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| 1st BR, Hopefully Good! | | | Author: | | | IP: | pv101-16XXXX | | Date: | 10/03/00 06:10 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 4, Min: 4
Lifetime Rating for .ZepH.: 4.0000 |  |
This is text-only. Sorry about the screen shots, I took over 150, but I didn't have an editor when I was writing the report.
The day started off with me searching for ~NoHunters, and when I found it, I spent 2-3 hours reading reports and tutorials on reporting. Then I decided that I wanted to write one, so I asked 2 people if they would 1v1 and let me BR it. Merlin[LOD] said yes, then Danny.. accepted. The map was chosen, Dire Straits. Both players chose races, instead of letting fate decide. Merlin[LOD] chose Protoss, and Danny.. choosing Terran.
Danny.. landed his Command Center in the bottom left, while Merlin[LOD] warped his Nexus in the top right corner. Both players started a basic tech build order.
Merlin[LOD]: Pylon, Gateway, Gas, Cybernetics Core, Pylon, Robotics Facility, Citadel Of Adun, another Gateway, and a Templar Archives.
Danny..: Supply Depot, Gas, Barracks, Depot, Factory, Engineering Bay, and a Starport.
Let the games begin. After Danny.. built his engineering bay at the top right corner of his main, he sent it scouting. It first went to the top left of the map, and found nothing. Merlin[LOD] then warped in 4 Dark Templars, and a Shuttle. He loaded the shuttle, and also sent it to the top left, seeing Danny..'s Engineering Bay. Merlin[LOD] then warped in a Robotics Support bay, with Danny.. expanding to the island above the right corner of his main. After Danny.'s Engineering Bay went to the right some more, finding Merlin[LOD]'s main, it was met with 2 Dragoons.
Now with Danny. having the Expansion above the right corner of his base, and Merlin[LOD] having nothing but his main, it seems that Merlin[LOD] is in a bad position resource-wise. He then finds an expansion below his base, and warps in a Reaver. Danny.. sends a Valkery scouting, and finds Merlin[LOD]'s new expansion. Danny.. then sends 1 Dropship filled with 1 Tank, and 2 Marines. After Merlin[LOD] sees that he is about to lose his expansion, he sends a Dropship with 2 Reavers. After the Reaver got off some scarabs, the Marines and Tank lost their life, but Danny.. send in another tank that took care of the lone Reaver.
After losing that expansion, Merlin[LOD] decides to expand yet again. He takes the main island to the right of Danny..'s main. After Danny.. realizing that Merlin[LOD] cannot beat him in resources, he sends a suicide shuttle with 1 Tank, 3 Marines, and an SCV to take out the expansion. Merlin[LOD] warps in a forge at the newly laid base, and then the Dropship arrives. The Marines and Tank make quick work of the probes, then Danny..'s SCV lays down a bunker, and a Turret. Merlin[LOD] then made a Dark Templar in an attempt to save the expansion. The DT loses its life before causing any real damage.
Danny.. sends a lone valkery in search of any more expansions of Merlin[LOD]s. 4 Dragoons stop the Valkery in its tracks, however. Merlin[LOD] then made an Arbiter, and expanded to the island at the left of his base.
There weren't many upgrades from Danny.., however, but there were 0 from Merlin[LOD]. Danny.'s ground troops were at 2/1, and air was at 0/2. Merlin[LOD] was both ground and air at 0/0/0. This didn't look good for the long game.
Danny.. loads up a shuttle with 8 Marines, and sends it to Merlin[LOD]'s newly laid expansion. He drops his units bhind the minerals, just out of reach from the cannons. Killing all but 3 probes, then moving into the main base after the nexus. The marines spotted the cannons, and sent their brave little souls into the range of fire. Not long after being pulled back by Danny.. Merlin[LOD] then drops 2 Dragoons into the expansion in an attempt to save it. The Dragoons go back and forth, closer to the cannons each time, in an effort to lead the marines closer. In the end, the Dragoon was left standing.
After losing the battle at Merlin[LOD]'s newly laid expansion, Danny.. loads up 7 Dropships! He then sends them to Merlin[LOD]'s main, and sieging it soon after. Danny.. then expanded yet again. He then started making ghosts, but with no Nuclear Silo attached to any of his command centers. Soon after Wr@th pointed that out, we saw them going up. Merlin[LOD] then tried getting his bases going again, by pumping out probes, making pylons, cannons, stargates, and other needed buildings just to attempt to win the battle. After a few minutes with no action, we hear 'Nuclear Launch Detected'. It was Danny.. nuking Merlin[LOD]'s expansion from off the wall. It took out the cannons, and then soon after we heard 2 more nukes going off. This in hand created lag. Danny..'s lag screen popped up 7 times, and then at the end he was dropped.
When I got back into the channel, I heard 'gg' from both players, and then I started the report. I hope this was ok, in most people's eyes. Considering it being my 1st BR.
Tips Learned From This:
1) Arbiters + Carriers > Terran
2) Hamster Modems tire easily.
3) U P G R A D E ! !
4) Valkeries > Upgraded Corsairs
A report by uhm, .zeph. . I hope you liked it. : )
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