Hmm, interesting… Anyway, after Jigga` chose his customary protss and Orcmaniac decided to go random, the game started…

Early game: Orcmaniac starts off as terran in the lower right, Jigga` landing upper left, as both commence quick tech build orders. Jigga`, upon scouting his terran foe, commences at an early goon containment build, going pylon, gate, gas, pylon, core, gate, then quick goon range. Orcmaniac decides to go with a classic heavy metal build, of depot, rax, refinery, depot, then double factory. After building a first few vultures, Orcmaniac attempts to send them out, but a few goons stationed at the top of the ramp leading out if his base cause him to retreat them for the moment. In a slight lapse, Jigga` allows two of his goons to follow the vultures, which are promptly torn to shreds by waiting spider mines. While Jigga` adds a robotics facility abck at home, Orcmaniac adds machine shops, and son has some tanks to compliment his vulture force. Seiging up and then attacking with his vultures with the arclite support, he manages to break containment quite sucessfully.

Orcmaniac is quick to take the low ground choke guarding both his main and the lower left expansion, as he prepares a CC to float there. Jigga`, having moved his containment force back to the middle of the map also takes the time to expand to the upper right, at the same time adding an observatory and a robotics support bay, soon after adding another gate, a citadel and a forge. After loading up a reaver and 2 zealots into a shuttle, Jigga` attempts a drop behind Orcmaniac’s mineral line. Orcmaniac, having anticipated such an event, already has mines scattered around his peons, and as the reaver unloads, it eats 2 mines sending it packing back to Aiur in multiple body bags, as marines and vultures easily take care of the remaining zealots.

Following this attempted drop, both players step back to tech some more, Jigga` adding a templar archives and scattering observers all over the map, while Orcmaniac moves his massive defense force of tanks and vultures to the choke leading to both of the expansions at the lower left, soon after expanding to the middle left spot, as Jigga` expands to his respectivemiddle right expansion. Jigga`, quick to catch up to his terran foe, attempts a 4 zealot drop on the lower left expansion, but is easily quelled by vultures and nearby marines. At the same time however, Jigga` has added 2 stargates and a fleet beacon, getting to his later tech levels quickly thanks to his large mineral income. He then shows his very skillful knowledge of the map, as he ships a probe to the small plateau below his newest expansion and creates a cannon there. At first, I am purtudeped as to the purpose of this lone cannon, until Orcmaniac, also realizing the plateau’s importance, sends a drop ship towards it, almost having it shot down by the cannon before retreating. He chooses to drop his tank on the plateau below and using the drop ship to scout, takes it out. He then loads up the tank again, ships over to the plateau, and after sieging, begins to lay the smackdown on the probes mining at Jigga` third expansion.

The tank causes a considerable amount of havoc, until goons and a few storms rid the tanks stationed there. Back at their perspective bases, Orcmaniac has added a considerable number of factories and double armories as Jigga`, finding no easy way into the terran base through the front door, has constructed 2 carriers. WHEW! Lets take a step back and look at the mini map at this point in time. (note: scattered yellow dots are observers except for the ones directly above the middle left expansion, which are Jigga`s 2 carriers in waiting…)

As the game enters the late stages, it appears that Jigga` is quite content to sit back and build up a considerable force of ground as well as air to break the terran defense, while Orcmaniac is already preparing for such an occurrence by building a Science Facility and covert ops, ghosts now appearing on the battlefield. The two add to their production capabilities, keeping constant tabs on each other with observers and comsats, as they continue to build up their massive forces in the middle, only a screen away from each other, until it reaches almost ridiculous proportions. The only event of any importance to occur during this time period is a successful storm raid on Orcmaniac’s bottom left expansion, as although he immediately started to move his scvs away when he spotted the shuttle, they bunched up trying to escape and made easy prey for the templar.

the tension mouting in the center was becoming unbearable, as waves of gollies, tanks, goons, zealots, templars, ghosts and carriers prowled their defensive lines. Unbearable to the point where even the patient Jigga` felt the need to make a move, and amazingly expanded to the middle mineral recourse node, right next to Orcmaniac’s defenses! Although he manages to establish a nexus and assimilator, upon seeing the new expansion, Orcmaniac immediately launches an attack on it… The first attack of many, many to come…

And then…

The sheer power of the protoss forces wears down on the terran defenses, until thanks to incredible micro to combat the wave after wave of troops he had to wade through, Jigga` makes it to the terran base. Orcmaniac offers a very solid "GG", and thus closes another chapter of King of the Hill…

After game chat!!!

Well, Jigga` seems to be on quite the tear, now doesnt he? Hmm, 3 players, all around 1250-1300 go down, with the exception of Orc, in about 4 minutes a piece? Sounds like I need some REAL challengers… This means YOU! e-mail me if you wish to challenge: mjp_cev@hotmail.com

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