[3]Gwar VS.Tyster
Introduction
I decided to play a game of Starcraft with a friend of mine from school. He was [3]Gwar. We made a 2v2 game. Eventually, Tyster arrived. After waiting a few minutes and not having a fourth player, I offered to watch. They both agreed and we were under way...
The map was Lost Temple. For those of you that don't know, this map has 4 starting locations: 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, and 9 o'clock. There is one entrance to each starting position. This happens to be a ramp. Below the ramp is another mineral field and vespene geyser for expansion. [3]Gwar was dropped in at the 6 o'clock position as Terran.Tyster warped in at the 3 o'clock position as Protoss.
[3]Gwar quickly finds his ramp and begins construction of a supply depot at the top of it.Tyster starts out with a pylon directly below his nexus and near his minerals. [3]Gwar uses the same SCV that built the supply depot to construct a barrack at the ramp followed by another supply depot. With the barrack complete, he begins pumping out marines and scouts with a newly constructed SCV.
His scouting SCV discovers Tyster's location at the 3 o'clock position just as the gateway and a second pylon are warping in. Tyster quickly sends a probe after the scouting SCV. The SCV escapes just barely.Tyster quickly continues his building by warping in an assimilator and a forge so he can quickly construct photon cannons. By now, [3]Gwar has begun construction on an academy, factory, and an engineering bay. As soon as the factory completes, [3]Gwar begins the machine shop add-on. While that is being built, he constructs another supply depot. While all this is going on, [3]Gwar continues pumping out marines as he constructs another engineering bay and factory.
At this point, Tyster is going for upgraded zealots. He continues to tech up when he has 6 zealots by warping in a cyber core. [3]Gwar has now placed a turret by his command center and added a comsat station to his center. He now has 2 tanks which he sieges at the top of his ramp. Meanwhile Tyster has expanded to the area below his ramp with a nexus, two pylons, and an assimilator warping in. He begins to scout with his 6 zealots. [3]Gwar has now constructed a starport and is adding a control tower to it. Tyster's zealots have found [3]Gwar's location and station themselves just outside of [3]Gwar's siege tank range. [3]Gwar has now constructed a science facility and has completed his first dropship. He would use these very effectively as the game progresses. Tyster now has a stargate, robotics facility, Citadel of Adun, and a Fleet Beacon. While Tyster is massing photons at his expansion, [3]Gwar has slipped into Tyster's main near his mineral line and drops 8 marines in to wreak havoc.
Many of his probes are destroyed. Tyster trys to recuperate by warping in a support bay and an observatory and begins construction on carriers. During this, [3]Gwar drops two tanks above Tyster's expansion to wipe out some probes.
Instead of some probes destroyed, all of them are.Tyster has now made 3 observers and [3]Gwar is running low on minerals at his main.
He begins a second Starport and trasports an SCV to both the top left and bottom right cliffs. Tyster has sent out his observers but continues pumping carriers, he now has 5 carriers with 8 infoceptors each. With no minerals left at his main, he begins archives and is attacked by 6 cloaked wraiths, destroying a few probes in the process before the carriers chase them out of there.
It Heats Up...
Tyster retaliates by sending his carriers at the two tanks and those 6 infamous wraiths setting up outside his expansion. He begins the warping of an Arbiter Tribunal along with a shield battery.
[3]Gwar has now added a Cover Ops to his Science Facility along with a Nuclear Silo at the Command Center on the top left cliff expansion.[3]Gwar attempts to drop a ghost at Tyster's main.
Unfortunately for [3]Gwar, he strays his ghost too close to a photon and it is quickly destroyed.
Expansions
Tyster now attempts to expand to the 12 o'clock position but is quickly discovered by [3]Gwar's dropship on the return route from the ghost drop. Without hesitation, he calls in 8 wraiths and a science vessel.
While the expansion continues to flame, [3]Gwar begins construction on a third starport and 2 armories. Finally, Tyster's carriers arrive at his 12 o'clock expansion. They are too late however but are able to wipe out the wraiths and science vessel.
At this point, Tyster has become reasonably annoyed. He quickly sends his carriers down to [3]Gwar's bottom right cliff expansion.[3]Gwar quickly gathers 12 wraiths and heads to his right cliff to save the expansion.
Much of the expansion is inopperable for some time.
[3]Gwar reconstructs turrets and repairs his command center at the expansion.Tyster now has 2 Stargates and transports 8 dragoons along with an arbiter to [3]Gwar's bottom right expansion again.
[3]Gwar counters with a nuke on Tyster's photon cannons. He quickly constructs another nuke and repeats the process.
[3]Gwar then sends 4 tanks at Tyster's main which are met by carriers. The tanks are forced to hastily retreat.
The End is Near!
Tyster decides to become the offender and counters with an archon and carriers directed towards [3]Gwar's main.Only one carrier survives the journey along with the archon. The archon is killed immediately by 3 sieged tanks along with marine fire. The carrier is able to kill 5 marines before it is destroyed.
Realizing what he is up against, Tyster then concedes the game.
Victory:[3]Gwar!
This concludes my battle report. I hope everyone enjoyed it!
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