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CynicalMagican vs. Protophobic
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Author:NeutronBomber
IP:r-174.11XXXX
Date: 07/19/00 05:07
Game Type: Starcraft
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The players: CynicalMagican (CM from now on), Zerg 3 o'clock position.

ProtoPhobic (Proto from now on), Terran, 6 o'clock position.

The map:

Both players begin with fairly normal builds. CM placed a hatchery near his ramp early on for better defense, while Proto went with a standard Terran wallin at his choke.

Proto sends an SCV to scout, and finds CM on his first stop. He begins to build a bunker near the incomplete hatchery. CM sends 4 drones to deystroy the bunker.

While this is going on CM begins a spawning pool and another hatchery. Proto begins pumping marines, and sends his first one to the bunker. It arives just in time to see the bunker explode, and is killed shortly afterward.

Proto is not discouraged, however, and he sends another marine and an SCV, and begins a bunker at CM's choke.

Seeing this, CM sneaks a drone out above the bunker. He immediately sends this drone to the 12 c'clock expansion, where it proceeds to sit there doing absolutely nothing.



By this time CM has erected a decent choke defense consisting of a pair of sunken colonies and several zerglings. He has also begun a lair.

Proto has begun a factory at his base, as well as building up forces at CM's choke.

At this point the game is quiet for around 5 minutes while both players build up and tech. The silence is broken when CM speaks:



Shortly after this, he finally begins to morph the drone at the 12 o'clock main into a hatchery, and sneaks another drone out to the 9 o'clock main, and it, like its predecessor, proceeds to sit there doing nothing.

At this point Proto sends a marine to each of the mains, and they find the expansion attempt and the drone, killing the latter and forcing CM to cancel his expansion attempt.

Back in his main, CM begins to morph a spire. Proto's tech is still about the same that it was 10 minutes ago, and he is just massing forces. Neither player currently has an expansion.

CMMorphs several mutalisks (around 6, but I'm not totally sure), and expands to his natural.

Proto now sends a control group of marines, a pair of medics, and a seige tank to CynicalMagicians choke point. This force is soon sighted by an overlord floating above a cliff. At this point, CM pulls one of the most beautiful maneuvers I've ever seen. He first sends about 2 control groups of zerglings at the force, to draw fire, and while the marines are busy with the zerglings a force of mutaliks move in and deystroy the tank, and before the marines can shift fire, one of the medics is dead as well. The remaining medic simply can't heal the marines fast enough to keep them alive and the entire force is deystroyed with relatively few casualties for CM.



CM breakout force continues on to Proto's main, but the zerglings are slaughtered. The mutalisks begin to harrass the peons though, and kill off a few of them., as well as a turret and a pair of wraiths before being drivin off by some marines with medic support. (Editor's note:The mutalisks could've easily deystroyed the force that chased them off, but CM did not know this.).



CM attacks once again, killing all of the M&M, and a few more workers, before being chased off. He lost 2 mutalisks in the process. He also brings his natural expansion on-line. The game is clearly in his favor now, as he has Proto reavting to his moves, and on the defensive.

CM attacks with his mutalisks from a different angle, and shoves about 2 control groups of zerglings down Proto's throaght. Seeing that the game is over, Proto conceeds the game without a word.


























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