Well...This is just going to be my first and only text-only BR. It's my first time writing, and I'm just trying to get my Style set. 



1v1 on Temple



ArrowOl'Death (Terran, Chosen)

- VS -

Motherbrain_002A (Terran, Random)



I spawned at the bottom location and he spawned at the left location.



Early Game



I went with the normal Terran Garage Door, using the barrack and two supply depots as my wall. I built my first supply at 7, scouted with 8, built barracks on 9 and built another supply at 10. 



My scouting scv ran into his scv at the three o'clock area. I followed his scv for awhile and saw it was heading to my base. By now, I had a bunker, and my wall-in was complete. I let the SCV go and continued on towards the top. Sure enough, I see an scv come to my choke and immediately get killed by my bunker. My scouting scv finds the top empty and I head to the last location to see what he was up to. When I got to his base, I saw that he had ZERO choke defence. I ran through his base, seeing NO barracks and just 3 supply depots. 



Seeing all this, my scouting scv attacked one of his...In a blink of an eye, he had all his scv's attacking mine. I ran it a little ways away and waited...



I attempt to expand to my natural but that was halted after he attacked me with a marine and almost killed my scv. (Marine? Where did he get that?)



Back at my base, I built an academy and a comsat, slowly teching to tanks.



Mid-Game



Motherbrain_002A attempted a small marine & medic rush that failed due to my high ground and the newly-acquired medics (meaning, low energy). I had 3 scvs repairing my bunker and motherbrain_002A did not try to attack them. I was actually quite suprised by this move. He has NO barracks at his base (Checked by sending my SCV back in) and he can still M&M rush me? What was going on? I comsated his natural, the top left expansion, the top base, AND the right base, yet I did not see any sign of him. Hmm...Weird...



By now, I had teched to tanks and wraiths, and was floating a CC to the bottom right island. My CC landed and I began to produce lots of SCV's. I set up 4 tanks along my ledge, and started to mine my natural, I protected it with a bunker and two tanks along with several turrets. I built another CC at the bottom right expansion and began to float it towards the three o'clock expansion (This is because he had me contained, I know that he set up a small outpost earlier). I still haven't found his barracks yet, and upon scanning his base, saw several turrets around his base, an engineering bay and more supplies...But that was it...No factories, no barracks. I search around my own little island thinking of the dreaded rax float but did not find any.



Another comsat scan revealed that he had expanded to his natural. I quickly load up a tank, 3 marines and an SCV into a dropship and head off to the cliff above his expansion. My main was running dry now, and it wasn't long until a suprise manuveur was going to get me. I turtled in for a little bit and got some science vessels. 



My 2 turret 1 bunker defence above his natural was set up. My tank sieged and the massive boom of the Arclite cannon shocked him. He cursed several times and sent a few wraiths in. WRAITHS?!?! Where was he getting all this junk? Luckily, the wraiths were few and my turrets took care of them. His CC lifted off and floated in the direction of his base. I have three expansions at this point (bottom right, natural, right natural) and he had his main, a destroyed natural and ??? I quickly scanned top, top natural and top left expansions. Nothing.



I decided at this point it was time to start some action...



Late Game



Several full-energy science vessels were with me, about 12 tanks (level 3 weapons and 0 armor at this point) along with  a huge squadron of M&M (about 3 control groups of marines and 2 of medics) headed into his containment that held me still. My tanks moved into the range of his tanks and they opened fire. I quickly d-matrix the most damaged tanks and siege them up. The combined fire from 12 siege tanks destroyed the 5 tanks that were there. My M&M combo stepped into the fray and destroyed the 4 bunkers that was there with the help of tanks. I unsiege some of my tanks and move them up. At this point, I finally realize my biggest mistake of the Whole game. I did not scout the middle. I was so caught up with catching him expanding that I did not realize that he took 3 mineral expansions in the middle. He also had 3 factories, 2 starports and 3 barracks in the middle. My tank/marine/medic/science vessel combo pushed through these buildings and crushed his main. I went back to check all the expansions and found he expanded three times in a desperate attempt to live. I quickly vanquish these expansions with wraiths and drops.



GG's were exchanged and another victory for me!



Note: This was not the best game ever, nor was it the most strategically good game that I've ever seen, but it's a good starting point. 



Lessons Learned:



A - Maybe I should have broken into the middle earlier instead on my final push.



B - The strat he used suprised me, my recon was not good enough (who would think of using the middle as a huge base? especially with doodads where you can't place buildings?)





Well, there's my first effort, in other reports I'm going to make, I'm going to use screenshots. I didn't take any this game because i was too lazy =) I have no clue how this is going to turn out, so if it looks really bad...then...well...I can't do too much...