WARNING This BR is going to have a long load time. When reading other reports, I have noticed that there are typically no shortage of complaints over this issue. This is unnecessary! I know most of you are horny teenage boys, so, before loading up my report (or anyone else's for that matter) simply load up your stroke pics before hand, then go to Battlereports.com to begin the download process. Finally, minimize the Battlereports.com window, and commence with your usual session. This will save space in my comments section, and spare us all the usual complaining, and free up space for more original complaining. Also, I know most of you are one-pump wonders, so please visit this site, to learn how to prolong climax. Thank You. In view of the comments I've been getting of late, I've decided to alter my style a bit. For the most part, reactions have been very positive. For this reason I probably will not completely abandon the old way. So what are some of the changes, you might ask? Well, the new style reports will have/be, the following: HEAVILY LADEN WITH PICS absolutely no big words (words over three syllables) fewer words (this is, of course, for my seventh grade fan base, who are sitting in English class right now, not paying attention to the teacher, but reading this report instead!(don't try to lie either, I sat next to one of you during summer computer classes in college last year, so I know.)) no backgrounds, but will be rendered in dramatic black background color instead! SOUNDS! (not really, get some headphones, put in KORN(the black CD w/grey letters saying KORN) skip to track 7, put on repeat, enjoy.) NO MORE NEWB STRATS! (well, maybe a little newbish) And finally, a smaller width, that even |)agomar is sure to like =) And now for some things I have not changed: same great taste, but with less filling all those cool tables! shyaaa right!? all these cool lists! still nothing vaguely humorous! and...ME! (and you thought I leftchya for the loony bin, tsk. tsk.) My Lost Temple game is still corroded with icky rust, so I decided, for my next few games, I would "smurf" as DrALLcome. After getting my ass kicked a few times, I finally had one of those good games that some of you have been begging me for. Now with that said, lets get things under way, shall we. First, the players: Lost Temple DrALLcome Zerg Metal]Kf] Terran We both went Random, and I ended up Zerg, at the northern start position. I decided I would try one of my extra special newbie strats, which was basically a... HYDRA DROP

...with a few minor differences to what you might expect. Firstly, I didn't expand right away. Instead I built a second Hatchery close to my initial one. I also made six Zerglings, two of which would be used for scouting purposes. For fun, lets name them Zerg~Ling, and Ling-erie. The Overlord I started with already scouted to the east.

The Zergling going west (Ling-erie) alerted me to my opponents own start point. Ling-erie was able to get through his wall-in, and far enough in, to get mowed down by combined Goliath Autocannon fire.

Now I didn't make those Lings right away, but that had seemed like awfully fast tech to me, for him to already have had several Goliath's on the scene. We both knew our Locations now, my opponent having sent an SCV into my main, and Zerg~Ling made it safely to the south position and waited there, to provide me with valuable expansion intel.

I had kept my other four Zerglings in my base for defense, and for later, were to help my Hydras re-landscape my opponents base. During my tech, I built three Sunken Colonies to stave off any early rushes. I also upgraded both Hatcheries to Lairs, so as to get faster Overlord movement and Loading capability as quickly as possible. Obviously, I had also built a Spawning Pool, and Hydra Den, as well. When the Hydra's Den completed, I upgraded their range and movement. Once all the necessary upgrades finished, I uploaded all my available Hydras, along with several pairs of Lings, and headed toward Metal's base.

He had a single Tank sieged there for defense, which fell quickly, and left me wondering, where was the rest off his stuff?



Well, the rest of his stuff was being shuttled to my Main! And, having been true to his name, he'd dropped off an assortment of Goliath's and Tanks, which had then directed their fire upon my nearly Hydra-free Home.

This was going to be a good game I thought! Luckily, I had loaded a Drone into an Overlord, and had him safely morphing into a Hatchery. Unluckily, it was the upper island expansion. And it didn't take my opponent long to find it, troop free, and ready to knick-knack-patty-whack! Probably I could have gone anywhere else and had at least chance of him not finding it, although even if I had, you must admit he could still have found it, and we could have ended up with the same result, still. Additionally, in a very gosu way, he waited to kill this expansion until he finished off the Hatch at my main, leaving me with a useless Hydra Den, and three Sunks. I had also finished off what I had thought to be his last remaining building.

To be continued from, the Terran perspective...

(:P aren't I a piece of shit)