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| Battle Of The Islands! | | | Author: | | | IP: | p413-086XXXX | | Date: | 11/28/01 06:11 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Famous Reporter(1), Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 8, Min: 8
Lifetime Rating for ZerG~LinG: 8.3836 |  |
A ZerG~LinG Production
How it all began...
It was a quiet sunday evening, it was cold as hell, ZerG~LinG was pissing icecubes. But thats not important, as long as you have b.net. I and my obsing friend, Map-Hack, was looking for a good game to BR. After realizing that there simply didn't exist a "good game" in our local channel, we decided to head for ~Nohunters. BAM! we enter! I type the infamous, 1v1 Anyone? HeeroYuy replies and we're off!
Day-O, me say Daaaaay-OOOOO the airforce come and we flatten your home
The Players
In the orange top right corner... we have: HeeroYuy! A good manner boy, who's always up for a 1v1.
In the brown bottom left corner... we have: LinG! *Adrenal Glands not included*
Map
Enough talk! Let's get this thing on the road! *car crashes into a mailbox*
LinG was on the bottom left, he decided to heavy tech, that being very smart on island maps. He went gas before gate at 12, then a core as soon as the gate was out, maintaining constant probes. He also began warping in a robotics facility.
HeeroYuy also did a gas before barrack build, i have heard of barrack rushing, (dual rack, then fly) but HeeroYuy apperantly didn't have the guts to pull it off. He made two factories, almost at the same time, while adding a starport and armory as soon as they were finished. Obviously going for goliath drop. I have found this kind of drop to be very effective, they do slaughter quite a few peons in quite a small amount of time.
 I was first considering a reaver drop, but knowing the importance of speed LinG decided to go for a quick 2 goon drop. The shuttle began its journey by flying over the top left, then heading for top right. LinG had a quick look in his base when the shuttle flew over the island, a bad move indeed. The "your forces are under attack" sound hit him, a quick spaceclick and he was there. The shuttle had encountered two turrets. LinG quickly unloaded the goons, while the shuttle was sent to its doom. The goons wandered about, before finding scv's to harras. This "party" quickly gets ruined by a goliath aka. starwars unit wannabe. Of course one goliath isn't enough, and it quickly dies. HeeroYuy sends another lone goliath, this time it recieves gosu support from scv's. Clearly this is to much for the goons, and they die, leaving a big blue pool for the scv to swim in.
Drop them dudes!
While the previous "attack" was underway, LinG stated a expansion at the island between his main and top left. HeeroYuy finally had his goller drop ready, first flying it around the top left, then over LinG's new exp. HeeroYuy, is probably looking at porn or something, and misses the exp in his first fly-by. But as he once again looks at the screen, he promptly orders the dropship to unload the 4 gollers. LinG, on the other hand, had no porn nearby, and spots the dropship. He sends a reaver and goon in a shuttle to intercept. LinG first unloads a goon, then the reaver, forcing the gollers to fire at the goon. Or so he thought, HeeroYuy is ready and fires at the reaver, but forgets to spread out his units, causing two goliaths to blow up. The two other goliaths are quickly dispatched, but with the loss of the reaver. HeeroYuy is far from done, four new goliaths land on the island, but at the same time, LinG reinforced it with two more goons, and started two cannons, HeeroYuy managed to save one of his goliaths by retreating it in the dropship.
Seeing how LinG had succesfully defended his expansion, HeeroYuy is filled with anger, he shouts out:Me want expo too waaaaahahahaaaaa, LinG u my god waaaahaaaaaNote:"conversation may or may not have happended".
Either way, HeeroYuy expanded to the 3'clock island, the one just below his main.
LinG used "The Force"ô and spotted this. The deadly 4 goon drop was on its way. The elite force lands and begins shooting wildly at random things. Scv's rush in a kills a goon *yeah* suddenly, HeeroYuy drops a shitload of units (3 tanks and 6 gollers) on the island and stops the goons. These units could probably have ended the game if HeeroYuy had dropped them on LinG's main instead.
SCv's are cool, i liek them, i also liek milk, milk is c00l, i good korean boy great english speak
 LinG was pumping units from 2 gates and a robofac, and had recently warped in two stargates. A lucky observer spots HeeroYuy's new expansion at the 12'clock, a CC is being build. LinG decides to send a..scout! HeeroYuy laughs, but stops when LinG comes in hard with three shuttles. The reason he did this was to lure in a few terran forces with the shuttle, then land and own them with goon/reaver. But either HeeroYuy was too smart *cough* or he didn't react quickly enough. The CC flies off to HeeroYuy's main.
 A crazy thougt went through LinG's mind, he was gonna attack the terran main! He used his gosu scout to fly in first and take hits from the turrets, then landing two reavers and four goons. The drop proved succesful at first, it killed the floating CC, some turrets, but eventually tanks and goliaths came in and overwhelmed the toss forces.
 After these dropping games, both mains were running low on minerals, LinG had a shitload of probes in reserve, and expanded at both the bottom right and top left positions. HeeroYuy also took the time to fly a CC and 16 scv to one of the middle islands. At this point, both players decided to tech. LinG went with the obvious carriers while HeeroYuy decided to make...nukes *readers clapping in their hands*
Oh my god what a waste of money!
As LinG's first two carriers left his main, four shuttles with 8 goons also came along for the ride.
They slammed into the left side of HeeroYuy's main, no resistance at all, but then the dreaded "Nuclear Launch Detected" message appered on our screen. LinG saw the red spot, directly on his attacking units. He moved further into the terran main, leaving the nuke to hit nuthing but the ghost itself, but then, once again that irritanting message came across the screen. Again LinG moved his units further into the base, now directly behind HeeroYuy's old supply line. The nuke came down..BOOM! a couple of random interceptors and a goon died, but maybe HeeroYuy didn't realize he was nuking in HIS OWN BASE, cuz he also managed to take out some of his own buildings :-( Finally, HeeroYuy used some goliaths and tanks to kill the remaining carriers and goons. The battle was over, but with HeeroYuy taking heavy losses.
LË GÛLÔ√tH ownage
During the previous assault, LinG had not slacked on his macro, as he turned his attention back to his main, 4 carriers and 15 mic. toss units were available. He wastes no time, and heads out for HeeroYuy's middle expansion. First, the carriers strike, kilLinG the turrets, allowing LinG's four shuttles to unload without problems. The first CC on the island quickly bursts into flames, and the familiar sound of scv's dieing fills our speakers. Suddenly, HeeroYuy drops 12 goliaths in the corner bottom of the island, while LinG's carriers are busy with turrets in the top, the toss ground forces engage the goliaths, without air support. With the help of a few scv's, LinG's ground forces quickly die. And as we all know, goliaths>carriers, forcing LinG to retreat with his last 2 carriers.
Slim ends the game...(Slim?)
 But this is far from over, soon LinG has 6 carriers, and around 20 zealots cramped up in small shuttles. They once again hit the middle island, the defenders have left, and the island is quickly razed. But where have they gone???
16 goliaths drops down and hits the bottom right, with only a cannon there to defend, it quickly falls, meanwhile the protoss assault force (the ones who killed center exp.) move on to the 3'clock, thrashing it without resistance. This leaves HeeroYuy with his main only, but a sizeable goliath force in the south. These goliaths now move on to LinG's main.
As huge battle enusues, LinG has two functional carriers in his main, and 12 zealots. LinG already know where HeeroYuy will be dropping, and stands ready at the edge of the island. 4 dropships break the silence, burst through intercepor fire and unloads the cargo. Zealots rush in with interceptors flying above, the 2-2 upgraded goliaths quickly dispatch the carriers, and with some goliath dance, the zealots are owned.
LinG doesn't help his main, but instead orders his 6 carriers and shuttled zealots to attack HeeroYuy's main. HeeroYuy is ready with a shitload of gollers, LinG first uses his carriers to distract the gol's before sending his shuttles in. 16 zealots touch down "Bridgehead established!" shouts one of them. The zealots force the goliaths to move a bit back, allowing carriers to get further inland. Zealots slice the confused goliaths while interceptors crowd the airspace. Then, from the top left island, 6 goons touch down in the terran main, flanking the goliaths. Sorrounded, tired and heavily damaged, the goliaths finally succomb to the presure and die.
Phew! Good Game! This was one damn nice game. I'm surprised how Dire Straits games almost always turn out great. And btw, if the last pics was confusing, dont despair, the battle was even more so.
After Game Thoughts
-I should have dropped DT's instead of zealots, he had no scanner.
-TvP is a damn funny mu on island maps.
-Paint shop pro owns
-Slim owns
Last but now least, map-hack, our observer, managed to get one of his scv down to 1 hitpoint, he was very proud of this, and asked me to put it in the report. Since im a nice kinda of guy, i will!
Before i sign off, i would like u to write you favorite writer in the comment section. Mine's WilliamWC3 :-)
ZerG~LinG
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