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As you can tell from the title above this br is on a 2v2 on Dire Straits. For those of you who don't know Dire Straits, a map.
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Who'sGotLag.IDO (random protoss) got booted out of a shuttle on the NW island (that pointy shiny pyramid on the top really hurts). His partner crow609 (random zerg) was gently landed near his hatchery on the NE island. Our opponents, _recca (random zerg) and Mr.Sukalot (random protoss), safely landed on their respective islands, SW and SE. _recca received a friendly greeting from his/her (I don't know) drones (the larvae might have said something too, but I'm not sticking my ear in the creep). Mr.Sukalot greeted his/her (he I assume) troops, but probes aren't known for their social skills (who knows what happens in the nexus though... all them probes packed close together... "Mechanical Orgies: '0110111010, my computing partner, calculated with the everyone in our LAN!' says 00110111011" next on Springer).
After a brief discussion, crow609 announced he was going hydra drop, Who'sGotLag.IDO decided to early expand and then zealot/reaver drops with dragoons and later corsair as anti-air.
_recca and Mr.Sukalot decided not to share their strats with me. =( [Neither chose to stick around after either] From what was seen later, Mr.Sukalot apparently went early expand too, but then to templar. _recca must have gone hydra drop as well as tech (air).
crow609 scouted Mr.Sukalot early on but not _recca, them blimps are just too slow. crow609 might have left his ovie at the 3 island to watch for expansions for a little while.
crow609 started the typical zerg build: double hatch, gas, pool, double lair, den. crow609 and Who'sGotLag.IDO both headed for the12 expansion, but Who'sGotLag.IDO gave it to him. (crow609 was going early mass hydra and ovies are slow while shuttles are fast, plus Who'sGotLag.IDO can protect crow609's expansion 2 ways. 1. By being the first expansion seen (meaning killed). 2. Expansion between 2 friendly mains) Who'sGotLag.IDO instead expanded to the left middle island (out of the typical drop route, north-south) second, maybe third after Mr.Sukalot at the 3 expansion.
Who'sGotLag.IDO's observer sneaked past the 9 expansion and found a nice red lobster tail in _recca's main (mmm...) and sat there waiting. The delicious meal, however wandered off somewhere. (damn! I'm hungry now) =b- [ß smiley with drool]
At this point Who'sGotLag.IDO had 1 zeal and 3 dragoons total, 1 was at the expansion, when Mr.Sukalot dropped off 3 zeals in Who'sGotLag.IDO's mineral line. ~3 probes went off in explosive pops (not much loving in the field, plus wagging rears hard at work can build up quite a bit of pressure) before troops could start responding. Fortunately, zealot pathing gets screwed up in the probe mosh pit near the nexus (them probes are crazy, bumping and grinding everywhere) and all three Mr.Sukalot's zeals were killed with only near fatal injuries to Who'sGotLag.IDO's zeal. The raid killed ~5 charged up love machines total before the raid was put down.
If you looked closely at the minimap before, you would see that crow609's hydra drop is halfway to Mr.Sukalot's main. The bent attack route was probably to avoid pickets and greeting parties (especially to avoid customs. "Illegal! But these hydras are so friendly! Take a look at how they smile when they attack")
Approximately 18-20 hydras dropped on to Mr.Sukalot's main and began destroying buildings. The appearance of dragoons excited the bored hydras. The dragoons must've been on the western peninsula doing whatever dragoons do when they're alone (Hah! My spinny thing is goes faster than yours. Whoa, I'm dizzy now.). Quickly rows of hydras formed up practicing long distance acupuncture. Too bad the hydras didn't know acupuncture that well and decided "the more spines the better"
Only a quick hydra drop by _recca managed to save most of Mr.Sukalot's main. However serious damage had been inflicted: the Nexus, probes, Citadel, Forge, and two pylons (all that were visible) as well as most of the defense force were all destroyed by crow609. Mr.Sukalot's biggest mistake was that his two gateways, observatory, and robotics facility were powered by ONE pylon.
Watch the minimap in the gif to figure out where the picture is in relation to the base. (Pics in relation to the base: start pic, above, inside, left, right.)
(You maybe wondering how we know that Mr.Sukalot had an early expansion with templar tech.
lack of troops in Mr.Sukalot's main tech structures in Mr.Sukalot's main (citadel rare in island maps except for templar, or maybe arbiters) developed expansion spotted later in the game at 3 island (couldn't afford it unless already had it before) appearance of dark templar later
Who'sGotLag.IDO went on a nearly identical route, except for the tech, and had a similar situation at the time. Meaning the protoss techs hadn't finished yet, templar or reavers)
The gap in the pics from crow609's force destroying Mr.Sukalot's main to the raid's demise is due to the fact that Who'sGotLag.IDO spotted _recca's naked expansion attempt at the 9 island and a force was scrambled to kill it.
At this point crow609 had an ~50% operational naked expansion. Who'sGotLag.IDO had a 75% operational expansion defended by 3 cannons and 1 dragoon. Who'sGotLag.IDO was placing cannons for drop raid defense at his main while teching/producing reavers and watching the 6 and 9 islands. crow609? More hydras of course!
Both _recca and Mr.Sukalot were pretty much restricted to one base mining, though Mr.Sukalot was bringing his main back online.
Uh, Oh Mr.Sukalot! Check out the minimap!
Not Playing Around!
Death to the 3 island expansion!
At this point both of Who'sGotLag.IDO's expansion observers (6 and 9) reported seeing at least 2 juicy morsels dumping hydras at each expansion. 2 corsairs shot the nice red ovies at the 9 before being chased away by deploying hydras
2 shuttles of troops carrying 4 zealots, 1 reaver, and 1 dragoon left the main, assumed formation and dropped on the 9 island. The 4 zealots were dropped in front of the reaver/dragoon shuttle. A third shuttle loaded with the remainder of the ready squad, 2 dragoons, loaded and left the main at this point.
The zealots tied up the ~10 hydras nicely while the reaver fired it's first shot at a solitary hydra (Damnnit). The third shuttle arrived just as the zealots were being finished off.
WTF! Who'sGotLag.IDO doesn't have dark templar! That's a brown shuttle and brown troops! (Mind your own business Mr.Sukalot!) Those troops were probably escaping or sent to aid the 3 island when it became pointless to defend it. 1 dark templar and 1 zealot can't take down the 3 cannon/dragoon defense (well separated) at Who'sGotLag.IDO's expansion (not to mention the shuttles hovering over it with who knows what in them) (nothing! =] )
The reaver died due to concentrated hydra fire plus zealot and dark templar blades, but not before taking some hydras with it. The remaining dragoon didn't stand a chance. The third shuttle finally arrived but was sent back since the attack was over.
crow609 sent a huge drop toward Mr.Sukalot's main, more than 27 hydras plus some cracklings (upgraded zerglings). The few defenders were eradicated with minimal losses to the attackers
The remining of Mr.Sukalot's main (essentially an expansion due to complete replacement of nexus and probes) and the tech to templar again (lost citadel on first raid, remember?) cost Mr.Sukalot heavily. When crow609 swept into the base there were few troops available to fight and thus the main died easily.
_recca was left with the decision of aiding his partner or trying to cripple 1 of his opponents. _recca chose to attempt to cripple Who'sGotLag.IDO with a large drop on his main including: zerglings (upgrades?), hydras, and lurkers.
Who'sGotLag.IDO spotted the large drop on the Southern section of the island which was being watched by 2 corsairs and 1 probe as well as some undeployed observers. crow609, being the good partner he is, promptly informed Who'sGotLag.IDO of the drop in case it was missed. An assembling raid force of 3 reavers, 3-4 zealots, and 2-3 dragoons moved into an anti-ground invasion formation.
_recca's attack force moved in and promptly retreated at the sight of 3 reavers. Unfortunately for _recca though, 3 scarabs followed the force out of sight.
The zealot/dragoon force followed the zerg hoping to convince the lurkers to burrow and then lure the zergling/hydra combo into the reaver/photon cannon web.
_recca had a different idea though and sent his swarm into the zealot/dragoons and tried to bury his lurkers just out of photon cannon range. The observer provided needed coverage and two reavers were detailed to anti-lurker duty. _recca had delayed the lurkers too long before attacking and the reavers had destroyed much of the incoming zergling/hydras before the lurkers started burrowing.
The attack was destroyed with the loss of a few zealots and dragoons. (No Pictures, I was busy... Can't find the butter... WHO'S GOT THE BUTTER!). _recca chose to quit at this point knowing that retaliation from Who'sGotLag.IDO was coming and Mr.Sukalot's main had just been finished off. crow609 had reloaded his troops and was heading to Who'sGotLag.IDO's main in case the attack succeeded.
Minimap of game
The game lasted 24 minutes and 40 seconds.
(PS. Someone raided crow609's naked expansion, but killed only the drones and maybe the extractor. Most of the drones were gone and crow609 neglected to replace them. The biggest hint was that the hatchery was bleeding so it wasn't new, and the nydus canal that was there was gone. (there was nowhere else to send the drones except home. Don't know who or when someone raided him though)
(After the game ended and everyone left I sent out observers to sweep the map and see what strats _recca had been using, since there was nothing left of Mr.Sukalot's main and crow609 obviously went hydra drop with cracklings)
(OK, maybe some other things happened... All those juicy red lobsters with nothing shooting back... Mmmm...)
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