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The Incredible Engineering Bay Defensive
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Author:LiquidNasty
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Date: 07/29/00 09:07
Game Type: Starcraft
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Note: Just so you all know, I am going under a different name than that used in my previous report, (Protossed_Salad) Simply put, I used "Protossed_Salad" because I wasn't quite sure how well the report would be accepted, and I didn't want to tarnish my regular name, "LiquidNasty". So from now on, I'm LiquidNasty. Thanks! :)

Foreward

     Last week, I brought you an amazing new Zerg strategy that I had devloped. You all took it very well, and I took that to heart. So, as a sign of appreciation for let's call it 'acceptance', I decided to put my brain to work and storm up another new strategy, (And perhaps provide a conter for 'The P-Factor',) this time for faithful Terran players. Indeed, after many attendant hours, I have concieved what I believe to be an excellent addition to the wide range of Terran strategies used on Battle.Net these days, (i.e. Heavy Metal, Deep Six, etc...) So without further ado, I present to you an amazing strategy designed for guaranteed longevity, and possible victory in FFA games, a tactic I have called,


 

Game

       I clicked the glowing [Join] button on the Battle.Net control panel. I wanted to test my new brain child on some more serious players, so I filtered out all but Ladder games. I got lucky. 

"930+ Ladder FFA gg"

       Wicked. I joined, and there were two other players sitting in the chat room. I quickly chose Terran, and they had already chose their races. PRAETORIAN~1 chose Protoss, and Seimi_Apina chose Zerg. We didn't say much. Well, PRAETORIAN~1 said "gogogogogo". Since the conversation wasn't overly stimulating, I decided he had a good idea. Apparently so did Seimi_Apina, because sure enough, that familiar tone that kicks the adrenaline up began to chime.

"5...4...3...2...1..."

It was time to throw down.

     As you can see, I started out 12 O'Clock, which is an excellent position to have for my strat. My opponents, albeit unknown to me at the time, were to my left and right. I was to be a bystander for this FFA. I would wait out the storm. Not embrace cowardice. I said wait out the storm. It makes it sound a lot less pussy than it is. I immediately built one SCV and let all five harvest to 150 minerals. Yeah, I know. Wow. 

Set

     My next action was as well thought out as the previous. I launched my Command Center, and collected my SCVs into a control group. GROUP ZERO! The plan was simple: I would create a diversion with my SCV rush as my CC retreated to the island to the West of my starting position. I took a shot in the dark, and hazarded that the 9 O'Clock position was occupied. Well, there was a 66.666666...% chance of it. I let them know something was happening.

Gosu. No, wait...

     I was lucky enough to find PRAETORIAN~1 in the 9:00 position, equipped with a pylon, barracks, and a respectible amount of probes. I wasted no time. Instead, I wasted his probes. Then they wasted me. But that's ok, because my CC had just landed on the Northwestern isle. With the 150 minerals, I built 3 new SCVs, and sent them to mine. After I had 10/10 SCVs built and mining, I constructed an engineering bay. I then set up defense; I saturated the perimeter with towers to keep out any would-be party crashers. With my island secure, at least for a little while, I began going mass-engineering bay. I built as many as I could fit on the island. Then it hit me. I could overlap. Lift 'em up and build another one underneath. Then I could fit twice the amount within my base. So that's just what I did. 

     After a total of 10 engineering bays, just when I thought I had done all I could do, I decided to try lifting up the ones underneath the bays already afloat, thinking that the upper ones would move to the side and make way. Not so. They overlapped. Well, it was more like they merged into one. The only thing that changed was the opacity of the shadow cast upon the ground. At that point I realized that the strat I had thought about turned out to have much more potential than I had surmised earlier. This was truly excellent. And so it begun. I landed all the subsequent e-bays systematically underneath the merged bay, until all of them were made as one. The shadow was pure black. No light was cast underneath this bay; It hid anything underneath it. Half of an SCV, for example.


Wyld Stallyns? 

     With this in mind, I thought, "Hey. Why not throw a tower underneath?". I did just that, and it was most definately invisible. I was getting bored of sitting there doing absolutely nothing but building engineering bays. I had about 30 so far. So I switched to command centers. The same principle should apply to them too. I built one and flew it over to see what was happening in my old home. 

       Well, well. PRAETORIAN~1 had just begun to make himself quite comfortable in my old residence. I expressed my dissatisfaction by flying my command center over his unprotected probes. I then told him that if I could land my command center on his probes and crush them, I indeed would. 

"I want to squish those bitches."

      Well, after my probe-teasing, he must have gotten blue-balls, because that's what started showing up all around his Nexus, definately foreshadowing the anal-rape of my CC if it didn't get the hell out of there. Soon there were photon cannons disrupting the phase of my nomadic command center. Then it fell like a sack of dead camels. 

      Back at the base, I had built about 5 CCs and merged them the same way as the E-bays. Then Seimi_Apina and PRAETORIAN~1 started to boogie down. I didn't really know much of what was going on, but I was pretty sure that Seimi_Apina was winning the fight by the comments being made.

Seimi_Apina: "yeah yeah suck it bitches"

PRAETORIAN~`: "shit."

...And so forth.

    This went on for about 5-10 minutes, when finally I wanted to see some action myself. I called out to my opponents. Soon, my summons was answered by a control group of mutalisks. They got about two turrets down before retreating. This created a breach in security. Shortly after, a solitary shuttle made it past that breach. No problem though, because the hidden turret took care of it. I was so pleased that it worked that I think I took about 23 screenshots in about 7 seconds. I wonder what was in that shuttle. And don't ask me why Mr. T is yellow in one shot and brown in the other.


Foo'.

      After failed assaults from both sides, the dust in my area settled for another five minutes, until I recieved a text transmission that delighted me. For it meant that soon I would be able to fully excersize my strategy.

"PRAETORIAN~1 was eliminated."

Match

    I now needed to give Seimi_Apina a reason to get me A.S.A.P, so I decided to help him out. Give him tips. You know.    

       With the protoss factor gone and my defensive turrets snuffed out, I was ripe for the picking. Soon, the swarm would arrive, and begin to rend me asunder. One fallback to Seimi_Apina though: Do you have any idea how long it takes to destroy 45+ engineering bays with standard-grade mutas when you can only attack one at a time? Long enough, anyway, even with the Glave ricochet.

      Sure enough, it wasn't long before Seimi_Apina started razing me. He first got all ten SCVs. Then he started working on what he thought was one command center and one engineering bay. He thought WRONG!

HAHAHA!
               
That's one down!

     After he successfully destroyed ten of god knows how many E-bays and one of five CCs, I decided to bring it to the next level. I launched the armada. Check it out:



I know. I'm like a disease.

     His interesting choice of vocabulary indicated that he was either confused, annoyed, or impressed. Or a little of all three. Either way, I felt complimented. Then he told me he took a screenshot of it. Swoon. In return, I gave him, with love, a hint:

      He assured me that the scourge were indeed on their way. It took about 20 minutes for him to clear the rest of my buildings from the map. Simultaneously sending my last two E-bays  crashing to the ground in a burning ring of fire. In that time, we had a good chat about how he would have allied with me because what I did was hilariously cool. Even if we weren't on Ladder, I still wouldn't have accepted his mercy. Nonetheless,  thank you Seimi_Apina, if you're reading this BR. 

      

     So there you have it. Thanks for reading! I'd also like to thank Seimi_Apina for owning my ass, RhinoAssUgly for dragging my ass back into Starcraft, and BeanoKing for helping my ass find images for this, notably the image of the beautiful Saragina, the Engineering Bay Jockey, who I lovingly superimposed on Malcom, her favourite E-bay. Next time I'll let my ass do it's own thank-you's.


You go, Saragina.

 2000 LiquidNasty


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