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LT: Me vs. [ToJ]Newbie
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Author:[ToJ]Kralgon
IP:c847772-XXXX
Date: 08/13/00 04:08
Game Type: Starcraft
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Lifetime Rating for [ToJ]Kralgon: 7.4167

This is my second BR and I didn't intend to BR this game until the game was nearly over and I don't have any screenshots. I also played in this game, so some details may have been missed.

LT = BGH for non-newbies

The players:

[ToJ]Kralgon - I am a decent player with all the races and best with protoss. I rank near the top in clan ToJ

[ToJ]Newbie - "I suck at 1on1's" He's [ToJ]Mark's brother and is almost as skilled as Mark and as skilled as I.

We played a 1on1 before this game where I lost to a double gate since I went for reaver tech with 1 gate (I don't play many PvP, and only recently had I started teching hard with protoss instead of going double gate in almost every game). In a 2v2, I was teamed with him, and I played lazy and got crippled by a double rush. I lifted off my CC and floated it to my natural (no recon done by them to see where it went) and 10 pooled and went double CC's before doing anything else. Newbie did very well and won the game without much trouble or help by me.

Kralgon random Protoss
Newbie random Zerg

The game:

Since we were playing on a modified obs map without all the triggers, we had to allied vision with the 2 observers manually. Newbie, on accident visioned with me. After I noted his mistake, Tek7 (an obs) paused the game.

Tek7: restart?
Newbie: no thanks
Kralgon: u sure?
Newbie: ya

Tek7 resumed the game and soon an overlord came into sight. I knew Newbie couldn't be rushing (thanks to the vision). Tek commented that I would've known Newbie's position by the quick overlord and I agreed. I scouted Newbie with a probe regardless of the vision to see exactly he was building. My probe discovered a hatchery morphing at the expansion.

Approximate build orders:

me - pylon, gate, assimilator, pylon, cyber core, citadel, gate, archives
Newbie - hatch, pool, hatch, gas, hydra den

When Newbie saw the citadel warping in, he decided to comment on my move.

Newbie: templars?
Kralgon: nope
Newbie: speeded zealots?
Kralgon: no
Kralgon: going carriers
Newbie: k

I think Newbie figured out I was actually going templars when my archives started warping =(

Newbie made the first offensive move of the game attacking with around 18 zerglings against my defending 8 zealots and 2 goons. By placing my zealots to slaughter the zerglings as they exited the ramp, I easily defeated the attack with little or no casualties (I might've lost 1 zealot?). Newbie retreated 6 remaining zerglings to my natural to save them for later and recon. Knowing they would be easy kills, I sent my defending force to attack the zerglings. A probe followed the zealots and goons and started warping a Nexus at my now safe expansion.

The storm upgrade along with 2 templars were almost completed and I maynarded 12 probes from my main to my expansion knowing it would be safe against an attack with the new templars to supplement the zealots and goons. Another probe nearby warped an assimilator before mining the precious minerals.

When the assimilator finished, I sent 3 probes (2 from minerals and 1 brand new straight from the nexus) to mine more gas. At the same time, I build 2 robotics facilities in my base. A forge also began warping since I completed or was already researching every unit specific upgrade I needed (storm, templar energy, goon range, zealot speed). When the robo-facilities finished, I built a robotics support bay in order to get the powerful reavers while building a shuttle at each facility.

It had been quiet for awhile and when my reavers popped out. My scarab damage upgrade had already completed and I queued up 5 scarabs for each reaver and loaded it into one of my shuttles. The shuttle landed one reaver barely in range of the mineral line and the other into the middle of it to kill any drones that decided to run away. Unfortunately, the 2nd reaver landed in range of a sunken and was destroyed before I reacted since I was sending the shuttle to pick up the 1st reaver and move it to another location before anything could attack it. Hydras came in and destroyed the other reaver without much blood being shed by spreading the hydras out.

At this point, I knew I could grab another expansion and I decided to take the 12. I sent a probe to build a Nexus, but I lost transmission with the probe when it came under fire by 8 hydras on top of creep. I gathered 10 zealots and 2 dragoons and a templar and rallied them below the 12 ramp. After seeing no sign of Newbie above the ramp, I rallied them above the ramp and attacked. I did not need storms since the zealots did a nice job of ripping in the hydras while the dragoons took free shots and I didn't want to my harm my zealots with a careless storm. A few drones started to run away and I followed them for awhile. No reinforcements came to save the expansion and I thought immediately, "another expansion somewhere." I sent a zealot to check the 12 natural and found nothing so I sent 4 zealots and a goon to the 3 natural. The rest of the units destroyed the hatch and larvae to make sure the Zerg didn't rebuild there. During this attack, Newbie commented on my scouting technique.

I hack! =) I know I suck. I have that much resources left.

I sent 12 more units of assorted zealots and goons, and 1 templar to the 3 after my original scout troops found a Zerg infestation at the 3 o'clock main. My reinforcing units met with my initial attack force above the ramp and attacked the expansion. I met little resistance in the form of 3-4 sunkens with about 3 more morphing in. The zealots did a good job of eliminated the static defenses and I stormed the drones to make sure they didn't get away this time. This proved to be a fatal mistake.

My forces at 12 were done with the base and I sent all my zealots/goons/temps and 1 shuttle with 2 reaver to the center. I sent a shuttle loaded with a probe to the top right island to make another expansion.

I gathered all my units at the middle and attacked the final Zerg expansion to limit Newbie's resources and halt his income. Only 2-3 sunkens and a few hydras were there to repel the attack of 2 reavers, 2 templars, 6 goons, and about 12 zealots. The attack force at 3 were heading in to help with the assault when they met a force of over 3 control groups of hydras at the ramp. I unleashed a storm with my templar as my zealots died. I looked at my templars energy. 70 ENERGY LEFT! I impatiently waited for the energy to recharge as my goon count went down from 5 to 4... to 3.... to 2... STORM! I killed another 7 or so hydras in addition to my first storm of about 9 hydras. The 2 goons fought valiantly, but were no match for the overwhelming amount of hydras.

I awaited the hydras to return to try to eliminate my attacking forces but nothing came. He attacked with a force of about 25-30 hydras against 2 hydras, 3 zealots, and 1 templar. The templar could only unleash 1 storm before the hydras concentrated their green spit on it and it vaporized. I raced my reavers from my robotics facilities to the left of my nexus to my choke. The hydras popped all but 3 probes before my 8 reavers finished off the 20 hydras. My main only had 2 more mineral patches so I sent my mineral probes from the main to the expansion.

My reavers made the slow journey to the ramp at Newbie's main and I gathered my units there awaiting for the final attack. My reaver started into the main along with my the few remaining zealots and goons to support it. All of a sudden, a huge yellow blob appeared at the bottom of my base.

Newbie knew he was dead, but he thought he could eliminate me before I finished him off. I left my reavers to micro themselves, and the templar I had next to my cannon cast 1 storm before green spit rained down on it. 8 or so Overlords were dropping Hydralisks into my base! I had 3 templars left at my choke and I sent them up the ramp to the top of my main awaited the 40+ hydras to get there. I stormed them as they came closer and I got off 2 good storms, and a few horrible ones before the templars were sent back to Auir.

Guess who won?

There was nothing else I could do to save the base, but I was reassured with the presence of my island expansion. I build a forge there for drop defense while I microed the rest of my troops to kill the Zerg main.

After the storms, I came back to see my reavers dead. They probably walked into sunkens after they ran out of scarabs. Luckily, I had 2 more left in a shuttle so I unloaded the reavers and proceeded to take out the remaining buildings while I sent my shuttle to scan for expansions. When my 2 reavers, 2 goons, and 3 zealots finished with the base, my natural and main were completely wiped out.

I found a hatchery at my old main with the shuttle while my troops were starting to spread out to check all the spots quickly and I sent my forces to hit the last hatchery. At my expansion, I saw an overlord coming in to drop and I remembered I needed to build cannons. I struggled to build cannons to stall the hydras while I killed the hatchery, but the hydras were too much. I had 3 probes trying to build the cannons, but none of them completed. I stalled long enough to destroy the hatchery at 6! but... wait... It didn't say that Newbie was eliminated! 2 seconds later, all my building were destroyed.

Kralgon: I have no buildings
Tek7:
Newbie would win in traditional SC, but this map goes until last unit is eliminated
Tek7: just play it out

My shuttle found Newbie's last hatchery at the 12 o'clock mineral only expansion and I rallied my units just outside of their site range. My shuttle exploded while moving away from the hydras being sent in from the drop at the island expansion. Newbie killed one of my reavers, but the other blasted all the hydras with 1 hit and I finished off his hatchery. At this point, I said "gg" and "you win" and left.

Lessons learned:

1) Newbie is not a newbie
2) Don't waste storms on drones if you can kill them with other units
3) Make sure your reavers always have scarabs loaded
4) Newbie is actually [ToJ]Mark smurfing (not really)

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