"Probe fit the requirements perfectly because he was loud, mean, and obnoxious."
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| The Four Player FFA! | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 11/27/99 12:11 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 5, Max: 10, Min: 9
Lifetime Rating for ::nobody::: 9.0000 |   |
Warning: this report is
long and has lots of pics…but I promise it's worth your time =)
Prolouge:
Many have
pondered about the prospect of reporting a four player FFA on a
non-ladder map. Some say, "It's impossible." Others say, "You'd be
crazy to try it." But then there were those who said, "Nobody can do
it." "Oh," I thought, "I guess I will." And that is why I am proud
to present a four player FFA on the map: Wheel of War. Ladies and
Gentlemen, sit back, relax, and enjoy… =)
Meet the
players:
A strange set of circumstances pitted these
foes against one another…
Nevigrofn
Those of you who read my
last report will know Nevi as the terran
commander who dominated on Rivalry. From just that one game, he
immediately gained my respect and admiration as a great player. I
actually met up with him on accident when I went to watch a game for
a person named SoBe. Nevi was one of SoBe's
opponents in the 2v2. Nevi wiped the floor
with SoBe and his partner and showed once again why terran owns.
After the game, he tagged along with me while I tried to find
another game worth BRing. He is the kind of player we all dream of
BRing…
Hellish`glory
Nevi's partner
in crime in the game against SoBe was Hellish`glory. Glory
didn't dominate like Nevi did, but had a
way of punching opponents where it hurt. Every time that SoBe's
teammate looked ready to help out, Glory
would devastate him… Glory also stayed
along after the game, looking for another potential victim…
Wallabystein
I met Wallaby in channel nohunters. I wanted to get a
FFA started because they make fun reports, but only Glory and Nevi had
volunteered. Wallaby had seen my reports
and paid me very nice compliments about them, so I asked him to play
at the same time he volunteered. =) He wanted to be in my report,
and I don't like to let people down…
aP_TaKtIkS
I also met AP in nohunters, but had already played with him a
few times before on previous days. The games usually ended with me
getting pummeled by him or me apologizing for sucking as his partner
=P. AP is a nice guy, however, and still
didn't mind my company. After reading my reports, he wanted me to
report him and I happily agreed. The only problem was that he
crushed his opponents…Badly. Not good BR material. We both lost
connections during a split, and I didn't hear from him till half and
hour later when he messaged me in the middle of a 2v2. When I was
looking for FFA players, I messaged him to play. He quickly finished
off his latest victim and hurried to be the forth player. AP is a great player to BR…funny and a tenacious
player.
LionLord
LionLord was another person I met in nohunters and
was my fellow observer for this game. A big thanks goes out to him
for helping me to keep an eye on the action =)
Meet the map:
As per my request, the players all agreed to play a "weird" map.
No temple. No rivaly. Heck, no ladder even! The choice was Wheel of
War. It is my job to get you all acquainted with this lovely map
because if I don't you all will be very confused. There are eight
inner starting bases and ten outer expansion sites. There is also a
large area of small mineral patches in the middle on high ground.
Each start location is surrounded by cliffs and has one choke. Each
expansion has an open front (facing away from the middle), but
cliffs at the back (facing towards the middle). I will refer to the
locations not by times (i.e. 12:00), as it may get confusing, but by
their actual location . Up/down position first, then left/right,
then outer/inner ring. (i.e. upper right inside). As shown by the
map, AP has two empty adjacent expansions
and starts at the bottom right inside. Glory starts at the lower left inside and also
has two empty adjacent expansions. Nevi and
Wallaby start next to each other at the
upper right inside and upper middle inside, respectively.
*Phew*…sorry to all of you who already knew the map, but not
everyone does ;). Now that that's done its time to get to the game…
Chapter 1: Beware of the
Wallaby!
All four players go random to start, and as
fate would have it, Nevi, Wallaby, and Glory all
were the insidious zerg swarm. Only AP
received the courageous Terran army. Glory
opens with a double hatch, pool, extractor, then expands to the
lower left outer expansion. All in all, a rather conservative build.
Glory seems to be staying flexible and is
preparing for anything. AP goes for the
traditional 2 rax, refinery, academy, then factory. AP bunkers down his choke and bunkers the choke at
the empty middle right inside position. Obviously he is looking to
grab hold of an early resource advantage. Nevi starts his game with a pool, then hatch. He
then expands twice to the upper mid outer and upper right outer
expansions. Nevi is looking bold on this
FFA and wants to be two steps head of everyone. Wallaby has other plans, however, as he is the
only one to not work on a quick expansion. His build order consists
of a double hatch, followed by a pool, 3rd hatch, extractor, and
hydra den. He also works on massing lings and seems to want a quick
kill… unfortunately for the hyper-expanding Nevi, Wallaby is right
next to him and looking for blood. Wallaby's mass ling technique is put to
the test as about four control groups are sent to Nevi's main. The lings
are totally unexpected by Nevi and rip his
main to pieces…not even a contest. "Like hot butter through a knife"
or whatever. During the chaos, Glory sends
a small expedition of lings and hydras to Wallaby's main, but freshly hatched lings
stop the attack cold. AP expands to the
secured middle right inner and lays down some mines, unaware of the
conflict. Nevi is badly hurt by the attack,
but still has two expansions to recover with. Wallaby, who is now pursuing Mutas by building a
spire, discovers Nevi's upper right outer expansion and
attacks with a group of mutas. At this point, LionLord comments
"that's the end of brown's comeback, I think", but I know Nevi better than that =) He erects some spore
colonies and with a few hydras and lurkers stops Wallaby's advance. Wallaby has thus hurt Nevi horribly and is beginning to marco lings and
mutas like nobody's business (yup, my business). Wallaby, the only person I hadn't seen play
before seems to have the upper hand…
Chapter 2: Learn
your AP Taktiks
Nevi, takes
the devastation in stride and expands again to the upper left
outside for a total of three bases. Wallaby
gets VERY ambitious and expands not once, not twice, but THREE
times! One to Nevi's old base, one to the upper left
inner, and one to the middle left inner, making it so he controls
half of the inner ring. So far, AP and Glory have advanced relatively untouched, but
AP plans to change this. He moves his troops
towards Glory's main base, his heart set
on destruction. Four tanks, 2 groups of M&Ms and later some
valkries begin the march and arrive at Glory's front door. *Knock* *Knock* We all know
the feeling of unwanted relatives and Glory feels no different. Despite the profound
arguments of a great deal of mutas and hydras, the tanks and marines
insisted on staying and helping out with the cooking. They moved in,
and, like most unwanted guests, made a general mess of things… AP took the main with surprising ease and Glory is now reduced to a fledgling expansion.
AP has shown he is ready to take any
threat…even Wallaby.
Chapter 3:
Revenge
Nevi, however,
sits with a quiet smile on his face. What is on his mind? Revenge.
What drives his actions? Revenge. What burns deep within his soul?
The Chili Cheeseburger he had for lunch… oh yea, and Revenge. Nevi's three expansion sites have let him recover
quickly and efficiently. Wallaby, who has a
very impressive army of lings and mutas at home is trying to get all
of his new expansions operational. This is when Nevi shows us all why he is not to be trifled
with. A group of three brown lurkers is carefully placed outside of
Wallaby's choke…a
portion of Nevi's ever increasing hydra
army is brought in to lure the lings into the lurker trap. It is
executed perfectly, and many lings are slaughtered before the hydras
fall. …but Nevi is not finished, oh no. He
brings in a larger group of hydras and lings and executes the same
task. Lings fight lings, and mutas are brought in to dispatch of the
hydras. Like lightning, dark swarm engulfs the hydras and plague
infects the mutas. Nevi had gone straight
for defilers and damn quickly at that. The defiler's spells turn the
tide against Wallaby as the hydras and
lurkers are almost invulnerable to his defenses. In an act of
excellent play and supreme poise, Nevi had
enacted his revenge.
With this turn of events, every player except AP has lost their main. Despite this loss, Nevi is looking as strong as ever. And Wallaby still has three other expansions…right?
…right? Uh oh. While Nevi desecrated Wallaby's main, the same
terran force that destroyed Glory's main
was rounding the wheel, destroying Wallaby's relatively unguarded expansions.
The tanks and marines had no problem ripping through the organic
matter of the zerg.
During his reign of terror, AP also took the time to enjoy some entertaining
overlord hunting. His 3 valkries killed about five Wallabyian overlords and a few straggling Gloryian and Nevian
overlords.
Wallaby's expansion is destroyed at Nevi's old main by Nevi
himself, and Nevi is cleaning up on Wallaby's main when
AP, on his tour of the wheel, also chances
upon Wallaby's
main. A small fight ensues in which AP kills
Nevi's surviving troops, finishes off Wallaby, and then is slaughtered by a fresh batch
of Nevi's troops. In the blink of an eye,
Wallaby was violently ripped off his perch,
kicked a few times, then buried six feet under, where he joined
LionLord and Nobody to observe the action.
Chapter 4: Double
Teamed
Glory, who took a
severe beating by AP, isn't out yet. He was
set very far back, but not too far back to have an impact. He
expands to the middle left outer, builds a spire, and proceeds to
put 2 offensive sunkens in two of Nevi's
bases!  When they don't succeed, he places more till they do…
they aren't too devastating, but surely distract Nevi's attention… and Nevi needs all the concentration he can get, for
he and AP meet head on in a clash of Titans.
AP's fully upgraded troops halt any advance
on Nevi's part, but Nevi's delfilers and constant stream of troops
keep the terran war machine at bay. Some of the most incredible
battles go back and forth as blood covers the ground. Hydras and
marines fall like flies, 3/3 tanks and masses of hydras do battle.
Defilers plague and SVs irradate. AP expands
to the mid(up a bit) right outer and the mid(down a bit) right
outer. (just look at the mini maps =P) and Nevi seems to have few minerals left and expands
to the mid left inner spot. As these two battle it out, Glory decides to play the bitch (hey, what can I
say? That's what FFAs are about) Unaware if the chaos on the
opposite side of the map, Glory brings a
group of mutas to Nevi's upper mid outer
base to start pounding away. Nevi tells
Glory to go attack AP and Glory promptly
responds, "I'm afraid of blue." Nevi gives
him something to be afraid of by succinctly smashing the small air
force. This, however, gives AP just the
advantage he needs. With 14 raxes, AP is
able to finally overpower Nevi and take
Nevi's second main of the game. Ouch. AP moves his troops around, and effectively
reduces Nevi to two bases, the mid left
inner spot, and a small hatchery at the middle minerals.
To
quote Wallaby: "Brown is now burnt toast."
The double team had reduced the once resurrected Nevi to shambles…but Nevi wasn't ready to give up…
Chapter 5: Never
say die…
Two of the reasons that AP took Nevi's expansions
so fast were 1) they were mined out 2) Nevi
moved all his troops to his outpost at the mid left inner spot. But
Nevi didn't move them to defend… he loads
them all into overlords, hen goes cross map and drops them in the
back of AP's main.  By this
time, all the observers are rooting for Nevi. AP is a great guy,
but he's like the Evil Empire in this game. Nevi is Luke Skywalker and Glory's kinda like Jabba the Hut. Nevi's huge drop takes AP
totally by surprise. AP has a wrecking crew
out and about to find the remains of Nevi,
but not too much at home. Nevi, the torn
and battered warrior who has been brutally beaten by EVERY one of
his opponents, is now tearing AP apart from
the inside. Glory also has troops en route
to AP and they go to work on some outlying
buildings and AP's main. AP uses a neat trick though and d-matrix's hydras
then follows with irradate. Nevi is now
getting a huge roar from the crowd. He infests a command center and
starts pumping Infested terrans! Woo hoo! Nevi and Glory both
destroy AP's main, and now EVERY main base
has been destroyed! What a game! This, of course, is the making of
an epic comeback. Nevi starts to attack
AP's expansion at about 2:00 on the outer
(see how times are hard to use…) and after some gruesome combat,
destroys this base by sneaking in the back. AP's wrecking crew is still on the prowl though
and effectively shuts down Glory's chances
by not giving him an expansion to mine from. He also reduces Nevi to the base in the middle. All three players
are just smacking each other around, blood everywhere, infested
terrans (which actually worked well), defilers… CHAOS!! AP is also down to two fledgling expansions…who
will win?? Nevi?? AP??
Chapter 6: One
must survive…
Unfortunately for our hero Nevi, he just didn't have the sheer volume of
troops that AP did… he fights bravely and
with honor, to the very last hydra, but when AP discovers his expansion, it is only a matter of
one drop before "Never Say Die" Nevi must
give up. Wow. What a game.
Appendix:
Then it gets silly…
Purely for your enjoyment, I
have included what happened after the game. We had so much fun that
no one really wanted to leave. AP nuked some
stuff, then got the idea to "blow his marines." =P What he means, of
course, is that he wants to nuke them. All of them. I give you
something sick and twisted:
Then Glory decided to
chase a medic with a drone. The medic declared, "Rape!", blinded the
drone, and then had her two boyfriends toast it:
Why this game was so damn good:
Lessons
Learned:
1. Nevigrofn is soooo awesome to BR
2.
Wallabystein is soooo awesome to BR
3. aP_TaKtIkS is soooo
awesome to BR
4. Hellish`Glory is soooo awesome to BR
5.
Never EVER say die!
6. Infested Terrans are the bomb! Literally!
7. Terrans still rule.
8. New maps are fun
9. I can't
describe complicated map positions, but you are all smart, so it
shouldn't be a problem
10. A four player FFA is bad for my
mental health
A special thanks to all the players! If you all
want to be BRed again, it is my pleasure. LionLord, thanks for
helping me out, I needed it. Thanks to the 150 marines who
sacrificed their lives so I could get that nuke shot. Thanks to you
all for reading and COMMENTING! =) I love comments!
Winner =
AP
Most fun to watch = Nevi
Best fall from power = Wallaby
Best person who always attacks just
when you don't want him to = Glory =)
no marines were really harmed in the making
of this BR. We did really bake that pervert drone though
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