How to beat a cannon rush (Image Heavy)

The game begins normally, with the protoss sending one of his six original probes towards my base, for seemingly benign reasons.



OR SO IT SEEMED. While I was busy reading my 10rax reaper rush, Proberto had a more sinister plan in mind.



What's a gold league terran to do? Get out of there, that's what!



So I pick up everything, leaving his in-base forge, two pylons, and a cannon to sit unused and unwanted, while his probe gets an SCV-induced beatdown.



Remember the reaper rush? Yeah, that's still happening.



The protoss decides to take advantage of the preplanned failed-cannon-rush-into-no-gateway-reaper-defense 3 zealot timing push.



Unfortunately for him, Mr. Ghost has something to say about this.



A push and a counterpush later, protoss decides to go for a more standard transition, getting an expansion and preparing to macro up.



I had you for a second there didn't I? Of course he does something stupid!



I get ready to crush his ground army, unaware of the impending void ray push.



He shows up at my base with void rays, and manages two supply depots and a couple of scvs before the army arrives.



After warding off the initial push, I finally get around to our old friends, the "in-base" forge, pylons, and cannon.



He finds my "natural" expansion after a long period of ignorance, and decides to push onto it with his void rays.



After mercilessly slaughtering his void rays, I decide to take most of the accumulated army and attack his gold base, leaving behind a force to defend from any void ray harass.



He attempts to take the void rays he has been carefully constructing in his main and attack...



Finally, after so long, the battle had to be decided. Protoss had his army of zealot/immortal/void ray, while I had an army of marine/ghost. This is it. The final battle.



And so the Dominion is victorious over the protoss, despite their tricky tactics.

Also, Gretorp, thanks for coming up with a good counter to void ray harass which still packs a punch against the ground (especially zealots!).