PRESENTS

I was bored this morning and decided to play some games. Unfortunately,
most ladder games were on Lost Temple and I just decided to join one that
went "NO DIS, NO HACK". Having lost quite a large number of games
to hackers, I was relieved that some people still had some sense of fair play
left in them. I neglected to take screenshots of the first match as I did
not expect much of interest to come out of it.

We started and I spawned 9 o clock and he spawned 12 o clock.
I randomed and got protoss and he was terran as I was soon to find out. I
sent a probe to scout and found him and apparently he was going mass marines
and probably fork to deep six from there. I immediately plopped down my cybercore
and assimilator, seeing as he had 2 raxes training marines non stop. I also
began training 2 zealots from my gateways to ensure that he would not peek
into my base, but alas his SCV managed to sneak a peek at my cybecore before
perishing under the punishing blows of my zealots. He did not have any detection
and I was aiming for the insidious Dark Templars, hoping that they will win
the game for me. If they do not wipe him out, they will at least contain him,
seeing as he did not go metal, leaving him vulnerable to Dark Templar containment.

I sent 4 probes to begin mining gas the moment the assimilator
finishes warping in from Aiur, meanwhile I warped in a forge in preparation
for photon cannon deployment. I sent a probe to the 6 o clock main in order
to expand, I began with a pylon a few squares away from the choke and some
cannons at the same distance so as to not make easy targets for his soon to
arrive tanks. Meanwhile at my main, my 2 zealots were soon joined by 1 dragoon.
With this small force I hoped to buy time for my Dark Templar assault. Soon,
the cybercore was joined by a citadel of Adun and later a Templar Archive.
With my 2 gates, I immediately began Dark Templar production, with my surplus
gas, I began to research psi-storm while warping in another gateway.

I sent in a probe to check out his main again, unfortunately
the poor probe was dispatched by a horde of marines at his choke. Before the
probe expired I saw that he had an engineering bay and was laying out turrets.
The usefulness of my Dark Templars halved, I decided to park the duo outside
his main, while I began to macro goons and wait for psi-storm to finish researching.
By now, I had 4 gateways and they were producing an assortment of zealots,
dragoons and templars. I had 1/1 attack and armor upgrades while he had +1
infantry attack.

I harassed him with my Dark Templar to prevent him from expanding
while I warped in a robotics bay and soon an observatory. He had unknown to
me expanded to the top left island, I soon found out when an observer I sent
there was popped by turrets. It was then I decided to send most of my force
to the center of the map along with observer support. I also on finding out
he had no defence for his SCVs, decided to storm raid his supply line. The
shuttle flew in and dropped it's deadly cargo, 1 dragoon and 1 templar, the
templar managed to let off 2 storms before his men caught on, the moment his
men began to attack my dragoon, I had the shuttle pick up the high templar
and escape with him.

Meanwhile, he was attempting a raid of his own, with dropships
sent towards my 6 o' clock main. Unfortunately for him, my main army was at
the center of the map and his dropships were destroyed. Right after that he
accused me of maphacking, I denied it and he said that terran is not his race
and he wanted a rematch. I agreed to it, but before that I wiped out his main
base with random infantry and won the game with the following statistics.
His Bnet login was removed so as to not publicly offend him.

My men were at 2/1 and his infantry was at 1/0 while his tanks
were at 1/0.

I picked terran this time and spawned at 9 again! He spawned
at 12 again and must have gone insane with grief over his previously loss.
He had picked zerg and I did my standard zerg build. 8 rax, 9 depot, then
bunker with more raxes and depots to follow. I found his base with SCV#10,
and Deon spotted a little ole spawning pool emerging. As expected his lings
came and were mowed down by my 1 marine chilling in his cozy little bunker.
He did have some help from some SCVs repairing the bunker though, while the
attack went on, I managed to build another depot and was constantly pumping
out marines. When the attack ended, I had 3 raxes and quite a number of depots.
As shown below =)

Then I decided to attack him and I emptied my bunker and sent
a total of 6 marines to his base. As they entered, they saw that his base
was defended by sunkens, so I microed them around and behind his minerals
and proceeded to own an OL and his extractor as shown below. He was swearing
at that point, and I pointed out to him his complete lack of manners =P by
owning his drones right after his OL and extractor died. The extractor had
to go first as I had no mobile detection and I was pretty sure he wanted to
go lurkers.

Ouch eh? While he was preoccupied with the 4 valiant marines,
I did this! =) It seriously put a dent into his plans of sending 12+ lings
to attack my undefended base.

Ah well, right after his lings died, I sent in a bunch of marines
and blitzed him, didn't need medics for that =)

He was sooooo angry that he promptly left without saying good
bye. But it was a good game all in all, and I ended the game with 1/0 marines.
While he had speedy lings apparently. This is the second time I am BR-ing
so please DO NOT FLAME me, unless of course you are an OLD FLAME, but that
is a completely different matter I guess.