So it's been a fair while since i did one of these, so i figured i should knock one out while i was relaxing on this fine weekend (by fine i mean rainy and miserable).

The game itself was a random melee match i played on fish getting the 30 games i need to play ladder on my new smurf account. I chose it because i thought it was fairly exciting and felt really drained after it was done.

Anyways, enough ramble, on with the battle report!

The game was a Protoss vs Terran match on Fighting Spirit.
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I was fortunate enough to spawn cross positions from my opponent, warping in at the bottom left corner of the map while my opponent landed in the top right corner. Unlike i've been doing on my stream lately I decided to play a standard 1 gate goon + range opening, instead of the 2 gate range no goon expand.
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My opponent opted to go for a factory with a quick vulture before any addons to do extra scouting and harass.
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Soon after dropping my nexus the vulture appeared in my main while my goons were in transit to harass the bunker at the front of his base, luckily a goon soon popped out of my gateway to prevent significant damage being done.
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In the fits of panic dealing with the vulture in my base, my first goon died to a bunker =.=
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I dropped my third nexus along with 2 more gates and a citadel after pumping goons from my 2 gateways
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Unfortunately my opponent saw this and came out with a speedy 2 fac (he had a CC up at his nat already) push with 4 tanks and vultures with all the trimmings.
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Feeling cocky i decided i could break this with just goons. Unfortunately it turns out vultures are pretty good. So are tanks.
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Luckily i was able to clean it up with reinforcements from my 4 gateways
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After dropping his third command center and going up to 5 factories, my opponent came out to push the same spot again
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I cleaned this up easily but while i was doing that my natural was sacced by vultures. Unfortunately i had also just transferred the probes from my 3rd so i was left with about 1 nexus worth of probes

I proceeded to drop my third, and ran into him pushing again

but managed to clean it up!
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Finally, the time to counter attack! my goons easily broke his third and forced a lift and the scv's to flee
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Unfortunately i couldn't stay and finish off the CC, because, you guessed it, he was pushing me again

This time killing my nat CC and alot of probes.
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After cleaning up the attack, i went and finished off his third, and on the way back part of my forces got cut off his tanks, that were on the way to push my fourth base. Settings up in a great position I was unable to break this line
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I finally managed to clean up this force with the help of my first arbiter but lost the nexus in the process

I decided enough was enough, after cleaning up the push at my fourth I had more than enough forces to break his natural.
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And the GG (or ]ww in this case) came soon after.
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gg

I hope people enjoyed it, i know my opponent had terrible macro but he made up for it with his micro and tactics in game to make it really tense the whole way through

Primadog

United States4411 Posts

August 27 2011 08:43 GMT

I wish this kind of write-ups catch on for sc2 blogs. It's stuff like this that still reminds me how far behind the sc2 scene is.

SarR

476 Posts

August 27 2011 08:49 GMT

nice!

konadora

Singapore66359 Posts

August 27 2011 08:51 GMT

sounds intense and close, like how u always manage to clean up, but just barely :p

Fatze

Germany1342 Posts

August 27 2011 11:43 GMT

nice article - thanks for sharing this

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

August 27 2011 11:57 GMT

damn u cleaned him up! ^^

Tempest[OEC]

United States417 Posts

August 27 2011 12:26 GMT

Lots of pressure in this game. Me gusta.

Slaytilost

Netherlands968 Posts

August 27 2011 13:26 GMT

Cool writeup man :D

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

August 27 2011 13:35 GMT

This makes me a bit sad. I did something similar with a game in TvP (though nowhere near as much damage as this one)...and Protoss is just stubborn in terms of losing.

Damn. Nice job!

Hyde

Australia14568 Posts

August 27 2011 13:52 GMT

#10

How tense were you when you lost your goons in the first attack, in the ss it looks like 9 goons T_T
Looks like a back and forth-ish game with the expo wiping. thanks for the BR

Kiante

Australia7069 Posts

August 27 2011 14:03 GMT

#11

haha i was close to leaving the game. i hate losing my third. having an obs over his factories and at his third gave me hope tho. if he had a third up i probably would've just gg'd.

with that attack, i tried to close too quickly on tyhe tanks, all his vultures laid mines and they pwnt my goons without really splashing the tanks

macmann

87 Posts

August 27 2011 14:16 GMT

#12

On August 27 2011 23:03 Kiante wrote:
haha i was close to leaving the game. i hate losing my third. having an obs over his factories and at his third gave me hope tho. if he had a third up i probably would've just gg'd.

with that attack, i tried to close too quickly on tyhe tanks, all his vultures laid mines and they pwnt my goons without really splashing the tanks

I know that feeling bro.
When you feel like the game is lost and want to leave, but you suck it up and play it out.
good job man

0mgVitaminE

United States1278 Posts

August 27 2011 14:46 GMT

#13

As a zerg, I have no clue why I love pvt so much :p

gj on the win, looked like a stressful one

ymir233

United States8275 Posts

August 27 2011 15:06 GMT

#14

Holy hell, so many broken bases lols.

Arb/zeal/goon PvT is so refreshing.

FlaShFTW

United States10366 Posts

August 27 2011 16:58 GMT

#15

very nice game. what level is this?

Kiante

Australia7069 Posts

August 27 2011 17:54 GMT

#16

i hover between 900 and 1100 on fish depending on how hard i'm tilting. i got C+ on iccup a few months ago

XXGeneration

United States625 Posts

August 27 2011 19:46 GMT

#17

I like how your gate/core is placed as if you're top left haha

Kiante

Australia7069 Posts

August 27 2011 19:51 GMT

#18

D: that was intentional. the gateway is still close to the ramp, and it lets me put a nice group of 4 gateways supported by pylons near my nexus while keeping my tech out of the way