"Lings are sexy, especially with the penis gland upgrade, and when they are super fast (if you know what i mean heh heh heh...)"
-ExecutorDaanis
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| counters... | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 09/04/99 06:09 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 3, Max: 7, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for Necrosausage!: 7.2963 |    | First of all: I didnt wanted to make a BR on this game, and I dont have too much time since its 2:30 am now, and I outta sleep a bit, so this report wont iclude any HTML or pix...
Its more like a presentation of a real cool build against Zerg, Im really suprised that it worked :)
Necrosausage! chosen Protoss
vs
Bob_the_newt chosen Zerg
Map: Rivalry
The Game begins with me warping in at the top left starting spot, Bob was at the top right, where my 8th Probe found him early...
He was doing a quite early Hatchery at his gimmie...
Necrosausage!: "Early xpanding is cheap..."
Bob_the_newt: "Ok, Im not going to mine it, Ill just have it for kicks"
Necrosausage!: "Ok..."
So there were 6 options for me to choose:
1) Attack and bring the xpansion down
2) Dont attack and climb tech and lose
3) Dont attack and dont climb tech and lose
4) just say "gg"
5) Turn on money hack and start Carriers outta 10 StarGates
6) Do an xpansion of my own and hope, hope, and hope again that it remains unnoticed or at least undestroyed.
Since my first attacking Zealot found 6 lings, I decided for option 6). I remained with 2 Gates and no gas for a while (while pumping Zlots of course), and made a fairly early xpansion of my own, followed by a Forge and Gas at home.
Well, Bob_the_newt is quite a clever player tho :), and he didnt believe I suck so much to remain with only 2 Gates and no tech for so long (tho I was a little drunk and I told him that :), and so a scouting Zergling of him revealed my evil plan of equalizing our economies...
Necrosausage!: "Just ignore this Nexus, Ill cancel it neways l8r..."
Bob_the_newt: "Ok. Good then"
As my Nexus and 2 Pylons warped in, and my Forge at home just finished, a massive Zergling wave came in - maybe 3-4 control groups of lings vs. my 8 Zealots
Lucky tho, Bob didnt run up my undefended ramp, but wanted to kill my xpansion (I guess he expected cannons and stuff up the ramp)
I engaged his lings with my Zlots, and then retreated the Zlots and engaged the lings with the 5 Probes I already had there, then the Zealots turned tails again and re-engaged the confused Zerglings.
This trick, along with the fact that a Pylon in the front of my xpansion did delay a bunch of lings long enough, made the battle incredible close, ending up with my last 2 Probes killing the last ling
Outcome: I lost a Pylon, all my Zlots, and 3 Probes, he lost a massive Zergling army of maybe 40 lings and I annoyed him :)
The ground was still red of Zerg blood when my Probe started to build 2 Cannons there, I also built a 3rd Gate at my xpansion, a CyberCore at my xpansion, and researched the weapon upgrade for Zealots...
The next wave came shortly after, consisting of one control group of Zerglings that went straight up the my ramp to my main this time - a few Zerglings were killed by cannon fire, and the remaining ones faced my Probes in a 4:1 ratio, resulting in minor Probe casualities and dead lings...
Necrosausage!s Brain: "He will build Mutas now, get anti-air asap!"
Necrosausage!s Liver: "Boy, get another beer"
Necrosausage!s Brain: "Shuddup, he needs to play now"
Ok. Mutas were on their way, I knew that. But he had massive lings so he cant have Mutas YET.
So I built: 1 Cannon at main, 1 more at xpansion, Citadel and later Archives, and 3(!) StarGates
As soon as my 1/0 upgrade finished, my control group of Zealots went into the Zerg base - I just catched a nice window of opportunity, b/c I already have nuff Zlots to beta lings at any number and he didnt have nuff Mutas yet to kill Zlots fast nuff (He had around 30, but 1/0 Zealots rip tru lings like... err... like mark4 tru bottles of Jack ;-)
So my Zealots killed his lings and his Hatchery at his gimmie with minor casualities, till they got stopped by Mutas
Then the Muta attack rolled in...
Only 1 StarGate was up and producing yet, the 2 others were still warping in, and I decided to save my gas for more sairs (Citadel + Archive was wasted money neways, since I only had one GasMine, and that just was nuff for 3 Gates Sairs)
His 5 or so Mutas come in, kill the single cannon at my main and start pounding at my probes, I run all my probes (or rather: as much as I can get with two Ctrl-clicks) to my gimmie, and start to think that I will lose the game, till I have an idea that saves me the day...
I take all my remaining Zealots (about 5 at this time), and start a distraction attack at his main. I meet there with only 3 Mutas, and 3 Mutas really have a hard time killing 5 mad Zlots (one of them gay, a special threat to nice little Zergies...)
I ripped apart the Hatchery at his ramp, and thus cutted his production capability down even more, he was forced to fly the 5 attacking Mutas home to help, and that did buy me nuff time to get 4 Sairs - 1/0 air upgrades were also rolling in but I didnt need it, since 3 Gates really produce hell of a lot of sairs in no time
When his next wave of 8 or so Mutalisk came, I had 5 Sairs, and really ripped tru em like... err... like... err... I just ripped tru em OK?
My Sairs went Overlord-Killing, and the rest of the story is "gg"
so, the report sucked I know, but here are the oh-so-important LESSONS:
1) Countering enemy moves is simply not enough, you have to anticipate them and build a proper counter before they are even out - what does a Zerg do against a Toss that has built Zlots only so far? - Right! - So start to build StarGates before you even see the first Mutalisk
(Well, if somebody reads this and start production Hydras the next time I go mass sairs I will be REALLY pissed off, so forget this lesson right away...)
2) 1/0 Zlots eat lings
3) Instead of building 3 Gates with 3 StarGates and climbing to Temps, I shoulda built either 2 more Gates or climbed to Reavers, since Reavers do pretty awesome vs ground, especially in defense with batteries, and I didnt have nuff gas neways. On Temple or other maps where the gimmie has a gas mine, Templars might be better tho, on Rivalry it was wasted money...
4) 1/0 Zlots really eat lings
5) If a Zerg does such an early xpansion, he will normally spend quite a lot of time to build Drones/Sunkens (Bob had no Sunkens tho, since he saw that I didnt build a 3rd Gate), so its usually better to take the risk and make an early xpansion urself. Just get an early Forge and try to survive till the weapon upgrade gets in
6) Did I mention that 1/0 Zlots eat lings? BTW: Forget all wannabe-counters to mass lings like Zlots/Reavers or Zlots/Archons - Zlots do great vs lings as long as you have the ... oh well, if you didnt get it now youre dumb, ill end here...
Necrosausage!s Brain: "Lets go sleeping, my cells are dying rapidly due to no sleep and too much beer, and youll need them for StarCraft..."
Necrosausage!: "shuddup" [takes another beer and turns on the TV]
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