Hi! I'm 2Cautious! Some of you may have seen me post around here before, but this will be my first battle report! This battle report is on two games played with me and my dear old friend: My Computer. First, let me introduce My Computer to you. I've had it for about 3-4 years now. It's pretty slow, but oh well. It's still better than me at StarCraft.

I had just finished playing several games where I had rushed in "no rush" game and was feeling pretty confident. But I didn't feel like rushing when no one would expect it (the possibility of getting backstabbed by any allies was also a threat), so I decided I'd play a 2v2 on a "real" map (non-money). However, apparently very few people play on "real" maps these days. To get any decent game, I realized that I'd need a strong, dependable ally to play with (also so that only two others would have to join). None of my friends were on, and then suddenly, I remembered My Computer.

"Hey," I said. "Wanna play a 2v2 of StarCraft?"

"Sure!" My Computer said, "that would be great! You haven't played with me since that time when myself and some other human were going to play against you and someone else. But your ally left, so my ally decided to back-stab me..."

Well, you don't really need to hear the rest of that conversation. Let's just say that My Computer and I decided to play a 2v2.

Game #1:

I created a game "me + comp vs 2 humans" and chose "A bridge too near" as our four player map. This map basically has four quarters of a map, each with a main and two expansion sites, all connected by one network of bridges going into the center.
It only took one remake to get two opponents.




Then, the game begins. I, CoryDeBurd, have gotten the yellow Protoss. Mister has gotten White Terran. m-don-na has gotten brown Protoss, while My Computer (using its handle "The Kel-Morian Combine"), gets teal terran.

We build and all is peaceful. White makes an attempt to go to the center, but my first 3 zealots discover this, and take it out.





My zealots continue on into White's main. I make a mistake, however, and attack a bunker with my three weakened zealots and and fourth one coming up. I should've attacked the barracks out of range of the bunker, but oh well. 3 zealots die, and the remaining one retreats to the center.

I send a probe to build a pylon, and later cannons, in the middle to help hold it, but several of white's SCVs and 4 marines come in. My zealot dies, and my pylon is destroyed. White then proceeds to re-fortify the center.





FINALLY teal comes and does something and moves to the center. Teal's troops pretty much bypass White's defense, although they kill some incoming marines. They then proceed to move towards White's main. My troops that I sent as support have died to white's defenses in the center, and I am currently powerless.

Teal, however, abruptly stops the attack, and turns around to take out the white bunker in the center. However, Teal continues to Brown's base instead of back to white's. That was really to bad, because:





Anyway, I add a little bit of support. Which turns out to be handy because en-route, we meet a group of brown's zealots heading toward the center.





After we kill them, I have lost 2/3 of my force, but Teal is still doing relatively well. It attacks Brown's main, but the infantry die to cannons placed in the base.

Well, so much for that. We could have destroyed or crippled one enemy, but noooo. We had to fight the CANNONS. Oh well. While we're rebuilding, our enemies once again fortify the center.

Everything is quiet for a while until Teal and Myself decide to attack again. Teal has some M&M and some tanks coming, while I have 5-6 zealots and a reaver. While visions of slaughtered Terran infantry and razed bunkers fill my head, I order my reaver to attack the bunker, this turns out to be a mistake, however, as a whole bunch of Brown's zealots come to greet my reaver. I quickly tell it to attack the zealots, but it only gets one scarab off before dying. I order my zealots to engage the Brown's. It would seem as if I would be slaughtered, seeing as Brown has about twice as many zealots as I do. But we are fighting on the bridge, and only 3 zealots can meet there at a time. The rest run around, trying to find a way to get in. Teal is having a little more success. Its troops raze one bunker, and start on the second one. However, at this point, most of the M&M have died to bunker fire, and, what's this?! Teal isn't sieging its Tanks!!!! Omg... anyway, the tanks take down the bunker, but have lost a lot and when the medics start healing the marines in the now-dead bunker, the tanks can't fire fast enough to kill them. With stim and zealot support, the tanks soon die. My zealots have lost the fight against their brethren, and I leave my sole survivor near the bridge to warn me of a possible attack. Apparently, once all of Teal's marines died, Teal didn't know what to do with its medics, and they wander into White's quarter of the map.

It's about the 13 minute mark. Teal expands to its natural as does brown. White looks as if s/he's about to. I still haven't made an expansion attempt. Then, our enemies decide to bring the battle to Teal. White attacks, and kills Teal's troops in his main and starts on the buildings. Troops from Teal's natural come in and fight off the intruders. But now Teal doesn't have much defense and our enemies know this.





Somewhere around this time I expand to my natural. But then, teal is attacked by another force, maybe a little larger than the second one. With only remnants of defense, Teal cannot hope to hold off the attack, and our enemies start razing its buildings. My expansion attempt is subject to a 4 Dark Templar drop, and my Nexus dies. Brown now takes my natural. After losing a few scouting observers I figure this out due to the cannons at the ramp. I also spot four DTs and an observer hanging out below the ramp. I send my two reavers to kill them and don't even take a hit. White and Brown's troops have now destroyed Teal's last building and My Computer is defeated. There is almost no chance that I'll win at this point. The last time a won a two on one was against two newbies, which these players certainly aren't. Also, I had kept up the pressure, which was exactly what was being done to me! My main is pretty much out of minerals, and I really need my expansion. I know that if I don't try for it, I'll lose for sure. I send a reaver to attack the cannons at the ramp. My other reaver and some zealots are standing by in case it's attacked. I kill 2 cannons, but then brown's troops come to kill the annoyance. I send my troops into combat, and manage to kill some DTs, but my reavers and zealots all die. At this point, all I have left are three High Templars. I use one to psi-storm where I think Brown's troops are. It works and I kill most of the DTs, but some dragoons are still left and attack me. Psi-storm and cannons hold them off, but I lose my attacking templar and some cannons. Psi-storm holds off another small attack, but the next attack is large, and my HTs are out of energy. In desperation, I morph them into an Archon and attack with my probes. The probes die, and the archon fights and deals about 80 damage to a Battle Cruiser before dying. I have nothing left, and I say "gg" and leave.

Game #2:

After the game, I am understandably angry at my computer for being such a bad ally.