"But he lags like a government worker"
-VRAM1974
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| Me vs My friend in ladder | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/31/99 08:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 4, Min: 4
Lifetime Rating for Slurgi: 4.4000 |  | I was reluctant to play a friend in ladder, but he insisted that I do. His name is SandMan96 (Xenon might remember that name) and I know him Inside and out, he's terran because that's all he knows (not bad at it though) and I'm Protoss because toss has an advantage over terran.
Vital Info:
Viniala Starcraft (sandmans' cusin has his CD)
Map: Lost temple
Pissed_Slurgi: 12 O' Clock
SandMan96: 5 O' Clock
When the match started I did a quick 8 Pylon build, 2 gates, gas, then Cyber. I sent my first zealot to Sandmans base, and came back seeing a dual Rax build, no gas or anything yet, so I figured I'd only have to worry about infantry early game. once I got my first 6 goons I decided I'd risk to expand to my natural. At about that time a squad of marines knocked at my door, It looked like about 12 marines 2 firebats. He timed it perfectly right before my range finished, so I decimated it only loosing 2 dragoons.
I finaly got my Templar archives, and got a few templar and attacked. I sent my dragoons and templar in, only to get thwarted by his Bunker/tank formation.
Now, this looked like a turtle, not a full turtle as I knew he'd still attack, so I decided to expand again to 3. I sent a dragoon to scout to 9, and I saw an expansion at 9's natural, a sneaky move to expand so far from home, but then again, I sent a few dragoons to eliminate it. I knew I had an advantage in this match, I sent several attacks to his base, mostly made of Dragoons, templar forces, but those tanks/bunkers on high ground with SCV for repair, are real hard to break. I got robo tech with shuttles observers and a few reavers, I decided to expand AGAIN to top left island expansion. I decided those wussy attacks of about 12-24 dragoons at a time must stop, I'm going to max my supply and Hit him with all of it at once.
At about that time a squad of wraiths hit my 3 O' clock expansion, he killed most of my probes before my goon/observer recue team got there, that was his most succesfull attack the whole game. With another scouting dragoon I spotted the 8 O'clocks natural with another expansion, but this time I saw a few SCV's working there, so I sent 2 dragoons to kill it, while keeping a group outside his base to kill the "rescue team" he always sends when his expansions are in trouble (I know him to well) I quickly ran that tightly grouped infantry help with goon/reaver/Templar. finaly I sent my 200 supply attack, and Finished him.
Lessons learned:
When you see a turtle, expand
don't play people you know, or they can know exactly what they'll do
Templar are your best friend against terran, my templar took out a lot of tank and marines forces, and marines when the bunkers finaly popped. |
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