Welcome to my second Battlereport. My first report was an all text piece of crap, but this time I have a visual feast for you. Well, maybe not a feast. Probably closer to what you see in the toilet after you eat at Taco Bell. Oh well here goes...... My friend halby and I had been playing for an hour or two one night, when I got the bright idea that a battlereport should be done. So, halby hosted a 2v2 game on bgh (thats enough out of you). After waiting for like 30 seconds, two people joined and we were off. Heres a little game start info: Map - Big Game Hunters (yes I know you all hate it, but its just a map, and as long as all parties involved have fun, whats the problem?) skimoose - random brown terran, 11 o'clock position. halby - random orange terran, 7 o'clock position. vs.

Chicken_AdobO - random teal zerg, 12 o'clock position.
ecestud - random blue terran, 3 o'clock position.

If you have trouble visualizing, this should help you:

After some peon cloning, we were off. halby had been on a metal kick as of late, and he informed me that this was what he was doing. I decided to go hard infantry. At eight supply, I started a depot at my choke, and at ten supply started a barracks next to it. At twelve, I started another barracks not far from my choke, and at fourteen another depot to complete the semi-wallin.

At around sixteen, a refinery was started (for bats and medics) and then an academy. I built an ebay for upgrade and detection purposes. When my academy completed, I added a comstat and researched the marine range upgrade.

When I had about three marines, my partner informed me that an overlord did a little fly-by from the 12 o'clock direction, I sent three marines to deal with the flying bag of puss and, as you can see, they did fairly well at destroying it.

Back at my choke, I had about 5-6 marines and two medics on the way. ecestud attacked my overlord assassins, with only one of my marines just barely surviving (4 hp). Then, Chicken_AdobO sent over a group of lings to cause some havoc. I started a bunker with a spare scv while my marines attacked the lings from behind the depot.

Just as my first two medics popped out, my depot exploded. After what seemed like an eternity, my bunker completed, and four marines gladly hopped inside. By now his lings were severely less in number, so my M & M, backed up by a fully loaded bunker, mopped them up. I started two more depots back behind my command center. Then I started to scout for Chicken_AdobO .

Ok. I had lost a depot and a few marines. Time for revenge. But first I needed to find teal. I sent marines to the 9 o'clock and 1 o'clock positions, all the while pumping marines/medics/firebats. I also researched stim. My marines found nothing, and I was stumped. halby had scouted counter-clockwise from his main until he found ecestud and at this point was preparing to seige him (see the orange mass on the minimap at blues choke?).

Every positon had been visited..... except 12 o'clock. A quick hotkey to my comstat and sure enough there he was, massing lings out of 3 hatcheries with no sunkens in sight. I felt pretty stupid for not scouting there first, but the overlord came so late and I saw no creep when I went to kill it. When I am zerg at 12 o'clock, I always scout to the left, because they are the closest two positions on the map and the top left is very susceptible to a rush. Oh well, I blame coors light.

Anyways, I took my sizeable infantry force of 7 marines, 4 firebats, and 5 medics and decided to ruin his night. As, I reached his choke, I stimmed my bats and charged in. Chicken_AdobO decided this was a good time to charge all his lings (16+)at me. About half-way though the skirmish, I stimmmed my marines. The outcome.....well see for yourself.

As you can see, I slaughtered all his lings, with ZERO losses. And all this time I was sure lings owned bats. Hmmm. Oh well. I proceeded into his main, and finding very little resistance, I started razing his base. After about 20 seconds of razing I saw:

Ah man, no more fun for me. I can't figure out why he left. I mean, I saw what he was making, and everyone knows that the infamous blue zergling owns all!

halby filled me in on his skirmish after the game and told me that at the battle for ecestud's choke (top pic) a single mine took out 8-10 marines. Vultures are probably the most underestimated factory unit in the game, and they totally own. As I was preparing to send my troops to 3 o'clock, a special little message popped up:

halby and skimoose

The only scores that are of any consequence are the unit scores:

I would have to say that these scores speak for themselves. I do feel kinda bad for teal though....producing 72 units and only getting one kill.

So much for my second battlereport. I hope you enjoyed it! And I know I will be getting flamed for playing on BGH, but oh well. I just enjoy playing Starcraft with my friends, and thats all that counts right??

Skimoose