"Kei is my top ghost. She's the lockdown queen. She's also got an excellent pair of...eyes."
-Heartcutter
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| A 2v2 turned FFA turned 2v1 | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 08/17/99 08:08 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 3, Max: 6, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for DoomDragon: 7.5000 |   | First of all, this is my first BR, so be nice :).
I had gotten up early and wanted to play a bit of Brood War, so i went into channel nohunters. But, there was nobody in nohunters except twinkydick, a bot. So I decided to play a public game or two. I joined a game on Lost Temple.
The creator was a guy named KUTU, and we quickly won with a doouble rush. After that game, i decided to play another public game, saw his game aghain, and joined. This is the game I'm writing a BR on.
Vital Stats:
Map: Lost Temple
My Team
DoomDragon (Me)-Protoss, 6:00 o'clock
KUTU-Protoss, 3:00 o'clock-teal
Their Team:
Billy316-Terran, 9:00 o'clock-red
(cant remember)-terran, 12:00 o'clock
The game started with KUTU and I agreeing to get quick zealots, expand, and get quick goons, and I had my first gate up when: Waiting For Players. Billy316's teammate proceded to drop, and KUTU immediatly said: FFA and un-allied me. I un-allied him right after.
Because of this switch to FFA, I had to change my build to my FFA build, which is 1 gate, get 2 zealots, get a forge, and cannon past my natural. But just as my first 2 cannons were going up, I was attacked by 3 zealots. I canceled the cannons and started to make a few more zealots, hoping he would delay to kill the pylon. Luckily for me, he did, and I had time to make enough zealots to kill his.
The instant the threat was over, I started a pylon so I could cannon up my natural, and this time, I succeded. I got up 8 or so cannons and started a nuxus before he attacked me again with a group of 12 or so speed-zealots. His force fell quickly to my cannons and zealots, but 1 zealot of his just ran past and I had to kill it.
Now, at this point, I hadn't seen anything from red, and I was thinking that he was teching to something, and that KUTU was really dumb because he would be killed by Billy316 easily. It hadn't occured to me yet that they might be allied.
For a little while there was a lull on the battlefield. I expanded first to the bottom-right island, adn then to the top-left one. At this time I started to see a few things out of red, not much, but a few wraiths that were mildly annoying.
At this time, my economy was going well, I was upgrading all my weapons, I had reavers, speed-shuttles, and a scout army of 12 scouts with speed and sight. With an observer I saw teal attempting to expand to the 12:00 o'clock starting place where the other guy had been.
Knowing that letting him get another expansion would not be a good thing, I took my scout army to kill the fledgeling expansion only to find that teal had a fleet of about 18 corsairs that royally killed my scouts.
I still hadn't seen much of red otheer then wraiths, so I began to become afraid he was making a BC horde. And then I hear:
Nuclear Launch Detected
I looked around and wuickly spotted the red dot. It was going to hit the cannons I had by my natural, and i didn't have any units near enough to kill it. Damn!
Luckily, I had a lot of extra minerals at this point, so I re-made all the cannons. During this time, teal had made a 4-reaver drop on my natural that killed the nexus before I could kill the reavers with my scouts. And I was still wondering what was up with red.
At this point I yelled for a bit for them to attack each other and lay off me, but they didn't obey. I decided to start making carriers and templar because i really didn't see any danger of the carriers getting lockdowned by red, who was just sitting and turtling.
Teal was still busy, though. He had a small horde of corsairs, and used them to dweb the cannons on the bottom-right island. Seeing this, I knew a Doom Drop was coming, and sent all my units that could get there to defend. And I was right. the Doom Drop came-5 shuttles- but I killed it before it did any major damage.
I decided I needed an edge, so I started production of... Arbiters. I almost NEVER see even a single arbiter no matter the game. And the thing is, Arbiters are SO usefull.
Then, I saw a terrible sight. A red ghost -uncloaked- walked right by a horde of teal dragoons. I started cursing, knowing that I'm not good enough to win a 2v1 against good players, so my only hope was that red was as dumb as he seemed to be.
I offered them ally/ally vic, if they really wanted a win that badly, but they didn't respond. Then:
Nuclear Launch Detected
I saw the ghost with an observer, it was targeting the natural cannons, but I also saw a horde of teal troops. The horde consisted of about 8 templar, 6 scouts, and 24 dragoons. And also, a few observers. My observer was killed before I could kill the ghost.
Knowing the final battle was fast approaching, I hot-keyed my arbiters into 1 group, my carriers into another, and the 6 shuttles filled with men into a thrid. I believed that i could hold off all the teal troops, and after that i planned to Doom Drop one of them. As teal's troops all started to move, i used a kamikazee arbiter to stais 5 of his templar and a few dragoons.
And then, the battle commences. Micro-managing my carriers a bit, I was able to end up with 3 carriers alive, all damage, and 3 coming in a minute from the stargates I had.
Then, with no warning, after I had stopped the attack:
KUTU has left the game.
I immediately sent my Doom Drop to reds main, where he had almost no units, and after killing some buildings, I offered ally/ally vic.
Then i thought better of it. I said:
"Actually, never mind that offer"
"You are scum. Allieing in a FFA"
"and you refused ALL my offers"
"I think ill jusdt eradicate your presence, asshole"
And with those words I sent my 6 carriers and 1 Arbiter to his main, and as they appeared, I saw the expected:
Waiting For Players
Idiot discer. After he was dropped, I continued playing for a bit so I could see what they had. Red was as dumb as he seemed. He had nothing but buildings and a few tanks. Teal had had about 2 of every production building. I left the game and returned to nohunters.
This report was written by DoomDragon, hope you liked it. |
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