[IceBerg] was blue Zerg at 12:00. probey' was red Protoss at 3:00. PeonRapist was white Terran at 6:00. shampoo~s was purple Protoss at 9:00. [IceBerg] promptly sent his overlord towards probey's base at 3:00 to discern what his closest threat was. probey' wasted no time and scouted early with a probe. Upon entering [IceBerg]'s ramp, probey' slapped down a pylon, presumably to intimidate [IceBerg] and force him to pull drones from mining duty as he did not yet have a spawning pool. probey' moved his probe into [IceBerg]'s base and got a good look at his build. [IceBerg] countered with sending 4 drones after the offending probe to chase it out of his base. When the probe got out, probey' cancelled his warping pylon while [IceBerg] slapped down a hatchery on the top of his ramp.  probey' had already built a pylon at home, and started two gateways and another pylon at the same time on top of his own ramp.

Meanwhile, shampoo~s had already warped in two gateways and was working on a new pylon. PeonRapist was busy making two barracks at his own ramp, but he did not use the wall-in technique favored by many terrans nowadays. A few minutes passed with nothing but casual scouting from all parties. probey' started his forge before making any zealots, knowing that [IceBerg] did not have yet have a spawning pool. probey' produced two zealots and a cannon to guard his ramp, while [IceBerg] started his spawning pool, and shortly after started a third hatchery at his natural. PeonRapist is happily working on a factory and academy, as [IceBerg] scouts his ramp with a drone. The drone is quickly obliterated by 10 marines guarding his ramp.

At this time, both teams decide that the time has come to attack. shampoo~s moves out with 6 zealots and [IceBerg] brings 1(!) zergling down towards PeonRapist's base. Shortly after, probey's moves his 5 zealots towards shampoo~s base. PeonRapist starts moving his 10 marines north to meet up with probey's zealots, but they run right into shampoo~s's zealots at the bottom of PeonRapist's ramp. PeonRapist quickly retreats his marines to the top of his ramp. probey' realizes what is happening and redirects his zealots to PeonRapist's base to air his partner. However, by using the narrow ramp to his advantage, PeonRapist is able to take down three of the zealots losing only 1 marine.

shampoo~s retreats his remaining zealots, but they meet up with probey's reinforcements of 5 zealots on their way home. shampoo~s's ramp has a pylon at this time, and as shampoo~s realizes that he is being pursued he quickly warps in 3 cannons at the top of his ramp to discourage the pursuers. shampoo~s sacrifices 2 zealots to buy enough time for the cannons to finish warping before probey' and PeonRapist reach his natural. [IceBerg] also sends 10 zerglings to ambush the attackers from behind. The cannons warp in just as the attackers enter the natural. Zerglings and cannons tear into the attackers leaving blood and blue residue on the ground.

A few minor skirmishes broke out outside of [IceBerg]'s base. A few hydras tried to break the terran/protoss camp that was set up, but they quickly retreated. probey' decides he needs more gateways, so he warps in 3 more at home. At the same time, shampoo~s moves out a group of 8 un-upgraded dragoons and two dark templar. The dragoons move towards the camp outside of [IceBerg]'s base and it looks like they will attempt to "sandwich" the camp. 9 upgraded dragoons (1/1/0), 2 tanks and a small assortment of medics and marines are resting outside of [IceBerg]'s base. The hammer drops, and [IceBerg] engages the tanks and marines with a dozen hydras, while shampoo~s comes up from the rear to fight probey's dragoons.

The hydras manage to take down the two tanks, but are massacres by the marines with medic support. A quick comsat gets rid of the dark templars that are tearing into probey's dragoon line, and shampoo~s' dragoons are no match for a superior number of upgraded dragoons. When the dust settles and the blood and blue soup seep into the ground, 5 of probey's dragoons are chasing after 3 of shampoo~s' retreating dragoons. shampoo~s now pulls a great stunt to save his remaining forces: he leads probey's dragoons directly to [IceBerg]'s newly hatched, undefended expansion.

[IceBerg] voices his appreciation of shampoo~s' help, while his drones and hatchery are being mauled. shampoo~s brings up a new assortment of dragoons to help save his partner's expansion, but he is too late. The hatchery explodes in a pulp of blood and gore and seizes to exist. shampoo~s gets his revenge by killing off probey's dragoons though. PeonRapist is busy setting up tanks below [IceBerg]'s base and building an engineering bay to give him vision up the hill. shampoo~s engages the camp again with his dragoons, aided by on-rushing hydras from atop [IceBerg]'s hill. probey' sends reinforcements in the form of more dragoons and a bloody (soupy) battle ensues. [IceBerg] lures PeonRapist's marines and medics within range of his sunkens on top of the hill. The sunkens and the hydras take down many marines before the marines retreat. shampoo~s brings in more dragoons and a templar, and together they finally manage to break the containment. [IceBerg] and shampoo~s are still thirsty for more blood, so they decide to pay PeonRapist a visit.
 

While the forces are moving in on PeonRapist's natural, shampoo~s decides to take his mineral only natural. [IceBerg] moves in on the top left island and starts a hatchery there. shampoo~s' dragoon force smashes into PeonRapist's natural. PeonRapist has two tanks on top of his hill and a bunker with a turret set up. PeonRapist manage to beat back the dragoons, only losing the bunker and a few marines to Psi Storm. probey' brings another assortment of dragoons to help PeonRapist, but he is too late as PeonRapist wiped out shampoo~s' forces. probey' has been building observers and starts littering the map with the little spies. probey' also slaps down another 4 gateways at his main base, while landing a probe and a couple of zealots on the bottom right island. probey' starts gathering a large force of dragoons, templars and zealots in the middle of the map. shampoo~s sees this and places his forces just out of probey's vision. PeonRapist has been busy at home, building another couple of factories, a starport and a science facility. shampoo~s decides he needs more minerals and decides to take [IceBerg]'s mineral only natural. PeonRapist also takes his mineral only natural and reinforces it with tanks and marines.

shampoo~s decides to force the standoff in the middle of the map by bringing up two templars to storm probey's forces. However, [IceBerg] launches a heavy zergling strike at probey's natural and probey' is forced to retreat his force in the middle of the map to help save his natural. shampoo~s' templar does not find any enemies to storm and heads back to the barn. Talk about a lucky break for probey'.

The mass of un-upgraded zerglings tear into probey's natural, but they are annihilated by a defending cannon and Psi Storm. The ground is slick with blood as probey' proclaims his love for Psi Storm. PeonRapist loads up a dropship with a tank, marines and an SCV and heads for the cliff of shampoo~s' natural. probey' also loads up a few templars and zealots in two shuttles and heads the same way. probey' happens upon shampoo~s newly warped-in Nexus at [IceBerg]'s natural and decides to make a quick stop. shampoo~s responds quickly, sending a large force of zealots, dragoons and templars to defend his new nexus. shampoo~s has finally caught up on upgrades too, and his forces makes probey' load up his shuttles before he can do too much damage. probey' heads to shampoo~s' natural cliff, where PeonRapist has already set up two unsieged tanks, a bunker and a turret. shampoo~s has dropped 4 zealots on the cliff to engage the bunker and the tanks before they start pounding his natural. probey' drops off a templar to help and heads north, to [IceBerg]'s top left island.
 

[IceBerg]'s island is heavily defended by lurkers, but a templar kills off two of them with just one storm. probey' keeps up his storm-rampage by unleashing another storm on a clump of resting drones. More than 15 drones bite the dust in the terrible psionic energy. [IceBerg] tries to throw up a last-minute sunken colony, while bringing over 3 newly hatched mutalisks to dispose of the zealot, dragoon and templar in his island. [IceBerg] also launches a retaliatory strike against probey', annihilating his forces at the bottom right island and occupying it himself. Upon losing the island, probey' moves a large number of dragoons and templars to his mineral only natural, where he starts another nexus. probey' then builds even more gateways, bringing his total number up to 14!  probey's upgrades have also hit 3/3 now. PeonRapist sends an expeditionary force of marines and medics northwest, to shampoo~s' natural. The marines dispose of a few zealots on the way, and signal HQ that they can bring up the tanks. HQ promptly responds and brings up 6 tanks in the rear, but before they can siege they are caught in the raw energy of Psi Storms. 4 tanks bite the dust, along with many marines. Zealots are sent in to clean up the rest and the expeditionary force is no more. At the same time, probey' has brought in a large number of dragoons north of shampoo~s' mineral only natural.

The dragoons start hammering at the defending zealots and a cannon while shampoo~s is busy with PeonRapist. The zealots that cleaned up PeonRapist's forces are also disposed of and the dragoons start taking down the nexus and the probes. A few stray dragoons also engage shampoo~s at [IceBerg]'s mineral only natural, which is only defended by 1 templar. Both expansions fall in no time, and PeonRapist reinforces the attack with tanks, vultures and marines. [IceBerg] brings a few mutalisks to shampoo~s' cliff. It appears that they are rallying their forces at shampoo~s' natural, and they plan to make a stand there. shampoo~s brings templars and dragoons to the front line and proceeds to storm the attacking force, taking down many dragoons and tanks.

Another observer, hydrapower, also asks me to illustrate "how shampoo~s doesn't know the limit of gas probes". I guess he was frusturated over shampoo~s using 9 probes on gas. :-)

When the storm dissipates, 6 dragoons, 1 vulture and 1 medic are still on the battle field. probey’ and PeonRapist waste no time in bringing a new contingent of dragoons, marines and tanks to the hot zone outside shampoo~s’ natural.

Meanwhile, [IceBerg] has been tech’ing and has now morphed his 3 mutalisks above shampoo~s’ natural into guardians. The 3 guardians and a few dragoons start taking down the tanks and dragoons threatening shampoo~s. Their fun is short-lived, however, as PeonRapist brings up a science vessel to irradiate the flying crabs. probey’ also decides to add some Psi Storm to the mix, killing the remaining guardians. shampoo~s attempts to break the siege by charging the remaining forces with an assortment of zealots, dragoons and templars. shampoo~s manages to clear out the few remaining dragoons, tanks and templars, and he starts rebuilding the nexus at his mineral only natural. More guardiands are morphed as [IceBerg] takes his natural once again. PeonRapist brings up more tanks to shampoo~s’ natural, forcing him to cancel his warping nexus. Guardiands are brought in from the north, but are once again irradiated and stormed to oblivion.

PeonRapist starts hammering the outskirts of shampoo~s’ natural, and the defending zealots’ instincts (read: AI) takes over and charges the tanks. The zealots are disposed of and the only thing standing between PeonRapist’s tanks and shampoo~s’ nexus is a lone cannon.

Meanwhile, [IceBerg] shows great skill in determining cost effectiveness as 6 scourges take down 1 wraith. :-)

probey’ brings in 5 templars to help PeonRapist in the assault on shampoo~s’ natural. The tanks siege up and ask the science vessel to give them vision on top of shampoo~s’ hill, so they can take down the cannons. [IceBerg] has been working hard on un-upgraded cracklings, and they make a stray dragoon their first victim. The zerglings charge south, into PeonRapist’s mineral only natural, where PeonRapist has 1 bunker, 1 tank and several vultures and marines standing around.
 
 
 

Upon realizing his mistake, [IceBerg] makes the following statement: 

probey’ and PeonRapist now move in on shampoo~s’ natural, giving PeonRapist a chance to live up to his name. The nexus and probes are taken down quickly, while [IceBerg] decides to launch an attack on probey’s mineral only natural. probey’ has an archon, some goons and several zealots defending it. We all know what archons do to un-upgraded zerglings, so let’s move on.

PeonRapist has moved up on top of shampoo~s’ cliff, and has set up camp with several tanks, marines and a few of probey’s templars. probey’ has secretly thrown up 2 starges and a fleet beacon. 2 carriers are warped in and sent to probey’s mineral only natural before their paint has dried. PeonRapist has moved a large number of marines and a couple of tanks up to probey’s mineral only natural in an attempt to fight the zerg.

 

A few token Psi Storms takes down lots of hydras and marines.... Wait a minute, marines? That’s right, probey’ Psi Stormed PeonRapist’s marines as they advanced on the zerg stronghold. Teamwork? I think not. :-)

PeonRapist shrugs off his partner’s actions and goes back to work on shampoo~s’ main. shampoo~s is in serious trouble as tanks, marines and wraiths pound on his production structures. probey’ uses carriers to take down the defensive sunkens on top of [IceBerg]’s ramp and moves in on the zerg main.

The defending units battle bravely, but wave upon wave of zealots, templars, dragoons, carriers, marines and tanks will not be denied and the zerg hive eventually explodes in a bloody pulp of gore and toxins.

GGs are exchanged as probey’ and PeonRapist congratulate each other on a well-fought and hard-earned victory.

I would like to thank the participants of the game for allowing me to watch and for allowing me to put together my first public battle report of their actions.
Thank you, and good night. :-)

- Tazec