"zealogoonars"
-WilliamWC3
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| Imbalance Series Part 2 of 3 | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 09/11/99 06:09 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 0, Max: , Min:
Lifetime Rating for JSH: 7.1000 | | Ghost proclaims his disgust with the Brushfire map,
and insists on a rematch on a map that he knows.
Map: Lost Temple (surprise)
Players
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Necrosausage!: Picked Protoss
Ghost~LiZarD: Picked Terran
Necro ends up at the 9 o'clock position, while Ghost lands at 6 o'clock. Both players perform builds very similar to the previous game: Necro teching to dark templars, and Ghost 2-factory rushing. They each send out a peon at roughly the same time, with Necro going clockwise and Ghost counter-clockwise. This causes the peons to bump into each other right outside the 3 o'clock position. No one knows what was said between them.
Necro's probe runs up the ramp, and past a marine while heroically eating machine gun fire. He sees all of Ghost's base before being blasted to atoms. Meanwhile Ghost's SCV has made it to 9 without resistance and relays the information. Ghost elects to make a bunker at his choke, and at the same time Necro sends out a zealot scout. It is unknown whether he's related to the zealot scout of the previous game.
Necro has finished his second gateway, and Ghost his second factory. As the zealot approaches Ghost's ramp he begins being hit by bunker fire. The zealot backs off and returns home. Necro, seeing that Ghost is defending at the moment, makes a pylon at his natural expansion. Looks like he wants to grab and fortify.
His first dtemp is out of the gate and begins its journey to Ghost's base. Meanwhile Ghost has 2 vultures out and sends them towards Necro's base in an attempt to cause some havoc. The two opposing forces pass each other, but far enough away that neither spots the other. Ghost's 2 vultures drive into Necro's natural with Necro having a single zealot to defend. The vultures kill the expansion probe (but the nexus is already warping in), then drive up the ramp and move above the peons. Necro pulls his probes off mining and attack the vultures, while also bringing his zealot over. Ghost manages to kill 2 more probes before his vultures die.
Meanwhile Danny the DT has made it to Ghost's ramp. To his surprise, a missile turret is next to the bunker. Danny attempts to run past the bunker, but perishes before he can do it. Bummer. Necro sees that Ghost is defending his ramp, and so creates a Robotics Facility to make shuttles for drops. His expansion nexus is also active and he transfers a dozen probes over there so that his expansion is online instantly. He's also begun making dragoons to counter any more of Ghost's vultures.
Ghost has already made machine shops on his factories and is researching siege mode and creating two tanks. During this his 3 new vultures go up to Necro's natural expansion choke. They sneakily plant some mines out of Necro's sight range. A few seconds later he sends an SCV and two tanks to the mines. The SCV begins creating a bunker and the tanks siege up next to it. Necro's total forces defending his natural are two dragoons, a zealot, and a DT. This could be big trouble for Necro.
During Ghost's creation of his firebase, Necro has made a robotics bay, morphed an archon and made a shuttle. Ghost sends two more tanks to his firebase, and sieges them up so that they can fire on the defenders. The four Protoss units charge into battle, only to have the two goons blown away by tanks, the DT blown up by mines, and the zealot shredded by the marines in the bunker. Uh oh. The Terrans then begin destroying Necro's expansion and most of the probes there.
But at the same time, Necro drops a heavy assault force on Ghost's base. Archie Archon and Reggie Reaver (Randy's brother), lay waste to the Terran SCV line. Only 8 SCV's escape their terrible wrath.
The SCV's run to the 3 o'clock position. Ghost attempts to float his CC away, but Archie will have none of that. He single-handedly burns it to the ground. Fortunately, Ghost has managed to save 400 minerals and an SCV beings a new CC. Ghost manages to get his two factories away, but the rest of his buildings are burnt to the ground by the dynamic duo. He now realizes that he'll have to kill Necro with the 6 tanks and 4 marines at his firebase.
The tanks unsiege and the marines exit the bunker. They head up to the top of Necro's ramp. The tanks siege and prepare to leapfrog each other, but two zealots, two goons, a high templar and a reaver interrupt them. Inexplicably, Necro has not researched dragoon range, and so his goons are killed before they can get into range to fire on the tanks. The reaver crawls slowly towards the tanks, and without the aid of a shuttle, can't fire on the tanks before being smashed to pieces. Only the high templar is able to succeed, getting off a storm that kills two tanks.
Meanwhile over at Ghost's new base, his two intact factories land at his natural's choke and begin new machine shops. Ghost also created a new engineering bay at Necro's natural, and in his new main are three depots and a turret.
Necro has four gateways and is finally able to stop Ghost's tanks with dragoons and zealots. Archie has also returned home while Reggie hangs out at Ghost's original ramp to make sure he doesn't come back. Archie attacks Ghost's engineering bay, but Ghost manages to fly it away to safety to where his factories are. Archie then attacks the empty bunker in a fit of blind rage and destroys it. Two dragoons come to pat him on the back but they get blown up by the remaining spider mines that were still there. Oops. Nevertheless, Necro's goon force is increasing by the moment.
Necro also has created a stargate and a single Scout. The Scout, um, scouts the top-left island to make sure that Ghost has not taken up residence there. He then flies over the 12 o'clock position on a clockwise journey to find Ghost. As the Scout flies over the 3 o'clock mineral line, he begins firing on the helpless SCV's, which aren't defended by the turret, which was nearer to the ramp.
Ghost, seeing the awesome power and sexiness of the Scout, concedes the game.
(Oh yeah, Necro's dragoons were also destroying Ghost's factories.)
Please do not rate or comment on this part. The third part will be for ratings and comments.
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