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| WRATH of the killer.... PROBES?!?!?! | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/29/99 11:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for 2Inadequate: 6.8000 |  | Map: Rivalry
Playas:
"My life for Aiur!"
2Inadequate, Protoss, bottom left
Peonrapist, Protoss, top right
VS
"Why the hell am I allying with you?!?!"
$pani$hpeon, zerg, bottom right
annie47, terran, top left
PREGAME
I was looking for a game in NH, and peonrapist says he'll play 2v2 with me. Spanishpeon and Annie47 were looking for a 2v2 as well, so we decided to face off. Peonrapist picked toss, everybody else let the Gods of Starcraft pick their races.
EARLY GAME
I clone my probes and go with my 4-5 zealot build order. Peon does something completely different and decides to lay down an early expansion. Scouts are set out by both me and Peonrapist, finding our opponents to be Terran and Zerg. An overlord comes to take a peek at my base, but soon goes away.
Terran are usually a good choice for rushing. I saw spanishpeon make a 2nd hatchery at his ramp, so decided that was a bad target. My bad boy zealots started the trek, then, to Annie47's base.
The zealots get there, run past the bunker at the ramp, see the bunker by the command center, and decide that the only thing they can attack without getting hit is the refinery. Crying "I long for combat!" the zealous zealots use their sharp psi-blades to smash the poor refinery to bits. seeing that there is no more damage to be done, the zealots avoid both bunkers as best as they can and get the hell outta there.
Results:
2Inadequate
All 4 zealots alive, 2 severely damaged
Annie47
Loss of refinery, meaning later firebats
By this time, I had switched to 3 gate nonstop zealot production while laying down 4 cannons (2 at choke, 2 in peon line) and a cy core. Peonrapist had gotten his expansion up and running, and had started 3 gate random-troop production as well. Around this time, I hit the 12 mark in zealots, and Peonrapist says, "lets attack."
My 4 initial zealots cry with their newly warped in bretheren "I long for combat!" and meet up with Peonrapist's zealots at Annie47's natural expansion. A marine spots this incoming force, and I tell peon,
"ATTACK!!!!!"
The zealots run in, psi blades out and ready to shred. Both bunkers go down, the newly trained firebats are shredded, and Annie47 is forced to lift off or face elimination. The rest of my zealots remain with Peonrapist's zealots to finish the remaining supply depots and the newly built refinery. Annie47 has been effectively put out of the game.
MID GAME
Zealot production continues at my main base, when all of a sudden, I see 4 overlords coming in from the side, close to my peon line. Hydra drop.
Crap.
All of a sudden, I am struck with a stroke of brilliance. I take my 6 zealots from my ramp, and take all my probes to attack the ugly, needle-spitting freaks of nature. My probes yell "Neeor!" or whatever probes say when they glide into battle. The zealots arrive, and the hydras attack them. Meanwhile, the vicious probes tear into the hydralisks, using their powerful mining tools to rip them to shreds. Soon after the last zealot gives his life for Aiur, the remaining 3 hydras are shredded by probies. The remaining probes shed a small metallic chunk out of their systems for their lost bretheren, then happily return to work (probes have quick-changing moods).
Battle Breakdown:
6 zealots, about 18 probies, and 1 cannon vs 16 hydras.
Protoss losses:
All zealots die, 3-5 probies die, cannon and cy core (which wasn't being used) get blown up.
Zerg losses:
16 hydras. Ouch.
Why ouch? Because Peonrapist was sending a force to help me out if I needed it. Turns out I didn't. So he sends his force (about 6-8 goonies with 6-8 zealots) to the front of Spanishpeon's base. As the force charges up Spanishpeon's ramp, which is guarded by 3 sunkens and a few lings with hydra backup, he realizes why Peonrapist is called the Peonrapist.
Peonrapist completely rapes this poor little Spanish Peon, eliminating the choke with few losses and annihilating this peon's main.
3 zealots are sent in by me for help (not that it was needed), and GG's are exchanged.
Lessons learned:
1. I cannot take pix in a game I am participating in =(
2. When you are undermanned in an attack, use your peons while using your main attack units. The offending units will automatically target the main attack units, and your probes get in TONS of free hits.
3. Probes ROCK! =) |
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