Hi. This is my first Battlereport. To introduce myself, the first thing that I should say is that I'm a newbie; I've been only playing the game for 4 months (just stopped being a BGH fag three weeks ago). Yeah, I'm probably the most underqualified Battlereporter ever. Oh well.
I made a temple game (who doesn't join those) one friday afternoon and did my best to observe it. The game was actually a few weeks ago; high school is such a bitch.
Map: The Lost Temple
The Players: Agonizer(BOD) vs. GoAt--
The Observers: {~Ascension~}(me) and godzdevil
Agonizer floats his command center to the 3 o'clock position and starts construction of an scv. Goat morphs in his hatchery at the 9'clock position and spawns a drone. He takes his overlord and scouts the 6 o'clock position.
Goat gets an early expansion by morphing a hatching at his natural, by-passing the ramp defense. He then sacrifices a drone for a spawning pool. Agonizer does not wall-in and builds a supply depot then a barracks. This guy obviously likes to turtle. Then he commands one of his scvs to scout. When Agonizer finds Goat's second hatchery, he immediately starts the construction of an offensive bunker. Two drones destroy the scv and start firing on the bunker. Agonizer hurries a marine and a scv to scene, but with no avail. The bunker is now almost in red so Agonizer returns his troops home. Goat has just spawned 4 zerglings to ensure that the bunker goes down.
While the the bunker was being built, Agonizer constructed a second barracks and a refinary.
Goat powers more by morphing another hatchery at his mineral-only. More zerglings are being hatched. Goat sneaks a zergling into the terren base for monitering activity. There's also an overlord on the cliff for the same purpose.
Agonizer starts a third barracks and an academy. He starts pumping some M&Ms. At this point Goat's 3rd hatchery is half-way done, guarded by 14 zerglings. He also starts to morph his 4th hatchery at his natural along with an evolution chamber at his main.
The M&Ms are now ready to attack. He sends nine marines and two medics across the map. Unfortunately for him, sunkens are being made at the expansion along with the 14 zerglings. As soon as Agonizer enters the base, he immediately retreats and waits for reinforcements.
At this time, Agonizer constructs a factory, teching immediately to machine shop. More M&Ms rush to join the others outside of Goat's expansion. Goat has almost finished his lair and has started two more sunkens at his expansion. The race for tanks/lurkers begins.
As soon as the first tank comes out of the factory, it is directed to the M&M force right out of Goat's base. It sieges, and the first real battle begins. Goat has some hydras but they haven't started to morph in lurkers yet.
As you can see, the terren forces easily came out on top. But the zerg kept on sending lurkers and the terren troops eventually become weaker and weaker. However, the terren did keep sending reinforcements, but they were dispatched too. The final blow was when Goat sent a hydra and two lurkers behind the terren force (he went behind the wall). The hydra soaked up the damage while the lurkers burrowed. The last of the tanks and marines were decimated.
During the chaos, Agonizer builds a Command Center and floats it to the island expansion in the bottom right hand corner. He has the expansion up and running by the time the battle ended. Goat has now moved some of his zerglings spread out around the middle of the map. Being a zerg whore, he expands 2 times to the 6 o'clock main and its natural. A few moments later, he expands to the 12 o'clock mineral only and the 12 o'clock main. An scv finds the hatchery at the 6 o'clock and starts to probe it with its massive fusion cutters.
The terren force is pretty large now. Agonizer has around 6 tanks, 16 marines, a few medics, and a science vessel. There is constant production from 4 barracks, 2 factories, and a starport. He moves his troops to the center of the map, taking some to destroy the 2 expansions at the 12 positions. The expansions are easily destroyed as Goat does not have time to save them.
What Agonizer doesn't know, however, is that zerg has a formidable army now. See that large blob of red in Goat's expansion? Yeah that's it. Goat is now morphing in zerglings and ultralisks (yah!) in massive quantities. However, Goat's 12 o'clock bases are down, but he managed to get the 12 o'clock main and mineral only up and running.
Agonizer now sends a control group of marines up to Goat's 12 o'clock ramp, and starts shooting at the hatchery there. But now Goat breaks loose and sends all of his forces to kill the marines. He doesn't stop there however. He then takes a 90 degree right turn and heads straight for Agonizer's main. The pictures will tell the rest of the story.
Goat eventually overruns the terren base. I didn't have pictures for that since I got to 100 right then. GGs are exchanged. Agonizer says something about screwing up production and leaves.
Forgot to get the scores.
Lessons learned
1. More scanning and recon for terren.
2. More macro for terren. The guy had one expansion the entire game.
3. Zerg could of owned more if he had used defilers. Dark swarm over marines and tanks. Even a newbie knows that.
4. Why the hell am I writing this? I probably dunno what I am talking about.
Comment and criticize please. I know I'm doing some things wrong. I realize this game wasn't that great, but I don't care about that for my first report. And also, can someone please teach me how to play the damn game of starcraft? I suck. Perhaps I should change my name to I_suck_ass.
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