EPT
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.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/FC2hq.jpg)
My opponent opted to go for a factory with a quick vulture before any addons to do extra scouting and harass.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/iY53s.jpg)
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 =.=
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/dBKYp.jpg)
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.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Gkipj.jpg)
Feeling cocky i decided i could break this with just goons. Unfortunately it turns out vultures are pretty good. So are tanks.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/kOLrK.jpg)
Luckily i was able to clean it up with reinforcements from my 4 gateways
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/inaqD.jpg)
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
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/1UJvS.jpg)
I proceeded to drop my third, and ran into him pushing again
but managed to clean it up!![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/5pSbX.jpg)
Finally, the time to counter attack! my goons easily broke his third and forced a lift and the scv's to flee
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/nqY2M.jpg)
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.![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/5F1Ac.jpg)
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
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/384R6.jpg)
I finally managed to clean up this force with the help of my first arbiter but lost the nexus in the process
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/la2c0.jpg)
I decided enough was enough, after cleaning up the push at my fourth I had more than enough forces to break his natural.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/uGWMn.jpg)
And the GG (or ]ww in this case) came soon after.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/HTqgB.jpg)
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
