"this Jewish Starcraft player has been pulling down games with us even when he learned that we were all gentiles. But we can't seem to figure out why he keeps hogging all of the minerals..."
- mattzarella's The Pentagram Paradigm
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| Starcraft - Another go | | | Author: | | | IP: | h225n1flXXXX | | Date: | 06/02/01 06:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 7, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for ^)Vanilla(...: 6.0000 |   | Starcraft - Another go
I've been playing alot of Counter-strike lately, but when 1.08 came out I thought I'd give Starcraft another shot. I made a new account, ^)Vanilla(... which I figured would look good in the eyes of pubbies (I was wrong, after the usual "are you good?" questions when I entered a 2vs2 game and I answered "me sucky longtime" I got booted. I tried to rejoin with the phrase "me so horny", but the arrogant pubbies promtly banned my sorry and quite seksi ass.)
So, since I re-discovered the lameness in 2vs2 and 3vs3 pubbie games, and after losing those a few times due to sucky allies (hehe..), I decided to play only 1vs1 games from now on.
I played one game versus another swedish guy, after he spammed in the public channel, and I won the TvT game rather easily by taking every expansion on the map and then overpowering the opponent with wraiths while surrounding his base with tanks and turrets. Yeah, he was a bit too defensive, and below my skill level.
It was also played on Use Map Settings, so I wanted another game to get a win so I could play ladder later. After the easy win, I clicked on 'join' and found a nice little 1v1 temple game at the bottom of the game list. (Note: this is ORIGINAL Starcraft.)
^)Vanilla(... vs KingPin..!!
Early game
Both me and KingPin..!! randomed, I drew Protoss at 3 and he drew Terran at 12. I built a pylon at 8 psi, then a gateway on 10 psi, another pylon on 12. After seeing a yellow scv scout my probe line I decided dragoons was the way to go, and built a cybernetics core. However, the funky little scv decided to screw my over and built an offensive refinery =[. I put three probes on it, they killed the scv and then the 25% done refinery. But I knew it would set me back on gas, so I ordered up a zealot in my gateway so I wouldn't have much extra minerals in the bank. I then built an assimilator ASAP. The cybernetics core finnished when my assimilator was half way done. Ouch. I built another gateway with the minerals I was going to use for early dragoons.
At ~20 supply I ordered up my first dragoon, pretty damn late. I send my first zealot to 12 to see what he has (scouted with a probe earlier) and I see a walling with just marines guarding. Nice. My two first dragoons are on the way over there. However, the six marines move out and down the ramp and proceed to rape my poor zealot with their gauss rifles before my dragoons arrive.
My first dragoon is halfway to his base and my second is by my ramp, so I order the first one back home and put them both on hold position above the ramp. The six marines charge up the ramp, hurting one of my dragoons badly. I pull it back and let the other one get some free hits in as the marines go after the one that was hurt. I think I did a pretty good job microing those dragoons, because the marines all die without killing my wounded dragoon that was down to red health. That pumped my ego up a bit.
Mid game
Dragoon range is now halfway done, and I build a third gateway while pumping dragoons and constant probes. I send my two veteran dragoons towards 12, with a second pair close behind. As they move up the ramp and attempt to kill...anything, I hear the sound of a tank firing and another one sieging up. Shit. I have to retreat even though my range just finnished researching.
I put my four dragoons outside his choke to somewhat contain him, and place a probe on his ramp (i know, weird.) I fire up a robotics bay for a shuttle and send a probe down to the 6 plateau to expand. As I start the nexus, my probe at 12 is being shot at and I pull it back. He's leaving his base with 2 tanks and some marines, while putting his barracks below the ramp, obviously he intends to stay there. I tremble at the thought of a gully push that will inevitably lay waste on my main.
I order up a shuttle just as the first tank volley hits my assimilator. Damn, that was faster than I expected. He's spotting with an engineering bay. My expansion at 6 finnishes and I send two thirds of my probes there, knowing my main will soon be destroyed. In a move that could have hurt me, I move all my containment dragoons to my main, move them near the edge of my plateau and blow his scouting dropship to hell, and one of his tanks soon after.
Now he scouts my expansion at 6 with a wraith, that dies to my two photon cannons there. To prevent him from attacking it I move my dragoons back to the middle. The inevitable gully push continues as he blasts my robo bay into oblivion. Since I have some excess gas I research +1 weapons in my forge, and zealot speed aswell. My 3 (soon 5) gateways at 6 start producing zealots and some dragoons.
For some reason I find myself with alot of excess minerals, probably because I was too busy looking at the blue clouds when my buildings blew up to build any units, so I warp in nexuses at 6's mineral only and the 9 main.
A dropship with two tanks in it heads for my 6 expansion, but stumble upon my warping expansion at 9 instead, and unloads there. In an excellent example of my raging stupidity I cancel everything (i'm an idiot), instead of sending some dragoons to clean up the two tanks. The dropship and tanks then continue to their original destination. But since I kinda noticed their presence already, I sent some zealots to stop the tanks before they can siege, in fact they never drop. I run the zealots under the dropship, KingPin..!! dances it around a bit but gives up and runs it north. Right into my two proton cannons in the mineral only. Score!
End game
My main nexus is trembling under the heavy arclite fire now, and before it blows up I send all my remaining probes to 6 while starting another expansion at 9's mineral only. I had 1600 minerals at this point, so I think why the hell not, and start expansions at 6 natural and 9 natural too. That makes 5 nexuses. I also rebuilt my tech at 6, getting templar archives, a new robo fac and a stargate in which I start a scout (hehe).
Everything seems calm in the land of tir-nan-og when suddenly, 24 tanks and some vultures charge my 6 mineral only. Shieet. I send my army of dragoons, zealots and two templar at them (before they all siege). I get two good storms off, but the tanks still annihilate my army without losing much (in fact, 24 was the number of tanks remaining after the battle.)
They hammer my expansion to the ground, and despite my lone scouts hammering on the tanks, I'm forced to surrender, knowing that I have no troops and my 5 gateways aren't going to help me much.
The total score was 51000 for me and 69000 for KingPin..!!, so it was pretty close, I actually mined more minerals than him. If only I knew how to spend it...
Game thoughts
You can watch the replay here. I think If he hadn't made that o-refinery I would have had a better chance. Also, maybe I should have invested in 10 more gateways at 6 instead of all those nexuses, I don't know. I'd appreciate any help, please comment and give me a few hint how to play :)
Thanks for reading,
^)Vanilla(...
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