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Realizing that his strategy is not customized for
dealing with a zerg menace, JPaikman quickly formulates
a plan to use his early gas. He builds a bunker in the
zerg's base, just up the ramp intending to use it as a
launching place for an ass-early tank push. He gets the
first bunker done and begins a second one above and to
the right of it. A marine arrives and enters the first
bunker. Zileas' base now has 2 well placed sunkens
defending it so a bunker push will obviously be
ineffective. However, JPaikman is not concerned as his
factory is already near completion. Unforunately,
Zileas' minions note the presence of two bright shiny
objects and larvae quickly become eggs. Shortly
thereafter, when he has 10 zerglings, they rush the
bunker. JPaikman frantically orders his SCV to repair
the bunker. Unfortunately for the Terran commander, this
particular scv's mother didn't raise no fool, and the
scv immediately jumps in the bunker with the marine. To
make matters worse. when JPaikman's voice booms over the
radio, "Get 
out of there you FOOL!", the marine thinks the command
is dirrected at him as well and both jump out of the
bunker. The zerglings quickly kill both the marine and
the scv and then continue to work on the bunker in
peace. The remaining 9 zerglings take out the other
bunker and are sent to JPaikman's base.
3
marines on their way to support the offensive are
hastily turned around after the attack on the first
bunker. As they reach the ramp they are greeted on one
side by 4 more of their companions and on the other
(coming up the ramp) by 9 angry zerglings. These
zerglings tear through 4 of the 7 marines while losing 5
of their number before the remaining marines pull back
to the base and the zerglings retreat. In the mean time
Zileas has began upgrading his base and built a
hydralisk den, declaring his intention to be those
subterranean terran terminators (or just lurkers is
fine). He has also taken the oppurtunity to expand to
the 3:00 main. But JPaikman has also been busy back
home. He now has a factory with an addon, and an academy
and comsat have been constructed.
begin construction on an engineering bay. Ahhh. Light
bulbs begin appearing over my head. We are about to
witness a reverse turbochobo. When the e-bay finished it
lifts off and the tank sieges far north of the expanion
where it will be able to fire on Zileas' extractor. Now
this distresses the hyrdas in the base very much and
they begin to run back and forth periodically taking
shots at the tank which is being repaired by 4 scvs. The
extractor is soon dead. Fortunately for Zileas his 3:00
expansion is just comming on line so he is not long
without gas.
Now Zileas sends 4 zerglings and 5 hyrdalisks to
JPaikmans mineral natural. These troops intercept and
kill a tank which is going to reinforce the reverse
turbochobo. Then 4 of the 5 hyrdalisks curled up into a
little ball and took a short nap while they morphed into
burrowing beasts. When all four of the lurkers finished
morphing all of the troops move to the main where they
meet up with 6 marines, 2 medics and a tank which is
surely headed out to clear the way to the offensive. The
lurkers burrow and kill a few of the marines before the
troops can pull back but this buys some very precious
time for the seigeing of a new tank and the construction
of the first missile turret. Zileas then attempts to do
a lurker push into the base but unfortunately lurker
pushes don't work well against a couple of seiged tanks
and a missile turret. With the help of a comsat JPaikman
is able to eliminate 3 of the 4 lurkers. The remaining
lurker accompanied by 2 zerglings and a hydralisk which
had been hanging back, then retreat and go to the 3:00
expansion to help defend it.
and
begin firing at the base. Unfortunately one of the tanks
and several of the medics and marines gets too close to
the sunkens and are killed. This leaves 5 tanks and 5
marines. In the meantime about 16 hydralisks have been
sent towards JPaikmans main. They stop at the natural
however where they are soon picked up by overlords and
transported to the base which is underfire. Zileas
relizes that his only expansion is right now too
important to risk a counter. The tanks have now managed
to take out one of the two hatcheries at the expansion
but the drones continue mining to the second further
away hatchery. The overlords full of hyrdralisks now
burst onto the scene. Undeterred by the five marines
they unload their content directly over the 5 tanks.
Though many of the hyrdas die the tank push is
completely destroyed. 
main
from the north. By unloading directly over the 3 tanks
the hydras manage to take them out But two dropships
which had recently been loaded full of m&m (medics
and marines) quickly unload and the remaining hyrdas are
destroyed without further damage. The overlords are also
all killed in this battle. The m&m are then reloaded
in the dropships and dropped on the 6:00 expansion. The
base is virtually undefended so the marines stim and
kill it quickly. In the mean time though, Zileas'
hatchery on the upper-left island has
finished.
This hatchery is however to be short lived as another 2
dropships full of medics and marines unload on the one
hydra kept there for defence. The m&m kill it
quickly and are reloaded and and sent off towards the
3:00 expansion. Thinks are looking grim now for Zileas
as he is down to only one expansion. To make matters
worse a 6 lurker drop on JPaikmans main fails completely
against the defending forces of tanks and m&m, and a
command center has just been floated over to claim the
6:00 main for the Terrans. The 2 dropships now try their
luck at 3:00. Unfortunately they run into several
lurkers and withour mobile detection or tanks they are
unable to do any damamge. After losing all but 1 of the
marines, the marine and 7 medics are loaded up and
directed back to defend the 6:00 expansion. At this time
a scouting zergling finds the 6:00 base and kills an scv
who is busy constructing a turret. Unfortunately a
lurker is right behind the zergling and it burrows next
to the command center. Surprisingly though, with the
help of a comsat and 7 medics the one defending marine
is able to take the lurker out by itself.
of the map. The mutalisks intercept the dropship and
kill it. The mutalisks now begin a process of harassing
both the 6:00 expansion and the main. However due to
stimmed marines and a freshly built science vessel the
harassment is unsuccessful and the mutalisks pull out
after losing almost half their number.
to
return and save the main. The marines are however
brutally slaughtered when one of the lurkers burows and
the terran commanders attenion is focused elsewhere.
Back at Zileas' main scourges chase away and kill 1 of
the 3 science vessels just in time for the lurkers to
return and eliminate the threat.
vessels around over top of marines until all of the zerg
air and one of the science vessels is dead. Now five
lurkers attempt to clean up the expansion but these too
are taken out with the help of the remaining science
vessel and some m&m. At about this point the dreaded
waiting for players screen pops up and I begin to hold
my breath. Fortunately he comes back 
when
it counts down to about 20 and the game continues in
peace. Now Jpaikman uses his comsat again and detects
the pressence of a defiler mound. Fearing cracklings and
dark swarm he starts cranking out firebats.
Unfortunately for our terran friend Zileas has one more
thing he'd like to try before using cracklings. About 6
guardians and 10 hydralisks role into and through the
terran base. Firebats in case you're wondering are not
the appropriate counter to guardians and hyrdas.
Firebats and tanks do manage to take out the hyrdalisks
and JPaikman's science vessel is able to kill all of the
guardians only after his expansion and much of his main
is destroyed. He says good game and leaves as cracklings
head towards his base to finish the job.
result of not playing for 3 months and having his
account deleted. Of course this means in theory anyone
could have takken the loggin Zileas. With a little
research anyone could have learned those facts too. Like
I said, I remain undecided. Regardless though it was a
good game and deserving of a battle report. Certainly
more deserving than the last game I br'd was, which was
as about as deserving as my dog chasing a rabbit around
my back yard. (by the way if anyone would like to see a
battle report about my dog chasing a rabbit or any other
animal around my yard I will write it. I'll br anything)
As a side note, I haven't eaten in 3 days, send
help.
