to help their friend, Mr. Tanky. Mr. Tanky soon died in a hail of... disruption? A short funeral was held before all six high-tailed it out of there.
Ano had another trick up his sleeve- a new robotics facility pumping out shuttles. Zan was busy building up tanks and repairing his moderatly damaged economy.
Ano loaded two shuttles to the brim with dragoons, and soon the cargo had landed. Unfortunately, Zan was ready. Two tanks were ready for them, and one sieged while the other engaged. The goons were on the verge of destroying them when two more tanks emerged from the factories.
Zan expanded to his natural, but Ano kept tabs on it with a super-sneaky hidden observer. Zan pushed out with tanks, and expanded once again, now to his mineral only. Ano made goons- many goons. 
These plans, however, were compromised by the appearance of a vulture at this location, shooting at the still-emerging new photon cannon while laying down spider mines. Ano sent eight goons to quell this threat- and make sure it wouldn't get away. The vulture died, but the spider mines left behind took their toll on the slow-firing gargantuan brethren.
mines, the other by tank fire. More goons, along with zealots, had been sent when the vultures had arrived, and the nerve-tendriled beings arrived up the ramp and were fired on. One group of goons was first, and they were removed by heavy tank fire. The zealots and other goons then pushed up the ramp, and destroyed all the tanks. The dust settled, and the expansion was minus one nexus and two cannons, Ano was down several goons and zealots, and Zan had 5 tanks and 6 vultures knocked off.
Zan had about 12 vultures stationed at his main defenses near his mineral-only. He sent them on a mission of genius. The vultures were sent along to place mines several places on the way to the 3 o'clock. The first few times, only one or two mines were lain. Then, between the cliffs at the 3:00 natural, all 12 laid their mines at once. Zan knew he had it. The vultures then went to the main and harassed the probes diligently mining there. Sure enough, the lure worked, and all of Ano's main forces were sent up to prick the boil. Then they found death, with fast little legs. Most of the zealots and dark templar died, but the rest kept on moving up. Zan laid more mines, and accidentally killed a dark templar. As more forces came in and were destroyed in a hail of grenades and mines, Ano retreated a little ways for a second, then limped out with two goons and two zealots left. The expansion was slowly decimated by the vultures, who had but four losses to their number.
During the dropping by Zan, he had also started an attack on Ano's assembled toss infantry with his tanks and vultures. The vultures laid mines, but these merely exploded in their face and killed more friends than foes. Zealots, dark templar, and goons invaded on Zan's territory, finally being beaten by newly manufactured forces. Neither side had any substancial troops left. Ano started an expansion.
Zan had troops already out of factories, and Ano's were caught on the way to rally points when a multitude of Zan's vultures came hunting for blood. Two of Ano's goons fought, and as we all know, goons>vultures. However, when vultures outnumber goons by 5:1 or more, the goons generally fall...though slowly. Tanks rolled out, and the expansion fell with heavy resistance, the nexus exploding just moments after completion. This left our Protoss warrior completely without forces, and nearly mined out expansions. Ano did the only logical thing he could think of.
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