Hi everyone. I've looked over my first battle report and I knew something was missing. I know what you all are thinking. Screenshots. AND I GOT THEM! I'm so happy! But besides that dilema, I noticed that it didn't really have any style. So, I've decided to beef things up a little and add some "funky text". I hope you enjoy BR Number 2. Check out these rad little animations I scattered throughout this report.

A rather short intro: After a few UMS games on Starcraft (Broodwar) Battle Net, I decided to play some melee. I was sick of all that lag and those annoying people in those Use Map Settings games. So, for my enjoyment, I joined a 2v2 LT.

wygram=Protoss LurkerBurger7=Terran uwe=Zerg kjeldoran715=Protoss

The teams were easily formed: top two slots vs bottom two slots. So the teams came out to be wygram and LurkerBurger7 vs uwe and kjeldoran715 . wygram randomed Protoss and got the 3 o'clock base, LurkerBurger7 chose Terran and got the 12 o'clock base, uwe chose Zerg and got the 9 o'clock base, and kjeldoran715 chose Protoss and got the 6 o'clock base. 0:00-9:99

To foreshadow a bit about this game, all players didn't try anything too "tricky" until further into the game. Here's the basic personality of the players.

wygram: Probably the best player here. He seems to be a "masser" type of person. Not very strategic, but he gets the job done. He likes to expand quickly to get an early advantage over his opponents.

LurkerBurger7: More of an all-around type of player. He likes to build up defense quickly in order to survive and unleash his true wrath; his drops. Doesn't exactly like to expand, but knows he has to and does so anyway. He is a late attacker.

uwe: Another rather good player, uwe also likes to build up defense early. He likes to expand to get map control. He waits for his opponents to be weakened by his ally (if he has one) before he attacks. He is a more careful player.

kjeldoran715: Probably the worst player here, kjeldoran is a more defensive player. He is also very strategic, getting psi storm mixed with infantry. He doesn't like to mass anything in perticular and rarely uses air units. *Note: These symbols (above-happy and angry) will be depicted throughout this BR in order to show how the person might be feeling at a certain moment....LOL, even I have to laugh at that smily orc!

Some Action: Very early into the game (approx. 3 minutes), wygram sends his Probe to scout the area. He decides to go to the 6 o'clock (orange) base. Kjeldoran was a slow player and didn't have any ramp defense or an Assimulator. Making the best of the situation, wygram jacked Kjeldoran's geyser. This action by wygram was very successful in slowing down Kjeldoran's overall playing quality for the moment (approximately 2 minutes and 15 seconds)

That's what the defenses looked like after 5 minutes...I know what you're thinking, but hey, it's only 5 minutes.

uwe had 5 Sunken Colonies positioned right on the ledge of his base (near the entry ramp), which is good of course because ranged attacks only have a 70% chance of hitting the Sunkens if the enemy were to attack from the valley below.

kjeldoran had a puny force of 4 zealots with no cannons what so ever. It seems as though wygram's jack really slowed down kjeldoran quite a bit.

wygram had a stronger force of 8 zealots but was also in a deficit of Photon Cannons. But he did take the time to jack kjeldoran .

LurkerBurger7 had a nice wall going on. His bunker was filled with Marines. What else is there to say?

All players expanded quickly to the minibases they desired. Each first expansion was created before the 10 minute mark. This definately shows how each player is preparing for the worst. The personality chart kicks in right about here. Remember what it said said about LurkerBurger7 ? "Doesn't exactly like to expand." Notice the time of LurkerBurger7's first expansion and then refer back to the rest of the group's first expansion times.

10:00-19:99

The game wears on. All players had extremely advanced armies and buildings by now. uwe for instance, had a scalable swarm of Mutalisks and Guardians. kjeldoran had a mixture of Dragoons, Zealots, and High Templars (with psi storm). wygram had a large cluster of Dragoons and some Zealots. LurkerBurger7 had a force of Goliaths (with Charron Booster Packs).

All players also expanded again. LurkerBurger7 seemed to have gotten his act together expansion wise. Only 4 and a half minutes had elapsed between his first expansion and his second expansion. On the other hand, kjeldoran's bad quality playing was starting to show; gaining his second expansion approximately 12 minutes after his first. Well, its not that bad, but when comparing it to the rest of the group's... LurkerBurger7 now had a force that he thought should be able to completely vanquish uwe . So, LukerBurger7 manuvered his Dropships and was able to drop his Goliaths right next to the enemy Hive. Just to make it a little clearer, LurkerBurger7 came from the North and flew down the West side of the map. There was 5 Dropships completely filled with Goliaths (20 Goliaths in other words).

A sure victory for LurkerBurger7 is what we were all expecting. Those Goliaths started blasting the oncoming Mutalisks right out of the sky. But there was another group approching. Guardians. Despite the Charron Booster Packs, LurkerBurger7's Goliaths were getting hit hard by those acidic gunk globs. LurkerBurger7's Goliaths began to lose screws and blow up. At the same time, uwe's Guardians were not bearing out too well. By now, half the Goliaths were gone and half the Guardians were gone. But just in the nick of time, uwe sent in another flock of Mutalisks into the fray. One by one, LurkerBurger7's Goliaths began to explode. His drop had failed and to make it worse, the only thing he killed (that Zergish orangie stuff that you see near the Extractor) was a Spawing Pool. While all this was going on, wygram snuck a shuttle loaded with a Probe in a Southern direction. He then landed it on the "land penninsula" which is also the East ledge for the 6 o'clock natural expansion. Next, he starts building Photon Cannons. This was to act as a type of "restriction" for kjeldoran expansion wise.

20:00-29:00

Getting quite annoyed, kjeldroran tried to reclaim his land. He very noobishly PSI STORMED RED'S CANNONS . This action was of course intended to destroy the Cannons. Man... okay. With all those Photon Cannons STILL under his control, wygram felt considerably comfortable and continued on with his Dragoon swarm. However, kjeldoran had just about enough of these Cannons and prepared an assault.

And a smelly one at that. All kjeldroran could muster up was a single Carrier. How pathetic.

wygram expands again. Seeing the oppertunity, he keeps on building Dragoons as a final assault on his last opponent; uwe .

wygram was raring to go and unleashed his entire Dragoon army on kjeldoran (about 45 Dragoons)! kjeldoran didn't even know what hit him. The Dragoons flowed into kjeldoran's natural expansion. They were met by a resistance force of Protossian infantry, including a big fat Archon, and Psionic Storm. kjeldoran sent his infantry into battle. He then started to gnaw away at the oncoming Dragoons with Psionic Storm. This seemed to be working, until the Dragoons began to exterminate the infantry (Orange's Zealots, Dragoons, and Archon) and going for the High Templars themselves. kjeldoran began to retreat into his main base. His natural expansion was being incinerated by the second and now his main was under seige from the 40 remaining Dragoons. Seeing the atmoshere around him, kjeldoran didn't really have a choice and left the game.

By now, despite losing an ally, uwe had created a mass of colonies at the entrance of his base and had almost respawned his entire flyer army. It was obvious that wygram was gonna need a little help getting past those Guardians, Mutalisks, and Sunken Colonies, so LurkerBurger7 came to his aid. His plan was to aquire BC's and Valkyries. The Valkyries would easily pummel those Guardians and Mutalisks and the Battle Cruisers, well, they would get everything else. :)

So LurkerBurger7 started the production of his air army in order to assist his ally in the ways of combat as the game reaches the 30 minute mark.

30:36.37

As the game lingers on, uwe becomes nervous and sends out a squad of Hydralisks to search the area. As they are scouting, they run into wygram's 3rd expansion. It happens to be completely unguarded so the Hydralisks open fire. Shortly after the confrontation, wygram intercepts the Lisks with a squad of Dragoons. The Hydralisks are no match for the Goons and explode in a matter of seconds. No problem at all for wygram . LurkerBurger7's aero-army is in-the-making. He has a well defended base, good resources, and is completely confident in his abilities. As soon as LurkerBurger7's air army was done, the two allies screamed "GO" and unleashed all of the firepower they had. Dragoons began bombarding the Sunken Colonies. The BC's started to oblitherate Spore Colonies. wygram had mustered up a Corsair squadron and along with LurkerBurger7's Valkyries, they went Ovie Hunting and Guardian Killing. uwe had lost half his base in half a minute. He was desperate and sent his flock of Mutalisks into the Corsairs and Valkyries. It was like putting on socks for wygram and LurkerBurger7 . No problem at all. uwe no longer had an army. The BC's were drifting into his main base and the Dragoons were crawling up the ramp. He was dead and he knew it. But he fought like a man and watched his last building fall. This was his main Hive so LurkerBurger7 decided to have some fun by Yamotoing the Hive at the same exact time with his 12 BC's.

The players said their "gg's".

The Winners Are: wygram and LurkerBurger7 .

This has been a Report.