Things seemed to quiet down after IG-Hydra's carrier fleet turned into spects of dust, but it only seemed that way to me. Long did I know, a hard and grueling fight at Ig-Hydra's last resource node was about to occur. -;- obviously wasn't too happy at Ig-Hydra's boldness with his carriers, and lifting up his barracks in his wall-in, he sent out a 6 tank and 12 goliath "scouting force" to IG-Hydra's last mineral only. Hydra damn well knew that this was coming, and he also damn well knew that if he wanted to stay in the game then he had better save his mineral only. But alas, it was not to be. -;-'s tanks got there faster then hydra thought, and as the tanks sieged up IG-Hydra gave it everything he had. Unfortunately, everything he had was just a half a dozen zealots, a carrier, and 2 scouts. As you can imagine this was quickly crushed by -;-'s attackers and the mineral only was taken down. However instead of taking the base, -;- retreated his forces back across to his natural in some strange move. Hydra, though out of mining income, started producing strictly zealots and dragoons.

Night fell upon the players once again as a small silence fell between them. It was at this time that I decided that having my mineral only would probably be good at around this point. I traveled there with a scv, and clicked on the minerals. "What the fuck? 1000, wait a minute" I thought. Stupid commies. Oh well, I sent in a small force of 14 goliaths and 5 tanks and started the construction of a CC there. Things continued going badly for IG-Hydra as -;- started yet the second part of his revenge. Taking a control group of newly produced 2-2 goliaths, Teal went to IG-Hydra's old mineral only, Completely pillaging it.

-;- was a little slow and he realized that IG-Hydra could be mining out of the mineral only that he just destroyed once again. In fear he sent his 12 goliaths that just wrecked Ig-Hydra's base. He joined this with 12 goliaths anticipating a medium sized force there. Well he got a large one. My tanks shelled his goliaths while my goliaths just sat there, doing nothing, because nothing had to be done. -;- did some weird hit and run stuff, running into tank range and running back out without shooting anything. He did this disturbingly a few times. A short minute later, -;-'s goliaths laid in shrapnel on the jungle floor as I repaired the one injured goliath from the battle. And I was left to wonder that perhaps he just wanted to get rid of his supply.

The game took another exciting turn however as I realized that -;- had settled for containing me in. Building 4 missle turrets near but not within tank range of my mineral only, he started reinforcing it slowly. I however was also reinforcing my containment, now with over a control group of tanks and about 2 and a half control groups of goliaths. To the west -;- had around 10 tanks and 30 goliaths, but also had 4 valkayries for some strange reason. But then when I comsatted Ig-Hydra, I simply said "o shit". To the north of my mineral only was a force of around 30 zealots and dragoons. I was succesfully boxed into my mineral only, with no place to go. The game had evolved into a painful stalemate. Long did I know that this was not going to be the first.

Knowing it was now or never, IG-Hydra decided that he had to take back his mineral only, or should I say, my mineral only. His 30 zealots and dragoons started charging for my mineral only, but got bombarded by tank fire FROM BOTH TERRAN PLAYERS. A third of the force split and went to -;-'s containment and were promptly slaughtered, while the bigger portion hit my containment, and was once again, promptly slaughtered. Though the zealots had scratched the paint off my tanks, I found my mineral only to still be very much intact, and I had more reinforcements coming. Knowing he was fux0red badly, Ig-Hydra just left the game, without even saying "gg". Despicable.

Well then I was about to fight -;- when he disconnected. The end.......haha jk just trying to make sure you're still paying attention. -;- and I knew we had each other contained like hell through comsating and some weird Sci Vessel micro. We also knew that each of our containment forces was so large that there was no way a frontal attack could be done unless one person had 3 times as many troops as the other, which was not possible at this point. Frantically I tried to look for a hole in -;-'s defense. Seconds turned into minutes as this gruesome stalemate continued. Then TADA I found it. I could use half of my force (new reinforcements of 6 tanks and 12 gols just came" and I could sneak under his containment and hit his mineral only.

With the plan made I used that small force mentioned earlier and tried to creep downwards without alerting him of my presence. Surprise was VERY important I thought as a tank shell from a nearby enemy tank hit a tank that had wandered too far from the pack. O well, there would be no surprise today. I quickly sieged up near his mineral only and shelled that to hell. He responded by sending his whole force (cept his valks) from his containment to kill the threat. As you all know, sieged tank > non-sieged tank and his containment force basically went to hell quickly. His goliaths went in first, presumably to draw the fire from the tanks so his tanks could siege. Unfortunately his coordination wasn't at its top because all his goliaths died before the first tank had sieged up. 6 in the process of sieging tanks does not fare well against the 3 tanks and 5 or so gols I had left and after ripping all but 1 tank and 2 goliaths to shreds, the force was vanquished. At the same time the battle had been happening however, I hadn't been twidling my thumbs watching it. I took the large containment force of about 8 tanks and 18 goliaths from my mineral only and directed them to the containment. There was nothing there except 4 turrets and 4 valks so I bombed the turrets. In a surprising move he did not run his valks away and they died quickly to the missles of my goliaths. Unfortunately my old force of 1 tank and goliath had wandered too close to his cliff, and his old force of 4 tanks and 4 gols that he had used to hit IG-Hydra's first small expansion shelled them. I analyzed my options. I could drop the cliff however chances are that the goliaths would shoot down a fraction of my dropships. So taking my 8 tanks, I went straight into his natural cliff, sieged up, and bombed them from below. My goliaths soaked up the damage while my tanks dealt them. The battle was fierce and I definitly lost many to the cliff advantage that he had, but in the end I still had 7 tanks and 6 or so goliaths. However newly made tanks that sieged on his main cliff prevented me from going into his natural, and of course that caused yet ANOTHER stalemate.

Without enough tanks to make a frontal appearance, I settled for sieging right outside of his base while thinking of a way to get in. A comsat of his lower base though proved to be the weakness. Nothing except one missle turret was defending there. With a grin in my mouth and a wink in my eyes I made 3 dropships and I cleverly loaded them with 3 tanks and 6 gols. Then I left my island, went through ARandomNewbie's former base, and dropped right next to his armory. He had been busily producing tanks but didn't have enough to stop the drop. Thus he had to take the tanks guarding his cliff to take down mine. Because of terrible building placement, my troops lasted a lot longer then they should have. While my drop force was dying, my tank force at the front went in and slaughtered his natural. I was about to head up the ramp when suddenly he sieged 5 more tanks on his main cliff, and once again, it was a stalemate. However one thing he forgot in his hurry to make sure my tanks didn't make it up the ramp was he left my 3 dropships alive. I would make him pay dearly for that later.

An offensive was needed for -;- to even this match back up and he knew it. He quickly produced 4 dropships and loaded them full of tanks. He was about to send them to my main base but I beat him to it. *It should be noted that at this point I was producing wraiths from 4 starports*. The same 3 dropships came back with a payload of 4 tanks and 4 goliaths to drop on his main. Knowing he damn well couldn't take the tanks in the front to prevent this attack, he had no choice but to use his drop and drop it on my drop (confusing?). My drop of course quickly died this way. But with no anti-air my dropships made it back...again.

With no offense left in the game -;- was nearly out of options. But I wasn't. With 9 wraiths and 3 fully loaded dropships I came back, and this time the drop was permanent. The dropped tanks dealt with any buildings and defense in the main while the wraiths went and destroyed the tanks at the entrance, who had no air defense whatsoever. Then my 5 tanks moved in and the fall of his main commenced. Supply depot after barracks fell and eventually his whole base was cluttered with debris from falling buildings. It wasn't over yet however. He still had his topleft island. Adding a physics lab to my sci facility, I slowly teched to BCS after comsatting and seeing an island full of missle turrets, with one slowly producing factory.

-;- who was in denial, kept saying NO furiously everytime I said GG. He still had 6 empty dropships but he had no defense other then a stray goliath or marine in his main, all those missle turrets, as well as 4 goliaths patrolling the small area below the cliff. The problem with the NW island is that there is this small section of land below the cliff that sticks out so it can remain out of range of most missle turrets. I utilized this point, and dropped that small wedge. The 4 goliaths immediately engaged, and -;-showed that he didn't blow at micro by running them up close so my sieged tanks couldn't get them. 3 goliaths made it really close, however I quickly used a science vessel and DMATRIXED both of them until they unsieged. The goliaths were strong but not stronger then 400hp tanks and they fell fast. The rest of it was cleanup. I used my 9 wraiths and went into the heart of his expansion while dropping 2 tanks in it as well as using the 2 tanks below to bomb the missle turrets. I left a few buildings however for my 5 battlecruisers, which were already on the way. -;- insisted on being an ass however, and he ran a scv in a dropship back to the main island. Then he commenced on building random half completed missle turrets and supply depots to stop the inevitable. As I went on a destroying spree, cleaning up these last few things, he started spamming "asdfasdfasldkfjasf" and calling me a whore. As my battlecruiseres knocked down his scv and numerous missle turrets, they finally reached the last supply depot in the 6:00 main. Doing a small victory dance before eliminating -;-, I ramsacked that supply depot with all the energy I could. The game was over, and finally, I could sleep.

I hope you all like that. The replay will be posted in the comments section because I don't know how to use fileread. As you can see below, the scores were nearly dead even between me and -;-. There were a few lessons learned.

- Dont try to attack many different enemies in a FFA or you will lose
- Carriers suck, period
- Attacking from two angles is better then attacking from one
- The front door isn't always the best door
- The NW island has a small ledge that can lead to its destruction
- Wraiths own tanks
- I = God
- Don't spam whore in the end and dont postpone the inevitable.

Thank you for reading this, and I hope you enjoyed it. Until the next time, farewell.