Oh what a wonderful thing it would be to see marines dying slow, cold deaths as acidic substances burn through their skin just as the sun peaks over the horizon. Such happened on the only map that wasn't lame on pubbies... The Lost Temple.
Stranzua touched down at the 12:00 spot with his white terran armada, while [HGNET]Navel (From now on called Navel) spawned yellow zerg at 6:00. Stranzua went for an 8 SCV supply depot, 10 SCV rax, scout, 13 SCV rax, and 14 SCV refinery. This tips off a tank push attempt to me. Navel went for 9th drone overlord, 10th drone natural, 13 drone extractor, and 14 drone spwaning pool. Stranzuas scouting SCV finds the natural just as its near completion.
Navel, knowing his opponent knows of the natural now, immediatly mutates a sunken colony, and another one just for the hell of it. As predicted, marines come marching down, but are sent back home after being schooled by a zergie. Stranzua constructs an academy, and then a factory.
Both economies are doing ok, although that may change. Navel starts spawning a spire, while Stranzua gets a comsat and a starport. Stranzua comsats his opponent, and finds the spire. Another starport is worked on, and wraiths are pumped out. He also builds an enginering bay and finally a machine shop. A few turrets are placed around key areas. By now Navel has a few mutas, and some zerglings. He sends the mutalisks to the 11:00 island, then to fly eastward toward Stranzua. However, with the combined power of a turret and three wraiths, the mutas are forced to retreat. Navel makes a hydra den and researches burrow. Stranzua wants more fun, so he sends his wraiths to fly around Navel and down a few ovies. The little old zerg makes an evoloution chamber at his natural, and soon follows up with another at his main. All this time, without anyone noticing... A hive. While that's in progress, a little white blotch appeared at the hill overlooking the 6 o'clock natural. And it grew. It appears Stranzua has been dropping SCVs, tanks, and marines onto the cliff. Slowly he took over the cliff, and commenced fire. The natural was dead within a minute. All that remained was an evoloution chamber. Navel by then finished his hive, and evolved a Greater Spire. The four or five mutalisks sitting near his natural came back to the main, and became guardians. Now Navels squad consisted of:
•Hydralisks (2/3 upgraded)
•Mutalisks (Non-upgraded)
•Guardians (Again, non-upgraded, in process of being morphed)
•Overlords (All three upgrades)
Navel then took all his hydralisks, twenty-four in total, and loaded them up into overlords. They went to the only open part of Stranzuas main, on the top-right side. It sort of went like this:
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Stranzua wasn't a happy camper. However, all was not lost. Stranzua had an expansion at the 3:00 spot unknown to Navel. However, Stranzua ran all the SCVs he could to that expansion, which led a small group of hydralisks to find it. Meanwhile, while Navel was wrecking havoc at 12:00, Stranzua was hastily re-constructing his base. He already had three barracks pumping out marines, and he quickly built a factory and two starports after his main had become heaps of shrapnel. Not much else changed for him. Navel felt like getting on the offensive. He sent three overlords to the 12:00 spot to pick up the remaining 12 hydralisks, and dropped them into the side of the 3:00 main. A battle ensued, but to make a boring story short, it came down to Navel dying, but Stranzua surviving, suffering the loss of nearly all his marines and some supply depots and turrets. Navel now had about 10 hydralisks, 5 guardians, and a couple mutalisks at his base. He slowly pushed onto the cliff, first by picking off turrets and bunkers, then doing a full-out assault on the remaining bunkers, turrets, marines and tanks.
Both sides were exhausted, with Navel having little resources, a small armada, and a sore wrist, while Stranzua had little army, enough to pick off parts of Navel, but that'd require lots of micro. Both sides finally gave the 'GG' and called it a draw. Yes, this did have a lame ending.
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