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| Me vs. InsaneBiatch on Acropolis | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 08/30/99 08:08 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 6, Min: 5
Lifetime Rating for NumbNut666: 5.7500 |   | The Map: Acropolis
NumbNut666: Terran at 6:00
InsaneBiatch: Zerg at 10:00
(This BR is from my point of view, some info i give on my opponent was given to me by him AFTER the game.....so dont accuse me of hacking. I hate that. Also, you might get confused if you dont know what the map Acropolis looks like.)
I started with a basic power build order, knowing a quick zergling rush was unlikely due to this maps size. I try to off bunker my zerg opponent, but 12 zerglings are waiting for me there burrowed. They even wait until i finish the bunker before unburrowing and killing me so i lose even MORE money. Waaaaaaaa. 10 minutes later i try a much stronger siege, i bring 3 siege tanks, 3 SCVs, 24 marines and 4 medics to his bridge. He has a hatchery set up with some sunken colonies, so i siege my tanks and start shelling. This doesnt last long as at least 24 hydras unburrow RIGHT BEHIND MY SIEGE TANKS! He had these positioned exactly right to blow away the tanks. As my marines turn their attention to the hydras, a zergling swarm unburrows RIGHT ON TOP OF THEM! My marines were standing right on the burrowed lings. Of course i get completely slaughtered AGAIN! Now I'm quite pissed and he's laughing his ass off at me having killed me twice using stupid burrow tricks when i had a 2x superior force. Also, unbeknownst to me, he has already expanded 3 times. To the top expansion, and the 9:00 and 3:00 expansions on the middle island. Each expansion only had 3 drones at this point, but not for long. I was just starting my first expansion at 8:00. He has not attacked me once yet and I am getting rather worried. I put up a starport and get out several dropships and load up 40 marines, 4 SCVs, 4 medics, and 2 tanks. These 7 dropships go and i drop on his main base where i siege up the tanks to shell his main buildings and begin bunker and turret construction. About 15 seconds later about 60 mutalisks show up. YES 60 MUTAS! I dont have to say that my drop was cruelly slaughtered. I took half the mutas with me, but since i had 2 expansions and he had 7 at this point, (actually 6 one was mined out) it comes out about even. He was expanding like, well, an Insane Biatch. Only the 9:00 exp was unclaimed. He was controlling the entire middle island with that huge mutalisk army, plus heavy sunken colonies and some lurkers. He also has the entire top of the map. Ground attacks were not an option. My next plan was to mass BCs and sci vessels and kill him that way. 4 starports churned out the airforce and soon had myself 12 BCs and 6 sci vessels. He tried a big hydra assault on my main, but hydras choke terribly over bridges and my 4 siege tanks and 2 bunkers killed like 30 of them without a single loss. I brought 12 medics along with my airforce and began the attack. I removed one mining expansion from existance and then the attack came. 24 devourers and 48 mutalisks, plus some defilers and queens met my airforce. We both microed, the BCs and mutas/devs attack moved and he began ensnaring and plaguing my BCs, plus the devourer spores were hurting as well. I countered by using my medics to constantly restore my BCs and using sci vessels to apply defensive matrix. I dont know about you, but microing 2 spells at once well is about all i can micro, so i didnt irradiate much. It worked, i crushed his airforce with the loss of only one BC! However the rest were seriously damaged and would not survive another attack, so i went on suicide runs and wiped every zerg building off the center island and took out the 12:00 expansion when another 36 devourers and 6 defilers showed up. I knew i was dead so i left my BCs to die and kill as much as possible, but i retreated my scis after irradiating all the defilers and some of the devs. I got all but 5 of the devs when my BCs died. He had rebuilt 36 devourers in about 3 minutes because he had an insane TWELVE hatches at his main base. During this battle, i also expanded to the 9:00 exp and began mining it. My starports had also not been idle during this time and had created 6 more BCs with 3 more almost ready to pop out. Now it was HIS turn to attack. I did not notice the hatchery and nydus canal going up to the right of my base, and soon dark swarms began appearing en masse. I quickly located the nydus and yamatoed it, but it was too late, i was helpless to watch as massive numbers of zerglings tore through my main. I lifted all my buildings, but was helpless as all my supply depots were destroyed. I had 12 BCs and random other ground troops like siege tanks and marines which i loaded into dropships to save them. I began rebuilding depots at the bottom left island expansion, and brought those dropships to the 9:00 island exp, as it was the only exp left getting much res in at all. After slaughtering the unprotected lings with my BCs after the swarm wore off, i moved them to the 9:00 expansion just in time to fend off 8 lords full of hydras dropped on it, losing 4 bcs in the process. Then a large number of devourers attacked this expansion, ignoring my 6 or so missile turrets and killing all but 2 BCs before dying. Then about 20 enemy overlords flew over my expansion, and began dropping hydras. Only 6-8 lords actually had hydras in them, the rest were cannon fodder for my turrets. I almost lost the expansion that time, 1 burning bunker and a siege tank were all i had left when the last hydra died. I thought i was done for.....but then Insane Biatch surrendered. "Im out of minerals" is what he said. "I needed that expansion" I had forgotten that Acropolis has TONS of gas on it, but not many minerals. The map was mined out of minerals except for my expansion. It was a very long game but it did teach me some things:
1. Burrow can and will PISS YOU OFF VERY MUCH!
2. Zerg do have a chance versus terran on land maps.
3. Dark Swarm SUCKS! If i had firebats i woulda beaten those lings, but ultralisks woulda ripped me to shreds and there woulda been nothing i could've done about that.
4. I could have included cool pictures with this report except they are all >50k and i forgot how to do HTML a while ago, all i know is UBB now :(
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