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| Vultures and Nukes | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 06/13/99 01:06 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 7, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for Necrosausage!: 7.2963 |   | I hope the pix work, Im new to html and have never done this b4, if the pix dont work, plz tell me how to do it
The map was crescent moon ,the teams were:
Necrosausage! (Terran, brown)
.kakaru. (Zerg, orange)
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Inadequate (Protoss, purple)
Uniball_Pen (Terran, blue)
I went for a Vulture rush, with 2 early Factories and only one Barracks, while .kakaru. did an early expansion (which was crucial since the map only had 6 minerals per homebase), and went Hydralings out of 3 Hatcheries
After the early game buildup, the map looked this way:
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The first attack began - they tried to double rush .kakaru. with M/M/B and Goons/Zlots, but together (Vultures are so fast that its easy to get help to your ally :) we fought it off
I then totally mined Protoss in and expanded at his gimmie, while Uniball was offensive bunkering .kakaru. with tank support, and also expanded
Protoss tried to break out a few times, but there were too much mines at his door, so he waited for Observers
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So, .kakaru. and Inadequate were blocked in while the Terrans ruled the game :)
I managed to sneak in a tank to my ally, which stopped Uniballs slowly advancing tanks. I then killed one of them with a cloaked Wraith, and thus allowed .kakarus. Hydraling forces to finally break out
Now we dominated the game, and I put up a 3rd expansion and made my 4th nuke silo, while .kakaru. built up a huge airforce
The map is taken now, no free expansion remains, time to kill...
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Boom - Mutas kill Protoss' island expansion
Doh - my nuking ghost is killed by Dragoons
Boom - not one but tow nukes fell on the choke defense of the Protoss (I thought he would kill one of the ghosts :), killing lots of Cannons and Dragoons, and my ally could simply overrun him with his Hydralings, while I sent a few M/M there to clear up. We managed to kill half of Protoss' base, before his storming Templars fend off the attack
Doh - two nuking ghosts are killed by Uniball
Double Boom - two nukes fall - one of each of Uniballs expansions
Boom - .kakarus. A Guardian force killed Uniballs bottom expansion
Doh - Uniball drops from the game :(, leaving me and .kakaru. vs a totally defenseless Inadequate
The end of the game was quite funny - about 100 Cracklings overran Inadequate, and two nukes fell - killing 3 Protoss buildings and about 70 Cracklings - what a bloodbath ;-)
Lessons learned:
Vultures totally rule, especially vs Protoss
Im a newbie at nuking, I lost about 10 nukes while 5 did hit their target, I even tried to nuke with an uncloaked ghost once :-/
On Crescent moon its difficult to build up a sizeable army -only 6 minerals per homebase and per expansion, and most expansions are mineral only
(these r no actual screenshots, I made them with the map editor) | | Battle Shots! | 
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