This is my second Battle Report featuring the players Aropica and Sniffles[Cf]t playing on the map WG TOUR Lost Temple (It has a different mineral layout, I like the original Lost Temple's better). Aropica randomed brown Terran at the 3 spot, Sniffles[Cf]t randomed orange Protoss at the 6 spot. The mini map above shows the starting positions. This gives you the picture of how the minerals are placed alittle different... I guess maybe to discourage Terran players from cliffing (But as you will see it doesnt make that much a difference). Lots of better players seem to like to play on this version, I think its the Europe pro map. Anyways on to the battle !!!

For The First Five Minutes

Aropica's went for the tried and true Terran metal build, but built a early Starport instead of a Factory, and was as follows...

9 Supply Depot
11 Barracks
11 Gas
15 Factory
16 Supply Depot
22 Starport
23 Supply Depot
30 Supply Depot

Sniffles strangely didnt go for the tried and true goon rush but played it safe and went 2 gate and a core sometime after, his build order was...

8 Pylon
9 Gateway
10 Gateway
13 Pylon
18 Gas
20 Cyber. Core
22 Pylon
24 Pylon

The game begins with the players building their build orders that are show above. Aropica starts at 3 and Sniffles starts at 6. Both scouted with a worker, both searched every spot other than their opponets till finally going to the last possible spot. Aropica must have some wicked scv micro because after a couple of spins, he completely lost the zealot that was chasing him and hides in a corner of the base, providing him with some recon. info for later on. Sniffles probe on the other hand begins chewing on Aropica's wall-in and is shot down immedately.

Around the 5 minute mark, Sniffles sends another probe this time in company with 3 zealots. They pause right outside Aropica's main and the probe goes in, and recieves the same fate as his brother probe did. Aropica responds to this by placing mines on his ramp and then closing him wall again. The zealots see this and begin to move around to Aropica's natural. Aropica didnt go early starport for nothing as he sends a vulture filled dropship to go say hi to Sniffles main. Sniffles zealots are then backed up by a couple of goons who witness this with them, a start firing on the dropship as it flys over Aropica's natural. Frantically Sniffles rushes his goons back which then hide below his 2 gates. Aropica's dropship finds a safe spot to land in the area where his gosu scv was hiding. After repairing the dropship the scv loads up and leaves and the vultures start their attack. First they mine the top of Sniffles ramp, and then his gateways. A number of goons move up the ramp with a few being killed and other taking some scratches from splash damge. But the 2 hidden goons move out and help flank the vultures ending their parade. During this attack, Sniffles completed a citedal of adun and also a templar archives, hmmm... wonder whats up with that.

Sniffles doesn't like the fact the Aropica is doing drop to his main and sends a counter force to meet with his zealots aready stationed around Aropica's main. Aropica (Who is still building from 1 Factory and Starport) begins constructing a command center from inside his main. Sniffle prepares to attack as 2 goons and a zealot make their way towards the ramp to test the water... and they are the first to taste Aropica's arclite shells, causing the rest of Sniffles forces to retreat to safer waters. Aropica takes this time to expand and Sniffles follows his enemys move in stride, doing the same thing after sending a rogue Dark Templar to Aropica's front door.

Aropica then sends a small squad of marines and a scv to Sniffles natural expo cliff. They land and the scv begins constructing a bunker and the dropship goes back to aquire the help of 2 tanks. Sniffles seems to have been getting a Dark Templar drop ready but at the sound of the arclite shells going boom, he immedately loads in 2 zealots instead dropping them to their doom as they are micro'ed out by the tanks longer range. Then (Like he should did the first time) drops 2 DTs on the cliff which make short work of the tanks but are killed by scan and the bunker. With his bunker quickly burning down Aropica runs the marines out and to a safer spot on the cliff.

For the sake of recon and controlling sniffles expansions, Aropica sends 4 vultures to the 9 spot and lay spider mines in it and both its expansions (The natural and The mineral only) not finding an expansion yet but expecting Sniffles to try to soon. Sure enough a lone probe comes along the way and is quickly sent to the big computer in the sky. Sniffles then relizes hes not going to get to expand at that area to easy and begins warping in cannons for D at his mineral only. Right after this he finishes off the 3 marines that where stranded on his cliff... with 6 goons T_T. After the cannons are complete he sends the probe that was warped them in to the 9 spot where he is quickly killed too :P.

We're almost done please read on. What you can't see in the update pics is that Aropica has about 6 factorys and that Sniffles has 4 gateways. Ok back to the game. 3 of Aropica's vultures that where tucked away in the 9 spot natural leave and go back to the main, right before a dark templar comes and gets fragged by the left over mines. Aropica the fills a dropship with 2 tanks begins flying toward the 9 spot. Sniffles begins to warp in a nexus at his mineral only, and Aropica flys his already made command center 2 his. Just something out the blue Its kinda funny that they both expanded within seconds of the other player. Anyway a number of Sniffle's goons begin marching to the 9 spot and at the same time a squad of tanks and vults rollout to the middle and then straight to sniffles mineral only... where they begin to lay seige to it. Now here is the turning point of the game, Sniffles goons that are headed to the 9 spot... KEEP GOING. It makes me wondered what he was doing at the time but even with that the 6 goons he had placed on the cliff to kill those 3 rines were STILL there. Sometime after his mineral only expansion is totaled the goons reach the 9 spot, fire on Aropica's dropship then turn back (Aropica's tank filled dropship is still alive). Aropica drop those 2 tanks into a spot behind the minerals with no defense whatsoever and begins to murder probes.

Sniffles main group of goons finally make it back to his main only to be turned into blue mush. They know they need to get in close to defeat the tank arclite cannon, but attempts to walk-in and drop-in fail because of the vultures and their mines thwart every chance Sniffles has to get close. He still has 6 goons on his cliff but doesn appear to want to use them. Aropica continues his devistateing tank push and started firing arclite shells on Sniffles expansion nexus. Again Sniffles trys to do run-ins and trys to drop goons right next to the tanks but now turret fire and the unsieged tanks that are flooding in from Aropica's main keep him from acheiving his goal... Aropica's tanks make it up the ramp and everyone gives out a GG and leaves...

End of game thoughts and notes...

1.This was a nice game to watch.
2.Terrans must keep pressure up.
3.A Lazy player is a dead player. (6 fucking goons T_T. nuff said)
4.Plz Comment this is only my second report.