"you wanted to rustle mah scorpions"
-Jamellan
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| Don't ever play FFAs in Melee | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/13/99 08:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for BadGuy(tm): 6.4286 |  | We all know what happens when you do that, right?
Well, for those who don't, here's a sad, sad story.
Map: Boxed In
Players:
White Zerg, top left (Don't remember the name)
Yellow Protoss, bottom left (Darwin42)
Red Terran, top right (Laymaster)
(Random) Blue Protoss, bottom right (Yours truly)
I've been scouted once, by a drone (saw it go in, but then lost track of it), then a slow overlord, that came in after scouting yellow (at least, from that direction).
He asked me if I'm zealot rushing with my two gateways + two pylons before assimilator. Whatever. I go on the high-templar route, with a couple cannons, weapon upgrade, 4 zealots and 3 dragoons to kill that overlord, which I do, just as I notice the creep near my minerals with a spore colony being built. What a waste of minerals. Zealots and dragoon kill it effortlessly.
I make a shuttle and expand to high ground to the left of my base. Yellow sends a shuttle there and a war for the expansion begins. He puts a ton of cannons right to the edge (on lower ground), sends drops of all kinds (archons, reavers, dark templar)... they do damage occasionally, but I have to babysit my defense all the time. When I try to expand to the other high ground I see red had already occupied it. It's begging for a drop, and I start to gather one, but I'm constantly harrassed by yellow's attempts. 12 guardians come in without support, to pound on my expansion's cannons. I storm them to death, then a dropship drops two ghosts, two nukes start, one storm stops both. I get a corsair, a scout and a carrier, trying to spend my money away asap. The rest of the game I'm fending off yellow and red's harrassment in form of nukers and droppers. The Zerg disconnects half-way through the game.
I make one dark archon, it gets parasited. Caught in micro nightmare, I don't make enough observers and don't have the time to stop a couple nukes on my front door. I kill the ghost post-humously, slaughter a bunch of marines and so on but the pressure never stops. I rebuild the cannon + pylon once, twice. "Go nuke someone else". Red (Laymaster) responds "I concentrate on one person." I go and do my half-hearted drop, with a ton of hallucinated carriers to distract 5 turrets there. Somehow he could tell real ones apart and wraiths killed everything while zealots were too busy killing the expansion that already dried out. After I lost that force, he started nuking from the high-ground (something he should've done a lot earlier), and this is the reason I hate fastest speed so much. I knew where the ghost is, I have the spellcasters to kill him dead, but no observer nearby, thanks to yellow's harassment. Nuke by nuke I lose my main. My expansion is out of minerals and that makes it a game for me.
I tell them that I concede and I would like to watch the game from now on as an observer. That doesn't do anything, nukes continue, I stop one, the other lands. My observers help, but then a wing of wraiths and a science vessel hunt them all down. Shortly thereafter the yellow drops two archons (again). My 2 leftover goons and cannons take them out. I tell him to attack something else, because there's nothing in my expansion left anyway. Another nuke kills off most of my buildings, I'm left with one dragoon, one observer, one dark archon, one pylon, one cannon and one cybernetic core. Two reavers land and kill 4 ghosts who just landed to nuke me again. I mind control one reaver, then send the dragoon to help kill the other. I say, once again, that I surrender and would like to see the rest of the game.
The response is two shuttles unloading goons and a wing of wraiths, attacking me at once. Darwin42 gives a strange, shameless plug about some clan website, it had sclegacy in its long http addy, that's all I remember.
When I'm eliminated, the game ends instantly, both of them quit.
I message Laymaster asking what it's supposed to mean. He said they allied because he's too tired to play (Right!), and doesn't know what's the deal with Darwin42's clan thing. Darwin quits b.net before I can msg him.
For the record, I never heard any kind of conversation between Laymaster and Darwin42 regarding an alliance. It is true, I saw the ghosts bite the dust with reaver's help; but I also saw the game end when I was defeated.
Lessons learned:
- Do not play a free for all in melee mode. You will get double or triple teamed.
- Nukes are easy to stop, if you're not under attack.
- Good skills don't make a good player. |
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