To the awesome people who frequent battlereports.com: This is my first report, and I’m relatively new here. I’m truly sorry, as I only got 1 screenshot from the end, and I forgot to save the replay. How terrible is that? My apologies. Now, on with the report of my battle!

Map: Lost Temple
Game type: Ladder
SFI_CBPye: Orange (that’s me)
Juilles: Teal (that’s the other guy)

So I was out on B.net looking for a game to play. Amidst all the 3v3 0-clut games, and the numerous BGH games which are mysteriously all on different maps, I happened upon a 1v1 LT Ladder game. My second ladder game, ever. My first was a loss. I was not going to repeat the same mistakes.

I warped a Nexus in at the 6:00, and Juilles warped in at the 8:00. It was on.

Now I’m new to the ladder thing, so the speed had me a little worried. I got used to it. He asked me if I was any good. Now, I’ve only been playing since December 2001 (it’s May 2, 2002 as I write this), and although I wouldn’t last 5 minutes in a game against the likes of the people who frequent battlereports.com, I thought I was good enough to kick his ass something good.

I started by pumping out a probe, and whipping the four I had into a life of continuous hard labour. It’s good to be me. As my 7th probe came out, I made a pylon, and at my 9th, a gateway. I made some more probes, another gateway, and a forge followed shortly by a cy-core. My adrenaline was racing… I didn’t know what to expect.

Shortly before my second gateway arrived, I noticed I had a visitor. One of his probes thoroughly scouted my main, and started to leave. I had one of my probes follow it. Alas, the two of them came to fighting words near my natural, yet I was fortunate enough to emerge the victor of that small struggle. I ordered my probe to go check out the 8:00. If you’re not in the 8:00, someone else is. Always is. Sure enough, there he was, and 2 cannons made short work of battered probe.

I now had 4 zealots, a few pylons here and there, and I was harvesting gas like… a thing that harvests a lot of gas. I put all 4 of the zealots at the pass down into the natural, and I was fortunate to have done so, for Juilles was busy warping in 4 cannons right at my door. That was not to be had. I sent the four of them down into that little valley, and quickly mopped up all four of the freshly opened rifts. The pylon was also destroyed. I took this opportunity to secure my expansion, and as the Nexus began to warp in, I made a Pylon at the choke to look out for strange behaviour. It then occurred to me that my opponent had a poor sense of distance and judgment, for he began to warp in yet another pylon not that was just within my new pylons range of sight. I destroyed it before it could completely warp in.

Shortly after I built two cannons near the east of my mineral line at my main, my opponent attempted a small dark-templar drop. It was thwarted, but only after the loss of several probes. This set me back a bit, and I decided that I should hurry up with my planned reaver drop.

I made my Templar Archive and Citadel, even a Stargate and a Fleet Beacon, should I need them. I made a new, small, rarely-checked epansion at the 2:00 main. I had 5 reavers, all making scarabs, when that crazy opponent of mine decided to drop an archon, 2 reavers, and a few dark-templar to the west of my mineral line, where they began to wipe up some pylons I had built. My new reavers quelled this uprising, taking out the DTs even without the aid of a detector, thanks to the nifty thing we call splash damage.

I lost my cy-core and several pylons because of that half-assed attack. They were quickly rebuilt, and my last few reavers arrived (I now had 10 total, 2 of which would remain for defense). The shuttles and ever-useful dragoons were also ready to embark. My previous loss of two observers had informed me that a reaver drop on his main mineral line would not work. I scouted around, and found that the eastern ledge of his main was very un-guarded, with plenty of room for me to drop eight reavers AND 8 dragoons. So I did.

I ravaged his main with the reavers and dragoons, shearing his ass like wheat from a field, and I was Adun’s Scythe. His weak resistance of 6 cannons was no match. His few templar were slain, and only one managed to offend me with a storm. Here is the only screen I took from the battle, shortly after I raped his main: