The game opens with me at 12, as teal zerg, and Folkensan at 6 as white protoss. I opt to build my pool at 12 and then place a hatchery at the top of my ramp to place defenses against the early rush. Folk gets a pylon at 8 and proceeds to get a gateway, an assimilator, and another pylon.

Shortly after my hatchery has been placed, Folk gets a cybernetics core, moving towards a stargate for a corsair rush. My hatchery is finished just after he builds the stargate, and I set up sunken colonies there.

Folk's stargate finishes, and he wastes no time producing a corsair as I start morphing my lair. It flies quickly into my base to harrass my overlords; however, it flies through my base twice before encountering the only overlord that is not away. The additional time allows me to produce two hydralisks with my freshly built hydralisk den, and the two beasts discourage the corsair from assaulting the overlord. My lair has finished at this point, and an expansion to the mineral only below my base does as well, augmenting my income.

The corsair flies southward, locating another overlord who is returning from scouting. Killing the undefended overlord, it proceeds northwest

and then back south. During its jaunt, my accumulated army of hydralisks and zerglings proceed southward to Folk's base. Finding the ramp unblocked, they proceed into his base and encounter five zealots. The zealots attack them, falling back as the zerg force attacks them, and re-engaging the hydralisks and zerglings when they begin to assault Folk's buildings. The pattern continues for a while, as the zerg destroy a gateway. The zealots engage them again, and all but one die, leaving three hydralisks and a few zerglings. The zerg destroy another gateway, and the remaining zealot attacks, killing one zergling and luring the others to death at the photon cannons. The last zealot and a force of probes finally destroy the remaining three hydralisks.

By now, Folk has a templar archives, and

overlord has not yet reached, so the hydralisks are unable to retaliate against their hidden foes. I lose three hydralisks to the dark templar before my overlord arrives to provide detection. A pair of dragoons and two dark templar engage my hydralisks as they attack the buildings. Though they are killed, they manage to raze one of the gateways.

Soon after the attack, both of us take our naturals. Folk has gotten reavers during the fighting, and I have lurkers. Very shortly after the expansions are complete, I send a force of hydralisks, zerglings, and four lurkers down to attack Folk, engaging the zealots, dragoons, and reavers there. I attack the lone photon cannon defending the base, hoping to kill as many probes as I can with my lurkers. His reavers and dragoons take out my hydralisks, but not before the photon cannon goes down. My

templar storms the lurkers, killing one. The remaining lurker prevents him from mining for a while, then is picked up by an overlord as soon as my drop tech is finished.

Folk has level 2 attack upgrades, so I place two evolution chambers at my mineral only expansion and research attack and armor upgrades for my hydralisks. I also attempt to expand to the 9 o' clock natural, however a patrolling dark templar uncovers the attempt and prevents it. I gather some overlords and begin loading my army into them for a drop into Folk's main.

Folk has taken his min only, and his forces are stationed there as the overlords arrive at his base for the drop. My hydralisks manage to destroy a gateway and a few photon cannons before the first of his forces arrives to defend. I pull the majority of my army away from his forces and focus fire his archives, destroying them, then engage the defending forces; however, reavers and storm kill off my army quickly as soon as the hydralisks are close enough.

I move new forces to attack his mineral only, and set up a flank. Unfortunatley, poor calculation prevent the flank from doing any damage; most of the hydralisks are butchered by storm, and the remaining are too outnumbered to survive. I proceed to take the

northwestern island.

Folk deposits the reaver in my main, knocking out my gas income there, then proceeds to move it to my island expansion.

Folk takes the 3 o' clock base, and situates his army outside of my base. My income is in shambles, yet I continue to produce hydralisks to fight off the reavers at my island. The reaver dies, but I am left with barely enough defense to stop a few zealots. Folk's army pushes into my base and we exchange gg's.

GG

Thanks to Folk for the game, and to everyone out there who gave me suggestions, proofread the text, and otherwise helped me. The replay of the game can be found here. Gogo comment.