Ahscar's Mini Tournament Finals

Finally, after waiting for what seemed an eternity we had the final match set up.

The Map: Rivalry

The Finalists:


Nasty Dolphins...


Fatal-Error (chose toss and warped in a purple nexus at top right)

The-Ghost(Cos) (chose toss and started a brown nexus at top left)

Funny Sharks...

Prozerg-Hybrid (chose toss and wandered into control of a yellow nexus at bottom right)

~ronin (chose toss and found himself with a teal nexus at bottom left)

A Pregame thought:


As the game began, I noticed that all four of them were toss. And in seeing that, I instinctively predicted a game dominated by the lovable toss units.. the Dragoons.

The Beginnings:


Each of the fierce commanders start their pylons and gateways almost simultaneously, and while the nasty dolphins start their second and third gateways with the intent of zealot rushing, Prozerg-Hybrid and ~ronin elect to warp in a forge and assimilator, obviously with the intent of early and teching. A teal colored funny shark probe goes in search of his opponents and see's the heavy gateways, and in response both of the shark commanders decide that their probes need more work at warping in buildings, so two cannons and a shield battery were strategically placed at the top of their ramps. The dolphins also sent out probes which discovered the defensive intentions of Prozerg-Hybrid and ~ronin, and in retaliation the The-Ghost(cos) and Fatal-Error decide it's a good time to start pumping zealots through their dolphin gateways with the intent of a full scale attack.

The first encounter:


Prozerg-Hybrid and ~ronin seem to like each others build orders and both have now warped in a templar archives and a robotics support bay for what seems a double dark templar/reaver drop on their opponents. In the meantime up at The-Ghost(COS)'s top left base, I notice that he has produced 12 of his brown zealots, and is also adding a couple dragoons to the brown regiment of the nasty dolphins, while his partner, Fatal-Error, has similar plans at top right for the purple half of the dolphins. With their pairs of dragoons fresh out of the Gateway, the nasty dolphins send their troops out into the jungles of rivalry headed toward ~ronin's teal shark territory at bottom left. Their arrival was not a surprise because one of ~ronin's scouting shark probes got the warning transmission back to his commander before being trampled over by a mass of zealots headed for his home base. Possessing the knowledge of an incoming attack ~ronin uses his superior starcraft commander reasoning skills and decides to take a raincheck on his intended assalt and unloads dark templars from his teal shark shuttle at the bottom of his ramp. Prozerg-Hybrid also wittnesses the unjust death of ~ronin's probe and feels that he must help console his shark counterpart and sends a speedy yellow shark shuttle to ronin's defense. And now the unforgiving dolphins arrive at the foot of the ramp at ~ronin's bottom left base and after a little grouping up, the dolphin commanders decide to charge up the ramp. ~ronin and Prozerg-Hybrid, already infuriated at the loss of their noble shark probe, channel all their aggression into the battle and with superb blade skills from their dark templars and the accuracy of ~ronin's twin phonton cannons they successfully kill half of The-Ghost(COS)'s and Fatal-Error's dolphin squad of zealots. The dolphins, seeing their noble zealots failing in their attempted charge up the ramp, regain their sanity and flee back to their respective dolphin bases. With the first battle now over the shark commanders, Prozerg-hybrid and ~ronin, still do not believe that their probe has been compensated for it's death, and so both commanders retaliate by loading up their shuttles and heading for the top right dolphin territory, where The-Ghost(COS) is now starting cannons and trying to gather his grief strucken soldiers for a pep talk. Prozerg-Hybrid's shuttle arrives at the scene first and unloads a reaver behind The-Ghost(Cos)'s mineral patch and the reaver rolls out a scarab into The-Ghosts(Cos)'s brown probes. The scarab hits and takes down a good 5 brown dolphin probes. Noticing the instant drop in his psi level, the dolphin commander sends a pair of dragoons to intercept the reaver, but it is too late and Prozerg-Hybrid loads up his yellow colored reaver and scuttles away. ~ronin, seeing that his tardiness has costed him some personal revenge time now sends his shuttle to top right where the purple dolphin commander is also teching and putting up a few cannons. ~ronin tries to slip his shuttle in from the north side, but now summons his superior starcraft reflexes and pulls back at the sight of two well placed dragoons. With the early battles over, all four commanders decide that they do not have enough minerals for an acceptable army and so they each took an expansion.

Struggles for Expansion Control:


Prozerg sends a pair of shuttles to the bottom middle expansions and commences to unload 3 yellow reavers while a probe decides to get busy and morphs a brand new nexus and equips it with the latest in toss expansion defense technology, er.. he just morphs 3 cannons and a pair of shield batteries to extend the lives of 3 noble reavers who are now stuck with the boring job of watching an expansion.. let's face it, even if the reavers wanted to go into battle, without the shuttles, they were stuck sitting there doomed to be bored for the rest of the game. Or not, because a brown observer sent out from The-Ghost(Cos)'s base found the yellow shark expansion and being the noble observer it was.. notified his commander. The dolphins now make an obvious decision to attack the yellow shark epansion, now that their troops are feeling a little better and since they have now been reinforced with at least 8-10 new zealots and a couple more dragoons. With their "DOOM" squad they once again trek into the jungle and head towards the bottom middle, ready again to lose more zealots and dragoons without doing any damage.They arrive with The-Ghosts(cos)'s brown dolphin squad attacking from the left and Fatal-Error's purple dolphin squad hitting from the right side. The battle.. or umm I should say massacre begins, the reavers expecting a boring game, now start firing scarabs left and right while their crafty commander, prozerg-hybrid, decides that he should probably keep their shields up by utilizing the shield batteries. With the battle over, the dolphins are again disgraced.. for they lost all their troops which numbered a total of around 20 zealots and 4 dragoons, and again doing no damage.. oh wait that's right they did however take down a cannon much to the dismay of prozerg-hybrid's probe who was now faced with the grueling task of rebuilding the expansion's defense, what a lazy probe.. it was just one cannon.

With the first expansion battle over, ~ronin has now taken his mineral natural at bottom left, while The-Ghost(Cos) commands a probe to accompany a squad of six zealots, a pair of dragoons, and a couple high templars to secure the middle left expansion. Fatal-Error does like wise and starts a purple nexus at the top middle expansion.

One of Prozerg-Hybrid's dark templars gets bored chatting with the reavers about their awesome defense and sets out for a nice walk into the jungle, and during this walk he encounters the middle left expansion and assassinates two high templars before getting getting killed for his murderous acts. With the dolphin expansion now detected Prozerg-Hybrid is really annoyed now at his reavers who just cannot shut up about the shut out defense they pulled earlier, and so he loads these chattering reavers into the shuttles and send them to ronin's base to rally with ronin's shuttles, undoutably also filled with reavers. And with Shark Squads of 8 dragoons and a pair of zealots positioned below the dolphin expansion, the battle begins. The shark squad attemps to cross the bridge onto The-Ghost(COS)'s brown expansion, and in seeing this the dolphin commander tells his zealots to not worry and just fight with honor to defend their only expansion. And now with the forces concentrated at the bridge the shark commanders drop their reavers on the back side. The reavers, now seeing their opportunity to add to their boasting, begin to deploy a slew of scarabs at the misled brown zealots who thought victory was finally at their hands. And being the dolphin commander that The-Ghost(Cos) was, he lost his expansion and again all of his men. After this battle was over Prozerg-Hybrid kept his observers busy and found that the top purple expansion was littered with Fatal-Error's purple dolphin presence. And so a similar battle commenced at the top where the sharks sent their goons across the bridge to distract the upcoming reaver drop of doom, and again in following the ways of Dolphinism, Fatal-error lost all his men and his expansion. At this point gg's were exchanged.

Doom to the Reavers of Doom:


The game was now definitely for the Sharks to take. The shark commanders believe that The-Ghost(COS) hasn't lost enough units yet, and decide to attack his main first at top left. The sharks have found a neat strategy of just charging from one side while dropping from the back side, so, in using their starcraft playbook, which to this point only has that one play, they charge up brown's ramp while dropping reavers on the back side. Finally! the dolphins actually kill something, The-Ghost(Cos) in a desperate defensive mood decides to psi everything in sight! and the back door reavers fell victim to the psi, with only one of the chattering reavers surviving. As for the shark goons that charged up the ramp, well they also fell to The-Ghost(cos)'s psi. In seeing that he actually killed some units, The-Ghost(Cos) does his men a favor and surrenders. While at Fatal-Error's top right base, Prozerg-Hybrid's yellow goons have now massed themselves at the bottom of the purple dolphin base. Fatal-Error was also keeping busy by construcing cannons at the top of the ramp, and seeing how effective his late partner's psi's were, he also added a pair of templar to help the defense. The goons decided that they were ready and so Prozerg-Hybrid guilded them up the ramp while ronin uses their shark play book and lands back door reavers. Fatal-Error's templar psied with all of his dolphin might.. but this just delayed their dolphin fate of being killed by shark soldiers and his base was eventually over run by reinforcemetns from ~ronin and Prozerg-Hybrid.

After 28 minutes of killing off their own units, the last dolphin commander conceded to the sharks.

Lessons:


A shield battery can go a long way in defense.

Dolphin soldiers should find a less hazardous line of work.



Well thanks for reading this report.. this is my first one and I hope I didn't bore anyone to death.. i will try to get pics in here.. hopefully they will work, and Fatal-Error/The-Ghost(COS) please do not take any offense.. if you are offended, just msg me and I'll get this report taken off of here =]