"Slings: I found God for you. he's hiding behind these brass knuckles"
-CynicalMagician and Fox^1
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| Crexis and Stratus talk the talk, but can they walk the walk? | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 11/28/99 09:11 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 3, Max: 9, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for SSD4: 7.5000 |    |
Intoduction
Well, I was in nohunters, and it was being flooded with absoultly pointless topics, so I msged my old buddy [o]Kradenko and ask him for a 2on2. We meet in channel a-x, when Crexis msgs me asking me to 2on2 with someone against him and +Stratus+. I reply, " Sure" and join crex/crex,along with my ally [o]Kradenko.
It is on melee, with the map being selected Lost Temple.
We talk about the ie2e a bit, how they're doing, talk a bit about race match-ups, and begin the game.
Note: Please let all the images load up!:)thanks.
Krad and Stratus picked toss, with Crexis and I randoming.
I start at 12:00, and Krad at 3:00. Classic top vs bottom I guess;). Now, Zerg are definatly my worst race. So.... don't mind the pics:).
SSD4 : Hmmmm. I don't wanna talk about myself and what i'm good at so let's skip to [o]Kradenko.
[o]Kradenko : A toss only player, even though he hates them. He macros, over micro. A strong protoss player.
Crexis : Heh. A random player, has a very strong starcraft talent, and it seems all good players macro. He macros... and when good players macro, it's seirous stuff!
Stratus : Plays all races, prefers toss. Very good SC player, but when he teams with Crexis, they're extremely powerful. That's how they got the first rank on ie2e.
I am average @ mass lings', but they get rocked by any type of choke defense besides goons. I decided to go power hydra... and my all went
" Standard 2 gate opening for me ". - Krad.
I am about to start my 2nd hatchery below my other one when,...
Doh! Stratus probe retardedness strikes again!. He would move the probe around, stopping my hatchery from building, but finally I shooed him off!:).
I get about 10 lings, and my ally 4 zealots, and we decide it's time to take the action to stratus. We get up his choke, but a couple of probes and fresh zealots stopped it. Of course, he used the zealot micro on the ramp. You use a loose formation on the ramp, and when they're coming up you close it. Basically. It works best against marines. Now, I am getting hydras from 2 hatcherys and pumping drones, when Krad is starting to get dbled.
Note : crexis always sends scv's with his attacks. A very useful move. They always make bunkers or turrets too! ;-O.
Well, now krad I guess we're not getting terran right yet are we?:). Krad only had 2 zealots at the ramp to pretend he didn't have much. I sent 10 hydras and he sent 10 zealots he had at his main and we had them in a pincher position and we overwhelmed their forces at his choke. I got more hydras in rapid succession, and we sent them to stratus. I knew that if we got there fast enough, we had him because hydras will own those zealots. Almost at his choke we run into resistance; I microed with my new mouse, so I can actually click units, and I won with 3 hydras left.
We both reinforced that position with 12 more hydras and 7 more zealots, and attacked the ramp. Stratus does the same maneuveur with the loose formation, but we are coming out on top. With range and speed for my hydras, I can dodge zeals then attack. We survive barely, and go to his main. I left a hydra on the ramp and he sees 14 marines or so coming.
" GO GO GO! GET DA PROBES!" -SSD4.
But, with 4 hydras and 2 zealots, we got probed with about 20 probes:(.
With my lurker aspect finishing, I started a lair during the attack, I start 5 lurkers on my ramp. I also start to expand. When we attacked, I noticed Stratus didn't have detect! Wahoo!.
I'm about to send them along with some toss reinforcements, when about half- a screen full of assorted ground troops are outside my allys base. A massive battle erupted. Marines and medics with bunkers and zeals+dragoons, attacking my allys zealots and dragoons. Help, comes from my ally. Still seeing the lack of detect, I send all my guys.
We BARELY survive. :). Now, we knew that we = dead if they keep that up. They scanned and killed 4/5 lurkers.
Now, I am currently weak because I put down 2 more hatcherys and start upgrading 1/1. They started another containment on Krad, !!!!. Tanks, and all the same as before. But, not as much. Krad got templars now, and speed zeals with 8 gateways.
I got about 36 hydras when the " WAVE " hit's me. About 6 dozen random ground units hit me, but my ally has 2 templar on the cliff!:). I lose about 10+ to storm... and i'm about to say GG when 2 storms crackle over the marines at my choke and the tanks from below. Hah! yes! I morph 4 more lurkers, and start to come out on top when another storm takes out 7 hydras. But, another storm from my ally nailed 6 goons.
He can't send out his zeals because he's contained, so those templar are all the help I can get. More toss troops come, and knock out my 4 sunken colonys at my exp. My exp is now gone.
Side note : Most people will consider 4 sunkens newbie'ng or turtling. This is because you have never played someone with a skill level above average. When people with high skill levels go at it, the number of units are absoultly HUGE!. I'm not saying you can't get huge #'s of troops, but better players get it faster. 2 sunkens will get to fire about 3-4 times before being fried. You simply need 10x amount of stuff to defend against starcraft experts. 2 sunkens? No. 3? No. 4? Maybe.
I get seiged, and my hatchery at my ramp falls along with lurkers that all had above 10 kills. My ally is out of mana, when they get up my ramp. About 20 marines charge at my main with medics, but get toasted by 4 wall-ed in sunkens. But, in turn tanks on my ramp fry that.
I am effectivly out of the match, and it's all up to krad when he is getting dbled too, but on a smaller scale:).
It's over,
Post game thoughts.
Crexis : Terran and toss, if played right can kill zerg and toss. Don't feel bad SS:).
Krad : Man, we had them! We did too, but you never got to send your lurkers at them. At least we killed a couple of probes:).
Me : Nice move with the scvs crexis:). Making bunkers and turning an attack into a containment is neat-o:).
Stratus : You almost had me guys! GG.:)
This has been a SSD4 production. GG all!
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