"I have been frequently referred to as one of the "gayest" players ever to grace the barren lands of the Starcraft universe, though I believe that title was hefted upon me by a eternally hopeful Dagomar."
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| A Report And A Farewell | | | Author: | | | IP: | 0-1pool1XXXX | | Date: | 10/10/03 05:10 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for Psyonic_Reaver: 7.7391 |  |
Hello fellow BR.com'ers. Yes. It's that time again. As I sit here with a hot cup of Cocoa the leaves are changing wonderful colors and floating silently to the ground... The air has a brisk chill... The squirrels are preparing to hibernate… The Lost Temple is exploding…. Wait. What?
That's right! It's time for another look at this well-known and popular map! But not in some fancy smancy WC3 graphics style blickity blam! NO! We're taking a trip back to the good old Starcraft days where the malt liquor flowed like... Malt liquor... And DeonPeon was our favorite cartoon character. Also, sorry for the lack of pictures but I'm just too darn lazy and busy right now to make any. I know it'll probably hurt my rating but I dont really care.
So come with me as we take a trip down memory lane to a game that too many people know... and play one handed...*Has something to do with the Persian-POW Quote*
Enjoy!
Let's Get Ready To Rock!
Joe.Smurf vs. Pickles
Joe.Smurf - You might all know him as ThisIsNotAnExit for his Warcraft 3 reports that he wrote with great skill awhile ago. Now he mostly spends his days playing Warcraft 3 and mountain climbing. Yes, he is a supa stud and will be playing as Teal Terrans.
Pickles - Um. I'm assuming he likes pickles and will be playing as White Protoss. *But we'll show him as Orange*
Early Game
Joe lands with his Command Center at the 9 O'clock starting position while Pickles watches his Nexus appear at the 12 O'clock. We'll skip the boring standard introduction builds because nothing really happens.
Deon was having a rather nice day, the sun was shining and the commander privileged him to scout the surrounding landscape that is known as The Lost Temple. During his travels he encountered a fierce Bengalaas and soon stumbled upon a fledging Protoss base, he enjoyed playing ring around the rosy with its occupants but soon discovered that some of them didn't play very nice.
Pickle's probe had likewise found the Terran encampment but soon fled when a marine on guard duty attacked him, the feisty little chap told the oncoming Dragoons of the threat and was soon happily mining with his fellows. The Goons killed the offending marine and were trying to knock the front door down when a Siege Tank sporting a big shotgun drove them off.
During that little incursion both sides had teched to air transportation. Joe loaded twin tanks into a dropship moving them off to the enemy encampment while Pickles was busy doing the same, ferrying four Dragoons into the Terran main.
We'll start off with Joe's drop; A tank sieges as soon as it touches down while the other runs cover. The lone defending dragoon soaked up Archlite fire giving time for some probes run in to get some quick hits. This ploy failed however as the Goon was turned into blue soup before you could say "Good Golly Miss Molly" and the attacking probes followed soon afterward. The sieged tank continued its decimation before another Dragoon and a fresh batch of probes disassembles him and his comrade.
Meanwhile, Pickle's drop was somewhat… Unorganized… As you can probably guess because his probe line was under siege. As his four four-legged freaks stumble into the Terran base, a tank tears one apart before exploding under focus fire. The rest of the invading army is soon taken care of when a pimp squad of SCVs tears them apart.
After the failed attacks, Pickle starts an expansion in his natural while sending down a shuttle full of reavers. No doubt to cause some trouble for those troublesome SCVs, fortunately for Joe, Pickle decides that a lone siege tank and missile turret on the ledge overlooking the Lost Temple are more of a threat then an undefended mineral line… The shuttle is lost but the reavers survive to continue their slow trek into the Terran main, successfully killing another tank and random SCVs working on various projects. *Almost complete Command Center and Factory* One Reaver strays too close to the CC and a just placed Siege Tank takes him down. The other robotic bulge lumbers away, attacking random objects and killing another tank before Joe sends a vulture into the path of the beast while microing a dropship and a tank to finish it off.
The Protoss expansion is fully online and running when the reaver explodes. Joe is not far behind as he lifts off his newly built Command Center and lands it into his natural expansion. Unknown to him though an observer silently watches all that transpire and also notices a Dropship flying past before kissing a missile turret to death. The sight of the dropship scared off an imposing attack force of four Dragoons, fearing that a drop on their base was imminent.
In fact, it only dropped off an SCV and a tank on the ledge overlooking the expansion. The tank quickly took up a defensive posture while the SCV busily began constructing turrets. Joe is a man of offensive capabilities though and soon sends out a pimp squad of five vultures to scour the surrounding mains looking for expansions. Meanwhile, Pickles moved twelve Dragoons to the left side of his main, preparing for a drop that, sadly, never came. Shrugging it off, he continues to fortify his expansion by placing two dragoons on the ledge overlooking it. He then sent a probe to the 3 main, hoping to further his income rate, when it ran past Joe's earlier said pimp squad.
Eight Dragoons and an observer were sent to dispatch the vultures. The dragoons were just entering into the 3 main when a surprise attack came from behind! The dragoons chased the vultures hoping to score some kills as the observer continued to fly into the 3 main….
As you can probably guess the vultures fled a small distance placed about 16 mines and went back to pick a fight with the spider-men. They obliged and followed them right into the trap…. Only 1 vulture was lost and all but one Dragoon was slain because we all know that mines > dragoons w/out Obba support. The surviving vultures rampaged into the 3 main slaying the probe and forcing Pickles to cancel the Nexus but buying time for another assault force of four Dragoons to eliminate the vultures.
Pickle's decides that having an expansion in his "Mineral Only" would increase his chances of survival and maybe keep the Terran opponent on his toes. Joe was thinking the same thing as he starts his own CC in his "Mineral Only" while sending two cloaked wraiths to scout his opponent's main hoping to find some targets of opportunity. He spots two Shuttles and decides they just have to go. One shuttle explodes in a favorable fashion while the other makes a clean getaway as Pickle orders healthy doses of plasma fire to take care of the Wraith pilots.
This diversion was enough for Joe to set up ample defense for his new expansion, much to Pickle's dismay. But as it says in the Good Book, "For every expansion the enemy haveth. Thou must haveth two." This enlightened Pickle to expand to the top left island while restarting the one the in the 3 main, sending some zealots and most of his Dragoon army to cover it, while leaving two HT's and a smaller force of Goons and Zealots to defend his main. Now this is when I thought to myself, "Time to sit back and watch the carriers roll in."
With this nice little lull in the action I'll insert a little update! We'll start with Joe first. Joe has two expansions and is pumping a nice assortment of Goth's, Vultures, and Tanks all 0-0 in Weapons//Armor and it looks like he's going to keep it that way.
Pickle's on the other hand now has two running expansions with two more on the way. He has High Templar, Dragoons, and Zealots in his arsenal with the casual observer thrown here and there. He is currently 0-1-0 in Weapons//Armor//Shields.
Mid. Game!
The game roars back to life as I click the "Unpause" button and I notice three of Joe's dropships heading towards the top left island, which is all but empty…
Joe is quick to drop off three siege tanks, two Goliath's, and five SCVs. The numbers are quickly cut down as most of them run into cannon fire and reinforcing zealots are dropped off.
The dropships fled and picked up more random units, joining four other dropships in a voyage across the map towards the 3 main, coming in from the 3 Natural expansion. Unbeknownst to Joe though that is where the bulk of Pickle's Dragoon army resided... Luck was with the Terran Commander as Pickle ordered his forces to move out just as the dropships flew in and past the defenseless 3 O'clock main, instead they land on the ledge overlooking Pickle's natural expansion. The 2 Dragoons stationed there were quickly slaughtered as the dropships dropped off six tanks, four goths and a few SCVs who started building missile turrets to make sure they held the high ground.
Pickles knew that with that many units up there, the enemy main must be held by only a skeleton crew. Taking advantage of this fact he threw his whole army of 15 goons, 8 zealots, and 3 HT into Joe's Mineral Only. Joe was not lacking in his macro though for he had nearly 10 sieged tanks and about that many Goliath's awaiting the coming army. The carnage was unexplainable. It just seemed like the Protoss Army wouldn't die, SCV after SCV was Psi stormed while the zealots drew Tank fire, and the dragoons concentrated on taking the Command Center down. Joe was losing…
Suddenly reinforcements poured out of the Terran main, catching Pickles off-guard as he watched his army crumble before his eyes… Although he was successful in taking down the CC he lost of 80% of his attacking army. Pickle's macro is reasonably well though, as half of his losses have been replaced from his eight gateways.
Meanwhile, the Protoss expansion having long since been destroyed, Joe packed up all but two tanks and drops the ledge force off at the 3 Main, dealing successfully with the two defensive cannons but sadly, overlooking the two stationed HT that slaughtered the whole force with five storms. Only two dropships made it through and on the way back to base spotted a just completed Protoss Nexus at the 3 Mineral Only.
Late Game
Joe is on the move again! 15 Siege Tanks, 5 Goliath's and 4 SCV's journey across the temple to squash the pitiful expansion. Pickle notices as a stray Dragoon provides early warning of the approaching army. With only a small handful of units readily available, Pickle's has no choice but to stall while more are brought into play. A few well-placed storms and a good usage of zealots only bring the Terran Force down to seven Tanks, which begin tearing down the Nexus Shields.
They didn't get very far when two Archons, five zealots, and two dragoons came to defend the Nexus, successfully driving the tanks away. Except they fled TOWARDS the 3 Main! As Pickles climbed the ramp he saw a half-completed wall-in! The tanks made short work of the following Protoss forces as they too tried to climb the ramp. Meanwhile, in the Protoss base, eight Vultures have been busily laying mines and killing random HT's. Soon after that, Joe attacked the other Protoss Mineral Only *The 12 Mineral Only* with a huge force of tanks, unfortunately the tanks didn't have enough time to be placed properly as a wave of Protoss Zealots smash into the Terran column, demolishing it.
But that was just a diversion as Joe ran more units into the 3 Main, where a now completed wall-in was in effect. Leaving two tanks to guard the wall, five more pushed into the probe line. Suddenly four shuttles flew in and dropped off 16 protoss zealots…..
Joe still hasn't been idle in the resource race as the 6 main and expansion come online while the choke was being walled off with depots, turrets and spider mines. Pickles saw this with a nearby observer and threw a huge force of troops towards the expansions, hoping to quench the Terran's thirst for power. The battle was long and costly as both sides continued to flood the region with reinforcements, but in the end, Joe held onto his expansions…
That is, until Pickles had a fresh force to throw at it. This time the victory went to the Protoss Commander as he destroyed the expansions but leaving the SCVs unscathed. The SCVs waited as another CC was flown down so they could continue mining at the 6 main. The reason the Protoss forces fled so quickly was because Joe was doing surgical strikes at ALL of Pickle's expansions. He managed to take down the 12 Mineral Only AND the 3 main. While sending ANOTHER team of Vulture bikes to invade Pickle's main to lay down their spidermines and cause Pickle's production to cease.
Pickle was struggling to keep going, but no rest for the weary as Joe was at it again at the 3 Mineral Only, slaying all the probes in the area and destroying the Nexus. Pickles tried to save it but there were too many spidermines and tanks for him to do much, so he dropped the 6 main with what forces he had available but was repulsed by SCVs and vultures. Noticing his lack of income, Pickle rebuilds the 3 Main and starts expansions at the 3 Natural and bottom right island.
There's a quick lull in the action so its time for an update!
The Protoss have one operating expansion with 3 on the way and has 0-2-0 upgrades. *Weapons//Armor//Shields*
The Terrans meanwhile have two operating expansions and are at 1-1 upgrades. *Weapons//Armor*
End Game
Joe sends another vulture squad into the Toss main and lays down more spidermines. This effect has been costing Pickles the game, as he can't reinforce his expansions because they keep dying as they leave the gates! He needs to take this scientist's advice for processing information. "For example, if a big dog bit you today, you have to file "big dog" near "ouch" with a direct connection to "run for your life." Every day people have thousands of items like that to sort and file." So apply that to spidermines you NINNY!
Just as Pickles manages to clear his main of mines he finds his entranced loaded with more of the things! With no observers nearby Pickles is forced to sacrifice zealots to clear a path for his Dragoons, but their sacrifice is in vain for as the Dragoons leave the base they come under fire from more mines and siege tanks!
With the Protoss main successfully contained Joe pushes into the 3 expansion and main. Pickle has no cash and no standing army and with a GG, leaves the game.
Comments
Wow! I totally thought Pickles had it for sure! But without constant recon and detection, Pickles placed himself in too many bad situations. But I'll give him some credit for not using a SINGLE carrier. In fact, he never built a starport.
Now on to another matter, I told you all that I was leaving for a mission a few months ago. Well, that time has finally come. I shall be sent to the Guatemala City, Guatemala Mission and will be there for 2 years. I enjoyed writing reports and everybody's company. I have watched this site for almost 5 years and I can safely say that it's still in good hands. I can't wait to catch up on everybody's reports when I get back. Don't worry though, when I get back I shall continue to bring you the best quality of reports that I can afford to make.
See you in two years!
All my thanks and love,
Psyonic_Reaver
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