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| Gaema Gowon Anybody? | | | Author: | | | IP: | 1Cust45.XXXX | | Date: | 03/09/03 10:03 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 8, Min: 8
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Hello and welcome to another Psyonic_Reaver Battlereport!
Let's start todays BR, a two vs two battle on a map called Gaema Gowon. *Link to the map* This Korean map was made primarily for Zerg and Terran players considering all the easily accessible cliffs and expansions so close to each starting point. Protoss players will only have the advantage by teching to scouts and shooting their own probes.
Now that you've seen the map, let's introduce the players!
Psyonic.Smurf: He's Peach. He's Protoss. He's gay. So on to the next player!
SatansCookies: This dude has been around for quite a long time, he likes to pair up with Enthused and form the "Dream Team 2v2 Team" or something like that. His Terran has been perfected over many years of playing Starcraft. *Note: I'm not saying its the best in the world, I'm saying he's just perfected it to his ability.*
Khas: He's also a member of Clan .Smurf but he doesn't really like to wear the tag, his zerg is killer and the way he uses the purple ooze is unsurpassed. Except by maybe a better player.
Snat: I know jack about him. But he's Protoss so he's screwed.
So the teams are stacked like this: Psyonic.Smurf as the Peach Ranger and SatansCookies as the Red Wonder vs Khas the Yellow Submarine and Snat the Purple Dildo.
The game starts off strangely calm. No name-calling. No chit chat. No smack talk. Nothing. This is highly unusual considering this is a game from ~NH but 'eh.
The first major action of the game is when at a minute and thirty seconds Psyonic sends a scout to probe the top left main to find Snat busily setting up camp while Satan sent an SCV to find Khas infesting the landscape at bottom right. Of course everybody knew what everybody was BEFORE the game started but scouting just kinda gives that nostalgia feeling ya know?
Khas decides to double hatch in his natural hoping the plan will go off without being noticed, but he forgot the Red SCV still hanging around in his base, and as it leaves, shows what Khas has in mind. Psyonic quickly sends a message to his partner. "Bunker" was all he said as three of his zealots move towards the Zerg Base to help protect the fledgling scv. Satan complies by building a bunker on the cliff overlooking the expansion.
Psyonic leads the attack with his zealots and start's pounding on the outlying hatchery, but noticing the morphing sunken colony, focuses his attention on that. Khas not wanting to lose it, sends in a squad of zergling's. He managed to take out two zealots but lost most of his zerglings along with his sunken colony. Satan meanwhile has sneaked in four marines unobserved and manned the bunker but alas, it was out of range to help out for the rest of this battle. Psyonic was on his own....
Psy managed to reinforce his current attack force with two more zealots and another was on the way but was attack by five purple zealots. Psyonic left his attack force to their own AI and pulled the wounded zealot back up the ramp while he scrambled to set up some sort of base defense. Khas killed the troublesome zealots in his expansion with only two more zergling losses.
Snat meanwhile was leaping with joy, the only defenses he saw were three zealots and a warping cannon, only halfway done. Snat imminently went for it thinking to take it out quickly and finish off the rest of Psyonic's forces at his leisure...
Psyonic had other plans. As Snat's zealots went for the bait, Psyonic pulled his mining probes off duty and surrounded the purple zealots...
Only when the cannon was destroyed did Snat realize the trap that had been closed on him, quickly he told his troops to fight back but alas, it was too late and the zealots quickly succumbed to the particle beams. While Snat did managed to kill off Psyonic's zealots, he only managed to kill one probe after all that.
Psyonic proceeded to rebuild his forces. He managed to bring three zealots in from Auir and a cannon online when suddenly a force of zerglings stormed his base, thinking quickly Psy engaged the zerglings with a force of three zealots and five probes. During the skirmish a few zerglings perished along with a zealot when Snat decided to come back and help crash the party with a force of three zealots and two dragoons. Things are looking grim for Psyonic as he only has enough of an attack force to defeat one army. Let alone two!
The probes. Seeing their base in dire peril decide to help out once again! In a suddenly blaze of psi energy the eight remaining zerglings simultaneously explode!
Snat, tries to rally his forces away from the cannon and gets stuck in a corner of Psyonic's base. They too fall to the Sparkles of Doom. Psyonic managed to lose only three zealots and a single probe, while still having a force of four zealots, all very badly damage.
Satan wasn't idle during the rapid attacks on Psyonic though. He had quickly teched to Wraiths and was now dominating the skies above Khas's base, claiming three overlord kills and a few drones before the lone Wraith was brought down.
The wraith was just a diversion though as Satan had built another bunker on the cliff overlooking Khas's expansion, this time its in range of the mineral line and as the marines hop in, they open fire on the drones below.
Khas responds by throwing his entire army at the bunker, killing the SCV and destroying the bunker. What Khas didnt know though was that a second bunker was nearby and in a cunning move, Satan escaped his marines into that bunker. Snat had sent a dragoon down earlier to deal with the Wraith but now it was used to soak up marine fire while the zerglings got in close and proceeded to tear the bunker and its occupants apart.
Psyonic arrived just seconds too late to save the marines but instead focused on attacking the remaining zerglings and dragoon. Slaying all but four zerglings. Psyonic then noticed what Satan was doing inside the Enemy Protoss base and decided his forces, four wounded zealots and two fresh ones, would be best used up there.
Satan had scanned Snat's base and got his devious mind to work seeing the lack of defenses. He loaded up four Vulture bikes and dropped them off behind the mineral line, where they laid their mines and proceeded to pick off the defenseless probes. Killing eight of them before Snat reacted and pulled them back, while sending four dragoons to deal with the pesky bikes. Mines scuttled, bikes fled, goons chased! Alas all the goons were slaughtered while three of the bikes managed to escape. Only one dragoon was left to defend against the bikes, but Snat had more problems then Bikes on his mind when Psyonic's six zealots climbed the ramp and started laying into his buildings...
Khas had reacted differently to the attacks on Ally and sent twelve zerglings to Psyonic's base, thinking him to be defenseless, and thus Psyonic was. Only two zealots and the cannon stood watch over the Protoss base. In a curious move though, Khas attacks and destroys the cannon losing half his attack force, while the other half falls to the zealots and a few defending probes.
Meanwhile, Snat had managed to build a Dark Templar, bringing its powers of invisibility to the field of battle. Snat used him to slay the remaining bikers and two of Psyonic's zealots before a comsat revealed the pesky attacker and was slain. Snat wasn't one to give up easily though and managed to micro a single dragoon, along with probe reinforcements, to kill off a zealot and badly wound the remaining three when reinforcements came from Psyonic's base in the form of two zealots and two dragoons. With no probes or troops defending Snat's base, Psyonic had total power to utterly destroy his adversary. But for some reason all of Psy's troops were attacking different targets, no organization was employed within his troops. Psyonic paid for the mistake when a force of zerglings, along with a single DT, managed to wipe out his whole force which did only minor damage to anything.
The cause for his diversion was well placed though for Khas had also managed to send a force of Hydralisks into Psyonic's main. With only two zealots and the newly replaced cannon, Psyonic didnt have much of a plan for defense. Again Khas focused his attack on the cannon thinking it a bigger threat, only losing three hydralisks to the zealots and the now militia formed probe defense. Khas did his best to micro around the zealots but the probes pressed in from all sides, cutting off their escape...
Satan just had about enough of Khas's slithering forces and began to set up a firebase in front of Khas's expansion with a minor force of firebats, marines, a single medic and most important, three siege tanks. The outlying hatchery falls in a few short seconds but Khas paid no attention for he was busy attacking Psyonic's main with his leftover zerglings from Snat's base, covering a DT as it sneaked into the probe line...
Psyonic, thinking fast, managed to whittle the zergling force down by drawing them into a nearby cannon which was covering his tech. But the cannon didn't cover his Nexus... The remaining zealot, its hitpoints in the red, killed the last two zerglings attacking the Nexus, and then managed to cover a warping cannon before falling to the Dark Templar's blade. Psyonic then managed to repulse the DT threat but at the loss of all but three probes and his buildings. Satan sent in a force of three Vultures to reinforce his Protoss ally and laid mines at the ramp of Psyonic's base. He later sent in two tanks and an SCV to provide turrets for detection and the tanks sieged to help protect the ramp.
Khas was furious, not only was Psyonic still alive, but his own expansion had just fallen to Satan's seige. While he did managed to kill a tank, it did nothing to prevent the other two from pressing the attack. Khas quickly amassed a zergling force and sent half of it up and around the cliff, and the other half below the attack force. Suddenly the two halves combine and slaughter the tanks but the defending infantry survived the encounter.
Satan was probably the happiest person at that moment. Not only did he have two expansions, everybody else had none! *Not to mention his base has never been attacked...* Psyonic struggled to replace his probes and get some form of a standing military to help in the ongoing fight.
Many minutes pass before action was taken by either side...That ended when Satan told Psyonic to send his six zealots to meet his force of marines and tanks in the middle and prepare for an attack on Snat. Psyonic complied and decided to expand during the movement. His troops never made it to the Red Army as they were forced to turn back to Psyonic's natural where it was under attack by twelve zerglings, Psyonic also failed to notice the four lurkers that marched behind his troops...
Snat's army was now complete. Eight dragoons and four zealots now marched towards Psyonic's main, where Snat hoped to finish him once and for all. Meanwhile, Khas had managed to destroy the expansion and five of the defending zealots, at the cost of his zerglings. He felt he had the situation under control and knew the reinforcements from Snat would help silence Psyonic forever. Suddenly three vulture bikes swooped in and start laying mines, a science vessel flew overhead, and a wave of arclite shells rain down on the Lurkers, ending their reign of terror.
Snat arrived just seconds after that and hit the rear of the Terran army, Satan quickly pulled his forces towards his siege tanks and slaughtered the Protoss army with only a single loss.
Satan knew it was time to end this silly little game. He packed up his forces and moved them off towards Khas's base, meeting no resistance as he climbed the ramp where he then proceeded to destory Khas's buildings. Snat sent in reinforcing Dragoons but they only managed to slow down Khas's fate a few seconds and soon the Zerg Cerebrate was silenced.
Things looked bad for Snat, he saw another Terran attack force trying to force its way up his ramp, but the defending cannon and dragoons were no match for the Terran War Machine. Snat then wondered why his income had stopped, looking into his mineral line he saw a peach reaver with fifteen kills to it's name and it's defending zealots, laying waste to his Cyber. Core.
Snat, knowing the battle was lost. Left the game.
Wow! What a great game huh? Intenseness all around and stuff. I'd like to give a shoutout to Khas, Snat, and Satan for letting me BR this game. What about Psyonic? Well...What about him?
As always. Heres your girl.
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