I am a virgin.  Please be
gentle.  Why do you look so surprised?  Oh, I mean this is my first
battle report you pervert.  With that, on to the report. =]

Shady made a barracks on 8 and depot on 9.  He sent the SCV that made the
depot to scout the 3, 6, and 9 spots in that order.  At home shady
constructs a bunker, a second barracks, and an engineering bay.  When the
SCV reaches gzo's base it is greeted by a zergling and runs back to his base
like May (gzo's girlfriend) running to my bedroom. 








The first offensive move was made by shady.  A force of 9 marines and 4
medics followed by 1 SCV head on over to gzo's mineral only expansion and decide
to set up shop.  Gzo's zerglings are burrowed so shady cannot correctly
determine the size of gzo's forces by sending in one unit (pretty smart). 
Gzo sends a zergling to scout, which is promptly killed by shady's offensive; at
least now he knows what's going on.  Shady adds another bunker and a missle
turret to his assult.  Gzo then throws around 2 dozen zerglings (in two
waves) at the bunkers.  Rodney King must be gzo's role model because he
sent in zergling after zergling despite the fact that every single one got their
ass beat down. 


Neither side remains idle at their base during this assult.  Gzo had built
a hydralisk den followed by a queen's nest and a spire while shady had one
factory and one starport (both with add-ons).





Shady adds a tank to his offensive and begins pounding on gzo's expansion. 
It was a good thing too because gzo ran 3 lurkers to handle the offensive
bunkers.  He did a pretty poor job of this because one lurker died to
marine fire and one to tank blasts.  The other was out of range of the
turret and managed to kill the single tank, but was out of range of anything
else.  Another tank and a com stat sweep finish off the lurker.  By
this time gzo had already made a hatchery at the 6 spot.  Shady made a wraith
and scouted for expansions and found gzo's naked expansion at 6.  A little
summary: gzo has 2 expansions to shady's 0.





Shortly after shady handles the lurkers he does a bastardized version of the
very popular turbo newbie.  This single tank manages to kill a couple
drones before it is dispatched by 3 mutaslisks.





But perhaps the tank was a distraction for this force of 8 marines and 4 medics
which is ordered to destroy gzo's expansion at 6, which is now defended by 3
hydras.  Needless to say, the expansion got dropped faster than Bill
Clinton's pants, but not before gzo could burrow a drone.

By this time gzo had teched up
to greater spire and was pumping zerglings, hydras, and mutas, some of which
were morphed into gaurdians or devourers.  Shady had two starports now and
was making wraiths and a few m&m's here and there.






Gzo finally decideds enough is enough and
sends some gaurdians (about 5) and some hydralisks (about 4).  The
offensive position is destroyed, but the marines killed the hydralisks and some
wraith pick off most of the gaurdians.

Shady figures that some
payback is in order and drops 8 marines (the ones that took out the 6 expansion)
and attacks gzo's greater spire.  Gzo sends the assorted units at his main
to combat the marines but they are reduced to smears on the creep and the
greater spire falls.  The marines are then taken out by some hydralisks and
zerglings that were spawned.





Now it's time to get into the interesting
stuff.  Things are happening so fast and all over the place right now so
its really hard to keep track of everything.  Shady completes a science
facility with the covert ops add-on as well as a command center that he floats
to the top left island along with 8 SCVs.  A nuclear silo and a nuke are
made in short order.  Gzo had expanded to his mineral only expansion and
also sends 3 lurkers to the middle of the map.  Shady sends around a pack
of wraith (10 or so) which are spotted by the lurkers.  The wraiths head
over to gzo's main and are repelled by a good number of hydralisks.  Gzo
then expands to the 6 natural and shady again sends out his wraiths to see what
havok they can cause.  They kill a few stray mutalisks and upon seeing this
gzo protects his new expansion with a handful of hydralisks.

Then
"Nuclear Launch Detected" rings through my speakers and i search the
minimap to find the ghost.  It is at gzo's main and aimed to take out the
heart of gzo's units and tech.  Gzo, with his overlords clumped in one area
and without spores, cannot find ghost and the nuke drops (see shots). 
Wraiths are brought in to finish the job but get raped by a group of mutas and
devourers.  Just then every terran's favorite line sounds again. 
Gzo's main is void of anything that can attack ground and another nuke falls.

Now
gzo has lost all his tech, but the base was mined out, so he didnt lose a source
of income.  I had to admit that things were looking good for shady. 
His island expansion was running full steam and he was up in tech.  Gzo had
his natural expansion (which only had about a few drones mining), his mineral
only expansion (saturated with drones) and the 6 natural (just started).








The game was quiet for quite a while while
gzo was rebuilding his tech and expanding more (he expanded to the 9 spot and
the 9 natural) and while shady was building up a force that can do some damage
(he was concentrating on nuking and not unit production).  Gzo tells me
that he had enough cash, so these expansions were not really neccessary, but
they served to draw attention from his real scheme.

The
silence was broken when shady dropped 2 tanks, 6 marines, and 2 medics on the
cliff above gzo's mineral only expansion.  Two things about this
drop.  First off, the drop didnt accomplish too much because the tanks
attacked the sunkens instead of the drones.  Second, the force was there
for about 45 seconds until gzo killed it with 2 gaurdians that were hovering
above the hatchery the whole time.  What the hell was that gzo?!





Next shady goes on a nuking
campaign, some successful but some not.  Gzo tells me that since he already
had a lot of minerals in the bank that these nukes didn't hurt him too
much.  As you can see from the number of expansions its easy to believe.

There
were several little fights all over the place around this time.  Most of
them ended with gzo getting beat like a pinata, but since he had so many
minerals and hatcheries it barely put a dent in him, but on the other hand shady
was low on minerals (only mining out of his one expansion) so every unit that he
lost was important.





Gzo had been constantly producing
hydralisks, zerglings, and a few mutas and was ready to commit to a serious
attack.  "I'm higher up on the chain of command than you," I
heard an overlord say to a hydralisk, "Get in my belly!" it ordered.





Gzo drops on shady's main along with mutalisks.  Upon losing his tech and
unit producing buildings shady says gg.  Indeed it was.














1.  Never stop making tanks and marines as terran (land maps).  I feel
that if shady had continued making m&m's and tanks and concentrating less on
wraiths and nukes then he could have won the game.  Especially after his
first two nukes took out gzo's tech and the majority of his units, if he had
tanks and m&m he could have ended it there.

2. 
When you do something, commit to it.  Shady, when you droped that lone tank
you should have brought 1 SCV to make a turret and 3 marines.  If you did
then that attack would have been much more devastating.

3. 
Spread your overlords all around.  Pretty simple, better detection and you
won't get raped by valkyries/corsairs.

4. 
When nuking zerg try to make the red dot blend in with the buildings. 
Shady did this quite well making it very hard to tell where the nuke is.

5. 
Gzo, you need some spores man.  A sunken at your main wouldn't have hurt
either.

6. 
Irradiate is a must against zerg.  Shady got it but towards the end. 
It didn't make a difference.

This was during the
game.  Gzo was running some hydralisks around the map when they encountered
ked's (the other observer) command center.  Gzo forgot to ally with ked and
was attacking his command center.  Ked almost died, hehe.  He floated
his command center to the top right plateau, made and SCV, and tried to repair
it but didn't have enough minerals.  =]

Quote
of the game:

gzo: shit

After
gzo's main was nuked and he got screwed like a $5 hooker.

Note:
This is my first real report.  After doing one I gained a lot of respect
for people that make quality battle reports, because mine is a piece of crap and
it took me a while to do, so I can image what people like YRM and ~CB~ have to
do.