"I perform better with a larger, bulkier ship . . . ."
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| an FFA to end the day | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 09/01/99 09:09 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 6, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for [BL]Legion: 5.3333 |   | WHAT KINDA GAME=a 4 way ffa to end them all
MAP=island hop
PLAYERS/RACES=[BL]Legion,terran,7:30 = loti,protoss,5 = -robofart-,zerg,12 = mylife4higher,terran,3
PREGAME
After meeting each other in nohunters and haveing robo very upset that I had schooled him 2 games straight he decided to start an ffa. Even before the game started I knew I was at a small disadvantage to robo and loti because I figured they would team up and make me a first target because I had just waxed both of them a game before. After some treats and challenges laid down in the battle room the host hit go and the game was under way.
THE BEGINNING/BUILDUP AND FAST RAIDS
The game started with everyone going random and this left me and mylife4higher a bit upset and having pulled terran on such a small island map aginst toss/zerg. Never the less I decided that I would try my best and I began my build. I did a typcal m$m drop build with 1 small exception I also had been building a comand center and getting a machine shop add on at the factory. as soon as my first drop ship popped out I sent it scouting and discovered an early zerg expansion at a small mineral only base in the center. this island was so small that robo(the zerg)had been able to surround it with spore colonies making any attack at this point futile. I then socuted at 5 and found toss. he had surrounded his main island with cannons and shot down the DS before I oculd pull it back. It looked like loti(toss)was preparing for a long game. Not wanting to leave loti alone and wanting vengence for that empty DS I sent another one this time with 5 marines 2 medics 1 bat in it at him. unfortunmatly he had fortified almost every inch of his island by now and after taking a few hits I was forced to retreat. Wanna make it 2? was all he said. eventualloy I found an oppening in the back and dropped. the marines led by sergent bob killed multiple zeals/pylons/cannons/and damnaged others before they were wipped out. feeling arrogent I sent the command center along with a DS of marines to an expnsion inbetween me and toss. unfortunatley 2 shuttles of reavers and goons arrived and kicked me off taking it for himself.
Mid game and the decline in power of mylife4higher
Right about this point the zerg robo had been upgrading masses of hydras and was in a ragging battle with mylife at his main. My intelligence revealed mylife had held the attack but was very badly hurt and unable to expand. I immidiatly build some vultures,researced mines,set up a science facility and prepared to get ghosts. I also expanded to an island at9 that contained gas and minerals. I set up 3 mines and a turrent here and when noone seemed to take a notice built a nuke silo onto the command center. By this time 2/3erds of mylife's base was dead and intell had reported to me that loti was preparing to get carriers/arbiters. I immidatly upgraded my ghosts fully,armed the nuke and cranked out aobut a dozen of them. seeing zerg killing a fellow terran just plain upset me and from my expansion was able to drop a nuke squarly on the zerg center expansion. I then folloed it up with a dmatrixed DS full of M$M. the expnasion was irradicated with mass hydras dropping in too late to save it. Fine take it you bastard was all robo said. I didn't expand to it as everyoen though I meight instead I too the unoccupied main at 11 and set up bunked/turrent deffenses around it as I was mined out at my main and running low at expansion. for a good 15 min nobody did much of anthing other than my nukeing the toss epansion between us killing about 1 reaver and some cannons and me playing with irradiate agsint zerg and loti's templar.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Ater a while about 10 lords dropped a mass of hydas on mylife's base forcing him to lift off. at about the same time 2 carriers came to assualt my expansion. Before they could even kill anything they were both locked down and shot down right as I was preparing to hit zerg. At this point I knew that zerg and terran were teaming against me and I simply said walk away toss u don't want none of this. when the toss refused to listen I send my force of 10 BC I had been building in secret along with 3 sci vessles and a DS full of ghosts. I landed at his bottom center expansion and began to remove the cannons with yammatow when an arbiter stasised half the fleet. knowing this was trouble if he attacked my fleet now I quickly landed and cloaked myh ghosts at his now detector free expansion and preceeded to lock down his arbiter and 3 of his incomming 7 carriers before a psi strom took half them out. at about the same time the fleet came out of stasis and emp's were going off everywhere. these were folloed up by yamatows and all 7 carriers as well as the expansion fell with no losses to me other than 3 ghosts and a sci vessel. at this point all that was left was to mop up the toss as he was mined dry and had exhusted his stash on usless stuff. I at this point had mined out my main and expansion with the other main having about half left and a stockpile of 10000 minerals and 5000 gas. unfortunatly I couldn't use it thanxs to supply limits grrrrrr.
as I bergan to kill toss's main he said on legion is dangerous this was followed by zerg sening in a swarm of about 30 scourge all of which got shit down by a fresh squad of valks withough doing damnage. the zerg then said legion is VERY DAMNGEROUS. this was good for me cause it told me 2 things,,,, 1 they were scared and a scared enemy is a beaten enemy and 2 they had indeed teamed up. after killing toss I moved onto zerg. I mopped up his expansipon and moved into his main. scans revealed about 30 hydras and 6-8 defilers along with multiple scourge and colonies. I loaded a DS full of medics another of SCV's and rearmed the nuke. I then sent the 6 valks on a suicide mission so free up fome food by havinging them blast into the zerg base and do what they could. they killed 4 lords and a dozen scourge before a plague/hydra combo got them. at about the same time I dropped a nuke into his main base and killed al the hydras and all but 2 of the defilers. I launched the attack and as I anticipated plagues went off on the bc's but the medics kept playing with restorationand soon the zerg base had fallen.
gg were exchanged by all in the chat room and I was proud to show them that terran can win on islands maps as they had sensured me as dead as soon as the game started the didn't care how good I was.
lessons learned:
1 don't let people have free expansions at least make them fight for it.
2 irradiate owns zerg
3 ghosts own protoss
4 terran rock on island maps
5 invent your own tactics and keep stuff hidden this can trough people off till it's too late.
thanxs for reading sorry about no pics but it was very late and I was just getting over a hangover ;-) |
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