Time: 12:34 pm

Date: 12/05/99

Location: Nohunters

Teams:

Tomrad and ^CoLdKiLa^

vs

King-Lewis and SCV~RaGe

EARLY GAME

As the fog of war lifted, I found ^CoLdKiLa^ starting as terran in the bottom right, Tomrad as protoss in the upper middle, King-Lewis as terran in the lower middle and SCV~RaGe starting as zerg in the upper right. Tomrad declares he is teching to a quick goon build, as ^CoLdKiLa^ says he will go for a quick factory leading to tank build so they can manage an early double team. On the other end, SCV~RaGe simply declares he will use his "Godly BO" as he creates a quick THREE hatcheries, two at his natural before his spawning pool. SCV~RaGe tells King-Lewis he will have to do without troops from him for a while as he was powering so quickly, to which King-Lewis responded he would be fine as he started an early wall in. ^CoLdKiLa^ startes his barracks and refinery at the same time, as Tomrad goes for a pylon, gate, gate, pylon, assimilator, core build. King-Lewis begins his wall-in with a barracks, 2 supply depots, bunker, and then of all things, an early CC. Neither team was looking for an early rush until a scouting SCV found SCV~RaGe with absolutely NO early defenses.

Soon, one marine and two zealots charge SCV~RaGe. They arrive to find 4 lings and two morphing sunkens. The zealots make quick work of the lings as ^CoLdKiLa^ loses his lone marine. Rather then staying to fight the sunkens at SCV~RaGe's natural, Tomrad runs his zealots into SCV~RaGe's main to wreak some havoc in the peon line. Some newly hacthed lings and the combined effort of many of the drones fights off the two zealots, but not before badly damaging SCV~RaGe's mining capapbilities, who tells King-Lewis he will need quite some time to rebuild his economy.

Meanwhile, back at King-Lewis' base, he has completed his early CC and already floated it to the island right above him while working on another barracks and his first factory and engineering bay. ^CoLdKiLa^ now has two factories and is pumping vultures while Tomrad has assembled a szable force of early dragoons.

MIDGAME

After ^CoLdKiLa^ mines his ramp, he sends 2 tanks, 4 vultures and a few marines along with 8 dragoons from Tomrad outside SCV~RaGe's natural. Panicking at the sight of several tanks seiging outside his minimal defense of lings and sunkens, SCV~RaGe sends 2 groups of lings to try to take out the attacking forced, but are slaughtered by the vultures and goons. SCV~RaGe has just completed his hydra den and is struggling to stave off the attack from some newly made hydras, but they are no match for the forces assaulting his natura as they quickly take out his natural. At this point, King-Lewis is helpless to assist his teamate as he has spent most of his money on expanding and techning, setting up double starports back at his main. At this point, as the goons and tanks role up his ramp into his main SCV~RaGe declares GG, saying "when I ho three hatch and my parnter turtles, usually doesnt lead to good things." He is about to leave when King-Lewis tells him that it is far from over, sending a measly 8 marines to save his partner. SCV~RaGe continues to send hydras produced on the spot to get slaughtered, the entire time quesdtioning the sanity of trying to fight this one out, as King-Lewis merely repeats over and over, "it is not over, do not give up." King-Lewis now has a few wraiths with cloaking and sends them over, and amazingly enough, they manage to fight off the superior odds as SCV~RaGe starts a safety hatchery at the bottom left ramp.

However, Tomrad and ^CoLdKiLa^ have not been content to sit around idly while their attack was going on. Tomrad has continued to amass goons while warping in a robo bay to combat the cloaked threat the wraiths now posed and cannons around his base. ^CoLdKiLa^ has added a star port and science facility at the same time building turrets around his base. He also takes a newly made drop ship and unloads 2 tanks to the right of King-Lewis’ mineral line a they begin assaulting the helpless SCVs. Or perhaps not so helples as with the aid of some wraiths, 12 of the SCVs combine to fight off the invading tanks! Tomrad and ^CoLdKiLa^ continue to keep the pressure on SCV~RaGe as they send a small squad of goons and marines to finish his main base, but are intercepted by King-Lewis’ cloaked wraiths, a much more sizable force this time, and ^CoLdKiLa^ elects to hold off all further attacks until the arrival of vessels and more importantly, observers. As the first observer rolls of the assembly line, it heads directly for the tanks and goons stationed to the north of King-Lewis’ base, but have the (mis?)fortune of running through Lewis’ island expansion, dying to the turrets stationed there. Immediately the tanks siege up with goon support below the expansion and a science vessel arrives to spot, thus commencing the low ground Tank Siege! As soon as the turrets are cleared out, ^CoLdKiLa^ sends in a drop ship of 4 rines and a tank and proceed to take out the rest of the expansion.

Meanwhile, fortune once again goes Tomrad’s way as a wandering probe finds SCV~RaGe’s relocated main base at the bottom left, after having conceded his main. A crack squad of goons, marines and a few tanks move to take it out, and despite SCV~RaGe’s pleas for mercy, the tanks take out the sunkens and the dragoons slowly begin to finish off the rest of the base. With a sigh, SCV~RaGe again relocates his main, this time BACK to his original main base. At this point, it is important to notice that the ONLY one who has expanded thus far is King-Lewis, everyone else content to focus on unit production. And ^CoLdKiLa^ puts his units to good use as well, unloading 4 tanks and 4 goliaths on the far left side of King-Lewis’ base. The tanks siege up, and take out several vital structures, as things look very dim for him and his partner.

At this point, Tomrad finally decides to expand, but still has his troops still at SCV~RaGe’s old expansion finishing it off. Seeing this, SCV~RaGe orders King-Lewis to attack blues main. He sends a crack squad of marines and wraiths over to Tomrad’s base, quickly raze the newly built nexus and charge up the ramp to find 2 cannons defending with 3 warping in. The marines stim and charge and destroy much of Tomrad’s main, and it looks like he is about to bite the dust when 4 dark templars emerge out of the gateways and fight off the marines, though they lose 2 of their number. Back at SCV~RaGe’s base, it is apparent he has not been sitting idle, as he has 2 control groups of lings ready and sends them to attack ^CoLdKiLa^’s base, who is in the middle of constructing an expansion at his natural. ^CoLdKiLa^ is caught completely off guard for this, and loses several buildings before fighting off the last of the zerglings with a goliath and some SCVs. However, so sooner does he turn back to rebuilding his forces then another group of lings charge up the ramp, and amazingly enough, take out ^CoLdKiLa^’s main, forcing him to lift off his buildings where he inadvertently flies them over King-Lewis’ expansions where they are torn apart by turrets. Finally, Lewis and Rage muster enough forces to take out what minimal defenses Tomrad has. Thus ends one of the most amazing come from behind victories I have ever seen. GG to All.