"good for me that I have storm and he not :)"
-Necrosausage!
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| Cracking The Shell | | | Author: | | | IP: | spider-wXXXX | | Date: | 03/05/00 01:03 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 6, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for @}~MaKiTa~: 6.6667 |  | I started off playing a game with my friend AEV'02 to prove 12 stacked lurkers beat ~150 M&M's. Finally he msg's his friend Shortguyken (a BGH'er) who I pimped badly last time we played. Now we all go to the same school, and this guy talks big trash. In our first meeting, he cannoned himself in and massed templar then tried to get carriers, I hydra dropped him hard a couple times after losing to storm and that was cake. He wasn't as loud after the first pimping. Ken created with AEV watching making witty comments on how gay both of us play.
@}~MaKiTa~
vs.
Shortguyken
Map: Lost Temple
MaKiTa - Zerg @ 6:00
Ken - Protoss @ 3:00
I started off with a pretty normal 2nd hatchery in my main with pool after and scouted to find him going forge trying to eventually cannon the choke in between the ramp and the expansion with a nexus warping in. I started off the gayness by making an extractor in his main, and then cancelling then running it to the expansion making it there then cancelling it. It took a couple minutes for probes to finally chase him off and he ran into cannons. I did a really dumb thing in starting a third hatch at the top of my ramp and then cancelling to put it at the expansion seeing no gate when it was like 50 HP away from finishing. Dumb ass me, I smacked myself and started it again at my natural.
I rapidly morphed in lings getting about 12 quick from my 3 hatcheries, and started gas at both expansions. I knew he had about 3 cannons at the bottom of the ramp. I would try to run past them and see what I could in his main. To no avail he put about 3~4 more cannons at the top of the cliff, killing all my zerglings before they even touched the ramp.
I would immediately morph my hatchery to a lair and pump solid 3 hatch workers. He had no offense so I would try to get mutas in his worker line while he protects his front heavily. I put down a spire and a hydra den and start on hard mutas, while sending 2 drones to expand to the 9 start and natural.
Once I get a muta I send it into his base thru the backdoor and he does have cannons.....Shit I say, and put down a queen's nest and guardians ASAP. I saw a templar archives morphing in so I knew what he was up to. With the pack of 12 mutas I have in the upper right corner I morph to guardians, but just in his sight range....shit. I knew he didn't have any units, just cannons and templar. I spread them out as best I could, and layed the smackdown on his workers and cannons. I killed all the workers in his main but eventually his mass templar got my guardians before they could do too much.
After this I started on a defiler mound while massing zerglings, preparing to go for a darkswarm/ling attack. I ran the zerglings in with the darkswarm but about 10 templars ended that threat pretty quickly.
I would have to crack his shell, he's up to no good in there and I just can't bust in.
I did the next best thing which was mess up his economy so I sent about 5 overlords along with about 6 devoz because I saw him starting or corsairs. I sent them above the 3 natural and unload 1 of the overlords intending to make lurkers from up top and kill some workers. My dumbass forgot to research lurker aspect so I just dropped right in the line, killing a good number of workers but lost everything again to storm. He had just too many High Templar. I was starting to hate psi-storm.
Since I had like a gazillion minerals I started more hatcheries at my main and the 9 main and went hardcore hydra intending to drop. I also brought my dancing shoes this time, but dancing around storms is no good when the whole screen is filled with them =oC. When I got a good force I did but more cannons, and more HT's ended that threat before it began. Still no zealots, drags, or reavers. I sent more hydras thru the front door only to get stormed again, but I told them I meant to do that, it was only to waste storms and free up food. (Yeah right)
Finally I see what he has been working on, and it hits me and hurts me. He must have found this in his book of BGH tricks, because I haven't seen anyone on temple do this before. He comes into my 6 natural with a bunch of corsairs killing all of the overlords there, and soon after the hydras start popping to blurry thingies. If this attack came earlier or with drag and archon support I was toast. He kicked the arse of all my workers and hydras but reinforcement devoz took care of the corsairs and hydras/lords from my hatches at 9 main saved me.
I quickly rebuilt and started expansions at the mineral only's in the 2 western parts of the map. Pumping more hydras and devoz. Around this time my hydras at the 12 main and natural were popped by DTemps. I was winning by far on resources, but I just couldn't crack the shell.
Another DT/corsair attack hit me hard at my 9 expansion, killing it and making its way toward the 9 main. But the 6 hatcheries there pumping hydras and lords quickly ended the threat. Sometime in here he expanded to the top island, killing the +12 scourges I had on patrol there with scourges. We also played a little game in the bottom island where I would send a devo, killing the corsiair and he send another corsair killing the devo, and I would resend a devo etc.
By now I was just fed up, he kicked my ass each battle but reinforcements always saved me. I was playing like some cow-shit (That's big shit! Just shows how sorry I was playing) this game because I didn't have any upgrades, except overlord speed and drop. But neither did he so I wasn't all that worried. I finally decided to end the game when got up to 200 control on hydras fairly quickly from my 10+ hatches and thouands of dollars. Loaded 12 overlords and sent them to the back, at the same time sending about 60-70 more thru the front door. He killed the drop taking heavy losses but had no answer for the hydras thru the front, he followed up with a gg but did gay stuff on the islands with pylons and cannons that took me an extra 5 minutes to kill.
I produced about 500 losing about 300
He produced about 120 lossing all.
Lessons
1. BGH tactics usually don't work on temple.
2. Don't forget to upgrade your stuff, if I remembered lurker aspect I could have shut him down earlier.
3. Don't try to save money skimming on defense unless you're sure they can't drop or have flyers. Make a couple creep colonies at your expansions, these really could have stopped the DT, corsair attack. The time it takes to make them if you got the money is far less than the benefit they provide.
4. With zerg vs protoss, don't expect to win it all in 1 battle if going up against alot of HT's. Sometimes you have to just throw away hydras to get stormed and win by remaking them quick.
5. Space out your guardians damnit!
6. Upgrade speed, range, armor, and weapons on your hydras if you're going to make them. I damn sure forgot.
7. Alot of your units will die if they mass cannon and templar, you have to expand and wear them down which is exactly what I did.
Sorry for the no pix, I was too busy trying to move my hydras out of a storm, only to walk into another one =oD.
Comment plz if you read, and have a nice day =oD~
@}~MaKiTa~ |
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