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| **Flint's 100th Vanilla win and more! Formal dress required inside please :P .** | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/06/99 01:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 10, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for Flint79 (Posted by HolyAnarchy{GK}): 7.0000 |   | *Flint walks onto the stage dressed in a tux and greets the crowd. The room has many ballons, a bar serving free drinks, many tables and an Orchestra*
Hello everyone, I'm glad you could make it this evening. I would first like to thank HolyAnarchy{GK} for helping me post this report and all the people that have followed my 100 Vanilla wins goal through my BR's. After many frustrating nights (ie: Disconnecters/trying for over an hour to get a non-BGH match going) and even forcing myself to play every now and then....I made it. Now...onto the BR!
Pre-Game: It was a grim 4th of July. I'm Canadian, so I don't get a day off from work due the holiday (I work at a Golf Course) :( . Not ot mention...getting up at 5:30 in the morning for work during the hottest day of the year is not so much fun. After raking 86 sandtraps in blazing heat....I came home tired and with an unusual sense of hatred towards life. But wait....Today is my 100th win day...Things are looking up.
When I made this goal...I decided that the general Vanilla public would have the chance to try and stop my 100th win, but the rule was that I have to play the first 1 vs 1 see....no matter what the map. I'll get my 100th win on their turf, so to speak :) . The first 1 vs 1 game I saw was a hunters game (What a shock!). It was'nt mucho money...so I entered the game on half-decent note. After making the guy PROMISE that he would'nt disconnect on me...we began.
Map: The Hunters.
Me: Toss (Picked) Bottom Right
Him: The evil Terran army trying to stop my 100th win (Picked) Middle Top
Early game:
I went 7 plyon, 8 gate and scouted with my 8th probe (Counter Clockwise). With my 9th probe I made a second Gate and started the production of my Zealots and many probes. My little probe found him at Top Middle and was eaten by 2 bunkers. No big suprise there. I had few Zeals and might have been able to take him out then....but then my 100th win would have been boring :) . I threw down a 3rd gate and made a Cyber Core while still keeping my nexus busy making probes.
Soon my economy was maxed and I had 3 or 4 Goons along with my 10 or so Zealots. I decided to go for my first expansion. I decided to take my natural expansion just outside of my choke. and threw the bulk of my forces up there to defend it.
I returned attention to my main base...and began 2 forges for upgrades while making probes for my expansion. I made goons here and there and got the range upgrade for them. Suddenly, I see a group of a 12+ marines headed towards my expansion in single file! I move my Goons and Zeals to intercept the attackers. He did'nt attack/move them so I got a few free hits. They then began to attack my one cannon warping in and my guys still got off some more hits. He destroyed the warping cannon (I did'nt cancel it...my guys were getting free hits here :) ) and destroyed them without a loss. Instead of making another cannon to replace the lost one...I made a shield battery in it's place.
The expansion was running well and I has gas production running full blast. I sent a lone Zealot up to his natural to see if he had expanded yet. No expansion yet...so I parked him there to watch for one. I made a 4th gate back at my main and a robo fac for oberservers. I was constantly making goons and soon had a small pile of them. He decided to attack again me again with around the same number of marines. My lone Zeal at his natural saw this attempt and got off a few free hits as he did'nt attack/move again :P . The marines then focused fire and killed my Zealot off. No matter. Once again the Marines arrive single file...but this time he attack/moved them. My Army made short work of them with the loss of one goon.
With this second attack done....We enter the mid game phase!
Mid-Game: I had Observers now and I also made a Citadel and Archives for more goon upgrades. I put my observers on patrol around the map to find no expansions. I was now pumping goons from 5 gates and had my 2/0/2 researching. I scouted his base with a probe and found he had a few tanks at his choke and some turrets. The sides of the base were clear and he had a good amount of SCV's. I began the production of another robo fac and robo support bay for reavers. I was planning the old Reaver drop. At this point...I had around 106 supply and I was constantly having to make plyons.
I wanted to finish him with some power so I kept up my Goon production. My two Reavers and shuttle were FINALLY done, and I decided to run them up there. My Observer was killed a short time ago when a SV spotted it. I attempted to fly around the side...but he had surrounded himself in turrets. Great. I parked the Shuttle just outside of his base and tried to scout his choke. Due to many turrets...my obersver was unable to really estimate his numbers. I decided to attack with my goon army and hopefully finish this :) .
Unfortunatly....he had about 10 tanks seiged at his choke and my mass goon attack was futile. I pulled them back after taking a few losses :( . While cursing about Terran Turtles I threw down 4 Starports and a Fleet Becon :) . Reavers would be useless...as the tanks would eat them alive. I saw I had 600 gas left at my almost mined out main and expanded to to the mid-right start location. I got gas going, transfered the probes and began Carrier production.
Late-Game:
Well...I have 4 carriers and the rest of supply was in Goons. I was at max now and moved in for the kill. As I moved up....a lone wraith attacked my shuttle I had left there. I simply ran my shuttle back into my advancing goons who took out wraith quite quickly. He knows I'm comming....but who really cares about the element of suprise here. After all...I'm cracking a well defended turtle....not launching a sneak attack. I move in with carriers and begin my assult!
I had to pull back and regroup my carriers a few times, because his mucho defences were killing all my intercepters (yesh). My goons in the back were waiting for the sign to attack from me as I finally finished off the choke defences. I had to pull back 4 times I think to make more intercepters. The last tank is blown up and I move in the ground troops. I'm just kickin the crap outta his main and he leaves without saying a word. Did'nt even say congrats on my 100th win....very rude indeed!
This victory screen comes up....but I continue taking out his main getting those pics :) . Looking back....I could have beaten him by using stasis on his tanks, but I think the Toss victory Fleet was a fitting for my 100th win.
Yeah baby....100th wins feel good!
Lessons learned about Vanilla:
-Vanilla does'nt have just a few a newbs here and there...it's just swarming with them.
-If you play against Zerg in Vanilla....expect a 4-pool. It happens to me quite a bit. I was at Battle.net the other day checking out the old Vanilla Forum. Some guy wanted a good Zerg BO....and another guy posted how to do a 4-pool. *sigh*
-Vanilla can be VERY annoying! I always had people to play games with untill I hit the 90 wins mark. For 3 straight days...every single game was hunters or hunters related. That's all anyone there played or joined. And if the map was'nt hunters...it was a 5 vs 1 Compstop or something. It's very frustrating trying to get a quick game of Road War or something in and you can't find another player for over an hour! When I made my games I had to name them "1 vs 1 Please Play". And even then...it was hard to get a non-BGH match going.
-BGH was the BIGGEST mistake blizzard ever made. It has turned Bnet into a real joke for public games. I wonder if Kali net has the same problem?
-Don't a make a wins goal like I did. It's suprising how less enjoyable SC is when you force yourself to play sometimes....and when a person disconnects on you after an hour of game play, when you are killing his main...you just wanna beat the shit outta somebody.
I'm planning on writing maybe one more Newbie report and possibly calling that quits. I've played just about every type of newbie that exists and there is nothing new coming out of that area for me. Besides, I'm looking for well fought games here...not push-overs. I have a new Vanilla pal and we played a wicked 2 vs 2 an Char magma together...I'll post that one later as well. It was quite the game.
Well...that's it folks. I'm gonna take a break from SC for a little while. But as for right now...I'm gonna celebrate with a cold beer. Later.
(Sorry Flint, couln't get HTML, and congrats on your 100th. Wouldn't it suck if I told you that was my spam name and I was giving you your win? LOL. BWAHAHAHA
-Holy) | | Battle Shots! | 
My first Expansion guarded by some troops
I hold off the second marine attack on my expansion with ease :) .
Its tank time in Tankville
Repair! Repair!
This ones for Auir!
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