Battle for the Temple

2v2

Before we go on, let’s meet the players. First up we have Drintr. Drintr is an average guy, not really good at Starcraft, but not terrible either. His last couple of games have all been losses and Drintr’s self-esteem is at an all time low. In order to rebuild his self-confidence, and boost his self-esteem Drintr has decided to join this game.

Then we have Shaolinstyle. Shaolinstyle is a fairly good Starcraft player that is a fan of Lost Temple. Shaolinstyle is also Drintr’s ally in the game, and because of that is pretty much destined to lose, knowing Drintr’s ability to play.

Next is ‘Ice[V]an. Not much is known about ‘Ice[V]an, except he probably likes ice and vans. ‘Ice[V]an is an okay player who is determined to further lower Drintr’s self esteem.

LeadGtr5150 is the final player. This guy is ‘Ice[V]an’s ally and is a decent player. LeadGtr5150 does not like to lose (as strange is it may seem) and plans to win this game.

Now that you know the players, let’s begin.
Drintr decided to random, and received Zerg at 9:00
LeadGtr5150 selected Terran and miraculously ended up with Terran at the 12:00 position.
‘Ice[V]an went random and got Protoss at 6:00.
Shaolinstyle picked Terran and was given Terran at the 3:00 position.

Anyway, enough rambling and let’s get on with the game. Drintr and his ally Shaolinstyle started the game a bit nervous. Since they never met these players, or seen them play before they weren’t sure how good they would be. Drintr decided to tech to hydras while Shaolinstyle teched up to tanks and vultures, making only about two or three marines in the process. Shaolinstyle took one of his marines and scouted ‘Ice[V]an’s base at 6:00. Shaolinstyle watched as his marine’s attempt to get up the ramp of the enemy base was destroyed by a battle-hardened zealot. Shaolinstyle hoped that his next scouting attempt would be more successful as he took a rather hesitant marine (seeing as to what happened to the first marine) to scout out LeadGtr5150 at his 12:00 position. Luckily for the marine (or unlucky depending how you look at it) its scouting fear was swept away by a blast of machine gun fire from the enemy base.

‘Ice[V]an looked at his Protoss nexus happily. He had hoped to get Protoss and was relieved to see his wish had been answered. ‘Ice[V]an decided to go mass dragoons as his strategy of the day. ‘Ice[V]an then constructed a few cannons and zealots to guard his choke. A little while later ‘Ice[V]an realized his zealot placement was well thought out as he saw a marine from Shaolinstyle try to attempt to enter his base. ‘Ice[V]an’s zealots killed the invader with ease. ‘Ice[V]an chuckled after seeing the dead marine, “Hopefully the rest of the game would be similar to that first kill,” he thought. LeadGtr5150 was not asleep during the past few events and had decided to tech towards marines and medics. During the teching time LeadGtr5150 saw Shaolinstyle’s marine scout out his base. In response to the scouting marine LeadGtr5150 decided to send his two newly built marines to kill of the intruder.

Shaolinstyle sighed as his scout marine turned into a smashed tomato. “Just the excuse to get a little revenge”, thought Shaolinstyle. Shaolinstyle began construction and completed a factory in order to start to produce vultures. After that he constructed a starport and dropship. Shaolinstyle loaded his vultures into the dropship and flew it towards ‘Ice[V]an’s base. Drintr was also busy during this time and had constructed a spire as well as some hydralisks. He moved a drone to his natural to construct a base to help pay for the mutalisks he planned to make once his spire was complete. During that time he saw a dropship belonging to his allies fly across his base. It seemed to Drintr that his ally had a surprise for the other team.

‘Ice[V]an was alarmed to see a dropship enter his base. A marine and medic drop this early in the game? It surprised ‘Ice[V]an to see four vultures (as opposed to marines and medics) pop into his base and start killing off his probe line. “This will not go well with the lead general on Aiur”, was ‘Ice[V]an’s initial reaction. Probes started exploding like fireworks on the Fourth of July. ‘Ice[V]an clicked on his dragoon army and ordered them to attack the invading vultures. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived his probes were almost all gone and Shaolinstyle had loaded his vultures into the dropship and left. ‘Ice[V]an’s ally, LeadGtr5150, was not happy with the attack on his partner. LeadGtr5150 looked at his supply line and at his missile turrets defending them. “Nobody’s attacking my supply line with these turrets around,” laughed LeadGtr5150. Ironically that was the moment that Shaolinstyle’s dropship with vultures arrived. The turrets were able to destroy the dropship, but not fast enough to stop its contents from unloading.

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Shaolinstyle looked at his destroyed dropship, “Looks like my vultures wont be returning home,” he thought. He ordered his vultures to attack LeadGtr5150’s SCVs. It seemed LeadGtr5150 was aware of the problem and ordered his marines on the offensive. Shaolinstyle watched as his vultures were destroyed easily by the hoard of marines. Shaolinstyle then decided this would be a perfect time to expand to his natural, seeing his enemies had to get over a bit of mining time loss due to the drones he had killed. Drintr decided it was about time to pull his weight around the team, seeing his spire was finished started to morph in some mutalisks. Once six mutalisks were created they were ordered to attack ‘Ice[V]an’s mineral line. ‘Ice[V]an still hadn’t built cannons near his peon line and Drintr felt this was the perfect time to attack. At first the attack was successful with minimal casualties, but then Drintr’ heart sank as he saw ten dragoons start firing on his mutalisks. Drintr realized he better retreat and evacuated his mutalisks towards LeadGtr5150’s natural to see if anything could be destroyed there.

LeadGtr5150’s lone scv was not having fun building a new command center in LeadGtr550’s natural. The scv was a young lad, new recruit actually, and was hoping to get the command center construction job over with. The scv wished it would be relieved of his construction duty and then be ordered to “entertain” some medics. The scv laughed, he knew LeadGtr5150 would never order him to do a task like that. The scv looked up in the sky hoping there would be an answer from the heavens to relieve his boredom. At that very moment six mutalisks appeared and started firing on the expansion. “Aha! An excuse for me to run away,” thought the scv. “Maybe I will “accidentally” stumble onto some medics.” As the scv trudged up the ramp a small force of marines ran back down the ramp to dispose of the mutalisks. The scv tried to push his ways through the marine force, but found his attempts to be in vain. The scv looked back and saw the mutalisks flying towards him. Maybe there’d be some medics in heaven.

Drintr’s attack on the expansion was successful. Drintr smiled happily, it seemed as if things were finally going his way. Drintr looked at his Zerg base and ordered the construction of a greater spire to be built in hopes of teching to guardians. Shaolinstyle was busy at the time building some tanks and marines in order to combat the Protoss. A loud boom interrupted the quietness in Shaolinstyle’s base. Shaolinstyle was shocked to see an enemy siege tank planted on the top right island. Shaolinstyle watched as the tank started destroying his vespene refinery with ease.. In response to the attack, Shaolinstyle defense matrixed one of his own siege tank and had it moved to the edge of the base were it was sieged and ordered to shoot the living daylights out of the enemy forces.

LeadGtr5150 was smashed his hand onto his keyboard. His failed siege tank attack on Shaolinstyle’s base had been flawed by a defense matrixed siege tank of Shaolinstyle.LeadGtr5150 decided that Drintr would be his next victim if Shaolinstyle wasn’t going to be. LeadGtr5150 sent his marines to Drintr’s expansion to wreak havoc. He was surprised to see that the expansion was not defended and was able to be destroyed with ease. After the attack LeadGtr5150 had his marines depart back to his own base for beer and a parade.

Drintr looked at his ruined expansion with angry eyes. Drintr’s self esteem then dropped a bit more. Luckily for Drintr, it seemed that LeadGtr5150 had ordered his troops to leave instead of staying to assault his base. Drintr moved a drone back to his expansion to rebuild. Once the expansion was rebuilt and thriving again Drintr was troubled to see a group of shadows in the distance.

‘Ice[V]an watched his invasion force of dragoons near Drintr’s base. It looked just ripe for slaughtering. Once arriving at Drintr’s natural the dragoons started shooting wildly into the hatchery. A great booming sound spoiled there fun and caused 'Ice[V]an to give up all hope of winning.

Drintr watched his guardian force slaughter the dragoons. The entire dragoon force was killed with minimal guardian casualties. While this was happening Shaolinstyle attacked the protoss main base, knowing it was now defenseless. Shaolinstyle’s marines and tanks ripped through the base and forced ‘Ice[V]an’s forces to surrender.

LeadGtr5150 looked very worried as he saw his partner quit the game. He knew it was only a matter of time before Drintr’s hydralisks and guardians, as well as Shaolinstyle’s tank force invaded his base. LeadGtr5150 prepared his army and attempted to defend the attack. Notice the keyword here “attempted”. LeadGtr5150’s defenders were destroyed and Drintr’s hydras marched into the base (or slithered, depending on how you look at it). LeadGtr5150 watched with saddened eyes as the hydras ravaged the base and caused Drintr’s self-esteem to finally rise to its normal level. Drintr had won a game at last!

Peace and Love,
Drintr