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| Dire Ghosts | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/21/99 07:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for TheRubberDucky: 6.8316 |  | The past few days Ghost~LiZarD has been wanting to play me, and since the person that was gonna play me decided not to show up, we went ahead and decided to play eachother.
Map: Dire Straights
Players:
TheRubberDucky, zerg, bottom left
Ghost~LiZarD, terran, bottom right
I started with my normal island build with a hatchery on 9 followed by another hatchery at 16 going power econ planning on powering to hydras.
Knowing that my opponent was terran I only scouted out the first position, which he happened to be at, then scadaddled my overlord into the corner down there, leaving him there most of the game
When I had my gas up and 2 lairs running the overlord upgrades neccesary for the hydra drop I was planning I sent a drone off minerals to build a 4th hatchery and another one to build a queens nest, I also started researching burrow in my 3rd hatch.
I dropped 12 hydras on the side of ghosts main, and marched in to be met by a bunker and a siege tank walled off, I didn't have range yet so I was forced to walk around, giving him free hits, and me 12 dead hydras
Since I assumed he had expanded early I sent a drone and 11 hydras to the exspansion just north of my main, and sent another drone up to the top left exspansion, where I found a bunch of happy scv's working, and a lone bunker. I immeietly destroyed it with 16 hydras, and back at home I laid down my 5th and 6 hatcheries, spawned several queens, and started my hive morphing, along with a spire at my exspansion for scourges to kill dropships expanding.
By now I had discoverd he expanded to his exspansion just north of him, and had turtled it up with a few turrets, and a pair of bunkers (I think)
I sent another drone to the top left and started a hatchery, immediately followed by a nydus canal so that I could defend my bases with out having to resort to making a bunch of muties.
I sent a scourge to go look around the map and discovverd he had about 10 battlecrusiers heading towards my northern exspansion, so I spawned a few more hydralisks, and several scourge, because he had 3 science vessels accompning him. My task force of 48 hydras and about 20 scourge easily dealt with the threat, and once again I built more hatcheries, 2 at my north exspansion, and 2 at my main, (8 hatcheries down there!)and started an exspansion at the top left starting position, and spawned about 15 muties (excess munny) to scout the map for future exspansoins. I discovered that once again he was attacking my north exspansion, and, once AGAIN with battlecrusiers (0/0 btw) I sent about 24 hydras up there, and because of excess gas, I sent about 30 scourge, and EASILY dealt with the problem.
I sensed that the game was over, and started on making hydras for my doom drop. before I could begin, he dropped, I think 12 marines, 4 medics, and 2 tanks near my main, and succeded in destroying my evo chamber (just BARELY finished my 3 carapace upgrade =]) and my hydra den, which I replaced and started constructing hydras out of all 12 hatcheries that I owned. When I had about 60, I realized I didn't have enough overlords to carry them all, infact, I only had 11 =[ So he wasnt' gonna get to see 5 control groups of hydras swarm over his battlecruiser producing butt, so I only dropped 44, and sent my overlords back to pick up the remaining 16 hydras. Nevertheless he never got to see them all, as I easily destroyed a few buildings before he concedded, and said gg, he left before I could ally, so I guess it didn't matter.
Lessons Learned
-In the ENTIRE GAME I only built 15 muties, I built about 100 scourge, but I had 15 muties which I lost to 5 battlecrusiers, and lasted about 45 seconds a piece. AIR IS NOT NECCESARY FOR ZERG ON ISLAND MAPS
-44 hydras can destroy a missle turret quick.
-Ghost is now a ghost on DIRE
He's posting the rematch, or mark4 is, or ProZerg, I dunno who is, but it's pretty cool how I broke out of his offensive bunker finally =]
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