"Whoever came up with this whole hangover thing can go to hell, now excuse me while I go find somewhere to curl up into a small, tiny little ball"
-Dark-Berserker
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| Dire consequences | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/08/99 10:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 3, Max: 7, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for Alita99: 6.4000 |   | I was in nohunters last night when "Bleh.." asked who wanted to play a 2v2. Since I was the only one who volunteered, we made a public game, tvb.
Team 1:
Bleh.. - randomized to orange Protoss, top left
Alita99 (me) - randomized to Terran ("green" since I can never determine my color on the mini map), bottom right
Team 2:
Gook (something or other) - chose blue Zerg, bottom left
(Something starting with an "E") - randomized to brown Zerg, top right.
Map: Dire Straits
As the fog of war lifts away from the newly deposited Command Center, I order Hugo, one of those prissy college bound civs, into an SCV. He complains (as they all do) so it takes him a hell of a long time to get out there and do his job... He's cute though.
Our protoss allies radio in to give us the layout of the surrounding area we've dropped into. It's a whole new area of this world for us. All we knew was that there are four main islands suitable for drop-downs - didn't know if there are other natural deposits of minerals or gas anywhere else. There are hostiles in the area, possibly Zerg, but have yet underdetermined exactly what they may be.
Suddenly, the lower left screen lights up with patches of blue. I hear the deep ominous voice of a Zerg Cerebrate fill the bridge. "C'mon, Ally with me!". I send a reponse on all frequencies to try to solve this confusion, "It Bleh and me against you two". This Cerebrate has probably had one too many run ins with the UED and wants to ally with the god given superiority of terrans *plug plug*. It's tempting, but there's no way God intended those freaks of nature to evolve.
But, the Cerebrate presses on. "You said it was top vs bottom" (ASIDE: How the hell he knows I'm at the bottom of the map this early in the game is beyond me. Can we say
Map Hack"?). After many a stongly worded parley among the three of us and an unidentified fourth source, the lower left screen goes dark.
As the airwaves are getting hit I tell Hugo to start up a barracks. He'd been bitching and moaning about how he's claustrophobic and wants to be transfered into a marine unit. Little does he know, we have only the heads of these guys in carbon freeze - the barracks is just to make their cyborg bodies and armor...
Once Hugo sees the truth of the armored infantry, he tells me he'd feel safer in a tank. I swear, this civ really knows how to complain. But he's sweet all the same. I tell him to start up a factory. At the same time, I tell his bunkmate, some floozy who's been trying to catch his eye, to start up an academy. Maybe that will educate these civs to the ways of war.
In the meantime, our protoss allies report heightened activity from the previously confused blue cerebrate. It appears that the Cerebrate is thinking of starting waves of Mutalisks from the type of buildings planted on the creep.
I tell Hugo and that floozy to start Starports once they're done with the buildings they've started.
Mental note: I've got to find a way to keep those two apart.
I ask the Protoss if there are any other minerals/gas in the area. He responds in the typical Protoss way "Yeah, they are between the main islands" I send up a dropship with that floozy in it to investigate to our north. Hugo is heartbroken.
=)
We have one dropship ready and the four marines who have been standing idly by cracking jokes around the SCVs get called to action.
The communication with the Protoss executor is sketchy, but it seems that they want to destroy the blue Zerg communications network - whatever that means. I send in the boys while the protoss start shooting down the Overlords with corsairs.
The battle is short and sweet - Zerglings kill the marines, but not before an evolution chamber falls setting the zerg back a few decades. The shuttle pilot salutes the corsairs and heads home, her cargo empty.
Once all the teaching in the academy is done, I have newly trained medics and marines gathered under a few dropships. Why they seem scared of the marines is beyond me. Maybe because their armor comes from the same place the marines bodies come from. Newly made tanks have just rolled off the factory line and a couple of hotshot Wraith pilots hover over everything. The floozy seems to know what I need - she started towers, a second command center and engineering bay . She starts a science facility with the physics lab add-on.
I think I like her up there!
I communicate with the Protoss that we're ready for a larger drop - the marines and medics have upgraded armor and the tanks are aready for a large siege. I get the response that a few more seconds are needed.
I wait
and wait some more.
When we finally get the ok, I drop in the marines and medics single file as the Mutas hit the shuttle. She turns back just as the last medic drops and heads home for repairs. The drop was unsuccessful since the drop area was covered with burrowed Zerglings and Hydras. My to tanks only managed to damage one of the spore colonies before they were destroyed. The protoss faired slightly well, taking out more overlords.
The battle haven't gone very well for us. We seem to be more supporting the protoss than actually making a dent on the Zerg. At one point, I was ready to drop on the lately identified Zerg to the extreme north of us, but the Protoss deemed it necessary to hit the blue zerg. Ido and Dusty Nova were floating in their Science Vessels supported with Valkries Just south of the brown zerg. 2 dropships, each full of 4 marines and a tank were sent to intercept them, but then turned west to the blue zerg. Ido and Dusty followed suit, escorted by the valks.
Again, from my point of view, we're only supporting the Protoss advance of 1 reaver and a dragon. My men take the brunt of the damage from Hydras and Zerglings, but only manage to take out a colony before expiring.
As this happens, the floozy radios in that they're under attack.
Guardians are attacking my expansion's turrets. I keep them occupied but building towers with SCVs and cancelling them right before they are destroyed to leave time to get the SV into the fray. Ido and Dusty get there, but only one of them has enough energy to irradiate the lead guardian. The guardians turn and run.
I have some breathing space.
But, the Guardians are just positioning for a better angle. The Wraith pilots jet out of the starports and engage the guardians. More SVs come out of the 3 starports I've constructed. When it seems like we've got the guards on the run, Scourge crash into the wraith pilots. Only 1 gets out of the fray. More turrets are ordered up and for the time being, we're safe. Unfortunately, many of the casulaties of the battle were the SCVs, the floozy included.
The final assault on the blue Zerg started without us. The protoss had asked many many times for a scan of the middle islands (and promptly got them) and we found that blue had expanded to at least two of them.
We dropped some tanks and a few wraith pilots got involved in the fray. The brown zerg was sending in guardian support and just barely avoided being seen by my turrets... barely.
I sent in two wraith pilots to take them out, but they were engaged by 3-4 Mutalisks. I ordered those hotshots to ignore the mutas and focus on their mission - take out the guardians. To their honor, they died in the line of duty - the guardians were taken out by the late calvary of Protoss corsairs.
Then, the unexpected happened. The blue zerg cerebrate was eliminated - not by war, but some unknown phenomenon characterized only by the words "Gook... has left the game".
My wraiths and the protoss then converged onto the remaining Zerg filth only to have the same thing happen again. We exchange victory yells and the area is ours!
And Hugo? He managed to get into a goliath that I kept at my base for defense. Those college types DO hae their uses you know! =)
Lessons learned:
1) communication with your partner is the key to victory. I'd keep him informed of what was going to pop out of my buildings and he asked for scans into our opponent's bases.
Since I was the only terran, we were able to scout their buildings. They weren't able to do that to us.
2) Make sure you know who your partners are BEFORE you ally with them. |
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