"Manner my bananner"
-CynicalMagician
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| Goon-ies! | | | Author: | | | IP: | athe530-XXXX | | Date: | 04/19/00 08:04 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 8, Min: 8
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It looks like every time i try to have a decent laddering season,i somehow manage to screw it and end up with an around 900 ranking.This season was not different as i expected it,and,after managing to hit the high 1050 (high enough for me) i with some kind of chobo losing streak ended up nearing a humiliating 920.Oh did i mention that i managed that in no more than 1 hour and 30 minutes?
Anyway,after having being humiliated by ling ryshers,muta rushers,zealot rushers,and other varius forms of rushers i descided that the harsh wordl of laddering was not for me...I needed a change of scenary.So i created a Lost Temple melee game at fast speed(quite a change huh?)
Soon enough a guy named Romero75 joined the game.His stats were around 170 wins and 100 losses,with a 1120 ladder rank.I was of course expecting to receive quite a beat down.The game started with both of us picking Protoss at the countdown screen.I got The 12 oclock base and he,as i would soon find out,was delivered with the 3 oclock position.
So,i descided to get my grand scheme of destruction going (insert evil jenius laughter along with "Pinky and the Brain" music here).At 7 of control i sent a probe under my ramp and started a pylon there.After that i started a...forge.Yes you guessed it all right,my grand scheme was to just turtle like a bitch until i had enough arch-pimps Carriers to wipe the temple's toilet floor tiles with his face.
The probe that warped in the forge was honorariy named "Deon" by the Protoss high commandl (thats me silly!),and was sent to look around for berries...ahem,enemies i mean.Lucky me,i found Romero immediately at 3 oclock.Deon managed to uncover the Protoss colony with a single gateway and an already finished gayser.My first thought was Dark Templars.Bah,i would have enough detection to defend that.(I'm a cannon whore remember?)
I continued my ingenius plan by warping in a gayser myself and started teching up to Dark Templar tech.Early game went rather smoothly with nothing but a lonely blue probe disturbing my cannons.Sending another probe to scout again proved my first speculations wrong though,when he was send back to Aiur by about 20 Dargoon shots up his ass.It looks like Romero (from now on mentioned also as goon-boy) has been gathering quite an army of goons outside my base.About 16 of them were just sitting there when all i had to defend was 2 zealots and 4 cannons,not even in high ground.But i had something he didnt have.
2 drop dead sexy Dark Templars poped up for my now 2 Gateways just at the time he was atacking my cannons.I rushed the Templars to battle,but not before all 4 of my cannons were reduced to rumble and my 2 zealots were long gone.Romero descided to rush his goons back home with my 2 D.T.s hot on their tails.Observe now 3llitne$$ at it's best.With my super ramp blocking,pure leetness move,i placed one templar into hold position on the ramp where the other was having a hayday taking down goons while they were desperatly trying to get up the ramp.
Yay!1-0 for the good guys.The 2 templars managed to kill 5 dragoons before an observer flew over them and the remaining goons started shooting at them.It did not matter though,i had my base defenses back up at this time and was teching to Carriers while buiding goons and upgrading from dual forges.By that time i also has my natural running at 100% so money were enough.
Round 2!
With my new shuttles i expanded a othe top left islands and the 9 oclock main at almost the same time.A probe was also sent at 6 oclock only to uncover Romer's fully functional expansion there with 6 Gateways blinking just before being blown to pieces by goon shots.
That was not good for me.Although my mineral income was higher he was producing far too many troops for me to counter,and i was also afraid of Carriers.By that time i had 3 Starports warped in at my main and i was training Corsairs while researching gayweb.
Sending a shuttle with a probe to turbo newbie the 3 oclock natural proved fruitless since an observer had clear sight of my shuttle and ranged goons soon showed up forcing me to cancel my warping cannons.
Round 3
Suddenly 24 goons stormed into my cannon barickade.The cannons were obliterated fast and i also lost my forge there.I quicly run my 12 1-0-1 goons (which i had stupidly left protecting the probes at my natural) to battle.Alas the upgrades didnt help much and my goons were slowly being overtaken by their enemie counterparts.Thank Budah for gayweb!I remembered the corsairs that i had there just in time and rushed them in.Quicly 4 webs were casted and about 14 Dragoons were left immobilised as my few remaining ones were shooting at them.The battle lasted for more than 2 minutes with him dancing his goons back and forth to avoid the storm and me taking potshots to lure more of his goons into the web.
When the smoke cleared out,i had lost 5 goons,4 cannons and a forge,while he had 24 (rough estimate) of his goons wiped out.At this time 3 carriers came out from my SpacePorts .Bah,couldnt they come just a bit faster?I though i would have my peice of time after this but the guy was determined to take me down.Before i could catch a breath another 12 or so goons stormed into my almost defensless base.With the Carriers empty from Interceptors,the Corsairs low on energy and my goons low on numbers and already weakened by the last assault,i though my base was gone.It's times like this when you start seeing ypur building going down and realise that you are just about to lose your base.So while battle was raging over my main base,i warped in 6 Gateways at 9 oclock with the thought that soon i would be losing my main and all my tech with it.I was already hurt bad and the goons were up the ramp and randomly shooting at some of my tech buildings (eventualy taking down my Bay and Cybercore along with a Gateway) i descided to hurt him equally.My 3 Carriers barged into his base from the southwest.Only a cannon and 2 goons were there to defend and i manged to take them down with no damages.
He looked confused for a minute trying to pull back his goons to defend by shooting at the carriers from under the ledge.That gave me just the time i needed to train 4 goons into my standing Gateways and get interceptors for my new Carriers.2 of my old carriers were taken down trying to buy me some time,and in the end i managed to emerge a winner.My new goons along wth the fresh Carriers and a gayweb took down the goons.After that i moved half my goons with the carriers into his undefended main and took down everything exept the gayser and a pylon before pulling them back for safety.
Bah!Bah i say!
I though i had him hurt pretty bad at this point but i was wrong.An observer over his 6 oclock base revealed that he had his damn tech back up and was already upgrading from 2 forges.The same obsie also revealed _another_ damn expansion at the lower left island.
Bah.Round 4!!!
With my base safe,5 gateways at 9 oclcok pumping 2-0-2 full time goons i decided to start pushing to his new main.I sent 24 goons from my main and 6oclock exp to the midle of the map.Unlucky again!The goons from my expansion (about 12) encountered 24 of his goons,headed to take down the base they were coming from.I had to retreat the under the cover of reinforcments and cannons at the ledge to stand a chance to that army.
His now huge reinforced army of goons (this time they were more that 30) atacked my expansion.The battle there was fierce,one of the most exiting battles i was in control of.Huge number of goons were cut down there,from both sides.My goons were again outnumberd but again,with gayweb and the help of carriers and goons from my main i held my ground with 3 carriers and 18 goons alive.
Round 5 - Knock down.
Finnaly the tide had turned to my side.I was pumping out from every unit-making building i had,Carriers and goons in my main and goons from my Gateways at 9 oclock.My fresh expnsion at my main's second natural gave me enough income to keep up with production.Soon,i was trashing his new main's naural and was slowly going up the ramp to his main.Victory was in my hands and he had not enough troops this time to stop me.More and more goons were coming from my bases.He asked me to spare him in the end and ally,and when i refused,left the game as his last tech bulding was going down...
The win was at last mine...
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