A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....
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I always wanted to open a BR that way. Anyway, I had promised a sequel to my last report,
and here it is. I was going to try to write from my opponents point of view..but well, that
version is really short. So scratch that idea. Actually its pretty short from my point of
view as well. So I probably could have got away with doing just one big report than two tiny
ones...oh well. Imagine the A long time ago thing fading out, and then Collision Course
appearing, oversized, out of nowhere and fading back before disappearing. Then imagine my
intro, vertically scrolling into view and receding into the distance before also fading out, and
you will have what I wanted to do. Any of you web gurus think its possible? I mean with out
spending a lot of money, or taking 50 bajillion hours to do so? Well instead you get this. Enjoy.
If you haven't read my first report, go here. For
the replay go here.
So, where were we, oh yes, we each had
just finished razing the other's main, and the only
thing keeping him alive was his floating Barracks. Of course I still had several buildings alive
and well as all he had done was taken out my mining capability.
I didn't have enough money for
another Hatchery, and if I wasn't caught up in the heat of the moment I would have certainly
picked a far less obvious place to expand to than the island in the upper left. In fact just
about anywhere else would have been a better (even my opponent's start position) place to morph
Hatchery as my opponent had little difficulty finding it. His shuttle flew right to it in fact,
and upon seeing a SCV pop out, and learning of his 600+ minerals in the bank, it was
easy to guess..he had wanted to expand there himself. I couldn't even accuse him of hacking, like
I normally do when something goes terribly wrong. No I don't do that really..just a joke
(fucking hacker!!) I have to pause this tale to tell a couple of funny hacking stories. I played a
few games one on one Ladder, on..you guessed it Lost Temple. I think my record ended up being
something like 24-33-10. So really it was like 32-33-2, with eight opponents disconnecting me
because they couldn't take getting beat, and simultaneously hooking me up with a disc as well.
I picked random at first, but I noticed I got Zerg about75% of the time, and almost all
my wins came from when I was Zerg. So I decided I would just go ahead and choose the Zerg race.
One of my opponents accused me of cheating because I four-pooled him. He picked Terran when he
saw I was Zerg and went for double Racks, and no wall-in. I'm not a big fan of four-pooling and I
still lost, but he maintained that I was using a hack. Oh well, another guy accused me of hacking
after I dropped his main with a score of Hydras. This after I lost several of my Overlords
to his Corsairs. He claimed I turned it on after I lost my Overlords, in order to get revenge I guess. Oh yeah,
and I ended up losing that one too. He still had his expansion going, and he built some gateways
and a ton of Cannons. I decided to take the opportunity to expand to about five different places,
but then he managed to break out with about a dozen Speedlots and three Archons. Damn those Archons
can kick some Hydra ass! So where was I, oh yes, my opponent wanted to expand.
Well I put a stop
to that by destroying that SCV ASAP.
 Like I said I only had had enough money for the one expansion.
I did have a couple hundred minerals in the bank, tormenting me, as I would've needed but a hundred more to create another Hatchery. I also began scouring
the map with my Ovies and some Hydralisks, searching for the little tell-tale sign of fusion cutters furiously working
away on a Command Center somewhere.
I searched the other island, and the other expansions, I found none however, as my opponent only had one SCV, and
he was Zergling poop.
He put a hold on leveling the rest of my base to load his mixed force of Goliaths,
and two Tanks,
to my expansion, where the carnage was resumed.
The quickly eliminated the defensive forces
residing there. Most of my troops were to far off, looking for expansions, to be able to react
in the proper amount of time.
I managed to get off one ineffectual drop of three Hydralisks.
While he was away I was busy. I rallied my forces
to every Terran Tank players favorite spot on the map, burrowed, and waited. He was fished in,
like a methodical bastard, I even waited for him siege up and let off a couple of shells before
unborrowing.
I only destroyed what he could carry over in two shuttles, so he still had a couple
Goliaths on the island, and of course, the floating Barracks. I had been racking my brain trying
to figure out how I was going to get at that Barracks. I decided to destroy his Goliaths. They
had the high ground as I had to unload on the far ledge or risk destruction at the hand of Hellfire Missiles.
Take me to the
My four regenerating Hydras were in better shape than his Goliaths, and it was little problem for me to destroy them.
Still it didn't matter much because he still had that floating Barracks..and it was right where I couldn't get at it.
So I set my opponent to an ally and clicked the allied victory box. He did the same, and I had
my first draw in Starcraft ever. It's kinda funny that the draw! screen only comes on when one
player leaves within the first five minutes of the game. This isn't really a draw at all, but
to get an actual draw you and your opponent have to win!
 Get my Soundgarden cards, they're
the latest thing from me, your pal, plus2longsword. Collect them all! Just print this page on normal paper and cut-out. Look for special limited (one out of every fifty refreshes)
lead foil editions! Some Ip's not included. Not for children over 35 years of age. All rights reserved.
I got some random questions, some of them I thought of while writing this report, but I know if
I put them in the middle of it somewhere, you would forget to answer them, even if you were inclined
to answer, so here goes...
- How can I create the whole Star Wars opening intro thing.
- How can I take screenshots in MechCommander
- How can I take screenshots in DukeNukem3D (dos; I got a SC utility that will take a shot of a window, but the images are real dark and low quality)
- Where/How can I get a clean image of the Star Wars Logo. Whenever I dl from somewhere the colors are all bitmapped and ugly looking..I would like something cleaner
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