"Bitchin' Bengalaas!"
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| Toss Vs. Zerg.. He Coulda been a Contendah. (long... cuz it was a long game) | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 06/06/99 12:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for 0oo0__@@__0oo0: 7.0000 |  | What a day.
Three games, and all three wins, but each one was something I pulled out of my @$$.
Map: Medusa
Me: Toss
BadGuyBob (made up... don't remember real name): Zerg
Ok, this game was a hoot.. I got the upper right starting point... my opponent got the lower left. I started out with the normal double gate build trying to get about 12 zealots standing at my ramp... and searching all over the map for this guy with my 7th probe.. I find him in the last starting point.. and this guy has NOTHING in his base.. except for a hydra den... a spawning pool.. and a lair... 3 OL's.. oh no! I realize but a little late.. LURKERS!
I immediately put up a forge realizing I didn't have alot of time... not 30 seconds later.. there were 6 lings and 5 lurkers knocking on my door... I killed the lings and used my 12 zealots losing 4 zealots... and I ran with my 'lots.. then he un burrowed.. so I got back to the choke with my zealots.... and attack his lurkers.. he made a litle ground.. but he burrowed them again.. same deal.. run away.. then attack when the poor buggers are helpless.. meanwhile I'm hotkeying and microing like mad to get at least 4 cannons up.. one at north south east and west blocking his best routes.
1 lurker survives this whole ordeal after my zeals were finished.. he starts to rape my line.. when *phew* the cannon warps in and kills the giant bug... at this point we both decide to expand.. I keep going zealots for base D and I dunno what he is doing.. I remember I've got a probe... I I decide to pull something tricky.. after I have my nexus up and warping.. I warp a pylon above his base peon line.. then a cannon.. and another.. I think.. sweet victory is mine.. then suddenly all the drones are dead.. EZ money!!! *bzzt wrong alex.. tell him what he DOESN'T win!* (I don't find this out till after the game and we are chatting but it's need to know info.. and you needed to know) he had 2 count them 2 expansions and he just moved his drones there. my cannons, and my pylon.. were worthles...
So, I go to setting up my expansion.. upper left... right after I get 12 probes and about 8 more zealots there for D... suddenly about 10 hydras show up to draw the zeals.. and 5 mutas support them.. I lose the expansion after a few failed attempts at cannons.. I immediately switch to goons. (by now I have also set up another gateway and gotten the netix core... I had about 1000 gas in the bank... I was so busy trying to O cannon, then set up the exp... I didn't think about goons.)
I figgure I'm lost... but I expand one more time.. maybe with enough cannon support and a few goons guarding the perimeter I could expand to the middle.. so I go robotix factory and a bay.. making a shuttle and expanding to the middle as quickly as possible.. I manage to have that for about 7 mins before a chorus of 12 guardians, 12 mutas, and 12 devourers beat my base down.. I figgure I'm in for the long haul to defeat now.. but I'm not going down without a fight...
I build about 8 more cannons all around my base.. and I expand to my natural... going for mins.. gas is just welling up in my base.. I have just a little over 9000 and I Don't know what to do.. then I think DUH TEMPLAR! I have the templar requirements.. I also have all of my upgrades.. and with grim determination I step to meet my maker. he comes in with his force that whipped my central expansion. by then I had about 6 temps that were good to go on the psi.. 1 had enough energy to go 2 times. his force doesn't survive the ordeal.. and 2 cannons go down.. I rebuild them.. I'm outta mins now at my first point.. and my shuttles are gone.. there's no way I'm trying to expand again... to costly... my natural is running out... but I'm pushing forward.. another 12 guardian muta dev mix comes in.. this time knocking down my robotix bay and 2 cannons..
oh did I mention that he had 7 expansions and full tech by now? no.. oh well this is when the game takes a turn for the dramatic.
I had 25 templar.. about 6 zealots.. and 3 corsairs...then in comes a queen.. Boom BROODLING! she doesn't live through 3 psi's.. but life just started to suck.. I think.. "what do I have that is IMMUNE to broodling." hmm.. ARCHON! right then.. all 24 templar that were left turned into archons.. 3/3/3 archons.. beautiful balls of blue lightning... and hell to stop.. for any race...
FOR AIUR! I marched off in an attempt to end this cerebrates madness.. I did NOT know that the Archons would make the Zerg look that bad though. I tore through all 7 expansions losing 3 archons... that's it.. he plagued.. ensnared.. hit and run.. stood his ground.. nydus canal transported... defensed up... guardians flew at me.. 'lings tried to stop me... Ultralisks were innefective.. the dark swarms sprung up.. I pushed through them with grim determination... finally I was at his last base.. I started making zealots with the last 1000 mins I had... my archons were down to 3 now.. but I went in with reckless abandon... they softened up his base nicely... but didn't quite cut it.. all I was worried about was sunkens... nothing else mattered..
My 10 zealots were done.. if he had any more surprises I was done for... in they went.. he had 5 sunkens up.. I mass attacked each one.. killing each one off slowly.. Oh no I though.. this isn't gonna happen. and with only 5 hp's left.. my last zealot died!!! he msged me then..telling me he was out of cash.. and had nothing left.. he said.. and I KNOW you have nothing left.. it's a draw.. but I'm not leaving..
I thought for a minute.. then glanced at my map.. I had NOTHING left but Probes... ... ... ... Probes.. that's it.. I stormed his base with my little robotic pooper troopers...
loosing 5 to his last sunken.. and had about 20 left to slap him around with.. after a good game and a little bit of chatter to talk and laugh about how ineptly we played our games... turns out it we BOTH drew the race which we were the most inept with... he had played against zerg hundreds of times as toss.. and I've played Toss 2 times.. Zerg being my fave race.. then after about 20 mins.. the probes finally knocked down his hatchery.. GG's and end game.
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Lessons for today's class
1) NEVER GIVE UP.
2) Whoever said "he who expands the most wins.."
never lost to 16 angry Archons knocking on his door.
3) after 2 hours I realized that the probes would make
good icecream holders scoops.
4) Never be afraid to use a new race.. and if you can't
expand, keep trying.. it will "hopefully" at least get
you enough cash to try again.
Quotes.
What are you gonna do now? I've got 6 expansions...
You think I'm joking don't you!
looks like you are outta mins... I've won.
12 Archons? Hah!
that's only half.. I'll stop them! I've got tricks up my sleeve.
$#!T
This is sooo unfair...
heh, I'm outta mins.. so are you.. youre done.. guess were on till the 1st person Disconeects.
shit.. you got probes?!
no pix.. sorry.. didn't even think I was gonna post it cuz I figgured I was screwed.
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