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| Carrier-Mania | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 08/02/99 03:08 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 8, Min: 8
Lifetime Rating for Necrosausage!: 7.2963 |  | This is actually a bit of a rematch - last game Necrosausage! vs JSH was a total ownage - JSH as Zerg totally ruled me, I was able to disturb him a little bit with Carriers tho
MAP: Brushfire
Player: Necrosausage! -=JSH=-
Race: chosen Protoss chosen Protoss
spot: bottom right top left
colour: teal brown
In the Chat Room
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-=JSH=-: "You will build Carriers again? :)"
Necrosausage!: "Sure"
-=JSH=-: "Well, I will be prepared..."
Mwuhahahaha, NOBODY can be prepared for Necrosausage!s favourite tool, the Carrier!
THE GAME
I went my usual tech build order with early gas, early core, and only one Gate and did my usual defense
*my favourite defense when teching - 3 Zealots on hold position, one shield battery and one Dragoon. Normally a Templar or two will reinforce this defense later on but in this game I had other plans, namely...*
CARRIER RUSH!
To accomplish my goal of fast and plentyful Carriers, I had to reassure that Im outressourcing him - so I teched to RobFac, also building Observervatory and RobSupFac, and after dropping a Probe on the middle right island, I decided I would do the first offensive thing and drop him with a Goon and a Reaver - u might ask my sanity for such a weak drop pretty late in the game, but on Brushfire, the choke is pretty far away from the peon line, so I hoped that most of his forces were at his choke
However, I was pretty wrong - he saw my Shuttle early enough to get some Goons to help, and my Reaver only got one shot in his peons before biting in the dust
outcome:
Necrosausage!: - Lost a Goon, a Reaver and a Shuttle
-=JSH=-: - Lost about 5 Probes
Well, it was no complete desaster but it also was no success :(
Hoping that this drop will make him a little more defensive, I built my 2nd island xpansion - this time on the bottom middle island. I also had my first CARRIER now, and 2 Observers were covering pretty much the whole map with patrolling
This is when the tech junkies worst nightmare happened - a massive ATTACK! And this so EARLY!
Well, what should I say - my awesome choke defense still had only 3 Zlots and a Goon, and those didnt fare well against his 15 Goons, even with the shield battery :-p. The 3 Goons, 1 Reaver and 1 Carrier that I had at my base were not REALLY enough too, and so I had to give my main base up, but not before retreating my precious first Carrier out of the skirmish
*As you can see, he somehow managed to break my awesome choke defense, I wonder how he did that? Maybe I was outnumbered a bit too hard? :)*
Ok, I didnt really care about that main, because
a) I still had 2 bases, and his one and only xpansion was just starting
b) I was able to rebuild the Core and a few StarGates before my TechBuildings were finished
c) I had air superiority and superior air upgrades, and I had the islands
I had a short time to relax while he was razing my main, so I build 2 more of the oh-so-sexy Carriers and added a Corsair with DWeb to them
In lack of fear from my Carriers, -=JSH=- built his first xpansion near to a cliff! - a very, very, very big fault, my friend :)
Here they come - powerful, sexy and unstoppable - they appear above the cliff of JSHs xpansion and raze his Cannon and a few peons down before he can even react - CARRIERS!
However, they have to retreat over the cliff again when a really large Dragoon force with range upgrade shows up.
"No problem" says ecron-egasuas, the commanded of my airfleet and orders the Corsair to lay down DWeb on the clumsy Dragoons
The Sky turns dark again when my Carriers move in, pick off 2 - 3 Goons and turn tails again as more Goons show up
Necrosausage!: "I will take that xpansion down with Carriers, mwuhahahaha"
-=JSH=-: "You wont do anything like that"
Three more Carriers are joining their brethrein above JSHs xpansion (Im producing them from 4 StarGates now, with a Sair thrown in now and then)
Necrosausage!: "I WILL take that xpansion down"
As I was about to attack with my 5 Carriers, one of my ships changed its colour! Traitor! You must die! - Boom, it xplodes.
*JSH confuses me and my forces with mindcontrol*
DAMN - he has MindControl.
Well, this wont help him, mwuahaha... *cough* *cough* *hrmmm* hahahaha
I have to do something before he can get more of those pesky DAs, and so my armada moves again towards JSHs xpansion
I have 3 Corsairs now, and 2 DWebs really help me in picking off about 10 Dragoons with no losses - those clumsy Goons were just trying to reach what they cant reach
*TASTE THE POWER OF MY CARRIERS!*
Necrosausage!: "I took your xpansion down, with CARRIERS!"
Necrosausage!: "Mwuahahahaha"
The wrath of my Carriers is unstoppable - they take down JSHs xpansion and, hungering for more, advance to his main base
*hehe, Game Over JSH*...
did I thought, when suddenly my airforce got into VERY bad weather
4 Storms rained down on my poor Carriers, cutting their once superior number of 4 to 2, and totally eliminating the 3 supporting Sairs. The 2 Carriers turned tails to lick their wounds, but JSHs mean Goons eventually took down another Carrier before he could retreat into safety.
Ok. This was bad. But what was even worse were two other things:
a) Observer #1 found JSH new xpansion - this time no cliff around :(
b) Observer #2 catched a look on JSH main - and saw about 3 - 4 red cotton balls :( (I tried to kill a few with 2 Carriers in a suprise attack, but after killing one of those suckers I lost one of my Carriers to mind control, so I retreated the other one=
"Ok, dont care about those DAs yet, just dont let him xpand and you will win."
Thinking this, I look at my ressources and see 3000-4000 unspent minerals! I fly over two probes to the bottom left startin point, but JSH has a Zlot watching there who takes it down. Ok, Ill kill this Zlot with..., with.... Damn. I only have Carriers!. So 2 Carriers fly to kill the lone Zealot, and after dispatching him I start an xpansion there
-=JSH=-: "Taking down a single Zealot with 2 Carriers - you are so cool man"
Necrosausage!: "I know :)"
-=JSH=-: "Really cool... "
Ok, next thing Ive got to do is to kill that xpansion - so my mighty airforce gets on route again
My six Carriers (no Sairs this time) advance from the right side of his xpansion - DOH! Again one of my Carriers betrayed me and changed its colour!
*Double Doh! - Again Bad weather starts*
However, only bad weather and traitors cant stop my CARRIERS! And so I start to concentrate fire first on his DAs, then on the Temps (while evading storms that only scratched my shields), and then on the incoming Dragoons
However, without the help of DWeb, his Dragoon force was too much - he finally managed to kill my Carriers with 1 more MindControl (Thats 4 Mindcontrolled Carriers now) and Dragoons
However, I didnt really look at this battle, because I started my very, very, evil, and very, very secret plan at my only land base bottom left
This plan was: 8 Gateways!
*Finally I could spent all my minerals...*
Lets get ready to rumble!
I sent my speed-upgraded 2/0/2 Zealots (I had only started on ground upgrades very late, air was 3/2/2) along with my 2 Carriers towards his xpansion, and, knowing that he has nothing to stop this attack, I alrdy queue-up another attack-move to his main for my Zealots :)
While one of my Carriers gets MindControlled again (and brings the total to 5), my 30 or so Zealots flood his xpansion and simply tear it to the ground - Dragoons got a few Zlots, but DAs and Storm are not too good vs speed upgraded Zlots :). The remaining 20 Zlots started to attack - move into his base, but they met 3 Carriers there! (You know to whom this 3 Carriers really belong! Give them back to me NOW! :)
Seeing this, I change the production of my 8 Gates to Goons and the next attack wave (while some remaining Zlots are still ravaging his main base) consists of 10-20 Goons
While I was building a third attack wave (DTs this time :), -=JSH=- concedes the game, and has to admit that he was killed by CARRIERS :)
*Just one statistic - this is why I could affort my favourite toy :)*
Lessons learned:
- Carriers rule. They are actually pretty cost-worthy, because only 4 of them pose a threat and you enemy has to spend much money to counter them
- Goons just dont cut it vs Carriers - this was his main problem. And Scouts are crap too, because you have the ground upgrades, and your Carrier-buiding-opponent has the air upgrades
- Attack xpansions! JSH later quotet that he knew I had island xpansions, but he did never try to drop them b/c he thought he has not enough troops - he would have been able to take out at least one of my xpansions, making the game more equal ressource-wise
- Never underestimate Necrosausage!s Carriers! JSH dared to say he "is prepared for my Carriers", but actually no one is, mwuahahaha
- JSH better be Zerg again - you totally owned me with Zerg and my pityful Carriers were just a joke b/c I knew I already lost :)
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