"When in doubt, make more Science Vessels! "
-Macdonough
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| Fallof the Leader | | | Author: | | | IP: | nas-169-XXXX | | Date: | 12/03/00 06:12 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 4, Min: 4
Lifetime Rating for WhiteLancer: 4.6667 |  | Minor note, Fall and of and purposely put together to make it sound like "folow the leader", that classic children's game.
This game was a 1v1 between (_WoW_)Reaper and (_WoW_)Blade of the Warriors of War clan. It took place on December 3rd at my request.
This match took place on Rivalry, and both players choose random races. Blade received Terran and spawned at top left, and Reaper received Protoss and spawned at bottom left.
Blade and Reaper both used non-rush build orders, Blade went Barraks at 8 suply, and Reaper went Pylon at 9. Reaper collected minerals while his pylon warped in, and made a gateway plus one additional probe. Blade went a bit faster, making 1 more SCV along with another barraks and his first suply depot. Reaper snet out his scout at 12, and covered his gas at 13. Blade sent out his scout just a little later than Reaper did. Reaper scouted bottom left, and then went up towards Blade's base. By the time the scouting probe reached top right ramp, Blade had 5 marines posted there waiting, the poor thing died in a blue explosion half way up the ramp. Blade's scouting mission was much more sucessful, his scv walked right into Reaper's base, scouting the entire thing, and still emerging alive. Reaper made 2 additional zealots o the one he had when he was scouted, and Blade made 4 more marines.
Blade then sent a small attack, 7 marines and 1 SCV, to Reaper's base. My assumption is that blade was attempting either to either bunker Reaper's minerals or cover his gas, either one being deadly to a protoss. Blade left two marines in Reaper's natural expansion, which were eaten by a zealot which had also been waiting, but had escaped the wrath of the full group by a few scant inches. The rest of Blade's party walks right in, and sat on Reaper's minerals. Blade destroyed 3 probes before the zealots showed up, and in an amazing show of micro-management, kept them alive for a while. Eventually he lost them all, and didn't manage to destroy anything else, ruining his cost effectiveness. By the time Blade got there, Reaper had finished his cybernetics core and had made 1 additional pylon.
After the attack, which I think failed miserably, Reaper made 2 stargates, and 3 more zealots, which he parked in his ramp with the two dragoons which emerged a few minutes later. While this was going on, Blade made 2 more suply depots, a factory, an engineering bay, and an academy. Blade made preperatiosn for a dark templar attack, and constructed a missile turret near his ramp where he now had a formidable grouping of marines. Reaper got a little smarter at this point, and constructed a robotics facility, while also expanding to bottom left, hopefully out of sight, and out of mind. Two corsairs also popped out of the stargates just before his expansion nexus finished. Blade made a starport, and finished hsi first tank, which he parked near his marines, non-seiged. Reaper scouted Blade's base with his corsairs, avoiding the lone missile turret, while seeing lights at the Starport. The lights were 2 dropships which emerged a short time later and picked up 12 marines, and the lone tank.
While the Corsairs were making reaper's picture of the map more accurate, Blade bravely moved his dropships south to middle bottom, and moved them along the wall directly over Reaper's unprotected minerals. Blade dropped the tank on the ridge, and seiged it, while putting his marines directly below it to cover those ever so annoying dragoons. Reaper was devastated, losing his main nexus, several probes, and 3 dragoons. Fortunately for him and to Blade's dismay, he built a far enough distance from his nexus to avoid losing anything else. Reaper got smarter still, making a forge, and cannons to protect his expansion against this kind of treatment, but, sadly, he made them at the ramp instead of near his nexus.
Blade decided it was time to get some more money, and expanded to his mineral only natural, while sending marines and medics south to Reaper's expansion, losing them to the three cannons there and causing no damage. Reaper finally suceeded in destroying the drop in hsi base, and finally began to reconstruct his nexus, while also slapping down two more gateways and a citadel of adun. Reaper then moved ahead on the base count, expanding to top right. Blade got annoyed by all the expanding, and sent 3 freshly made wraiths south straight to Reaper's minerals, catching him completely off guard. Reaper exacuated his probes, but ended up losing another expensive nexus. While this happened Blade found reaper's top expand, and attempted to drop m&m onto it, but his dropships met quick ends to the cannons at Reaper's ramp, bad micro on Blade's part. Blade wisened up, and hugged the wall with a wraith, which layed seige to Reaper's Nexus there. After the destruction of the southern nexus, Blade's 3 wraiths there moved into position and assisted the ship already there in the 3rd nexus kill of the game. Blade then moved a few tanks and a few marines to the bottom expand, and pushed his way in with seige and comsat scans, destroying the poor base in much blue fire. Reaper made cannons in his top expand, which destroyed the wraiths who moved south after they had finished killing the nexus, and he also seemed to tire of all the cloaked units, since he made an observatory in his main, along with *gasp* templar archives, better late then never eh Reaper?
Blade began to tank push Reaper's top expansion, but in the nick of time Reaper washed in with dark templar, dragoons, and zealots, saving the day, hooray!
Blade expanded to Reaper's former spot bottom left, but it was quickly discovered and destroyed by reaper with dragoons and zealots. Blade got worried and sent a massive attack at Reaper's main, but it was shot down by psistorm, sending Reaper's kill score soaring. During this time Reaper produced a fleet beacon, and began slowly but surely producing carriers, which came in, and overwhelmed blade's main, Blade lost hope, everyone said gg, and the turn around was complete.
Summary, in an amazing show of turnover Protoss versus Terran, Reaper beats back superior numbers and destroys Blade for dominating early and mid game. Final Scores shown in my only pic. (was concentrating on my writing this time around)
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