I wrote down YourRoleModel�s advice of "If you lose all your buildings and units you�ll lose on a 3"x5" notecard that I take out and read before every game."
-AQD3
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| The 2v2 Party at Ground Zero | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 05/11/99 09:05 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for XTreme: 6.0000 |  | Before hand, let me point out that this is my first battle report. Just try and bear through it =).
What started out as a typical 2v2 game soon became a blood bath... The map was Party at Ground Zero. Neither me or my partner xNailx was familier with the map. Our opponents were 2 guys who I believe knew eachother.
[MM]-XTreme(ME) - Zerg - lower right
xNailx(PARTNER) - protoss - middle right
Blue(ENEMY) - protoss - upper right
Yellow(ENEMY) - zerg - upper left
I started off the game with a fast hatchery build order. I built up to 9/9, and canceled a few extractors to get extra drones. I began a pool, followed immediately by a second hatch. Nail started off with a standard gateway followed by forge, but that didn't last long...
Yellow Zerg ran across Nail's base with about 8 zerglings. With a zealot and his probes, Nail bravely fended off the attack. However, the battle was costly and left him with only 2 probes. He requested my assisstance. The problem was I myself only had a couple zerglings because I was concentrating on build up a few sunkens. Then Nail was in BIG trouble. He noticed some cannons warping in above his minerals, and when he went to look, blue and yellow had a large force prtecting the cannons. Again he requested my help.
With 10 zerglings, I thought about attacking the cannons, but decided to counter attack blue protoss. I ran across the map and arrived at his base, only to find a cluster of cannons lying in wait for me. My zerglings took out a cannon but died to more cannons and a few Zealots.
At this point, sadly, Nail was beyond help. His base was ravaged by Zealots and offensive cannons at the same time yellow's zeglings. I realized that Nail was going to die and knew that I would have to take out both of these guys myself.... if i could.
I began an extractor immediatley and started goin for hydras. I thought about expanding, because I only started with 6 mineral patches. Much to my suprise, however, each patch had 3500 minerals! I put expanding to the side and put up a hydra den and 3rd hatch as the words 'xNailx has been eliminated' flashed across the screen.
When the hydra den was done I began to upgrade the movement speed right away, while starting to build some. As soon as I had 12, I upgraded the shot range, and prepared to attack blue protoss. However, at the exit to my base, I found a suprise. 2 cannons and 3 zealots were there waiting for me.
I backed off and got a few more hydras, while starting a lair. I then used some hydras in 'hit and run' with the zealots, and managed to kill them without losses. I easily killed the cannons afterward. My victorious Hydras advanced toward blue's base.
The first thing I noticed when starting my attack was that the bases had no real choke points, so I could attack from any direction I wanted. I began the attack from right below his nexus, and noticed he had a loose ring of cannons surrounding his base. I gradually moved the Hydras in a circle, killing off all the cannons one by one. I eliminated at least 8 cannons in this fasion before dragoons finished me off.
I now knew that blue had a large whole in his defense. I upgraded Overlord speed and Transport. I had somewhere around 48 hydras, and knew an attack would have to be made. Blue had not yet had enough time to reinforce his defense by my figuring, so, I loaded up about 6 overlords and headed for his base.
I hit a problem along the way. I ran into yellow's hydra group outside my base and lost an overlord. Still, I headed for blue's main. When I arrived, I was greeted by a few dragoons and some carriers, which I was very suprised to see. I dropped my hydras and easily demolished thorugh blue's forces. Knowing that I had taken out his main went a long way toward my efforts to win. However, he was not eliminated yet.
I was preparing my next attack when a counter by yellow caught me off gaurd! He brought several lurkers covered by hydras into my base. Very shocked I was as my mere 8 hydras and 6 sunkens easily destroyed his forces. I believe he had at least 24 Hydras, too! Knowing that both my enemies were weak told me it was now the time to strike...
Finding both Blue's expansion and Yellow's gave me the idea of a 2 headed attack. Loading up 84 hydras into 2 overlord groups, I began the final attack on both Yellow's main, and blue's last outpost. The attack on yellow went according to plan as he had very little to defend his main. It was easily destroyed. However, blue was more of a problem. Using a few templars, he got off some very good storms at my hydras. I dodged them, and eliminated blue with only 3 hydras left standing at his base.
Sensing victory, I set up 2 expansions above and to the left of me just in case. I surrounded yellow's only remaining base with my now 124 +3/+3 hydras. I sent in several overlords to scout out his defense, and saw what he had. the expansion had 3 exits to it, all covered by 3 or 4 sunkens each. They were very narrow, which frightened me. My overlords were all killed by a mass of hydras in the middle, so I decided against dropping in.
In one of the bloodiest starcraft scenes I have ever experienced (god i wish i took a few screen shots! doh! =() all my hydras attacked from all sides. At first, of course, they were getting totally slaughtered. I felt like pulling back, but decided to go on. Two of the 3 exits fended off my attack, but at the third, the Hydras broke through! I thought they would die when they got to his hydras at the middle, but MUCH TO MY SUPRISE, my 12 +3/+3 hydras killed at least 36 +0/+0's! This was the end of the game now. He requested vision, I gave it to him, and then gg's were exchanged.
-XTreme
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