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~Jessica~[SouL] currently has 23 marines and 4 medics ready to rock while lebman[SouL] has 6 mutalisks and 5 sunken colonies, with 1 more sunken morphing. Confident that his power build has given him more than enough infantry to cause major damage to his foe, Jessica quickly stims his marines and moves towards the natural choke. Sunkens start killing the infantry while mutalisks fly over them, flying back and forth to avoid being totaly eliminated while buying time for the sunken colonies to do what they do best, kill stuff. The marines try their best to break trough the defence but it isn't nearly enough to do the trick, as 16 marines die while the rest of the Terran force runs off. As for the Zerg brood, only 1 sunken colony and 4 mutalisks are destroyed. The triple barracks threat is squelched.
The few mutalisks left die easily while the marines start blasting trough the sunken colonies. Hydralisk reinforcements arrive and start spitting their corrosive acid on the marines while the Terran men move towards the natural, ignoring the sunken fire. New hydralisks spawn at lebman's natural while the rest come down the ramp behind the marines. What's left of the Terran force is locked in a deadly pincer. Medics are all that can be seen running off in panic as the marines fall one after another.
All of a sudden, 8 hydralisks come in from the passage between the 3 o'clock main and eastern temple wall and start attacking the marines as lebman's 5 remaining lurkers come in from the West. A good flank goes wrong as the lurkers just sit there doing nothing... ";LKJHGFGHJ;LJLDFSK;GHGLJKFD;GK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ghey misclicks", that's probably what lebman was thinking at that moment. Once lebman's search for the "U" button finally ends, Jessica's force is already running back after killing 1 of the lurkers. Seeing the uselessness of following the marines (or maybe in fear of another misclick), lebman stays at the 12 valley. Back home, ~Jessica~ adds a machine shop to his factory while starting a starport. As for lebman, he expands to the 6 o'clock main.
Once the perimeter is safe, Jessica sends his (it feels pretty weird to say Jessica and his in the same sentence...) command center back to the natural. In the mean time, his first science vessel pops out of his starport while lebman[SouL] starts upgrading +1 carapace and +1 ranged attack. Feeling confident with his new, and shiny might I add, mobile detector, Jessica mobilizes his troops, which now consist of an extra tank and a few more marines. As for lebman, his beasts are sitting at the 12 o'clock valley, waiting impatiently for some action. Well, they sure get their action as tanks siege and marines stim, gladly providing some violence to the Zerg cerebrate. Huge artillery shots go off, killing some hydralisks and a few lurkers from long range. Lebman retaliates by sending in his lurkers from the side, where the 3 o'clock mineral only is located, while his hydralisks go face to face with the marines, hoping to trap the Terran units in a pincer move. The marines move back to avoid lurker fire while the tanks keep pounding on the Zerg swarm. Lurker spines shoot from the ground, denting the tank armor until they reach the delicious, bloody inside (sorta). The last few hydralisks are finally destroyed as 4 lurkers unburrow and run off before being killed by the 2 remaining tanks. Once the dust settles, all that can be seen on the battlefield are 2 tanks, 5 marines, 4 medics and a lone science vessel. The Terran commander is victorious, barely...
Looking to cause as much damage as possible before his foe can get back on his feet, ~Jessica~ quickly unsieges his tanks and moves towards the Zerg main hive cluster, all the while taking advantage of his offensive stance to expand to his mineral only and to start researching irradiate. During this time, lebman frantically pumps hydralisks, both from his main and from his expansions. Jessica sieges his tanks just out of sunken range and proceeds to bombard whatever he can find. Before he can do much damage though, he is attacked by 2 groups of ~12 hydralisks, one group charging down the ramp while the other is coming from behind the terran troops, accompanied by 3 lurkers. Jessica is trapped in yet another deadly pincer. He tries his best to survive the ambush as he casts a defensive matrix on one of his tanks but he cannot hold his ground and dies a quick yet painful death (I imagine that his peeps must of been hurting from those huge spines). Once the battle is over, lebman starts his overlord speed upgrade.
Taking advantage of his now numerous science vessels, ~Jessica~ heads towards the middle and irradiates a few hydralisks here and there, just to distract his opponent. While he is doing so, he moves his army towards the twelve o'clock valley and sieges his tanks who are just in range to fire at the 2 groups of hydralisks waiting for them. Enraged, the hydralisks move towards the terran army in an arc while his lurkers come in right below the 12 o'clock ledge, to the North-West of the Terran force. The bigger Zerg numbers spell the end of the offensive, as every single Terran ground unit dies while Jessica retreats his science vessels. Wanting to keep up his offensive, lebman unburrows his lurkers and sends them along with a few hydralisks towards his enemy's natural. The lurkers burrow as the SCVs run away. Half of them die while the rest run towards the Terran main. ~Jessica~ also lifts his command center before the lurkers can destroy it, moving it towards his main. Mere seconds later, the lurkers are sent back to where they came from, thanks to a few irradiates and tanks on high ground. Only 2 lurkers survive, but they did their job.
A scan reveals lebman's lurkers, parked right besides the 3 o'clock minerals, and jessica wastes no time as he sends his science vessels to irradiate 2 of the giant beasts, thus provoking the Zerg army (wha?). 2 groups of hydralisks and 8 lurkers charge forward as they meet up with a control group of marines and medics. Unfortunatly for lebman[SouL], his opponent also has 2 tanks sieged on high ground. Most of the infantry dies to the Zerg attackers but Jessica's tanks are just too much as practicly all of the hydralisks die to arclite fire. As for the lurkers, they were each treated to a nice little irradiate. Needless to say, the attack isn't too cost effective for the Zerg brood.
Knowing that he won't possibly arrive in time to save the 9 o'clock expansion, lebman heads towards his 6 o'clock expansion since it's an obvious target. The marines finish off the 9 o'clock hatchery, load up and head towards the 6 o'clock main. As soon as they arrive, the drones retreat before the infantry can take a heavy toll on their numbers. Besides a morphing sunken colony, there isn't much to defend the hatchery against certain doom. That is, until the hydralisks finally arrive and destroy the marines one after another with the hatchery left at 200hp.
Aiming once again to hurt lebman's economy, Jessica drops 1 tank, 7 marines and 1 medic at the 6 o'clock natural's cliff. The tank sieges and start pounding on random Zerg units and buildings while lebman frantically loads up 12 hydralisks in his overlords and sends them towards the enemy units. Once the overlords arrive, they start dropping units right in front of the marines who kill the hydralisks one after another. The drop is stopped COLD. ~Jessica~ then proceeds to send his group of M&M onto low ground as the tank keeps pounding on the hatchery from way above them until it is destroyed. As for the M&M, 1 marine and the lone medic die to sunken fire while the rest load up into the dropship and head towards the 3 o'clock natural's cliff while lebman starts morphing a hatchery at the 6 o'clock mineral only. He then proceeds to drop 5 hydralisks at the 6 o'clock natural's cliff and 8 hydralisks at the 3 o'clock natural's cliff, destroying everything at both spots.
Jessica uses this moment of relief to expand to the 3 o'clock mineral only while lebman tries to rebuild his army as quickly as possible, all the while morphing a hatchery at the 9 o'clock natural and another hatchery right above the 9 o'clock ramp. Not wanting his rival to gain an economic advantage, or even have an economy since both his natural and main are completely mined out, lebman burrows 2 lurkers at the 3 o'clock main, right above ~Jessica~'s expansion. While lebman is doing so, the Terran commander's whole army is headed towards the 6 o'clock expansions. Once he arrives at the 6 o'clock mineral only, all of the drones run off to the 9 o'clock natural. Unfortunatly for lebman, a few marines follow them and proceed to destroy the 9 o'clock expansion while the rest of ~Jessica~'s force stays back to take care of what they headed out to destroy. Realizing the uselessness of trying to save his expansions, lebman decides to counter-attack instead as he sends a control group of hydralisks towards ~Jessica~[SouL]'s only remaining expansion. A lone tank is all that can be seen defending the expansion as the hydralisks proceed to raze the command center in record time. But that isn't enough for lebman as he loads up 23 hydralisks into 6 overlords and proceeds towards ~Jessica~'s seemingly empty base. Once the hydralisks are in the enemy base, half of them proceed towards the ramp, meeting up with a lone tank. After destroying the Terran defender, they proceed to block the ramp while the other half start attacking the barracks one after another. Jessica rapidly sends his units back to his main base, leaving 2 tanks behind to take care of the 6 o'clock main. They arrive too late though, as lebman has already destroyed 4 barracks, with the last one burning down a few moments later. He loads his 8 remaining hydralisks into his overlords and runs off. As soon as they exit the base, 3 marines start shooting them. Under the stress of all that's happening(very disapointing...)Lebman unloads his hydralisks. He tries to do as much damage as possible to ~Jessica~'s command center, which he floated from his natural to his mineral only. The remaining hydralisks are easily destroyed and the battle is finally over.
Giving ~Jessica~ no time to relax, lebman drops another control group of hydralisks inside the enemy main. He focuses fire on ~Jessica~'s 2 remaining factories while marines hastily charge up the ramp. Time is once again against them though, as the hydralisks destroy both factories and load up into the overlords just before the infantry can engage them. The Zerg beasts are dropped yet again on low ground, hoping to destroy ~Jessica~'s command center. They are annihilated with relative ease though, as a few marines and 3 tanks show them who's boss. The damage has been done though, as Jessica has no factories or barracks left. His troop count consists of 5 tanks, 2 of which are still at the 6 o'clock main, 11 marines, 9 medics and a science vessel. He only has 60 minerals left with 6 scvs mining. As for lebman he currently has 6 hydralisks, 1 lurker inside his main and 2 sunken colonies at his natural. He has 4 hatches and a fifth one morphing in the bottom right island but absolutely no mineral income and only 38 minerals left. Both players are pretty beaten up.
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