On a cold Sunday afternoon I sat in channel Starcraft Knights waiting for players to come out of a game.  They come out ranting on about the past game and how a player should have done this and a player should have done that.  Then through all the random tips and hints (24-7)Colts asks for a 1v1.  Darksilver{SK} boldly steps up to the challenge and so the game is made.  I ask if I can BR and they happily accept me.

Everyone joins the game, the players and five watchers.  The map is on KBK’s Lost Temple and so we wait for everyone to download.  The game starts. 

Darksilver picked Terrans and lands his Command Center on the 9 o’clock cliff.  Colts blindly goes into the game and fate gives him the power over a Command Center at 3 o’clock.  A Terran vs. Terran match-up.  Note: Since Colts was white he will be in BLUE.

As the game starts the watchers suddenly leave the game one by one until I was the only one left.  Peace and quiet for me to BR.  Their first depot shows each player’s plans.  DarkSilver is going for the traditional wall-in as he builds his first depot on his choke on top of his cliff.  Colts on the other hand builds his first depot near his CC.  Signaling more barracks for defense/offense.  As expected Darksilver makes his barrack next on the choke and Colts builds two barracks.    

Colts then sends his SCV to scout.  Darksilver makes a refinery, sends a SCV to scout, then the last depot to finish off his wall-in.  Colts has made another depot and then starts the gas.  Both players have found each other and know the starting locations. 

Darksilver makes a factory next and opts for two Starports.  Colts makes a bunker in front of his choke and then starts the factory.  Darksilver is obviously going for cloak wraiths to assault with and Colts is going for an early expansion.  Colts does make his new CC and adds the machine shop add-on for the factory.  Darksilver adds on the control tower and the Starports lights start blinking with the control towers hypnotizing green lights flashing.  Wraiths with cloak.  Colts makes an academy, engineering bay, turrets around his main base and 2 com stats.  Darksilver has been constantly making wraiths.

After Colts uses his com to scan Darksilver’s main, Darksilver sends his cloaked wraiths but retreats as the turrets makes the pilots wet their pants.  Darksilver seeing this commands his wraiths to go all the way around and attack his expansion.  Of course there were turrets there too and after wetting themselves twice, the pilots decide to go home. 

At home there is a dropship, a tank, 3 marines and a SCV waiting for their arrival.  I wonder what’s going to happen now.  Colts during all this has made tanks and two Starports of his own, armory, and another factory.  Darksilver’s dropship loads up their cargo and flies to Colts expansion cliff accompanied by wraiths.  As he is doing this he builds his own expansion on his natural, an academy and his second factory.

Needless to say the red tank blows up in a fireball and the drop is unsuccessful. 

With two dropships of his own, Colts picks up a tank and goliaths and sends them over to Darksilver’s expansion cliff with wraith support.  Darksilver, after his failed drop, has made a third factory and an armory.  He has been constantly pumping out wraiths and tanks while Colts has been constantly pumping out goliaths and wraiths from two factories and two starports.. 

The tank from Colts sieges and starts raining artillery fire down on Darksilver.  Darksilver was totally unprepared and had to move his SCV to safety while he positions his tanks under the cliff.  The tanks do nothing.  Darksilver sends his cloaked wraiths and is surprised to see that Colts’ goliaths are not attacking.  Taking advantage of this he targets the tank and then some goliaths before a scan finally comes in.  Either Colts was waiting for a scan or his attention was adverted.  Either way the drop is defended with Darksilver losing only a couple of tanks and wraiths and a pause in his mineral gathering. 

He moves his forces to the found temple and waits.  He moves two tanks into a close range and sieges.  Once the tanks sieges they start firing on Colts who defends with tanks of his own and a bunker.  The bunker does nothing but get destroyed but the two tanks attacking are destroyed.  THEN Darksilver moves his remaining tanks and wraiths.  It seemed he was trying to manage the two tanks instead of managing his forces. 

The attack is defended with tanks and wraiths of his own and in the battle there was only a loss of a bunker and the four brave marines who were stationed inside.  Then both sides remain quiet as they both build up their army.

Then he waits.  But for what?  The lone ghost is seen walking from his base to the stationed army in front of red.  But before he gets there, the impatient Darksilver sends his forces to try to destroy the waiting force only to have it fail and leave him with a few goliaths to defend.
  

Colts decided to nuke anyway for fun and kills some SCV’s,  goliaths and brings the CC down to red.  GG’s are exchanged and Darksilver awaits to get his base destroyed. 

For fun, Colts nukes the isle expansion that makes a pretty little ball of fire. 

------natural exp----->

---isle exp--->

1. Terran vs. Terran games are down to goliaths, wraiths and tanks.
2. Nukes are necessarily to break up Terran defense
3. Who needs marines? (Bad lesson, don't follow this one, making few marines don't hurt)
4. Nukes are fun to watch.   

This has been the first Battle Report by Turbo{SK}. 
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