The game started off, both Moz chose zerg and started at the bottom right and Recoil chose terrans and started off at the top middle. Recoil and Moz quickly both built resource gatherers up till about 7 pop. Recoil started work on a supply depot on 8 while Moz started production on an overlord. I was quite surprised at Moz's decision to go overlord first, i was expecting an early expand or early second hatch in his main. Instead he built some more drones then built his second hatch at his entrance so he could get control of his choke; i haven't seen a zerg player doing that on hunters in a long while.

At this point Recoils first barracks was built and he started production on a a refinery and a second barracks, he had started to place his buildings in a semi circle a bit away from his command center. Recoil looked as if he was opting for blocked off bunkers behind a wall of buildings but of course as usual i was wrong :). He started building his second supply depot and started pumping out marines out of his first barracks.

Moz had started building a spawning pool when recoil was starting production on his second barracks. Then Moz built a third Hatchery in his main at about the same time Recoil had been building his second barracks. I was amazed at Moz's build, the only other person i have seen doing this type of build is Soul-Skell[Tls] and myself, and i was amazed really that some else was doing that build (after all, i knicked it off Skell).

Nothing much was happening at this point (well for about 30 secs nothing was happening :) as it was still early game (i dont know if the 3 mins were up yet). Moz's second hathery popped up and he immediately began production of a creep colony and a few lings for some defence, and an extractor while Recoil opted for an enginering bay (he was expecting early mutas).

After placing their buildings both Moz and Recoil started scouting out the map trying to find each other. Their scouts quickly came across each other and a little marine v zergling war soon ensued. Both players now had a general idea of where each other was so they both started preparing for an attack. Recoil started pumping marines out while building a turret by his command center to protect his scv's and Moz started Buildings lings and quickly started morphing to lair. They had both now found each others main now and were both planning their attacks based upon what they had seen of their enemies base. After Recoil had about 10 marines he started production on an factory (moz had a few sunkens, so a few tanks should sort that out recoil was thinking) while Moz was going for mutas. This is where the fun started.................

Recoil had a bunch of marines, a tank; a turret and bunker at his command center. While moz had zerglings and a about 5 or 6 mutas just ready to pop out. After his mutas popped out Moz immediately sent his mutas up towards the right hand side of Recoils base. He went straight for Recoils refinery. Recoil almost instantly snapped into action and went straight for an counter attack, Recoil knew that because Moz was going mutas he would have little or no defence. So he sent his marines + a tank straight down towards Moz's main (all of this happened in about a second). Recoil did exactly what i would have done, counter! (hehe i love that word).

Recoil had started Building a second factory and a third barracks, he was planning on a tank/marine push. Meanwhile Moz's mutas were getting shot at by the bunker by Recoils command center so Moz pulled back a bit and tried to go around the bunker to behind Recoil's scv's. Moz positioned his mutas behind Recoil's scv's and started to kill a couple when Recoils missile turret spurted into action and started knocking crap into a mutalisk. Moz wisely decided to run like a scooby and retreat. So he retreated his mutalisks back down towards his base.

At this point that Recoil had arrived down at Moz's main, he immediatley sieged up a tank outside range of a sunken. I noticed he sieged up a bit away (a bit out of siege tanks range), he must have been waiting for reinforcements or was quickly building extra units at his base for a few seconds. It was now that i had noticed the position of Moz's zerglings. I liked the way he did it, he had a group outside, away from his main, hidden in his naturals minerals and another group furhter up the map at mid right's natural expansion. I then realised that Moz had anticipated Recoils counter attack from the start of his early muta attack. Thats why he positioned his Zerglings the way he did (to get a tactical advantage, i.e, surround Recoil when he attacked, nice one Moz :). He knew that Recoil would counter, or either he planned this from the beginning, i.e, forcing recoil to counter, while recoil thinking Moz was not ready for an counter attack when in actual fact Moz was (or either that i'm reading wayyyyyyyyy to much into this, lol).

As soon as Recoils tank was sieged up it started knocking crap into Moz's zerglings at Moz's natural. Immediately Moz reacted and sent both keys of his Zerglings straight at Recoils attack force. Moz also had his mutalisks from before on their way down and attacked with both keys of lings and his 5 mutas from the right at the same time. He surrounded him from 3 sides, lings from the top and left, and mutas from the right (elapsed time was about 40 secs between Moz's muta attack and Recoils attack, sorry i tend to ramble a bit :).

Needless to say Moz screwed over that attack force with what looked like relative ease, he only lost 1 mutalisk and about 10 zerglings (i.e, not much). Moz built back some mutas and zerglings and rallied them outside Recoils natural expansion. Straight after that attack Moz immediately expanded to both middle right and bottom middle. I noticed Moz had a few scourge patrolling his base (to protect from drops) and that he was building a queens nest. I wondered if maybe, just maybe we would actually see a queen in a game of Starcraft (Soul-Eater[Tls] is the only one i know whe ever builds em :), but alas to no avail no queens were seen :(

Recoil was building back his attack force, he had loads of marines an a few tanks placed at his choke. Moz know did something real sneaky and i thought it was a very good tactic, he sent his mutalisks over to the bottom right hand side of Recoils base where recoils supply depots were. Hehe he wasn't being sneaky and going for supply depots, he was actually doing something else even more sneaky than that (he had anticipated Recoils next move). As soon as Moz was knocking crap into supply depots Recoil Sprung into action and sent about 3/4 of his forces of marines protecting his front, straight over to the right hand side of his base to take out the mutalisks. Moz had him right where he wanted Recoil.........................

As soon as Moz saw Recoild Marines he immediately told his mutalsiks to run away over the water, and at the same time he got his zerglings to attack Recoils front defences. Hehe this is the bit i liked, because recoils marines were away to the right of Recoils main where the mutalisks were, Recoils front was easy prey for Moz's zerglings, or so i thought........ :). Moz had about a 1 key and a half of zerglings (bear in mind this was about a minute and a half after Recoils counter earlier) and Recoil had about 5 marines and 2 tanks; 1 tank sieged, 1 unsieged.

Amazingly recoil through much management managed to kill those zerglings with his marines + 2 tanks before his other marines came back from the right of his base. I was well impressed by the way recoil handled his units. After that attack was by with recoil started work on a fourth barracks, hehe i wonder what mass unit he was gonna do :)

Moz now went for another bash at the side of Recoils base with about 6 mutalisks, at the same spot he had tried before. Recoil foiled this attack easily as he had a marines guarding that position, so Moz had no recourse but to run away his mutalisks. Recoil then took this opportunity to expand to te top left. Moz was now rallying even more lings and mutalisks at Recoil's natural I moved my screen down to Moz's expansions and noticed that at each expansion he had built extractors with drones ready to go into them, he was going hard gas, that can only mean a few things :). I then noticed that Moz was at Hive level and had been morphing a Greater Spire, Guardians!

Moz now sent about 8 mutas towards the left hand side of the map, was he going for Recoils expansion??????, i was a bit confused when i saw them, i was wondering how the bleep! did he know that recoil had an expansion there, he hadn't scouted there yet. If he was going for Recoil's expansion i was about to scream out something really bad (cause there would be only one way that he would know that expo was there, but thankfully i was wrong), ill let you take a guess, but i was completely wrong. Moz took his mutas in the right hand side of Recoils base and started to take on his factories. Recoil soon took care of that 'little' problem (i love marines :).

Yet more lings were rallied to Recoils natural. Moz had know also expanded to the bottom right and got a wee bit pissed of with me :), sorry m8 :). Ill not go into details but lets just say i held off his expansion for a few seconds (sorry, sorry, sorry, m8).

I went back up to Moz's forces at Recoils Natural and noticed 4 eggs forming, hehe Guardians! Even more lings came running up to Moz's forces, Moz now had at least 4 Keys (im taking a guess here, i can't be bothered to count them, lol). I took a peek at Recoils base and saw he had 6 tanks and loads of marines and a few firebats. Then i wondered wtf? Recoils tanks were all unsieged, i was wondering what was going on here, then recoil started moving his forces out, hehe attack thats what was going on! As recoil came out of his base he met up with Recoils Forces. A Huge battle ensued, lings/guardians/mutas vs marines/bats/tanks. The screen was fool of blood stains everywhere many lings/mutas and marines/bats/tanks died pretty wuickly, heavy losses on both sides. Moz just managed to win and had managed to have 4 guardians left over left and Recoil had no units left to take on guardians. Moz soon got his guardians to start taking out base defences and supply depots. While Moz was taking on Recoils base defence, Recoil managed to get a tank and a few bats out and down towards Moz's main base. I never seen the point in Recoil taking his units down (as obviously he had no anti air left), but he did it anyway, Recoil took them down to Moz's main, last ditch effort perhaps?? Anyways the firebats and tanks meet up with 6 mutalisks, not good, lol :)

A key of Lings now came running up to accompany the guardians on their quest. Then tourney (edge) pointed out that Recoil had 1 wraith popped out (hehe), but Moz had 12 lings coming and was hatching mutas from his main so the 1 wraith wouldn't help much :(. Moz continued pummeling base defences while Recoil tried to lift off and rebuild at his top right expansion. Because Recoil had started floating his buildings off to the right off the screen, ack! He had just now let Moz know exactly where his new base was because of the floaty buildings. Moz started pummeling the floating buildings with mutas. Recoil then somehow managed to scrape together 4 wraiths and bring them round the back of Moz's guardians; because Moz's mutas were killing buildings they didn't get back in time to save the guardians, hehe. It was know 6 mutalisks v 6 wraiths, mini air war :)

Recoil was kicking crap into the mutalisks with his wriaths through sheer micromanagement :). It was down to 2 wraiths vs 2 mutalisks, the wraiths could have won, but for some reason Recoil had stopped microing his wraiths and the 2 wraiths started shooting a mutalisk each. Moz was however microing and got 2 mutas to shoot the 1 wraith then the next, Moz won that battle; and would have won anways cause Mos had 3 more mutas on the way up.

Now with Mutas knocking crap into Recoils main Moz proudly proclaimed, "Crackling Powers". Hehe the game was in the bag now. Recoil had managed to save a barracks, a factory and 3 starports at his expansion and soon set about pumping out units from them, mostly wraiths. Moz just now kept pumping zerglings out and sending them up in groups of 12. Recoil had wraiths but the constant stream of lings were killing buildings faster than the wraiths could kill the lings. gg's were exchanged all round as we all knew the game was over but Recoil tried one last assault and took 5 wraiths down to Moz's bottom middle expansion and started to shoot a hatchery. moz just brought down 12 mutas and chased the wraiths to the back of Moz's main where he killed em, hehe.

And with that the game was finfished hehe, [KB]CCMoz is proclaimed the Victor!

Holymarine - aka - Soul-less[Tls] - aka - godlikemarine