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| 2v2 To end ll 2v2's!!!! | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 09/04/99 12:09 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for HolyAnarchy{GK}: 5.8333 |  | HolyAnarchy{GK} was in a sad mood. He had finally finished cutting the neighbors lawn, and walking their dog. Also, his fishing trip was cancelled at the last minute. Sad, sad, I was. Then, I thought of 2 things that would cheer me up. Sex (But I was at home, and no hookers live here) or BW. I logged onto battle.net and went to nohunters. No one I loved was there. =(. I was about to go pubbie when, out of the blue, the mighty –Pitt- messaged me: Pitt1/Pitt1. I joined and saw TerranTurtle, -Pitt-, -Kakaru-, and mylifeforhire in an observer slot. I went up and decided to be a beast, leaving hire the only one that was beauty-full. (This is an observer map setup- observers are beauty, players are beasts). I was teamed with the might TerranTurtle, and –Kakaru- and –Pitt- made an alliance, with mylifeforhire as an observer. The map was the little-played Lost Temple. Bah. But I stayed, and the game began!
HolyAnarchy{GK} (ME!) Random Zerg, Top Right
TerranTurtle: Random Terran, Bottom.
VS
-Pitt-: Protoss, left
-Kakaru-: Terran, top.
Only a few seconds later, SHIT rang through the message board. Many know that I lack some skill with my zerg, and I wasn’t at all happy with getting them. TT was quite content, however, as he had drawn his favored terran. I floated my overlord to the top position, and discovered a red scv at the ramp. Doh. I had just spent about a half hour yesterday bitching about how Zerg have a tough time with M&M’s early-mid game. I went for a semi-weird build, going 10/9, pool, colony. I think TT went for a depot, rax opening, telling me he was going fast factory. Yippee. My pool finished, and TT told me to make a hatchery at my choke, because, in his words, high ground sunkens own. I start this, along with a 3rd hatchery between the two, and start making lings and drones. I sent a ling and discovered a photon cannon in the left position. Phooey. I continue with lings/drones for a few minutes, and then finally decide to start gas. TT then informed me he was gonna tank some ledges. Spiffy. I finally get gas as TT is working on a starport already, and, thanks to a comstat, -Pitt- already had a group of goons and a Templar Archives warping in. I started a lair, 2 evo chambers, and speed upgrade for my lings. I also make a hydra den, probably a decision that saved the game for me. About this time, I see a bunker going up somewhat below my ramp. POOP! A ling investegates and sees that there is already a bunker, tank, and group of M&M’s in place. DOH! I call for assistance, and the noble TT comes to my aid, dropping 2 tanks on my cliff. He sieged them and took out the offending terrans, as I started a spire, along with a few hydras.
At this time, my ally is making goliaths/tanks, and I am not sure what I’m doing. My melee and carpace upgrades finish, and a corsair floats over my main base. (Corsairs had been harrasing the dropships of TT for some time now). Boom! My evo chamber nearest to the ledge gets hit my a Arclite Round. DOH! I put a few hydras there, and they are d-webbed. I move them and remove the tank, to have this happen a few more times. Finally, this ended thanks to my hydras and scourge. (Scourged the spotters, hydra’d the tanks). Then TT set up camp at –Kakaru-‘s natural cliff. By now, I had 3 queens with broodling researched, and 2 melee 2 carpace upgrade. I had also expanded to my natural, needing gas. I started a hive, with only zerglings and hydras for defense. Then, I made another possible game-saving descison. I researched lurker aspect. Just as it finished, I saw a huge group of M&M’s going from –Kakaru-‘s base. Spoot! I quickly evolved 5 lurkers and burrowed them above my ramp. They aproached with 3 or 4 tanks and a science vessel. I scourged the vessel as the M&M’s approached. I started slamming S on my lurkers as the big M&M group came to the ramp. As they moved near it and engaged my sunkens, I unleashed my lurkers. Many, many terran infantry died in that attack. Mylifeforhire said that 15 marines and a few medics were killed in the first spine volley. I unburrowed, ran down the ramp, and killed the tanks and Turret that was going up. Hooray!
During this time, TT had nuked –Pitt-‘s natural a time or two, and his goliaths kept engaging the 0/0/3 goons. The goliaths were 1/2/2, but were having a tough time. Seeing the massed goons, I started an ultralisk cavern and started producing a lot of lings, with crack upgrade. I started 6 of the tickley monkeys, and started the +2 armor upgrade. When this finished, my ultralisk’s had 5 armor. Muhahahaha. I also had overlord transport and speed, while continually producing cracklings. When speed and transport finished, I loaded up 6 overlords. 3 with ultras, and 3 with cracklings. TT was knocking on the front door of –Pitt-, and I planned to drop his natural. My overlords were almost there when a mass of M&M’s and tanks approached the wall above TT’s main, and sieged, starting to hit his armory(?). I diverted my drop force and plopped them right on the tanks and M&M’s, and the whirlwind of melee attackers swarmed over the terran forces. Bwahahahahaha! Now TT again nuked –Pitt-‘s natural expansion, and I loaded up the remainder and dropped his main, taking out almost all of his tech buildings before TT was defeated at –Pitt-‘s natural, and the group of goons came up and thwarted my total cleaning of the main base. TT also nuked the island expansion of –Pitt- at the bottom right island. He was also pushing into –Kakaru-‘s main base with 6-7 tanks and a lot of goliaths. But, TT was dangerously low on troops at his main, and –Pitt- still had several of control groups of goons rampaging across the map. I had a few control groups of cracklings, and 4 or 5 ultras. Then, TT’s main came under attack from a huge group of zealots and goons. I sent all of my cracklings and ultras down, but it didn’t matter, and TT’s main was dead, along with his natural. The only thing keeping him in the game was the CC he had floating to the bottom left corner of the map.
I hoped that wouldn’t be discovered, as then I would be up against the goons without my ally. TT continued to kill –Kakaru-’s main. All he had left was a few floating buildings between his main base and the upper right island, which I had started an expansion there. Now I had defilers included in my cracklings/ultra arsenal, thank god. I also had a control group of hydras. Then, I saw a mass of brown under my ramp. Goons. I swarmed my sunkens, and placed my 12 hydras under it. Unfortunatley, swarm does not work on sunkens. I managed to kill of his mass of goons with my cracklings/ultras/hydras under swarm. I then dropped 2 ultras on –Pitt-‘s undefended expansion, and he called out GG and left. –Kakaru- did the same, and victory was ours! Yee Haw!
Lessons:
1. TT is a great partner to have.
2. Ultras and cracklings own goons, especially under swarm.
3. Terran DO have a chance vs the other races.
4. Nukes are great for cleaning up main bases
5. Defend your expansions.
6. DON’T RELY ON M&M ALONE TO DESTROY A ZERG! My 5 lurkers totally owned the mass of M&M’s that were sent to my main.
I am sorry that I don’t have any pics, and this recollection may be a little bit hazy. This was probably the best 2v2 I’ve ever played, and it was great. Thanks a lot for the great game, guys!
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