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TDA battle on Arcopolis
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Author:Jabba_TDA
IP:194.213.XXXX
Date: 05/20/00 01:05
Game Type: Starcraft
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This is my first BR, so look with kind eye on it and feel free to flame me for any mistakes...

Four mighty armies clashed on battlefield of Acropolis. Red Command Center of Dark_Fish_TDA landed on 6:00 position. His ally Cat_[TDA] landed her white CC on 4:00 position. Their opponents were BlackWings_TDA who warped his blue nexus in at 12:00 position and [TDA]BULL[TDA] who commanded a brown Zerg swarm from 10:00 starting place. Wings goes for conservative 2 Gateways build order, while Bull decides to tech early and goes for early assimilator and spire. This effectively puts him out of initial skirmishes. Cat decides to bunker her choke and goes for 2 Barracks, e-bay, factory. Fisk goes for 2 Barracks, Bunker in his mineral line, Academy, Factory.

After Wings builds his first 6 zeals he does his favorite move on Acropolis - expands to the center of the map. Unfortunately for him, Fisk had scouted his attempt by a SCV. He decides that he doesnt like protoss in the middle of the map and orders the SCV to build a bunker there. Wings sheds first blood in the battle as his probe beeps angrily and tickles the SCV to death, before it can finish the bunker. Fisk has another SCV and group of marines on their way tho. Marines kill the probe and pylon and then take cover in finished bunker just when 8 zealots arrive. Bunker is destroyed in no time and zealots then kill marines with ease, losing only one of their brethen in the process. Wings starts building another pylon and a nexus. Meanwhile Bull builds his first 2 mutalisks and expands to 2:00 positions. Both terrans make a factory and decide to crush Wings expansion. As they are on their way Bull unleashes 6 Mutalisks to wreak havoc in Cat's base. Cat's marines and 2 hastily erected towers kill them. As she loses only 3 SCVs and 4 marines and Bull's 6 mutas the raid must be considered a failure. Meanwhile terran army arrives to the center. They fail to destroy protoss base because Fisk arrives a little bit sooner than Cat and zealots are able to kill both tanks and all marines. Two remaining zealots then delay white marines long enough for reinforcements to arrive. Some cannons are then built to deal with further attacks. Fisk and Cat send more tanks and marines and this time the attack is well coordinated. Wings forces were crushed and tanks begun to level blue's expansion with ground. But here comes Bull's mutalisk force! Full control group of mutas deal with the marines and tanks in few seconds and save the day for toss/zerg alliance. Bull has 4 hatcheries now and pumps mutas with allarming speed. His risk to tech early paid off now as terrans have virtually no mobile force to deal with them. Fisk realized it too and started building Wraiths from his new two starports. He also builds an expansion in bottom right corner.

Bull takes another expansion at 8:00 main and things began to be grave for Terrans - 5 working bases vs 3.
Bull decides for action. Takes a control group of mutas and directs them to Cat 's fortified choke. Then sends another one. Due to this mistake first group is decimated before the 2nd arrives and Bull wastes some 24*100=2400 gas and minerals. if he had sent his mutas together Cat wouldnt have been able to defend her choke. This way the remaining mutas are hunted down by some wraiths without making any more damage. Muta attack had severely weakened the choke tho ... Wings sends control group an half of zealots and they force their way through it and move to Cat 's base. Cat 's remaining forces arent able to stop the attack and when newly hatches mutas arrive its clear that her base is doomed. She manages to slip a SCV to Fisk 's base and builds a CC there, but her days as world superpower are over. Only few wraiths and single SCV remain from her forces and Fisk braces for an attack.

And it of course comes. Wings recalls his zealots from destroyed Cat 's base and orders them to attack Fisk . Unfortunatelly he doesnt assemble them before attack so the whole legions of zealots are wasted. Since Wings has 3 control groups he is able to overwhelm terran defense, but it could have been done much better... On the other hand if Fisk had build better base (Tanks behind barracks,supply depots blocking the way) Wings zealots wouldnt be able to break through. Anyway Fisk lifts off his buildings and retreats to bottom left island. Cat manages to float her CC to heavily fortified bottom right island.
Lets see how the combatants fared so far: Fisk has 2 expansions, only 1 working, Cat none, Bull 3 and Wings grand five. Even if Fisk managed to survive the attack, Terran armies would have little chance fighting this economical advantage. Bull and Wings combined their forces nicely. Bull had very mobile muta forces that ruled the air, while Wings ' zealots and Dragoons controlled ground. On the other hand Terrans had practically the same build order. Maybe if one focused on air and the second on the ground they would have fared better.

Bull commands his mutalisk horde to attack bottom right base. His mutas have taken heavy punishment by turret and bunker defense there, but almost destroyed it. Bull notices that Cat command center is heavily damaged makes a mean move - sends a queen to infest it! Poor Cat . As a new wave of mutas clears the island he decides he needs another Command Center and infests Fisk 's CC too. Few second later last Cat 's building explodes and Cat leaves the game. Fisk forces then make their last stand in bottom left corner, but not even courage of SCVs can save the base from dragoon drop. Fisk had no other option than saying "gg" and surrender.

Wings and Bull have certainly played better. But even their performance wasnt flawless. In mid game Wings had 3 expansions and just 2 gateways! It means that he must have had huge amount of money - money that arent spent lose you the battle. Common error of all four combatants was that they werent upgrading. Only Wings had shields on 3rd level at the end of game. Main reason why Terrans lost was their inferior economy tho. Expand next time!

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Thats all, folks!


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