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  No one
appears to be planning any sort of early game rush
and the first several minutes of the game go by
quietly. Finally, Dragon[DF] completes his tech
to dark templar and sends two of the cloaked
killers along with his four zealots in the
direction of Ghost[RT].
Now you might wonder why would one attack a zerg
who has overlords when there is a terran within
easy striking distance. Dragon[DF] later commented
that he thought the zerg might not have his
overlords near his sunkens. At any rate the four
zealots and two dark templar charge up the ramp.
Seeing three sunkens and some freshly spawned
hydralisks the zealots immediately turn around and
head back. The dark templar charge forward but
unfortunately there is an overlord near the
sunkens and both templar are quickly
annihilated. Undeterred
by his lack of success, Dragon[DF] continues to
produce dark templar and soon sends four of them
to try their luck with Cantaloup[RT]. As it so
happens the terran commander has made the
unfortunate decision of placing eleven marines and
three medics at the low ground choke to the
natural far away from his ramp. Needless to say it
wasn't pretty. After slaughtering the marines like
cows at the butcher's or some similar analogy, the
four dark templar continue to Cantaloup[RT]'s main. Up the
ramp they find one turret 5 marines, a firebat and
two medics. The following battle was complex and
somehow it involved losing four dark templar to a
hand full of infantry. Essentially what happened
was the first two went into the base one at a
time, the first one  attacking
and killing two marines while being killed by the
fire bat. The second, targeted the firebat but
there were still three marines hitting him and
with the two medics healing the firebat won. The
next two dark templar which had been delayed
finishing off the medics outside the base managed
to kill off two of the three marines but with the
help of a medics wall the last marine finished off
the fourth dark templar as he was about to take
his lethal swipe. While
all this was going on there was also some
expansion grabbing. First LeLa[DF] who had been
completely quiet so far, took the north-west main.
Her partner, Dragon[DF]
made the curious choice to expand to the
north-west natural just below his partners
expansion. Meanwhile for the rebels, Cantaloup[RT] constructed a
second command center and floated it to the
southern plateau in the center of the
map. |
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Now, LeLa[DF] has
finished her fast tech to science vessels and is
ready to get into the action. She leaves her base
with one science vessel a good amount of marines,
medics and firebats and a siege tank. Meanwhile
Ghost[RT] has made the
unfortunate and quite bizarre decision to expand
to the western gas expansion in the center of the
map. This short lived expansion finds itself
directly in the path of the terran army. The few
hydralisks and one queen there to defend evacuate
to the east while some of Dragon[DF]'s forces
consisting of an archon a few dark templar and
some dragoons come up from the south to help
finish it off. The
combined dominion forces now head south towards
Cantaloup[RT]'s main.
Dragon[DF]'s forces go
in first accompanied by a couple of medics. Cantaloup[RT] is a clever one
however. He has mined the path to his base and put
several tanks on the ledge. The protoss forces,
consisting of three dragoons, an arhcon a few
zealots and a couple dark templar take heavy
casualties to mines and tank fire. About two
thirds of the way to the ramp Dragon[DF]'s forces meet up
with Cantaloup[RT]'s
reconstructed medarine headed the other way. What
left of the toss troops, two zealots and a dark
templar, now turns around and heads out. The
medarine gives chase killing both zealots before
they can escape. At
the end of the choke however, Cantaloup[RT]'s medarine
finally meets up with LeLa[DF]'s troops. LeLa[DF]'s army outnumbers
the rebel commander's but Cantaloup[RT] still has a
siege tank raining fire from the ledge. The
decisive factor in the battle however is Dragon[DF]'s one remaining
dark templar. Cantaloup[RT] finally comsats
and kills the dark templar but by then his troops
are now outnumbered almost two to one. Cantaloup[RT]'s forces are
destroyed but what's left of LeLa[DF]'s troops retreat
under the continued tank fire. Dragon[DF], not pleased with
the last assault, gathers his troops together and
tries again. This time the protoss commander goes
in with an archon, three dragoons and a dark
templar. All the spider mines were cleared during
the previous battle although the troops are still
fired upon by tanks as they approach Cantaloup[RT]'s ramp. At the
ramp they are met by a squad of about eight
marines. The archon who's shield has already been
blasted away by tanks pops quickly. Ghost[RT] sends some help in
the form of a queen which is able to ensnare a
couple of the goons and Cantaloup[RT] gets another
tank sieged behind the marines. The dragoons and
dark templar thus fall
easily. |
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During the short lull in the action Ghost[RT], determined to get
a gas expansion has morphed a hatchery at the
eastern center gas. This expansion looks doomed to
a similar fate as the first however, as a large
group of LeLa[DF]'s
medarine accompanied by science vessels is headed
towards it. The medarine collides with about eight
hydralisks in the narrow passage way between the
two center plateaus. Ghost[RT] manages to get off
a nice ensnare with a queen hiding on the southern
plateau over Cantaloup[RT]'s expansion.
Though this may have slowed the hydarlisks death
it did not prevent it as all of the hydras are
mowed down with minimal loss. Cantaloup[RT] has constructed
a starport at his center expansion, and a freshly
built wraith decides to involve itself in the
battle until one of the marines gets tired of the
annoying stinging in his ass and unloads a couple
of rounds at the wraith bringing it crashing to
the ground. Before
the medarine can make it to Ghost[RT]'s expansion
however, Cantaloup[RT]
comes up from the south and and engages LeLa[DF]'s forces with three
tanks and some m&m of his own. LeLa[DF] only has one tank
sieged but she defensive matrixes it to keep it
alive. In the ensuing conflict, massive amounts of
medarine are lost on both side. LeLa[DF] gets another tank
sieged and defensive matrixes it as well. None of
the tanks are in range with each other and as a
result all of them survive. The medarine in no
mans land however is nearly completely obliterated
with LeLa[DF] losing
almost twice as much. To
finally end the stand off between the two terrans
in the center, Dragon[DF] comes in with a
shuttle containing a goon and two dark templar and
drops them right beside Cantaloup[RT]'s tanks. The
tanks are easily taken out by these troops which
are too close to be fired upon easily destroy the
tanks freeing the passage for LeLa[DF]'s troops to get
through. Unfortunately she no longer has a large
army of medarine so things are once again quiet
while the players rebuild. Things do not stay quiet for long,
however as Dragon[DF]
decides to try another tactic for breaking into
Cantaloup[RT]'s base.
Two shuttles drop three dark templar and two
dragoons directly in Cantaloup[RT]'s supply line
right next to a turret at the cost of one of the
shuttles. These troops wreak havoc in the
relatively undefended area for quite a while. The
scvs and a tank help destroy the dragoons but
several miners and the tank fall to the dark
templar.
Finally an scv manages to lure the dark templar to
the ramp where several marines, another tank and a
missile turret await them. At the same time
however a small force of medarine and a siege tank
of LeLa[DF]'s are
headed at the very same ramp. Somehow the infantry
get way ahead of the tank and is completely
obliterated at the ramp by superior numbers, a
disadvantageous position and a siege tank. The
tank meanwhile, seeing the uselessness of
attacking the ramp sieges up further north and
begins bombarding Cantaloup[RT]'s gas with
sight from the science vessels. At about
this time all four players decide nearly
simultaneously to take their naturals leaving only
three bases unclaimed on the map.
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  The
next thing which happens in this exciting brawl is
Cantaloup[RT] sending
about 7 marines to attempt to rid himself of the
reverse turbochobo. These marines are obliterated
by tank fire so rapidly it does not even warrant a
picture. However at the same time, Ghost[RT] decides to finally
get involved in the action. He sends about three
control groups of hydralisks at LeLa[DF] who has recently
taken her natural. The hydras encounter a few
forces on their way to reinforce the reverse
turbochobo and quickly destroy them. The natural
itself is completely undefended. The hydralisks
take down the command center and most of the
scvs.![In the words of [ST]CoolBlood, 'Shit, its a trap'](users/WWC3/wstorms/hydras2.jpg) Seeing
the well defended terran ramp the hydras think
better of trying to advance into LeLa[DF]'s main. Instead they
turn around and begin to exit the natural the way
they came in. However at the end of the choke they
encounter a tank and a small medarine force
heading in the opposite direction. At the same
time another tank, about ten infantry units and
three science vessels head down the ramp and begin
sandwiching the hydralisks. To add to the mayhem,
shuttle boy, Dragon[DF], brings a shuttle
in with a few dark templar. The hydralisks finally
break out of the trap and return to base but they
suffer heavy casualties first. At this point in time quite unfortunately, my parents called. Because I am of the school of thought that observers should observe and not bitch I did not ask to have the game paused. My roommate took screen shots for me and I tried to keep one eye on the game. If therefore, I missed anything please accept my apology and please excuse the red cursors in the middle of all my pics as a result of my roommates chobo screen shooting skills.  Seeking
to exact revenge for the loss of her natural,
LeLa[DF] immediately
sends about five tanks and a sizable squad of
infantry at Ghost[RT]'s
main. On the way they hit and knock out the
eastern gas expansion in the center of the map.
When they get just out of tank range of the
beginning of the creep of Ghost[RT]'s natural the tanks
siege up. Several hydralisks charge and are
completely destroyed. While the
terran juggernaut pushed onward however there is a
large red blip on the radar heading in the
opposite direction. Around eight overlords pass
over the north-east main and drop their content of
hydralisks to take out a nexus being warped in by
Dragon[DF]. Once the
nexus is destroyed the hydras are just as quickly
reloaded and the overlords continue to their final
destination, LeLa[DF]'s
main. With most of the terran's forces pushing on
his base, Ghost[RT]
finds the base nearly deserted and razes it in
record time. LeLa[DF] calls once again for
help from her teammate. This time Dragon[DF] sends in about six
dragoons four zealots and a dark templar. The
protoss forces do surprisingly well against the
battered hydralisks destroying all of them with
only minimal loss. The reinforcements did not
however make it in time to save either LeLa[DF]'s main nor her
natural. LeLa[DF]
manages to save a few tech buildings by floating
them to her last remaining base at the north-west
main. In the
mean time, back at Ghost[RT]'s main, LeLa[DF] continues her tank
push. The lightly defended natural falls easily.
Then using science vessels for sight, LeLa[DF] begins tanking the
sunkens and other structures up the ramp. As soon
as the sunkens fall the infantry charges in and
Ghost[RT]'s main is
soon a distant memory. The cerebrate is survived
by a quickly morphed hatchery inside of Cantaloup[RT]'s
main. While
all of this excitement is going on there is also a
couple of interesting side shows. First, Dragon[DF] drops a probe off
on the northern plateau and warps in a nexus.
Cantaloup[RT] notices
this and drops two tanks by the nexus to destroy
the expansion. Dragon[DF] to counter this
drops off two dark templar to kill the tanks which
they do easily. Also though I have no screen shots
of this, I was later able to put together from the
mini-map that Cantaloup[RT] dropped off a
couple of tanks on the ice between his main and
the north-western natural. From there the tanks
proceed to destroy Dragon[DF]'s expansion at the
north-west natural. |
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  The
next attack is also the first combined strike from
the rebels. Cantaloup[RT] loads up the
troops he used to take out Dragon[DF]'s north-west
natural from the ice, and unloads them right in
the middle of LeLa[DF]'s last remaining
base, the north-west main. At the same time Ghost[RT] who managed to hide
two of his hydralisks from his drop on LeLa[DF]'s main and morph
them into lurkers, brings the lurkers in to
support the terran troops. Dragon[DF] brings in some
troops to help but he lacks detection and so all
of LeLa[DF]'s base with
the exception of a couple supply depots burn down.
LeLa[DF] who is now
baseless still has one floating command center and
some miscellaneous troops which finished off Ghost[RT]'s main. His
partner now temporarily out of commission, Dragon[DF] springs into
action dropping two shuttles containing three
dragoons and two dark templar on the southern
plateau expansion of Cantaloup[RT]'s. Cantaloup[RT] has just
constructed a barracks and three marines and has a
couple of missile turrets building. The protoss
troops prove two powerful for the terrans though
and even before Dragon[DF]'s forces can
finish off the command center, LeLa[DF] has hers their
waiting to take the expansion. In
retaliation for his lost expansion, Cantaloup[RT] drops a
dropship full of infantry on the northern central
island where Dragon[DF]
is mining. The marines kill all of the probes,
however, a couple of dragoons dropped by the
protoss executor, with some help from an irradiate
by LeLa[DF]'s science
vessel manage to take out the infantry. At the
same time, at the north-east main Dragon[DF] is warping in a
nexus. LeLa[DF] is not
happy about this though and surrounds the warping
nexus with all of her remaining troops thus
persuading her teammate to
cancel. Dragon[DF] now looking for a
place to expand decides to retake the north-west
natural. Cantaloup[RT]
won't tolerate this however, and drops tanks down
on the ice again to take out the expansion. As
soon as the nexus explodes, Cantaloup[RT] picks up his
tanks and drops on the north-west main again with
a science vessel for support. All that is there is
a couple of burning supply depots of LeLa[DF]'s and these are soon
destroyed. However, before Cantaloup[RT] can pull out
his troops, Dragon[DF]
shows up with five shuttles full of dragoons,
zealots and dark templar. Cantaloup[RT] irradiates one
of the zealots but other than that the protoss
forces destroy the tanks without
loss.
Things are not looking good for the rebels now.
Although neither of the Dominion commanders has
much of an economy, Cantaloup[RT] has been
reduced to just his natural and a few troops while
Ghost[RT] does not seem
to be making much of an effort to get back in the
game. As a final blow, Dragon[DF] loads up the
troops which just fought at the north-west main
and shuttles them into the northern part of Cantaloup[RT]'s main. At the
same time LeLa[DF]
takes all of her remaining troops and begins tank
pushing through the natural. Cantaloup[RT] doesn't have
enough troops left to deal with this and both
rebel leaders concede the game. Ghost[RT] sends all of his
overlords on a suicide mission into Dragon[DF]'s main, and just
before I take the bloodiest screen shot of the
game, I run out of space. Damnit.
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not
alone. I asked, not expecting to get much of a
response if anyone would play a massive ffa for my
entertainment. I didn't get much of a response.
Soon though I noticed someone else organizing a
free for all so I went to the channel that was
being spammed. Seeing six people in the channel
apart from myself, I decided to shamelessly use my
superstar status and told them that if they played
on a map I made I would report it. They agreed
quickly and I made the game.
build
anything thinking we were going to restart after
the people got dropped. It thus quickly became a
1v1 between two terrans with some character named
~LeLa~ trouncing another character named [S]Ghost.
(side note: my maps rule so if I ask you to play
on one say YES!)
Well
that game obviously wasn't much (through no fault
of the map, I might add), but fortunately for me
[S]Ghost was not pleased with his playing against
~LeLa~ and challenged her to a 2v2. It took a
while for the teams to get figured out, or at
least for me to figure out the teams. [S]Ghost's
partner was Cantaloup who played in the last free
for all but was easily eliminated claiming that he
thought we were restarting. ~LeLa~'s partner,
who's name I forgot but later tracked down with
some help from [S]Ghost, ~LeLa~, and HolyAnarchy
(who incidentally beat up on me on Dire Straits to
seek revenge for my persistent mocking 
of him
in my last report; he's still number one suck
though, hahahahaha...). Ok, where was I? Right,
~LeLa~'s partner who materialized out of thin air,
Mystical~Dragon joined the channel to become the
fourth person in our little fight. Ok lets meet
the players.
Lieutenant ~LeLa~ of the Dominion Forces(LeLa[DF]) is the sister of
the famous Major Medics of the Dominion's main
force on Korhal who's adventures are well known
throughout the sector. LeLa is an experienced
commander who's clever strategies and tactics have
made great progress towards restoring order to
this wayward planet in the name of the
Dominion.
Less
is known about the other dominion commander. A
young protoss executor, Mystical~Dragon(Dragon[DF]) (at least we
think that is his name) helps to keep the peace on
the planet as a part of the alliance between the
dominion and the protoss in this sector. He
commands both the high templar and their brethren
from Shakuras with great skill though his poise in
battle has yet to be tested.
The
rebel commander, Colonel Cantaloup(Cantaloup[RT]) whose real
name is unknown is believed to be the son of an
indigenous peasant farmer. He rose quickly through
the ranks of the resistance movement because of
his excellent martial skills, tactical ingenuity
and fierce tenacity in battle. He now leads the
fight for planetary independence.
Little
is known about the zerg cerebrate who landed on
the planet during the reign of the confederacy. He
is known only as the Ghost(Ghost[RT]) because he has
evaded death so many times to the great dismay of
the various terran rulers. He has kept his brood
strong over the years hiding in the most
inhabitable reaches of the planet. Recently he has
formed an alliance with the rebel commander to
help fight the dominion forces. What his real
goals are no one can say for sure.
The
opening builds are all fairly standard. Cantaloup[RT] goes double rax
while his teammate, Ghost[RT] goes early gas and
adds a second hatchery next to the first. LeLa[DF] walls herself off
with a supply depot and a barracks and goes early
factory while her teammate, Dragon[DF] does a standard
two gate build and starts teching to dark
templar.