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| ZINJer vs some guy with Tube SockZ | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 11/22/99 03:11 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 3, Min: 3
Lifetime Rating for Boyd of ZINJ with Tube SockZ: 3.0000 |  | ~B~
Greetingz...
First of all, I wanted to appologize for the no imagez. I am at work, yes I do have a life (outside of SC/BW) and my work does allow me to log on every now and then. Second, I for some strange reason... like using the letter "Z" after wordz that would normally require the letter "s" except was and a few otherz. heh.. I am a weirdo.
MAP: Diablo map.
1st player blue: BoydofZINJ
race: Random ZERG
Started at the mapz 9:00 position
2nd Player: Tube Sockz owner (his real SC/BW name is diff)
race: Random Terran
started at the mapz 4:00 position
I got onto BNET one day and none of my ZINJ brotherz were on. So I decided to host a game in the general area. Ths guy comez in and talkz some smack and his record was 55 - 29 - 9. We waited for someone else to drop with us... but once no one came in we dropped... we decided to just do a 1 vs 1.
Diablo is a strange map, for those of you who has never played on it. It has upto 5 start pointz and alot of resources in the middle. There is an outer circle and a upside down 5 pointed star and where each point of the star connx is a start location and inbetween each start point is a cliff with gas and ore (Sheeesh next time I will add graphicz of atleast the map).
I do not like the Zerg. I am not a "zerg" player by heart. I saw them and thought, eeewwww, but oh well. So I decided to go for a fast tech build order. Regardless of which type of race the other guy picked I decided for a tech build order for 2 reasonz. In this map, the resourcez are small and everything except a quick rush would run you dry. Plus since I could be in upto 4 different startpointz (assuming he even knew how the map looked) it may take him a while to find me.
My build order was this...
7 drone morphed into spawn colony
then overlord
8-12 dronez mining ore
2 overlordz
13 drone: morphed to gas
14 dronez mining ore
15 drone morphed to 2nd hatchery
16 - 17 dronez mining gas
18 dronez morph to creep (near colony)
19 - 20 dronez mining ore
21 - 22 dronez mining gas
-=Early Game=-
I grabbed a quick gas and spawning pool gas and as many dronez as i could. Knowing how important scouting is i built a few zerglinz (for a total of 6) By the time I had the zerglingz I was already morphing my area into a lair. Once the 6 zerglingz made it to the middle. I burried one in the middle to act as a scout and made one patrol the middle (just in case he was sneaky to mine the vulnerable but rich middle). The other 4 zerglinz i sent each one to each start point. Naturally, I found him and i was mildly surprised he did not blockoff his entrance and my zergling actually made it to the command center before it died. I saw 2 Terran barrackz and a tank rolling in non siege mode. No blocked entrance... SHOOT he is going to rush!
I just researched the overlordz to carry troopz so i ferried 1 zergling to each of my side cliffz. The Cliffz inbetween the start pointz can not be reach by lower ground and had both ore and gas. And each cliff i began to morph to hatcheriez.
I went all defensive... i built 6 maybe 8 new dronez and started to morph them to sunken coloniez at the choke and 1 near my base just in case of marine drop. I burried the other 3 zerglingz and left the zergling in the middle patroling so it can "see" when he was comming out. I also decided to do something different since I was expecting a tank rush i went for air. Of course, i knew I needed trusty spitterz (hydralistz). So I made 6 and in a daring move, i moved the hydralistz out of my base and on the most likely avenuez of approach. Then no rush. Hmmm... was I in error. Almost to the second, my zergling patrolling the middle died. Here it comez. He sent a few marinez out to each start point and sure enough my sunken coloniez killed him with ease.
-=Tank Push Number 1 =-
His first tankz were escorted with a few marinez. He knew the sunken coloniez could kill his troopz with ease, but he also knew that tankz had a superior ranged confidently moved in for the kill. I had my burrowed hydralystz in wait. As soon as the 3 tankz passed them, I rose the hydralistz up and since the tankz were in normal tank mode they did less damage. I got him at a good range, expecting an attack from the front, his marinez were in line abreast formation waiting for the assaultz and his tankz had yet to go to siege mode. I am not sure if he just clicked the button, or did not notice my hydralystz, he converted them to siege mode. My furthest hydralistz died with a combo fire of siege tank blast. I am not sure if he knew what happened. Instad of trying to fend me off with the marinez, he decided to convert back to tank mode. Whoa momma not one tank made it to tank mode. After the last tank died, his marinez rushed me. He lost the marinez and I lost 2 other. Good exchange.
-=Expansion of Boyd=-
I forgot about my 2 Expansionz - worrying too much for a tank or marine rush. I got them up and running and decided to grab a queenz nest and spire. I started builing mutaz like a man possessed. After about 12 I decided to look around. I saw that he expanded to the bottom 6:00 position and had some missile turretz. I also decided to morph 3 queenz as well. Knowing all too well about ghostz and cloaked wraithz. I moved 3 overlordz with my mutaz to attack his expansion. I started doing all three upgradez of the queen. The broding is very good with Goliathz and tankz. Ensnare not only revealz cloakz but slowz down the fire rate as well. Since I had a hidden spy (a burrowed zergling) in his area. I knew exactly where to hit. I hit him hard and killed his CC and srvz before he knew what happened. A few marinez appeared too late. I kiled off his expansion and I saw a science building foating away. I tried to destroy it, but ten the cloaked wraithz appeared. I had to deal with the treat. Of course he did go for my overlordz. Once he killed all 3 overlordz. I said all sortz of colourful namez about his sock colourz. Then I remembered my Queenz. I fired an ensare and poof green stuff on cloaked wraithz. Of course, I hit half of my own unitz as well. His science building made it to safety under a umbrella of missile turretz, golaithz, and marinez. I lost a few mutaz and ran away. I decided to check each of his near by cliffz. Sure enough they were empty.
I was feeling very good. I had 3 basez. He had one and had one destroyed. He must be running out of orez. My original base had no ore left and I moved them to the cliffz to mine and morphed a few to spore coloniez. Then it came...
-=2nd Tank Push=-
8 Tankz and about a billion goliathz and a few marinez poured through his base. I been so good at this point, I completely forgot about upgrading my spire to a greater spire. So i had sick mutaz. I saw the force and he type me... "good game - you are dead now"
I valiently tried to hold him off... kept building mutaz like a man crazed. My main base fell. I lost most of my mutaz. But hey i have 3K in ore and 4K in gas. I still had 2 basez on cliffz. Luckily my queen nest and spire were on cliffz. But I could not upgrade, I lost my spawning pool. Not a problem, I built. Those cliffz have very little room. So building some spore coloniez and other buildingz became problematic at best. The guy started to rant "Just give up. I got your main base I will find your lone hatchery."
-=The Reversal =-
He went in force to each start point. Hmmmm I am not there, so he was forced to build wraithz to search me out. All the while, I am slowly brooding goliathz, and tankz left and right. He finally found one of my base. In a bold move, he sieged all his tankz near the edge. And sieged them. what he was not ready for happened, my guardianz started to attack his tankz. He did not even try to run them away. He was cocky. He moved his goliathz up for the kill. Thatz when my queenz moved in and brooded the lot of them. The tankz started to fire o the broodlingz and killed more of his own goliathz. To his credit, his marinez killed 2 guardianz (bad micromanagement) and i lost 2 of my 6 queenz. He did also destroy the base. Since he had pur scouting and huge marine force, he just assumed i had a building or two on the other side of the cliff. Luckily, he did not notice the parasitez so I saw him moving. I deftly decided to write off the base. The base was in shamblez, the ore nearly gone and the gas depleted. I moced my force of 8 guardianz and 6 mutaz and 6 devourerz and 4 queenz to his base. As he was taking out my last building on that cliff i discovered he had a base on the cliff right below him with no marinez or missile turretz. In a daring move i killed the srvz and infested the command center. Which i landed in his back area and started to build infested terranz to kill his rear buildingz and used guardianz to help kill off the buildingz. At this point, he destroyed my cliff base that he found. I still had another base (the one under my original start point) and started yet another this time right next to his base, to plan attackz. At this point i believe his one and only wraith found my old expansion and died. He gave up and informed me that he is out of resourcez and troopz. I knew he had still 2 or 3 tankz maybe a handful of marinez and goliathz left and a base being slowly torn appart. I accepted his loss and he left.
-=The Moralz=-
I should have lost that game. I expected 1 rush and that was it. However, he deftly and quickly destroyed my main base and hurt me.
He could have easily won if he not only expanded, but he had a sizeable ground force and could have easily gained the middle ground and had near unlimited resourcez.
He lost, due to very pour recon, little air support, and queen broodingz.
Broodingz can also kill Terran Goliathz. Very useful if you have air and guardianz and he has ground and defending goliathz.
You should not give up too soon. Even if your loosing you may still give out a reversal if planned and executed properly.
This is my first report, I am at work, I again appologize for the swift briefing and the lack of picturez.
I just won this match the other night, and I was so glad. Several Timez I almost just gave up and "left" the game
Boyd of ZINJ
P.S. The Other guy was running around with his goliathz like they had tube sockz over their view portz |
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