"I love it when someone "raises" a base. Look, it floats!!"
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| Adventures in Newbieland V: Sunkencraft | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 05/13/99 02:05 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for JSH: 7.1000 |  | Here's a report to indicate that not ALL newbies pick Terran.
Map: Challenger
Me: Picked Terran (bottom position)
Him: Picked Zerg (top position)
The guy had a lousy record of like 1-4 coming into the game, so I guessed he was either a newbie or someone with a new account off to a bad start. Because he picked Zerg, I expected some kind of 4-pool or something like that. As I do my normal rax-depot build I scout him out to see a bunch of drones working. Ah, he's not a 6 ling rusher. So I leave my SCV scout outside for a minute and decide to forego a bunker at home for another rax. As I start marine production I look back into his base again and see the pool just now morphing plus an extractor morphing too. I figure he's either making hydras or mutas so I get to work on an academy for stim & range.
The third time I try to send in my SCV he gets killed by a few lings before he can see anything. But that's ok, because a comsat's just about done. When it finishes, I scan him to see 3 sunkens morphing. Not a bad idea to have some defense if you are teching. I think nothing of it, although I now start working on a factory for tanks if I need them.
The next time I scan him, at least 6 more sunkens were there.
"Goodness," I think to myself, "he's really afraid of marines." Even more interesting was the fact that he had NO spire and NO hydralisk den either, although his one hatchery was now a lair. He also had an evo chamber. I make a bunch of tanks and keep scanning periodically and the number of sunkens just keeps growing and growing, until he has two layers of the things, plus some lings and a few sunkens guarding the choke. Now I could have killed him at this point with my tanks and marines, but I decided to have some fun. Let's illustrate how he has no anti-air.
I made a starport and wraith production began. I also expanded to the island on the left by floating a CC over there. After all, he couldn't reach it. :P When I have 3 wraiths, I scan once again, just to make sure. The area is clear, so I circle my wraiths around and approach from the left. I kill a couple of stray overlords, then fly to the peon line and hit hold position. All the drones die, except for one which got pulled off the line and started morphing into a creep colony, next to the hatchery. Since my three wraiths don't have enough attack power to destroy it as it's morphing, I just sit there and kill the rest of the drones off. Well sure enough the colony starts morphing into a spore so I move to the other side of the hatchery, away from it. Unfortunately there was already another spore on that side so I had to retreat. Doh. But that's ok, the three wraiths flew back home to be repaired.
He was finally morphing a spire too during that attack. Now that I've had my fun, I decide to kill him with my 8 tanks and 36 marines. First, though, I scanned all of the expansions, since I had some comsat energy built up. No expansions anywhere, but there was a drone that had been dropped off from an overlord sitting on the right island, twiddling its, um, claws. Anyway I move up and start the push, with the marines dutifully guarding the tanks from a small force of zerglings.
As I'm bashing down the sunken wall and getting in, a single guardian attacks. Even though guardians are the counter to marines, I'm afraid 1 guardian can't hold off 36 marines. It also helped that it was attacking a tank, too. ;) The guardian died in about half a second. That's when the guy says 'gg'. I scanned the right island again and the drone was still sitting there. Apparently he didn't have enough money to spend on a new hatchery.
Got screenshots this time. :D (please work)
It's interesting to note that even though he built tons of sunkens, I still made more structures than he did.
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