A [TASK] And "Taco guy" Battle Report

Greetings

This is a game that I never really intended on BRing until it got about half way through, and I realized it was a very good game, so I decided to do a text only report and make it as good as possible.

Please enjoy.

The Setup

Map: Lost Temple

Early Game

    The game started and Random went supply and then dual rax on 7!! while all three Protoss followed similar if not same dual gate builds. The first battle started as Random and his partner Drunk went over to Psycho's base with zealots and marines and started wreaking havoc, that was until Taco got there with zealot support and helped Psycho dispatch the threat. Then of course came the counter. Psycho and Taco both took all their units to Drunk's base. They attacked Drunk, but with some help from Random, he survives.

Mid Game

    This is where it starts to get real good, especially for the observer since he cant yell about the incoming threat of... oops... cant spoil it. Read on. Now Taco and Psycho both have expansions, while Random and Drunk don't. At this time Taco decided to see what damage he could do to Random with his about 4-5 DTs. He goes to attack Random, and sees the missile turret and is attacked, he then wisely retreats and regroups to attack Drunk. He files the DTs into Drunk's base with little trouble seeing that he only has 1 cannon, and it is not even fully warped in from Aiur yet. luckily, Random comes to save the day with M&M as well as comstat. He comstats the elusive DTs and then proceeds to kill them. Unfortunately, he runs out of ComStat and the Cannon doesn't have enough sight range so Drunk loses both of his gateways to the DTs before they walk away.

    Now, Team 1 attempts a second, stab at killing poor Psycho. This attack fails due to well placed templar and Cannons with Goon/Zealot support. At this point the game starts to heat up even more, as another assault (the best show of the game) was pulled off by Team 2. They attack Drunk with astounding force, yet are some how repelled even after he was attacked with goons, DTs, and Templar to kill the enemy M&M and Dragoons. This was an amazing victory for Drunk, (who was under attack the most the whole game), but it would be his last. After this big battle, Random begins construction of Dropships and more Tanks which he hadn't been making before, for what looked like a turbo newbie. At the same time, Team 2 attacks Drunk with all they have, and totally decimates him in a matter of seconds, luckily he is allowed to stay and watch. Random then takes his Turbo Newbie "fleet" of 3 tanks and 4 marines to Taco's natural expansion ledge and takes out the base along with 2 cannons and a forge. Now Taco had to start the most fun part of SC: 'Mining from the mineral-only because you got turbo-newbied and don't have enough money to build a new Nexus yet'!

Late Game

   With possession of his natural, his mineral only, and the bottom right Psycho starts his 6 Starports and Fleet Beacon, and begins work on his carrier fleet. At this point Random was basically just biding his time and decided to attack Taco with all he had. Unfortunately for him, they both had 3 times as many Dragoons than he had M&M and Tanks so he lost basically everything, but did manage to take out a great deal of Taco and Psycho's troops. Random continues to build even though he knows he has lost, continuing to make Tanks, Infantry, etc. About 5 minutes after the attack on Taco Team 2 decides it is time to end it. They send all of their Dragoons, along with the 6 carriers. The Dragoons are dispatched by Tanks but the Carriers remain, and run through Random's base while everyone talks about why they won/lost the game.

Post Game Show

    It was a well fought game, and all the players did great. I can only hope I get the report on a game of this caliber again, and get some pictures with it, to help everyone to understand it and it's intensity more.

There are a few things I learned from this game and I felt I should share those with you:

• Early rushes aren't always good, in this case it set Random and Drunk back

• The Terran in the equation helped out Drunk a lot I believe, and another Protoss might not have been as good

• Nexi cost 400 minerals (each). Please keep this in mind as you spend money while your only expansion is getting raped by a Turbo Newbie

• I want Pics.