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This is when HnR)Pride finally decides to scout, and heads straight for the 6 o'clock position. 
What a lucky shot. He also starts warping in a Cybernetics Core and, very quickly starts 2 Stargates. Talk about early. Only about 4 minutes into the game, Eon)McNasty sends a group of 10 Lings over to HnR)Pride's base to go for an early attack. They are greeted by 4 Zealots at HnR)Pride's choke. Eon)McNasty realizes that this will be a losing fight and stays at the foot of the choke.
A Corsair pops out of one of the Stargates and immediately takes off toward Eon)McNasty's base. Upon his arrival he begins attacking an Overlord. Luckily for Eon)McNasty though, he hatches 3 Hydralisks in time to chase off the Corsair. Unfortunately for the Overlord that was scouting HnR)Pride's base, he is blown into oblivion by 2 Corsairs that were just warped. This puts Eon)McNasty in a debt of control, but after hatching an Overlord, he morphs 3 Hydras into Lurkers, which leaves Eon)McNasty with only 1 Hydra. 
This gives HnR)Pride a big advantage with his Corsairs, which he brought in at just the right moment. 4 Corsairs fly in and begin tearing apart the Overlords 1 by 1. Eon)McNasty says, "Fuck the Lurks," and cancels the morph. Now with more Hydras he is able to chase off the Corsairs, but not after losing 2 Overlords. Eon)McNasty had a surplus though and this did not put him in debt. 
He also puts 4 Goons on top of his natural plateau in preparation for any attacks there. At about this time, Eon)McNasty starts an expansion at the mineral only expansion at the front of his base. He also gets 6 Lurkers and loads them inside 3 Overlords to bring over to HnR)Pride's plateau. He drops them on top of the plateau and is immediatlely attacked by the Goons that were put there earlier. HnR)Pride also has an observer there and has no problem spotting the Lurkers. The Lurkers do, in fact, manage to kill the 4 Goons, but HnR)Pride just keeps on bringing them up with a one of his Shuttles. After a few of these little Shuttle/Goon field trips, the Lurkers meet their doom.
soon as they touch down they start fuckin' up Goons and Templar. There are more than enough to get the job done, and once again HnR)Pride must take the defensive and try to fight off the Hydras. In the very corner of his plateau, he elevator drops Goons and Lots, unnoticed. After he feels that he has enough, he brings them forward and meets up with about 5 Hydras and 3 Lurkers. His assumptions were right and he manages to take out the entire attack with a few Goons to spare. Eon)McNasty has a new expansion at the 9 o'clock natural. He has a major advantage, at least in economy, over HnR)Pride. They outnumber HnR)Pride's expansions 2 to 1.
HnR)Pride now has 4 Gates and is pumping out Lots and Templar like a mofo. He has many at his choke, a few by his main mineral line, and some up on top of his plateau. He also brings 8 Lots, via shuttle, to Eon)McNasty's natural. He, very smoothly, drops 2 onto the plateau, and they quickly dispose of some lookout Hydras and Lings. He brings the other six and lands them behind the mineral line and start taking out drones. Once he starts getting overwhelmed by Hydras, he runs into Eon)McNasty's main and ends up getting attacked from all sides. The Zealots meet their death thanx to an overwhelming number of Hydras. 
Next up on the list was another drop on Eon)McNasty's plateau. This time with 2 Lots and 2 Templar. They landed and took position unnoticed by Eon)McNasty. Both Templar sent out simultaneous storm on the mineral and every single Drone mining minerals was annhialated. This was a very succesful attack and slowed down Eon)McNasty's economy, dramatically. After that came the mineral only expansion. A lone Templar was dropped at the side of Eon)McNasty's main, walked right up to the Drones and stormed the living hell out of them. After that, all of the units contained within the ship were destroyed, and; for obvious reasons; HnR)Pride was forced to go back to base. It was an amazing attack though, and caused a rapid decline in Eon)McNasty's economy.
Eon)McNasty is needing the economy he just lost because he has already teched up to Ultralisks. He has about 3 sitting at the front of his mineral only expansion and a few more ready to
hatch. As Eon)McNasty and HnR)Pride build further and further out into the map, they get closer to a huge battle all the time. 
With a large army of Goons, Templar, and Zealots; all with 2 weapon/1 Armor upgrades, HnR)Pride moves forward, hoping to tear down any possible Eon)McNasty base nearby. They first encounter an idle Overlord on the look out. A couple Goons begin to attack it and the Overlord quickly runs away.This is good for HnR)Pride, becuase it leads him right to one of Eon)McNasty's expansions. An extremely violent, and close, battle ensues between a whord of Ultralisks and Hydras and HnR)Pride's previously mentioned attack force. It seemed that HnR)Pride might have won the battle by about 2 Goons, but Eon)McNasty sneaks 3 Hydras behind HnR)Pride and take them out quickly
with a couple Dark Templar, and dropped them on Eon)McNasty's main and 9 o'clock expansion. It didn't take long for 4 or 5 Mutas to come charging to the scene and fuck up HnR)Pride's plans. Then again, by now it is getting hard to tell where Eon)McNasty's main is. There are only 4 expansions left on the map. HnR)Pride holds the 3 expansions on the farthest right of map and Eon)McNasty owns almost everything to the right of that. The hardest one to see on the map to the left is Eon)McNasty's 12 o'clock natural expansion. It's there though.
heading for Eon)McNasty's 9 o'clock expansion. 5 Hydras are just chillin' in the middle of the map and catch the shuttle on its way to the expansion. It doesn't get much further than that though. After just a couple needle spines a piece, the Shuttle explodes creating a beautiful fireworks display for onlookers. After this, HnR)Pride figures it better to attack from the ground. He gathers 11 Goons and 2 Lots at the front of his choke and begins his onward march toward Eon)McNasty's 12 o'clock expansion. As they near the choke, that are attacked from behind by a large number of Hydras and Lings. Eon)McNasty feels that his Hydras are outnumbered and pulls them back. HnR)Pride keeps his Goons at the 12 o'clock choke and brings a back up team of Templar and Lots. 3 eggs hatch at the Hatchery and 6 Lings pop out. They head for the attack of the Goons while the Hydras come back to the front. It appears for a while that the Goons would get outnumbered, but, with perfect timing, the back up team arrives and the Hydras are quickly eliminated.
Lots are victorious in their struggle, and the Hatch explodes in a bloody mess.There are 3 eggs at the natural that are about ready to hatch, and the Lings at the 12 are already on their way down. The Lings are no match for the Lots and are quickly destroyed with only 1 Lot casualty. HnR)Pride continues his rampage up the choke and to the 12 o'clock main. He is met with a couple more Lings and the Sunken that took out the Goons. Luckily enough, when the Lots reach the choke, they are met by a number of Hydras that were just brought in from another base. The Hydras, outnumbered, run back to safety, while the Lots press on. Once at the Hatchery, the Lots quickly dispose of the Sunken and go to the Lings. Unfortunately for them, 2 Lurkers and a pack of rabid Hydras are brought in to finish them off, but not before the Lots take out the Hatchery.
The bottom right island. HnR)Pride is prepared though and takes a large group of Corsairs across to take them out. HnR)Pride's economy doesn't suffer too bad after this attack because he made good time getting there. To prevent anymore attacks like those, he uses his Corsairs to patrol just behind the 6 o'clock plateau. Feeling that he has enough to take out some shit, HnR)Pride brings a huge group of Goons and Templar(with 2 Observers as not to fall victim to Lurkers again)and heads on over to the 9 o'clock natural. He 
also has better weapon and armor upgrades. A few Hydras come up behind the attack from the 6 o'clock natural and try to take HnR)Pride's force out before it gets too far, but a storm from a couple nearby Templar says otherwise. Now HnR)Pride forms a new plan and goes to take out the damn 6 o'clock mineral only that has been giving him such a hard time. After the attack on the mineral only, HnR)Pride has a nice amount of units left, warps an Archon, and continues on to the natural
already made Sunkens. Once they were done with the natural, the attack walked up the choke to the main, where Eon)McNasty, in desperation, was trying to make Lings to fend off the attack. HnR)Pride's first target were the 3 Chambers, which went up in mere seconds. After these, they went for the Queens Nest, but were interrupted by a few Cracklings and 2 Guardians. This defensive managed to end the attack before they could get to the Hive. In the midst of all this, Eon)McNasty managed to sneak over a Lurker to HnR)Pride's mineral only expansion and take out a few Probes. It also chase off an army of Goons and Lots that were standing nearby. The Lurker's happiness didn't last too long though because HnR)Pride quickly brought over 2 Observers, which meant the end for the lone Lurker.
The most tech is still at Eon)McNasty's main and HnR)Pride brings all of his units there to start tearing shit up. The huge force walks up the choke and within a matter of seconds manages to take out a Pool, Greater Spire, Hive, Den, Extractor, and Chamber. I timed it in the replay and it took less than 30 seconds to raze everything that I just mentioned. Talk about power. HnR)Pride adds many Lots to his already huge army and acquires a new mineral only expansion. 
The above picture is HnR)Pride's current unit force. He, once again, brings this to Eon)McNasty's 12 o'clock expansion. Feeling confident that he can beat Eon)McNasty this time, he doesn't bother knocking, he just barges right in. HnR)Pride probably wasn't expecting Eon)McNasty to have Defilers with dark swarm. He marched up the choke and started attacking. He didn't kill but 2 Sunkens before Eon)McNasty used dark swarm on a bunch of Hydras and managed to chase off the attack. "I'll be back!" said HnR)Pride, as he walked off holding his ass in his hand. 
There is a pause in the action while HnR)Pride tries to devise a new plan of attack and Eon)McNasty builds up a larger army. HnR)Pride also expands and gets more upgrades. He is now holds a tremendous lead in both categories. Expansions for HnR)Pride to Eon)McNasty are 7 to 2, respectively. HnR)Pride's upgrades are now 3 weapons, 1 Plasma Shield, and 3 Armor.
Eon)McNasty picks up a Drone in an Overlord and drops him at the mineral only expansion at the side of the 12 o'clock position to start another expansion. HnR)Pride brings in some Corsairs to kill any Overlords at the 12, but are quickly chased off by a mass of Hydras. It wasn't a complete loss though, because on his way in, he happened to pass the newest expansion. Lucky him. He then sends in a good amount of Lots to the expansion, and with no defense, it is quickly destroyed. There ARE some Hydras on top of the plateau trying desperately to save the expansion, but they don't do very much. Amazingly enough, he got a Drone down there, before the creep faded away, and morphed in a Nydus canal linked to his main. Now, with the safety of fast access to his expansion, he gets another Hatchery going.
His next stop was at the mineral only expansion in front of the 9 o'clock natural. This was only protected by 4 Cannons which made it unbelievably easy to destroy. HnR)Pride sent in a bunch of Lots from his main to try and stop the stampede of Ultralisks. They were obvioulsy outmatched and retreated to the mineral only expansion in front of the 6 o'clock plateau and prepared for the inevitable attack. 
were done with that, they met with some more Hydras and Ultras from his 12 and kept moving. This time their target was the mineral only expansion that the Lots ran to. I hope they are ready. Once the Ultras reached the expansion, they microed the Lots out into the middle of the map and got away from the Cannons. Their first priority was the Lots, and they took them out quite easily, even for the number of Lots that there were. After taking out the Lots, Cannons, and finally, the expansion itself, Eon)McNasty moved on to the 6 o'clock natural. There were 5 Cannons there waiting for them, but those posed almost no threat at all. They were quickly taken out, and it seemed that the Nexus was next on their list. BUT WAIT!! A glimmer of hope is shining in HnR)Pride's direction. From behind, HnR)Pride attacks with an army of Lots, Goons, and Archons. This is too much, even for the Ultras, to kill as blood and guts splatter everywhere. 
Eon)McNasty was constantly building Ultras, at his base, the entire time. As well as accumulating more bases. So HnR)Pride brings his Archon army over to Eon)McNasty's base expecting an easy defeat. Well fuck that. Eon)McNasty had multiple Hydras and Ultras sitting below his choke, and started attacking as soon as the Archons were withing their site range. Not quite enough Ultras huh? Well Eon)McNasty pulls his attack back to the safety of the Sunkens while he has 6 more Ultras on the way. Once the Ultras are done, he brings them down from the choke to wait. An Observer spots a lone Ultra over at the 9 o'clock natural and HnR)Pride's army marches over to kill it. Coincidentally, this is the same time that Eon)McNasty brings down his entire attack and waltses right on over to HnR)Pride's main. He walks the units up the choke and starts taking out everything in sight, including the numerous Gateways. The Archon force that HnR)Pride had over at the 9 o'clock natural made an attempt to help the main, but it was useless. The units were quickly taken out and the Ultras went right back to work on the buildings. HnR)Pride only had one prospering expansion at this point. That was the bottom right island. He had one other, new, expansion over at the 6 o'clock natural, but that would innevitably be destroyed by the Ultras. He didn't have any shuttles to bring units down from the island expansion, either. He knew that he was defeated so HnR)Pride leaves.
