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| The Killer and the Queen | | | Author: | | | IP: | gateway.XXXX | | Date: | 12/06/00 07:12 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 5, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for Monty Pylon: 6.0390 |  | A Killer and a Queen
It was a cold day for a BR and I search high and low throughout the digital plains of B.net. As usual it was a slow, slow day on highways and byways of B.net. I came across a set to duel couple of SUICIDAL_MANIAC and Queen_Liz. The had started an open inviation 2v2 but, I alone came to the party. They wanted to leave and play each other in 1v1 competion but, I was not about to let go. I offered my BR skills and they happily agreed. The map was Snowbound and as I choose my terran faction, the players felt that fate should deal their cars. SUICIDAL_MANIAC drew a zerg brood and Queen_Liz was awarded a mighty protoss tribe.
It would become a classic battle of north vs south, with SUICIDAL_MANIAC morphed a zerg hatchery on the northern isle and Queen_Liz warped her nexus on the southern plateau. Peon production began and the race was on.
Queen_Liz was the first to start climbing the tech tree with an early jump to shuttles. Quick expo's and reaver drops was the plan as Queen_Liz warped in a support bay and carried a probe to the nearest natural on the right.
SUICIDAL_MANIAC choose to expand early and took his southern natural. But, he felt that a strategy of mass hydra drops would suffice in his conquests. His overlord had seen the protoss enemy but was chased away but enemy goons. The overlord now stood watch over the three main and a new expansion for the zerg. At the same time, an obsever from Queen_Liz had found the zerg main and bad intentions were a brewing.
Queen_Liz had stayed with the plan for reaver drops. However, she added the air support of goons as well as the destructive power of templar. She loaded three shuttles with reavers, goons and templar. The convoy headed north to crush the zerg enemy. On route they past a similar conoy that also had death in mind. Four ovies fille to the brim with hydralisks. The two fleets did not stray from course and the both assault woul continue as planned.
With impending doom drops on the way, let's take a look at how our contestants stack up. Queen_Liz boast a powerful mix of cannons, templar and three reavers. Seven dragoons are busy pacing back and forth throughout the base. Her natural is defended by a a mix of cannons, templar and reavers. SUICIDAL_MANIAC has several static defenses to protect his workers, but he has a consierable army guarding his ledge. It is a group of a dozen hydras and below the carpet of creep are a mix of eight lurkers and another dozen hydralisks. They are set to guard the lair and four hatcheries at his main. At his natural, SUICIDAL_MANIAC has a mix of sunkens and spore but, also has two lurkers and ten hydralisks burrowed for safe keeping.
Both drops are aimed for a decisive blow against the enemy main. The shuttles arrive and realize that an assault against the main is futile. 12 hydra will own three shuttles. Therefore, logic dictates that the shuttle preceed to the expo. The reavers are dropped just below the spore and sunkens. Scarabs tear the colonies apart and the hydralisks rush in to save the defenses. Templar stroms devistate their numbers and a few lucky storms manage to kill the lurkers as well. Without defenses the drones are eliminated and the hatchery is torn down.
On the other end, the zerg drop is dropped as the ovies are hit hard by storm and goon fire. Not a single zerg lands on protoss soil and a new protoss drop is headed for the zerg main. Four ships, filled with reavers, goons and templar target the zerg outpost. The earlier drop forces are rallied and will be use as a decoy to draw the hydralisks from the front lines. A classic pincer move is implemented, but the zerg will not die without a fight.
Decoy lands on the western part of the island. Hyralisks and lurkers are called to action. Templar storms are missplaced and the hydralisks mass fire on the three reavers. Without reaver support and with the templar drained of energy, the decoy falls. The second assault also meets a similar fate as the burrowe zerg spring out and target the reavers and templar. The drop is also made on top of the lurkers buried in the creep. The protoss kill many zerg but, they are outnumbered and are quickly killed. The reavers and templar are the first to die. They are followed by the goons who are easy prey for the lurkers.
Queen_Liz believes that the zerg are and wants to drop again. Sadly all of her shuttle were destroyed and she elects to expand again. Queen_Liz now controls the lower half of the map, with an empire that contains all three of the southern expos. What Queen_Liz oesn't know is that SUICIDAL_MANIAC is not just a clever name. SUICIDAL_MANIAC decides to go balls to the wall and expands not once, not twice, but three amn times. He takes both of the northern naturals and takes the three main. He also elects to switch gears and morphs a spire an a nest. As soon as the nest is complete, he morphs a hive. With all his expos at full speed he orders up a heavy air force of Devourors, Guardians and Scourge.
Queen_Liz is busy building her own war machine. She sticks with her early plan of drops, but she also elects for an air force. I see a stargate and think that this will be a ferocious air war. To my surprise she elects to call upon corsairs. A good idea when you need a drop escort. Not good when a zerg air force is bigger and stronger. She sets out to conquer the world and her fleets depart. Queen_Liz is well aware that SUICIDAL_MANIAC has expanded to the naturals and the three main. What she doesn't realize is that a massive airforce is waiting to strike her own. The fleet of twelve shuttles and eleven corsairs head again for then zerg main. Suddenly they are hit from all sides.
Scourge rush in and target shuttles as devourers splash acid onto the corsair escort. Shuttles begin to crashe into the snow and in desparation, they drop their cargo and hope the ground troops can hold out. Storms blaze across the zerg lines and also hit the already woune corsairs. Zerg and machine burst in a cloud of blood an metal. The goons and templar are soon swallowed up by the guardian forces an the reavers can run slowly away before guardians hunt them own. With the last protoss dead, the swarm heads for the protoss main. Goon, templar an cannons production is hastly organized an the zerg strike down what they can. The guardians ravage the protoss lines as the devourors engage the efening corsairs. Storms ravage the skies and goons spill life giving fluid on the soil. The corsairs dripping with acid lure the devourors into a web of goon and cannon fire. The corsairs are destroyed, but they take the zerg fleet with them. The guardians are able to destroy quite a few buildings, but a mix of mass goon fire and storm are able to subdue the relentless tide of zerg warriors.
Queen_Liz begins reconstruction and orders three stargates and begins a plan for mass carriers. All is quiet and the first of the protoss warships warps in. A second after that a group of scourge and mutalisks kills it were it was. Another group of muatlisks attacks from the right and another to the left. At my best estimates there had to be at least two control groups. Queen_Liz realizes that the fight is hopeless an concedes. SUICIDAL_MANIAC laughs a hearty laugh and the game is over.
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