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| Family Reunion | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 08/27/99 04:08 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 5, Max: 10, Min: 8
Lifetime Rating for Fractal_Wave: 8.2537 |    |
It was a fine hot day in July, and the Wave family was having their family reunion. Two cousins who had not seen each other in years met with grins and decided to discover once and for all which side of the family had the better game of StarCraft, the Under_Scores, or the Nospaces.
Vital Information
The Map:
Team Under_Score:
Fractal_Wave: Randoms to Blue Protoss, Top Right.
Team Nospaces
Shockwave[:-)]: Randoms to Red Protoss, Bottom Right.
That's My Hot Dog!
We begin the game with Fractal aiming for reavers...to the complete exclusion of everything else.
interlude
Fractal_Wave: geexus sht thats a big sipder.
Fractal_Wave: xcuse me
~Fractal_Wave pauses the game~
Fractal notices the bigest spider he has ever seen skitting into his room. He takes a quick moment to dispose of it with a convinient tapedeck, and the game goes on.
Laughing in the face of defense or even offensive units, he techs like a fiend up to reavers.
As his shuttle pops out, he sends it scouting counter-clock wise around the map. As the shuttle sails over the top-left starting spot, it is assailed by a crimsion-streaked corsair!
Fractal's shuttle turns tail and runs...as Fractal realizes that he has no anti-air units what so ever!
A dragoon is quickly trained, and the scouting corsairs flee after dispatching the shuttle
Seetheing for revenge, Fractal builds anothe shuttle, a reaver, and places photon cannons strategically around his base.
Fractal grabs another hot dog off the bbq as his speed-upgraded shuttle moves out.
Fractal attempts to land his reaver in Shockwave[:-)]'s probe line, and succeeds. But Shockwave[:-)] maneauvers a scarab-absorbing dragoon in front of the reaver, and well placed photon cannons remove both the reaver, the dragoon, and the shuttle.
Shockwave[:-)] refuses to be outdone, and takes a hot dog for himself. He also readies a strike force: twin reavers with two corsairs for air support.
As the reaver are dropped on Fractal's main, they are met with a reaver and a dragoons. One reaver on each side is reduced to its component atoms by scarabs, and then Shockwave[:-)] picks up his reaver and retreats....or does he?
No! Shockwave[:-)] merely retreat his reaver to reload it. He's in for a shock, as Fractal's next reaver and his remaining dragoon await him.
Here Fractal gets clever. He baits Shockwave[:-)]'s reaver with his dragoon and then runs the dragoon away. As the plodding automaton tries to hunt down the dragoon, Fractal's reaver blows it away.
Great Minds Think Alike
There is a slight lull now as Fractal build a starport for corsairs to match Shockwave[:-)]s. He also sends his lone observer scouting, and expands to the mineral patch at 9:00. Between the two players. Shockwave[:-)]s expands as well, to the 6:00 spot.
Fractal sends his corsairs to escort a single shuttle with one dragoon and one reaver to crush Shockwave[:-)]'s expansion.
At the same time, the truely EVIL sound of disruption web is heard at Fractal's expansion, as the photon cannons are frozen, and blood-red reavers and dragoons are dropped on the fledgling expansion. But Fractal holds him off, but loses his three dragoons and a reaver
Meanwhile, Shockwave[:-)]'s nexus is gone, and his last photon cannons goes up in smoke...as disruption wed hits the lone reaver, and 4 dragoons are drooped to remove it.
Fractal decides to cut his losses and flees his corsairs and shuttle to his expansion...which is under seige by Shockwave[:-)]'s corsairs and reavers again.
With no mobile troops avaliable, Fractal is forced to cancel the nexus in the nick of time and let the base be razed.
For Whom the Beer-Bottle Tolls
There is another lull in the action as the competitor build up there forces. Fractal's observer spies a hole in Shockwave[:-)]'s defense. He fills three shuttles with dragoons and reaver and flies around the entire map to hit Shockwave[:-)] from behind.
After this attack fails, Fractal makes a horrifying discovey: his main base is out of minerals, and he doesn't have enough for a new nexus! Frantically canceling troops, he assemble the requisite 400 minerals and sets up an expansion at the top-center expansion node.
Luckily, Fractal gets his expansion up and running before it's noticed. Production begins again. Until a dragoon sees a pack of red corsairs hovering over the south end of Fractal's main island. The dragoon moves to investigate, and...well, pictures speak louder than words:
As the horde of reavers and dragoons rip through his main, Fractal sends a shuttle with two reavers to Shockwave[:-)]'s main, hopeing against hope that all of Shockwave[:-)]'s troops are commited to destroying his main.
But it is not to be. Dragoons pop out of gateways and although the reavers kill three or four, a token corsair throws a well-timed Distruption Web, and the reavers go up in smoke.
Fractal hastily begins fortifying his base and rebuilding the tech required for shuttles. The issue at the moment is space: There's not enough room on the island for many buildings.
As Shockwave[:-)]'s forces increase, Fractal loads a shuttle with 4 probes and a dragoon and blasts to the top-left starting point. Four pylons are laid down...and then the pimp squad arrives. 4 reavers and 8 corsairs fly over the east horizon and blow the living heck out of the dragoon. The pylons are canceled as Fractal's shuttle is taken down by corsairs.
Too Much Beer!
By now, Fractal knows that he;s finished. He falls to chatting with his cousin about various things while waiting for the hammerblow to fall.
After a long while, Disruption Webs are thrown on the cannons and reavers are dropped. A shuttle flees the doomed base with the last 3 probes and a dragoon.
Fractal has never been one to give up. As his base is warping in, he sees what Shockwave[:-)] has in store for him:
Arbiters. Obviously Shockwave[:-)] has had too much beer.
Fractal rebuild his shattered empire, knowing that it's just a matter of time. Shockwave[:-)] even shares vision with him.
As the final blows falls on Fractal's last base, he congratulates his Shockwave[:-)] on a game well played. The cousins begin chattering about other things, as the recalled horde of zealots rip into font color="blue">Fractal's base.
Stats
Lessons...and stuff.
#1.) Disruption Web is an incredibly powerful spell.
#2.) Expand earlier and HOLD IT.
#3.) Be careful of spiders
#4.) A Reaver/Corsair combination works very well
#5.) I should have got Templar
#6.) Don't expand anywhere neer the other player.
#7.) Don't give Shockwave any beer.
#8.) It's all about recon & timing.
#9.) Shockwave does GREAT smileies
All the best,
Fractal_Wave
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