"I perform better with a larger, bulkier ship . . . ."
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| Sir. Nukealot! (A must read!) | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/15/99 12:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 3, Max: 7, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for Upgraded_Probe: 4.2500 |   | OK! This was the most exciting and exhausting game I have ever played! AND FUN! Sorry for not having any more pictures, I only had room for one so I took a pic of the final shot. ---Note--- This was a Ladder game, I just used melee so this report might be noticed more hehe!
Players: Me, Red, Terran
big daddy, white, Protoss
starwarriorx , yellow, Protoss
Game Type: Ladder, FFA
-PROLOGUE-
I was getting bored, and after playing a UMS game of 'Magic The Gathering version(Who the hell knows, so many of each map)' I decided to try my luck on ladder. I quickly create a game on the Hunters of the ladder maps, Lost Temple, and name it "FFA No Koreans!" (I think we all know why we dont want koreans, but I may title the next "FFA No Humans!" Next time, and you will find out why) Some guy named ||Big_daddy|| joins, along with starwarriorx or something. I was waiting for a fourth, but they urge me to go. I Choose Random, They choose random...or do they? on the 1 second mark of the countdown, they both change to Protoss at the same time. Am I surprised? Nope.
-PART 1: The Fakes, The surprises, and the bluffs!
My command center attaches on to the ground on the bottom middle position.... im Terran! Against Not one, but TWO toss! (It IS an FFA, right??) They start blabbing, |BD| (Big daddy) says he dosnt want ganging up and stuff.. I mentioned how I suck at Zerg. They both start laughing and say things to the effect of, "you idiot, you told us your race!" me - "im going to lose anyways, you both know your going to double me!" Blah Blah. I start off with an 8 depot 10 rax 12 rax 13 supply and then refinery and academy and ebay. I position two SCV's on my ramp, so no units can get through. I Also put marines behind the SCVS, so that any attack-move commands will be caught by the AI's flaw of trying to hit the marines, behind the scvs. In other words, any zealots would run around in circles trying to find out how to hit the marines. (The SCVS's would not hurt the zealots, so the zealots dont consider them a threat to be attacked) I Then fortify it further with firebats and medics... and then a zealot from |BD| explores and gets killed. He proceeds to announce that I am Terran, and of course I deny it with "Cant you tell a sunken when you see one? LOL!" I think the other guy actually believed me. I then scout with a marine with stimpack so he moves faster. He is killed, after |BD| says again, "Stimpac?!? ALready!?!" Yup, I think to myself, with a factory finished and starport building.
-PART 2: The Drops, The Big Bad Carriers, and The Attack!
I have built up a nice little force of M&M&F's , with range and stim and level 1 armour upgrade. A siege tank is ready, with a dropship almost done being constructed. I place a tank (Out of seiege, money didnt let me research siege right away) right next to my bunker filled with 2 marines and 2 firebats, which is in turn next to two turrets on either side of my CC. Dropship is then loaded with 1 Tank, 3 Marines and an SCV. Comsat revealed earlier that Yellow (Starwarriorx) was in the Middle right position, and he had his natural! Whee! I command my dropship to unload behind his mineral line, and quickly siege it with a turret ordered to be made from the nearby SCV. After I kill a few probes working the minerals, he runs them off. The Tank continues to pound on the nexus. A bunker is then made and I load up my idle infantry. When my dropship returns home, I load up 6 firebats and 2 marines (level 2 armour upgrades, due to science center) another comsat revealed that white, (Middle Left position) (|BD|) has a completely undefended mineral line! ALong with a very tight cluster of pylons, 3 forges and a cybernetics core. I unload the infantry force into his line, stim, and kill more than a dozen probes. He sends 4 or so dragoons, and 3 of them go down before I am stopped. Im happy with what I did. I prepare to drop his natural exp also, thanks to the comsat. I Load up another 1 tank and 3 marine force, along with an SCV. I command it to go to the outer edge of the top left island. I have also started an expansion at my natural, and have upgraded lockdown and cloaking for my ghosts. My factory also has been working hard, and has produced about 6 tanks.. I added 2 more barrack's to my previous 2, for a total of 4. I have lots of ghosts scurrying around, and I also begin an expansion at my second natural. This is when I discover my Dropship flying into 3 or 4 cannons on the top left island! AAAAIEEEEEE!!! it was at 40 percent health when the screen flashed and I went to save it, but by then it was nothing but ashes....the poor soldiers inside that died in a horrible fierey death. Oh well, screw them I got more. I comsat yellow and find he is making carriers, I see 2 flashing stargates and a fleet beacon. Hrm.. I Load up 3 ghosts in another dropship and tell it to go to the ridge that my tank-turret-bunker is on overlooking yellows expansion. I comsat again, and find 4 carriers! Once more, and it shows me that the stargates are no longer flashing.. He moves in and kills the tank , then retreats. I hesitated and moved my ghosts back to base, then I moved them forward to the bunker again... the bunker cant reach the minerals so he makes a nexus. grr... The carriers move in again and kill off everything, this time I order the ghosts back to base for sure...... grr again!
I have an assortment of ghosts, marines, medics, and tanks. The Tanks are on the edge of my cliff (You know, the area where its perfect to drop because most players dont build there) Yellow then attacks me with about 5 carriers, from the ridge looking over my natural expansion (The one with gas) I lockdown about 4 of them, couldnt lockdown them all because ghosts died and they were clustered together.. at that same moment, White attacks me with dragoons and zealots! My tanks on the ridge get off the first shots, and I start lockign them down.... zealots and more dragoons storm through and slaughter my M&M force.. eee at this point, I have what looks like 5 ghosts and 3 tanks vs 5 or so dragoons and maybe 10 zealots.. all healthy,.. the tanks arent very healthy, because the dragoons were shooting up... they quickly destroy my 2nd natural, and proceed to my main, bypassing my first natural. another tank joins 2 more tanks that I couldnt see! My rally point is set next to one of my barracks, with the factory working ALMOST 100% of the time. I unseige my tanks.... and I have a medic and a firebat to join the rest! My ghosts all die because I forgot to cloak, and I barely survive with 3-4 tanks left. I check to look at the carrier threat, and for some reason I think lockdown scared him off because they werent there anymore. I Then hear white (BD) Say something about yellow and his carriers...maybe yellow attacked white instead of me? I rebuild SCVS, and start pumping like MAD, tanks, marines, ghosts, medics, and science vessals. I comsat the bottom right island and find it guarded by two cannons , in the very very bottom corner of it. Thats all it had as defense.
-PART 3: I Run out of time on writing this report and must sum it up quickly!
After that I take the expansion, take back my mineral only natural, make 2 nuke silos, nuke the hell out of whites clustered buildings from my base on the left side (you know how thers that little low ground area between the bases? I planted up a siege and ghosts there) White almost kills yellow, yellow is running around the map with a few carriers guarding his pylons that he made to survive. I at this time have 192/200 supply, with 3/3 infantry upgrades. I have over 100 supply in infantry , with I think it was around 18 tanks? ( I grouped them to find out) At least a third of those infantry was ghosts. Max upgrades, EMP+nuking goes on, I killed white with nukes, Yellow killed Whites island exp with carriers, I lockdow whites carriers with ghosts and kill his pylons, yellow leaves nicely saying gg. Yellow goes on to tell me about his no loss hack and stuff. I show him my tanks and my infantry.... and my group of vessals.... it was all great. (They didnt use templars on me because of my scouting - patrolling vessals) SO much more happend, but I dont have enough time to write a 10 page report. ASk me later. At the end yellow used his hack and was instantly dropped from the game, and I get a draw. Ahh.... the joy of ladder =)
Comments plz, ask me questions about the game!
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