"mazel tov bitches"
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| A warcraft2 style 2vs2 | | | Author: | | | IP: | athe530-XXXX | | Date: | 12/26/99 04:12 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 9, Min: 9
Lifetime Rating for Dialtone_: 8.3714 |  | First to warn you all,this is a lag unfriendly report,lots of pictures and fairly larged sized.If your lag is more than 4 yellow in Bnet's chat rooms i suggest that you go do something more constructive while this page loads,like aranging your socket drawer in alphabetical order,painting your neibourghs fence or warping a car in aluminium foil,that should take you enough for this to load...
Introduction:
So it happens that i was sitting around in nohunters the other day trying to prove that 4pooling is valid on islands when I_Hate_Medics came into the chanell.We chatted for a while and he asked me if i wanted to report a 2vs2 he and ~Talon~ were to play.I said yes of course and a few seconds(and spams)later i was sitting in the pre-game chatroom as an observer along with 4 players.(still trying to prove that 4pooling is valid on islands)
The map:
Because of I_Hate_Medics's hamster_in_a_weel powered modem failure to download the map,we swiched to the ever popular Dark Temple.C'mon...dont tell me you dont know what that is???
The Teams:
Team Pondering Peons(I_Hate_Medics and ~Talon~)
Straight from the plains of the orc homewold invading the cerenity of the Temple comes team Pondering Peons.Do not be fooled gendlemen for the lowly peons can do much more that saying:"More work" and "Dwaboo".
I_Hate_Medics
Rising in the 9 o'clock base,dressed in orange and commanding a handfull of Protoss forces,comes the one,the only man in B.net to hate medics.Nobody knows where his hate comes from,and nobody dares to ask him...for this is one scary peon...
~Talon~
Along side with I_Hate_Medics comes ~Talon~.Also known as "The foul mouthed peon" he commands a Zerg base at 6 o'clock.Dressed in white,he is ready to claim this place as his,and he'll show any peasant that comes across a piece of his mind.
The Bloodlusted Peasants(Venger - PeonSmuggler)
Venger
From the valleys of QSDUHFKDYS,and fresh to the Temple comes Venger.Commanding Protoss warriors at 3 o'clock he wont easly let this place fall into the hands of the horde.He carries a Teal emblem.
PeonSmuggler
It is more his name than anything else that has caused the team peons's rage against him.This man has been smuggling peons out of Mexico for some time now,using them for his own dark plans,the peons have sworn to free their brothers from this tyrran's iron fist.He commands a handfull of Terran warriors dressed in blue stationed at the 12 o'clock base.
The battle field:
This site has been the gathering point of human mages for centuries now,and it's where they get their arcane energies.If the peons are to conquer it,that will mean the end of blizzards falling in their heads and polymorphs turning their sheep into ogres....ehmm,you know what i mean.
Early game-Build orders
The bloodlusted peasants:
PeonSmuggler starts with a 3 baracks hardcore m&m rush(marines & medics for the BW illiterates)His build order starts with a depot,then 3 baracks,followed by a refinery and then an academy.A factory comes as soon as enough gas is gathered.Venger rolls off with a pylon and double Gateways soon to be followed by a Cybernetics Core and an Assimilator.
The Pondering Peons:
I_Hate_Medics begins with 2 Gateways,a Forge and then an Assimilator,and after getting two cannons to secure his ramp,he warps in a Cybernetics Core.~Talon~ decides to start riscy and goes with an early expansion to his natural.After that he gets his spawning pool and sunkens up his choke with 5 sunkens(that sunkened whore =] )
First blood:
The Bloodlusted Peasants will be the first to take some offensive action,and after gathering a dozen marines and a few zealots and dragoons they proceed to storm into ~Talon~'s virtually unprotected base.Only 7 sunken colonies where there and the peasants were sent home with their tails under their legs...PeonSmuggler's insults directed to ~Talon~ though allowed the peasants to return home with a part of their pride and dignity along with a few sunken's spikes in their %^*%$.
In the meantime Venger has a citadel and a templar archives in his base along with a third gateway,and he's not the only one,as I_Hate_Medics has done the same thing.~Talon~ is morphing a 3rd hatchery and all PeonSmuggler has done is get the addon for his factory.
The game was quite calm for a while as I_Hate_Medics expands to his natural and ~Talon~ brings the sunkens protecting his choke to 8.
The Peasantry is restless again though,and again a force of draggons,marines and medics,along with a lonely firebat makes their appearance just outside ~Talon~'s base,and they look pretty confident that they'll take this sunkening turtle of his shell soon.Why they look so confident you ask?Well it's because of those 2 siege tanks that PeonSmuggler .manage to smuggle off Mexico.But the peons have other plans.I_Hate_Medics has summoned the cloacked death from his homeworld(aka Dark Templar)2 templars attack the tanks but die to a com sat right after the second tank driver meets the templar's blade along with his maker.
A turret that a worker has set up close by wasnt going to help much without the tanks,and the peasants decide to call it a day...too late for them to cancel the celebrations though.I_Hate_Medics has ferried a high templar just out of sight of the peasant forces.A few seconds and a storm later and all that's left of PeonSmuggler's forces is a bunker and some traces of blood in the ground.In the confusion,~Talon~ burrows 5 lurkers that imidiately start pounding in the turret.With detection gone the peasants are forced to abort once again.
After this atack the pondering peons pondered and made the move that possibly won the game for them.They both expand to their prespective islands,with ~Talon~ sending a few hydras and lurkers to protect it to the bottom right one,while I_Hate_Medics warps in few cannons to the tom left that fend off PeonSmuggler's floating CC.
At this time I_Hate_Medics pulls out another good trick out of his sleeve.He ferries a couple of high templars to the cliff overlooking Veger's natural and storm the unprotected probes there.Venger was unlucky to move all his probes to the corner that the templar aimed at,thus giving him an easy 15 kills.He didnt leave to tell the story though,as one of Venger's templars was close enough to kill that templar with a storm.
In the meantime ~Talon~ has been filling up the middle of the map with his forces,He spreads a huge amount of hydralisks,lurkers and Overlords to the valley,essentially cytting down any ground help that the peasants could send to help each other,and with what was to follow they would need all the help they could get.And what was to follow was one of the longest,bloodiest fights i have ever seen,that would even make the makers of Blood 2 hide under their beds like little girls and screaming in the dark.A united peonic force of hydralisks and zealots atack Ponsmuggler's mineral only expansion.PeonSmuggler has sent the CC that he failed to move to the upper island there and had a few SCVs mining but no real defense.The Command Center went down in flames fast at the same time that Venger,unaware i believe of ~Talon~'s forces in the valley sends his entire force(That cosisted of several control groups of zealots,dragoons and high templars to atack-move towards PeonSmuggler's now burning expansion.
The massacre has begun as Venger seemed to have turned the favor of the battle to the peasant's side.Storms flied,dragoons fired,zealots became lurkers's kill counts but in the end,wth use(and abuse) of stormVenger seemed to emerge the winner...Think again,I_Hate_Medics's zealots have returned from the CC raizing and where pounding to the weakened dragoons and the remaining high templars.Venger had to retreat to the ever growing peonic forces but it was too much for his defenses at home.PeonSmuggler sent a dozen m&ms along with a control group of wraiths but one of I_Hate_Medics's storm along with a few observers did not allow the wraiths to do much damage.Hydralisks and zealots went up the defensless now ramp and though Venger had an arbiter by the time,it was simply not enough to hold off the enemy forces.
The End:
PeonSmuggler was weakened from his efforts to help his allie and the Peons didnt even have to bring new armies to his base as a couple of bunkers and tanks were not enough to hold the devastating atack.~Talon~ morphed about 30(!!)hydralisks into lurkers and proceeded to take down the remaining of PeonSmuggler's base.
Lessons:
For the players:
Gas is critical in Temple.Once them peons got the 2 islands along with the extra recources they also got control of the flow of the game.
The peasants could have won the game if they had atacked I_Hate_Medics instead of ~Talon~ in the first place.But then,this battle report wouldn't be here if they did would it?
For the Observer:
First of all,never,ever,ever use Microsoft products for things that take time.I was writing this on Wordpad and just when i was going file/save as wordpad crashed and turned the document into some kind of ^*%%^&.You realy wouldnt want to hear what the poor unfortunate soul that messaged me on ICQ 10 secids later heard.Thats was about 5 hours down the drain...
Well,thats the only lesson for me,i'll be writing me reports to Star Office for Linux from now on...
Merry Xmas,happy new year in a few days and all that ppl....
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