"It's sad when you execute such a slimy, cheesy tactic like a gully push and it gets taken out by one DT :-(."
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| Lost Temple, Once More | | | Author: | | | IP: | AC81BA39XXXX | | Date: | 10/28/00 01:10 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 7, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for Flood-G: 5.6667 |   | Be kind you godly raters, this is my first report.
The map of course is Lost Temple
Players
]v[Esham]v[ Blue Terran
Apollo[G.Gs] Brown Protoss
Flood-G Observer
I would first like to start off by saying that I found this battle to be highly irrelevant, I own them both. Ok, with that said let's begin!
Apollo, having lost to Esham in previous games, takes no chances this game and chooses Protoss, his best race. Esham, forgetting to choose his race, is forced to random Terran, his personal worse race. He then spawns at 9:00 while Apollo gets the 12:00 position. With sturdy grips on their mice (plural of computer mouse?), and beads of sweat forming at their brows both players prepare to duke it out.
Hurriedly sending their slaves to work neither waste time and eagerly begin their 5th slaves. Esham after cursing his fate for the race the B.net Gods gave him, decides it best to use a standard Terran wall in method. Near his entrance he builds a supply depot, then a barracks right next to it, to assure that no pesky zealots might bother him early on. Apollo, being the zealot rusher that he is, goes pylon, gateway, pylon. After the training of his first marine Esham decided to build a refinery for some quick gas.
Apollo, preparing for his rush, sent a newly wrapped in probe to scout for his advirsary. With pure luck the first place the little robot is sent happens to be Esham's place. Upon view of the barracks and with a bit of encouragement from some C-16 Gauss rifle fire, Apollo tells the probe to hover back to base, simultaneously sending his first zealot to attack. Using his mysterious sixth sense, Esham becomes aware of the immediate dangers and begins training of a second marine. Although assured of Esham's doom at the hand of his mighty zealot Apollo keeps building and warps in another gateway and an assimilator.
The pressure was on. Would Esham survive? Could 2 marines alone defend his shaddy excuse for a Terran defense? the zealot roared a mighty battle cry and charged at the marines, blades raised. Eshams men fired and to their surprise...scared off the zealot?
Awwww....poor Apollo. Guess he didn't add the fact that his zealot is to fat to fit through the Terran buildings. After about 15 seconds of running back and forth he finally got tired and ordered his zealot toback away...maybe next time Apollo.
So what do you do when 1 zealot can't fit through Terran building placement? Get upgraded goons perhaps? LOL, no silly, send another chubby zealot that won't be able to get through. You crazy SC gosus and your wacky "ranged" units.
Esham, preferring the cold, emotionless love of robots over people, now has 1 factory operational and another in the works. Say it with me now, vultures>zealots. Hey, I can see a cyber core warping in! Yah for Apollo!
Now it was Eshams turn to have fun. Esham slid a marine through his buildings and began to toy with Apollo's hapless zealots. The "Esham Hit-Lure-Run" tactic was looking good. BLAM BLAM, zealots came charging, marine hides his wussy ass behind buildings while more marines and vulture fire away.
Two more zealots are sent up to the battle grounds. Esham just sees this as more zealotsa to kill.
The frustration of having to send his zealots back starts to get to Apollo. Ok, hold position now, you naughty zealot, stay perfectly still. Good idea! Now Esham's marines can fire away at sitting ducks.
Apollo[G.Gs]:....damn you (Moves zealots farther away from Esham's view.)
Apollo begins construction of a Robotics Facility. Reavers perhaps? Apollo is looking good at his base. Then again, so is Esham, who now has more vultures pumping out of his factories. Hey, coolness, a Citadel of Adun. Getting that ol' speed enhancement for your zealots, eh Apollo? Nah, during the whole game the zealots never got upgraded. Oh well, but at least he builds a Templar Archives following that right? Sure he does, but he only used 2 templar the whole game. (Their fate will be told later)
Now Esham wasn't about to just let Apollo's zealots loiter outside his base, nononono. Taking some newly built tanks he quickly sieged them by the edge of his base and poof! 2 zealots, in a congestion of smoke, arclite fire, and fried flesh, are wiped away from the Earth. Adun be with them. With moral and pride at an all time low, the remaining zealots flee back to base, emotionally scared for life.
Rememebr that Robotics Facility I told you about? Well, Apollo has 2 shuttles flying high and yes, you guessed it, 4 brand spanking new reavers! Err...scrath that, 4 brand new dragoons! Why? Cause goons, in Apollo's mind, are better to drop with then 4 reavers are against terran opponent going all land.
 <---Cargo Transports--->
With the speed of a disgruntled kakura the 2 shuttles are off, as they soar across the temple sky. At this time Esham feels it is time to take the fight to Apollo and lifts off his barracks. However, he still needs to find Apollo before his assault begins. He sends a marine out scouting. Upon walking up Apollo's ramp the marine is quickly incinerated by 2 blast of plasma courtesy of Apollo's latest goons. Ouch.
 
What the marine neglected to see was the expansion Apollo had begun at his natural. Next to his expansion he builds a pylon and forge.
Writer's Note:Although Apollo built a fogre he never got around to using it. No cannons at all. In fact, Apollo didnt upgrade a single thing beside goon range! Grrr...some people.....
Somewhere, back in the depths of his mind, apollo realizes that his 2 gateways won't produce enough men fast enough so he builds a 3rd gateway.
Now, with knowledge of Apollo's base location, Esham sends his army of tanks and vultures toward Apollo's base. He begins to set up camp outside Apollo's base, just outaide his field of vision. He is preparing for the next phase in his invasion when all of a sudden.....
VROOM VROOM VROOM VROOM Those 4 goons in the shuttle are dropped into Esham's base in the southern area. Not expecting a drop he is caught off guard.
With courage that would rival that of a zealot the scvs quickly flee for their life. With a persistance in causing high civilian casualties, the goons chase after the workers, only to explode into a mass of blue blood and metal.
Good placement of tanks.
With that little fiasco out of the way Esham sends the scvs back to work and the remaining tanks with the rest outside Apollo's base.
Preparing for the Final Battle:
Ready to take his final step toward victory Esham rushes 5 upgraded vultures into Apollo's base, laying mines as they rush back down.
Zealots come into contact with vultures and the spider mines are ignited. In a flash 4/5 of Apollo's army is wiped out, along with all of Esham's vultures. :(
At that point 2 templar had emerged from Apollo's gateways (a bit late!). I'm not even sure if psi storm was researched or not, it was never used. Apollo, realizing he was in a bit of trouble, quickly merged the 2 templar together. However...he did so in clear range of the siege tanks. The archon never made it...
Esham also discovers the expansion and takes it down with 3 marines.
Things aren't looking good for Apollo. He isn't producing enough men, he isn't upgraded, and Esham is moving his tanks right on in.
Realizing that it is all over, Apollo concedes defeat. With that they both say their ggs and the match is over.
Winner:]v[Esham]v[
Final Thoughts:The match up was pretty good. Apollo made his greastest mistakes in not upgrading anything. And if he had used 4 reavers instead of 4 dragoons to drop with the game woulda been different. loved watching it. It was fun.
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