The Battle For My Worship

Welcome to my little shindig. I hope you will like what I produce, so sit back, take heed, and listen, to the GREATEST BATTLE OF ALL TIME!

Now, if you liked that little pic, you'll love what's to come. This battle is between two of the greatest, and funniest fighgters out there. They are.....

Old~El~Paso

Versus

Drefsab

There will be no notes during this battlereport, therefore, i will be posting information of what i used on this report afterwards. Wait, this is a note......DAMMIT!

Well, all aside, let's begin with the game. Sorry for those who wish to know Old~El~Paso's and Drefsab's build orders, but I do not think that build orders are important in a report, they should be in strategies instead.

The map....

Dire Straits

It all begins when Old~El~Paso and Drefsab reveal their locations and begin as the most provocative and interesting races of all------terran. Drefsab enters at the 1:00 position and Old~El~Paso blessed us in the 7:00 position.

Now, let's get to the action. Old~El~Paso starts by telling me that his strategy is to be going for mass goliaths and dropships. While Drefsab remains silent, as always, but I really wouldn't know, seeing as I have only played him once. Drefsab decides to go as any terran would do on a island hopper, wraiths and later, battlecruisers. Drefsab quickly gets gas, and so does Old~El~Paso. They perform the usual build orders, so you don't need to know. Drefsab techs to and builds a pair starports, while Old~El~Paso builds a starport, followed by a second factory. How about a minmap update?

Well, now that that's done, let's get back to the boring text part. It's mid-game now, and they both decide to expand at about the same time. There is one difference though, Drefsab decides to build two command centers in comparison to Old~El~Paso's singular command center.

Drefsab has built just about nothing right now, only minor defense, and a small group of wraiths waiting to attack Old~El~Paso's main. Since he has been teching hard. Not knowing this, but being to his advantage, Old~El~Paso loads up a few dropships of goliaths and drops at Drefsab's lower right main. I'm not too sure which happened, but either Drefsab canceled his command center being built, or Old~El~Paso destroyed it. Either way, it was wasted, and soon after, the goliaths did minor damage as a couple of tanks wasted them.

Drefsab decided to counterattack thinking his opponent had used most of his forces in that attack. Sadly, he was wrong. Using his large force of goliaths, he shot down the wraiths, even though cloaked, through the use of easy as pie scanning.

Well, after the attack was denied, Drefsab decides to rape the SCVs and buildings of one of Old~El~Paso's expansions. I think you can tell what happened from the picture...

What you saw was once a thriving command center. The fledgling expansion barely got off the ground. To Old~El~Paso I believe the quote from the famous cartoons applies: "You DO know of course, this means war." And he shows the meaning of the words when Drefsab tries to raid his second expansion...

Though Drefsab's forces are being destroyed fast, he now has three starports to make reinforcements. Let's take a minimap update.

Drefsab has now expanded twice, and has them fully operational. Both player's mains are mined out. Old~El~Paso has two bases also, but they're just getting started. He's retaken the one Drefsab destroyed, and has taken the 5:00 start position.

In the next few minutes, Drefsab makes many raids upon the two expansions, and destroyed Old~El~Paso's top left expansion again.

Since Drefsabhas been unsuccessful in the last few raids against Old~El~Paso he decides to take the path of the battlecruiser. He adds another starport and starts pumping battlecruisers like crazy. When he gets his first four, he goes on a strike to end Old~El~Paso's expansion that he retook on the top left...

Drefsab had overwhelmed the small base, but not after losing a couple of precious battlecruisers. At this time, he mustered his forces for a raid on Old~El~Paso's final expansion. Though he was denied, he did weaken the forces, although it cost him another couple battlecruisers.

Drefsab was driven off, but not for long. He built 4 more battlecruisers, finally got level 3 /3 air, and proceeded to level the expansion...

With no mineral income left, Old~El~Paso's situation looks grim. But, he still has the force of goliaths he used to protect his expansion. But, he makes one fatal mistake, he leaves his dropships out, and Drefsab's wraiths down them.

Well, Drefsab has now about two control groups of wraiths, and around eight battlecruisers with science vessel support. Drefsab makes his way to Old~El~Paso's main and since Old~El~Paso's main force is split into two groups, one on the island expansion, the main falls quickly. Drefsab beats Old~El~Paso like a red-headed stepchild. Good Games are exchanged and Drefsab emerges the victor...

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The Victor:

Drefsab

Well, in retrospect, Drefsab now has the full amount of my worship, at least until Old~El~Paso beats him two outta three.

Lessons Learned:

1. Goliaths are good, but not against battlecruisers.

2. NEVER play a goliath-only strategy on an island map.

3. These guys own.

4. I have to get some sleep.

5. This is a little chat piece i picked up:

This was a

King_[LSRS-13]

production.

Notes: The font i used in this was Copperplate Gothic Bold. I suggest trying it out. I also used FrontPage editor for this and it meets my standards. Please comment.