"I am not Davy i live in the same town of davy and it is called a very good ISP! so don't get bitchy at him thinking im him IM not ill regret this but my icq is 35148232 we are on at the same time(actually im always on)but IM NOT DAVY so dont think i am"
-Davy
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| 4 Player FFA @ LT!! (First Report) | | | Author: | | | IP: | adsl-34-XXXX | | Date: | 05/13/02 07:05 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Problem: Broken Images(1), Funny(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 8, Min: 8
Lifetime Rating for PooHandler: 7.3125 |  | I have a little notion that I will be using the word "Fuck" a lot in this battle report, so I came up with a great idea: Every time I am going to say it, I will simply replace it with the word SALAD. Take this wonderful little sentence as an example: "When I was running from the cops, I trip over a poodle and broke my SALADing knee. Then that SALADing fat asshole in blue caught me on the ground, ripped off my clothes and SALADed me in my rectal cavity." There is a sentence to take home to mother in a nice brown paper bag.
This is the first Battle Report I have ever attempted and it is a relief just to get the damn thing started. I'm tellin' yous guys, if it wasn't one thing it was another. First it was hard as hell just finding a SALADing game that was worth Reporting. I think that if you are going to spend the time writing one up, it might as well be a decent game, you know? Anyway, after I found a good game I says to myself, "OK, Let's get this thing rollin'." I come to find that its not THAT simple. Being the ignorant, hasty little bitch I am, I found the world of Battle Reporting to be more than meets the eye. Actually it went more like this....
"HTML CODES??!! AWW SON OF A BITCH!! I HAD NO IDEA THAT I HAD TO USE SALADing HTML. SALAD!!"
Now, being forced to learn HTML I turn to my friend AJ who is a master of HTML. Or so I thought.
"AJ," I say, "how do I get an image into my report? I can't seem to figure it out."
So being the smooth cat he is, he tries his usual stunts and codes, but to no avail. So he replies,
"Dude, I have no idea."
So I replied, in a calm and collected manner,
"SALAD YOU MISTER COMPUTER WHIZ. GET THE SALAD OUTA MY HOUSE"
(AJ stomps off and cries)
Now I am left with only me, against the world, to figure out how to get images into my report. After three or four fists to the monitor I realize
"Wait a minute......FILE MANAGER!!!"
I then proceed to store my images into the Battle Reports file manager, and learn to link them with that little "img src" trick.
Now I have the foundation of what I need. I know how to put images in my report, and I know where to find the HTML codes, thanks to the guides section of BattleReports.Com. So, the report
begins........
4 Man FFA @ Lost Temple
The Players:
First would be Slasher575 . He is white Protoss starting in the 9:00 position. I don't know him so I can't really tell you much about his playing style, but from what I see in the replay, he is average. Sadly, average just does't cut it when it comes to the rest of the players in this crazy game, but we will hear more on that later.
Next is Cow~Lord{cAs} . He is purple Terran starting in the 12:00 postition. He is pretty damn good with many heated battles and an incredibly sweet strategy all around.
Third up is RM_Hippy . He is red terran starting in the 3:00 position. He has some nice shit towards the middle and end of the game but lacks in certain area that I will talk about further down the road.
Last, and certainly not least, is my dear, dear friend I)raenor . He is blue Zerg, obviously in the 6:00 position. I know his style and strategy pretty well because we have played quite a few games together, both allies and enemies. He has excellent stamina and does not give up. He will, seriously, just keep trying until there is absolutely nothing left, and he knows it. His early, mid, and late game strategies are very fine tuned and practiced, and he is never caught off guard, he always knows exactly what he wants. I have gotten my ass kicked many a time by him.
Let the games begin!!
RM_Hippy begins with a depot and Slasher575 also starts a pylon. Both are placed near the middle of their base, but Cow~Lord{cAs} takes the first step towards a wall in with a Depot at his choke I)raenor 's OV travels left, spots Slasher575 , and just chills to see what he is up to. Well, he got to have a nice peek alright, especially since Slasher575 already had his first Gateway on the way and I)raenor hadn't begun his pool yet. This is kinda scary, I hope I)raenor has at least some support when his first attack comes along.
Noone has really scouted yet except I)raenor because he likes to watch his oponents porgression. RM_Hippy takes the second place spot in going for early infantry with a feshly started Rax and Cow~Lord{cAs} starts up yet another depot at his choke to keep the wall-in moving along. Slasher575 warps in another Gateway which it appears the it may give him an early game advantage. He also already has a Zealot out and that is the first unit to appear in the game.
AHA!! I)raenor 's strategy becomes instantly apparent as he brings his little drone out of his main and settles in for a cozy transformation to hatchery at him natural. POW!! No more mysteries.
Infantry and the first sign of some kind of strategy all being to take place right about now. I)raenor finally hatches a pool and immediately makes lings to compensate for lost time. Cow~Lord{cAs} finishes his wall-in and soon after begins the construction fo 2 factories almost simlutatneously. HEAVY METAL ANYONE?!
I)raenor 's exp. finishes and he brings many of his drones to begin work on the beautiful patch of new found minerals. Two of the drones are used for defense. The morph into sunkens and not a moment to soon because, guess what, that double gateway Slasher575 had done has been poppin out Lots in succession and they were on their way to SALAD up some Zerg expansion. Eight Lots to be exact.
I)raenor 's small army of 6 lings and 2 sunkens try to fight it off but it doesn't seem to be workin too well. The Lots are tearing through everything in their path and with all I)raenor 's defense lost, and the Lots going for the expansion's mineral line, I)raenor seems to be kinda SALADed at this point. But wait. Didn't I
(combined picture of Zealots ayfin sunkens and Hydras fighitng them off aligned at right)
say that he never gives up? Well here is a prime example. With only a few Hydras that have just been hatched, I)raenor micro manages with all his ability. The first set dies but not without taking a Zealot down with them, and when 3 more come out from the choke, its over. I)raenor 's micro skills have saved his expansion but all of the Drones mining the minerals at the expansion have been killed. Oh, well, his economy is still in good shape.
As of now everyone has started their teching and have actually gone pretty high. Cow~Lord{cAs} has 2 Factories, both with machine shops attached, a starport, armory, and engineering bay. I dont think anything is going to penetrate his defenseive wall surrounding his whole base. He has a wall in at his choke ready with Tanks, Goliaths, and a few Marines. He also has turrets well placed around his entire base at his cliff. It's a pretty nice wall-in if I do say so myself and since it is the only wall-in currently in the game I think it is necessary to show you a picture........
RM_Hippy has 2 Factories, engineering bay, starport, and a nearly finished Science Facility. Oh yeah, he also has an expansion at his natural with a good amount of SCV's there. No defense at his expansion as of yet. He also has no wall in at his choke. There are turrets well placed around his cliff too and each one has a sieged cannon standing right alongside it.
Slasher575 was still working on his base the whole time he was attacking I)raenor . He now has a Cy-Core, a stargate, and a R-Facility. He has 2 Lots and 2 Goons chillin at his choke and a Reaver waiting over by his Facility. Oh yeah, there is also a shuttle on the way which might just indicate a reaver drop. HMMMM.
I)raenor hasn't teched too much. He has a Hydra Den, Spawning pool and is just now getting a sunken by his main mineral line. Yep that's about it. Oh yeah, and 4 Hydras.
Like I said before, Slasher575 probably had a Reaver drop coming, and as soon as the Shuttle came out, he picked up the Reaver and dropped it right behind I)raenor 's mineral line. Like an idiot though, the only thing he attacks is the spawning pool. He gets 2 shots off before Draenor brings in a couple Hydras, so the shuttle picks up the Reaver and rides away. All and all I would have to give that drop a 1 out of 10 considering all he did was damage a Pool a little bit. (monotone) wow. Immediately after this, I)raenor begins the making of an Evolution chamber, possibly to keep out any drops or air attacks?
During the happening of this, Cow~Lord{cAs} flies a recently built Command Center off of his cliff and down into his natural to begin his expansion. I should mention that RM_Hippy added a Covert Ops add on to his Science facility and is researching Stim at his Academy. His army is quite small and consists mainly of a few tanks.
Once again, Slasher575 comes into I)raenor 's base with more air units. This time he has Corsairs which start attacking an OV. I)raenor quickly retaliates with 3 Hydras and kill one before they can escape. The Corsairs, however, do manage to take out one OV but it didn't affect I)raenor too much. Once again a quick in and out trip for Slasher575 .
RM_Hippy has just built a drop-ship and transports 2 SCVs to the bottom right island to work on an expansion. One SCV starts on some Turrets to surround the base and the other begins the construction of a Command center. At precisely the same time RM_Hippy starts his expansion, Slasher575 begins his in the top left Island. RM_Hippy and Slasher575 have the most map coverage but Cow~Lord{cAs} and I)raenor have the best offense. I)raenor has a lot of Hydras and is just keeping them coming and Cow~Lord{cAs} has a nice amount of tanks and goliaths and the front of his base.
Slasher575 comes in with yet another Reaver drop to I)raenor 's base. 2 Reavers this time. After they are dropped a sunken and 2 Hydras take the Defensive. Both Reavers are destroyed at the cost of a Hydra and the Sunken. Not a big loss.
Finally, some action taken on I)raenor 's part. He collects up all his Hydras and Lings, splits them into 3 teams and heads over to Slasher575 's base. He has an OV(with speed upgrade) search the choke. Realizing there are no cannons to be found, he quickly gathers all 3 teams atop the cliff and goes in for the kill. Slasher575 's only defense, sadly, was 2 Goons. They are quickly disposed of by 5 or so Lings and Slasher575 leaves. Wow, what a fighter. OK, so now that is one player down and 3 left.
All 3 remaining players acquire a third expansion, mineral only, give their condolenses to Slasher575 's family, and continue the heated battle.
I)raenor takes over Slasher575 's former natural and begins a hatchery. RM_Hippy sees this happening from high above, on the cliff of the natural. He builds 2 turrets on the cliff which Hydras attempt to destroy, but fail to, before RM_Hippy brings in 2 drop-ships with tanks and seiges them right at the edge, ending the battle quickly. I)raenor must have expected something was going to happen because he started building a hatchery at Slasher575 's main. THIS expansion lasts a while and turns out to be a good move for I)raenor . A couple minutes later, I)raenor goes for another attack, this time on RM_Hippy , he brings a good number of Hydras to Hippy's choke and manages only to take out a couple of tanks before being destroyed. At the same time this is taking palce, he also drops 4 overlords full of hydras at the front plateau of Hippy's main. They manage to take out some tanks and turrets but are eventually overwhelmed by Goliaths and Tanks. A fairly unsuccessful attack.
After his failed attempt to eliminate RM_Hippy , I)raenor went back to the drawing board. He already had a Queens Nest and he hatched the Hive soon after followed by an Ultra-Den. RM_Hippy is continuing on his tank/goliath mass with, "BAM!!" some ghosts thrown in for extra flavor. And Cow~Lord{cAs} has a large, well balanced combination of Tanks/ battlecruisers/valkyries. He also has some marines thrown in for good measure. These are all placed at the front of his base, in order to keep an eye on RM_Hippy and any oncoming attacks.
With the security of a lot of tanks and Marines to guard his base from any attacks, Cow~Lord{cAs} brings his Science Vessels valkyries, and Battlecruisers(in defense matrix) over to one of RM_Hippy 's expansions. He begins working on the turrets guarding the plateau and continues to lay waste to the entire enxpansion. RM_Hippy didn't stand a chance, and wasn't even expecting it. This is how I like to see bases go down. Fast and smooth. And not only was RM_Hippy being attacked from the sky, I)raenor used another expansion at Slasher575 's choke along with Sunkens, which also started taking out SCVs and the CC.. Talk about a double whammy! After RM_Hippy 's expansion is taken out, Cow~Lord{cAs} proceeds to tear down I)raenor 's choke expansion as well. Mind you, the image below is the same expansion being attacked from both sides.
The long awaited battle between RM_Hippy 's large attack force and Cow~Lord{cAs} 's attack force is finally underway. It starts with one of Cow~Lord{cAs} 's rines drifting away form the pack and getting killed by a waiting seiged tank. Then RM_Hippy brings in 2 drop ships containing Tanks into the battle and drops them even closer to Cow~Lord{cAs} 's mass of attack units. Unfortunately for RM_Hippy , they are quickly taken out due to poor unit control and bad placement.
Amazingly, I)raenor also gets caught up in this battle when he decides to send in all of the Ultras, Hydras, Lings, and Lurkers he has been storing up. He runs right to the seiged tanks and is taken out one by one. Damn, such a good attack, pummeled due to carelessness. But I think I)raenor was misunderstood right here. I think he was just walking up to say HI to his friends Cow~Lord{cAs} and RM_Hippy and accidentally got caught in crossfire. I'm sure they felt bad afterwards. I'm pretty sure one of them tried to commit suicide because he felt so bad. Either way, Draenor's friendly visit didn't go over too well.
Nevertheless, the battle between RM_Hippy and Cow~Lord{cAs} rages on. Cow~Lord{cAs} brings in his battlecruisers and RM_Hippy pulls forward his Valkyries and Goliaths to try to take them out. He puts some BC's on lockdown and gives it his all to fight off the attack. It was a huge mass of Valk/Goliath missiles.
SUCCESS! After defeating the BCs for the most part, RM_Hippy advances forward with ghosts and Tanks to finish the job. And he does it quite well, taking out the rest of
Cow~Lord{cAs} 's tanks and a couple more BC's. Cow~Lord{cAs} is forced to retreat to the sanctity of his main for a little bit while RM_Hippy moves on to lay waste to one of Cow~Lord{cAs} 's mineral only expansions. Also, while RM_Hippy was taking out Cow~Lord{cAs} , he was also nuking one of
I)raenor 's expansions. At the same time all of this is going on, RM_Hippy also sends an SCV over to his old expansion, the one that coindidentally got double teamed, and start to rebuild it.
Meanwhile, unknown to RM_Hippy and Cow~Lord{cAs} , I)raenor has been ,making a mass of ugraded Ultras and Cracklings. After putting the finishing touches on his huge force, I)raenor 's first move is to load up Lings and Ultras into 4 overlords and drop them off for a little visit to RM_Hippy 's bottom right island expansion. It was a beautiful plan too. I)raenor takes an empty overlord to draw the turrets' fire away from the full overlords, long enough for them to drop off what they had. NICE!!
And, while the drop is still taking place, I)raenor also sends in his ultra/ling mass to RM_Hippy 's main. This was a well thought out plan and it was executed very well. The ultras and lings took out his base in no time and he was forced to lift off all possible buildings and fly them to an expansion.This is basically the cause of RM_Hippy 's defeat. Plus, while he is worrying about I)raenor 's attack and trying to get away from that, Cow~Lord{cAs} comes in with a bunch of cloaked Wraiths and starts taking out Valks like crazy. After taking out the Valks, he proceeds to take out the SCVs at his mineral line, at the 9:00 position natural, one by one. But once the cloak wears off he retreats back to his top left island expansion. It seems that RM_Hippy is fanally gonna get the chance he needs to rebuild a little and get back in the game. WRONG!! Not even a minute after the wraiths leave, I)raenor comes in with his mass Ultras and Lings again, along with newly added Hydras in case RM_Hippy tries to lift off again. I)raenor begins to tear through every building like a hot knife through butter. It's even easier with almost full upgrades. This is the final attack needed to eliminate him RM_Hippy . He realized there was no way to get back into this and leaves the game. That is number 2. Now it is just I)raenor and Cow~Lord{cAs} one on one.
Once RM_Hippy left, Cow~Lord{cAs} took some cloaked wraiths and went to attack I)raenor 's 4 hatch expansion. And this is where the game went all out, frikkin crazy. Cow~Lord{cAs} brought in mass tanks to take out all of I)raenor 's base while, at the same time, Draenor runs over his entire mass of Ultras/ Lings/ Hydras to Cow~Lord{cAs} 's main and start to SALAD that up. It basically just turns into one of those, "who can kill who, first?" type of games.
An interesting little tactic that actually works is that I)raenor brings a drone over to Cow~Lord{cAs} 's base and makes a hatchery, sunkens, and spore colonies at his choke to help fight off the Wraiths and Marines.
It seemed, for while anyway, that this was working. I)raenor kept hatching drones and making defense. A few Wraiths tried to come in and take them out, but they retreated back toward the mineral line area. Then, out of nowhere, a large group of tanks, marines, and medics come up through the choke and take them out one by one. That attack was too much for I)raenor to hold off and it was destroyed in a few tragic, bloody seconds.
WHAT?! I)raenor isn't eliminated yet? Nope, After destroying RM_Hippy 's bottom right island expansion I)raenor took it over and started an expansion of his own. But after running out of room, and the inevitably deadly odds of Cow~Lord{cAs} 's force of Valks/Dropships/Battlecruisers/Wraiths/Medics/Vessels/Marines/Tanks/Goliaths, I)raenor knew he was out matched and left the game.
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS. YOUR WINNER IS...............
Cow~Lord{cAs}
The End:
Well, there you have it guys. That is my first battle report. To tell you the truth, it wasn't what I expected. It was a lot more fun then I thought it would be. I mean, don't get me wrong, I figured t would be fun, otherwise I wouldn't have done it, but just trying to put the battle into words, telling the buildings and the different fights and expansions. It is challenging and interesting to try to put the action into words. Let me know what you guys think of this, please. Give me some criticism of what I should, or shouldn't, do next time around. I hope you enjoyed it. By the way, then only reason I made Slasher575 silver instead of white was because I don't know how to change the background color, so if someone could help me out and tell me how to change the background color, maybe in the comments section, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. Peace out.
-PooHandler
Here is a link to the Replay, in case you want to take a look.
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