"Holy shit it worked"
-[5th]Krebster
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| Mark4 vs Ghost~Lizard. Meow. | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 08/26/99 08:08 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 7, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for -=DarkHawke=-: 6.0357 |   | Hello all! First of all, I'd like to let you guys take a look at myself. Look at my profile,my allies and rivals, Here .
Ok, with that done, let's begin with the pregame discussion.
Ghost : Own me fast please
DarkHawke : Hey mark, how many magums you have?
Mark4 : Couple =]
DarkHawke : Could you send me a couple?
Mark4 : Not in mail. You'll have to pick them up.
DarkHawke : AH. Oh well :) Let's go.
The starting locations, the races, and colours.
Mark4 is a Teal Protoss, In the bottom right landing plateau.
Ghost~Lizard is a Orange Terran landing at the Top Right landing plauteau.
At the beginning, there were 2 more observers besides me.
4 seconds into the game, 2 left because of lag. Then, as if we all upgraded to t3's, the lag was gone and it was a very nice speed.
I was suspecting Ghost to go for a fast dbl factory rush with vultures mining the map, trying to contain, then tank push. Well, I was partly right with the vultures. Heres the build orders :
Ghost~Lizard tells his scv to construct a supply depot at 8.
After that supply depot has finished its contrustion, the scv continues with a Barracks. When the barracks is 3/4 done, a scv is hauled off the task of mining minerals and is told to construct a refinery. Around now, Mark4's scouting probe enters Ghost's base, runs around for a second, and goes back home. I was disappointed when he didn't :
- Steal Minerals
- Attack the scv mining minerals =[
Ah well, no one's perfect :).
Back to the Protoss encampment. Mark4 had a pylon ordered in on the 8th probe, followed by a gateway. After the gateway had finished, another pylon was constructed followed by a assimlilator. Appearing to be teching, he followed up with a cybernetics core.
Ghost, appearing to be doing the same, ordered up a factory to be contrusted, another supply depot, and a second factory. A bunker was constructed on the ramp of his chokepoint for defenses of a early rush I guess.... 4 marines were loaded into it.
Mark4, not even having 1 zealot when ghost had 6 marines, ordered up a forge,a citadel of adun, and another gateway.
Appearing to have a surge of resources, the dragoon singulairty charge was being upgraded in the cybernetics core. A few moments later, 2 dragoons rolled onto the battlefield.
Ghost constructed 2 vultures and was researching spider mines when he ordered up a powerful siege tank into his arsenal. He also began researching tank mode. An academy was next constructed. He mined a bridge outside mark4's base, and tried to expand. A scouting dragoon quickly killed the scv making the command centre. The cc immedialtly canceled.
Mark4 on the other hand, was not sitting idle. He ordered up a photon cannon on his lifted ramp, and he constructed a nexus in his natural.
Ghost, refusing to be left behind in the mineral race, constructed a command centre in his territory, preparing to be floated to a nearby resource node.
Mark4 would not be out-expanded however, he expanded again!
this time to the bottom left starting position. He also constructed 2 gateways and a cannon at that expansion. He also constructed a forge and immediatly upgraded weapons.
Mark4 never slacked on dragoon/zealot production either.(Btw) he added a templar archives back there too ! :)
He started a couple dark templar and continued dragoons when 2 vicious high templar walked onto the battle field.
Next, Ghost lizard found mark4 expanding bottom left with a vulture, and had free hits on the nexus until a dragoon came and destroyed it. That was the only attack on that expansion.
Now, Ghost has his expansion cc completed, and has begun to push into 12:00. I say Push because mark4 had a few dragoons up there. Eventually, after a few tanks blew up, dragoon soup was poured around the ground, he took over the place ;)
Mark4 never slacking in upgrades, begins mixed troop production while he makes a stargate. While he was making this, ghost added factory #3 at his expansion and another barracks. He still never has any upgrades while mark4's zealots are 1-0-2 (!) Also, mark4 researched leg upgrade because the zealots wanted to be able to run a mile in 50 seconds flat ;p. Never stopping the resource flow , he expanded to 6:00!. Now he has 3 expansions to Ghost~Lizards 1. =[
Orange, thats ghost, constructed another cc to be floated onto his resource node, and a armorey.
The tension between both players was just about to snap. They have gone without combat for over 20 minutes, and both armies have grown in size.
Mark4, knowing that he had expanded to 12:00, sent about 5/6 of his ground assorted infantry to the natural of top left. Then, Ghost wanting to tank push across the whole map counter-clockwise from 12:00, moved out alot of tanks, marines, scvs and vultures to the same place Mark4 had all the units waiting.
Dragoons fire singularity charges, templars test the minds of the terrans with psionic storm, dark templar swing their vicious blades into the mechinary of seige tanks and vultures. Alas, vultures return fire with concussion grenades, spider mines pop up and reach their target with a ground shaking explosion, seige tanks fire shock cannon shells into the enemy, but, this battle was to be overwhelmed by the PROTOSS. Psionic storm proved to be too much. Ghost then retreated.
Mark4, having too many resources, constructes carriers into his ever-growing arsenal now. Wanting infinite resources, he expands AGAIN to 9:00 .
Another deadly silence occurs... Ghost~LiZarD not minding the non-battle moment at all, and knows how many expansions mark4 has, expands to his natural expansion.
A golaith scouts mark4's natural expansion, see's a giant blob, and all of a sudden his mind changed to the ways of the protoss.
* The giant blob was a Dark Archon for the newbies out there ;) *
Now , Ghost being not very fond of carriers, knows it's now or never for the terran. 12 tanks, 20 marines, 10 golaiths and a couple ghosts w/o lockdown push down through 9:00 , then, they find themselves on a bit of terrain before the bridge to mark4's natural. Tanks set up into position, and ,
mark4's golaith goes scouting to see when the attack will arrive, is blowen in to the big factory in the sky.
Carriers blow away tanks and golaiths, and in about 5 storms, the attack is no more. He never lost a thing.
Wait! Whats that?
" Nuclear Launch Detected! "
Hahaha. If ghost was a smart person ( no offense :) jk ) he would of targeted the carrier, making the dot invisible until the carrier moved. BUT NO The red dot has to go next to the carrier , mark4 instantously retreats every unit, and in a few moments later, puffs of auir smoke is on a couple of buildings. Arbiter and templar and carriers remain intact.
But, Mark4, all during the attack, plunged all his infantry that were at top left, into the almost defenceless 12:00 expansion!
Ghost has no guys there since the attack on his main!.
Ghost kept on attacking with like 10 golaiths and more marines and more medics, but with resoucces coming from only 5 mineral patches, didn't even compare to mark4's 5 expansions. Eventually running out, Ghost~Lizard no longer had suffiecent minerals to even compare to the amount of troops mark4 had.
Ghost Lizard : I guess i'll call it a gg
Mark4 : no wait!
Ghost : what
Mark4 : I want the entire terran tech tree :)
I looked around for a mced scv, and in the top left starting position , a barracks was making 8],
ah well, ghost didnt really care;) and promplly said " gg" and left.
It was a very close game, and ghost might of had it if he pushed across the map with nukes, tanks,lockdown and marines :)
Oh well
Lessons Learned
- Don't send all your units attacking in clumps.. Ghost knows that now :)
- Psi-storm , if carefully used, can devasate up to 15 marines in one shot.
- Don't let toss expand! Do whatever you must to make them have none or one!
- Dont mention my pics. I screwed around with the .jpg quality a bit too much =[ sorry.
Oh well, gg.
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