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This is about my first game on iCCup. I'll be writing more of these blogs in the format of a battle report as I have the time (I've played about 30 games thus far, ladder score being 5-7). First, a little background on me and starcraft, in spoilers in case you just want to skip to me getting manhandled as protoss 
+ Show Spoiler +I first played SC in 2000. It was the first RTS I ever played, and I loved it. The references to all the sci-fi movies/shows I watched as a kid stood out the most, I remember. I didn't actually own a PC at the time, and I wouldn't own one until 2004 when I was more into counter-strike due to playing it with friends at a local LAN café, so I never got around to playing BW seriously, but I did watch pro BW games on youtube, and eventually, when SC2 came out, I bought it and had at it. I loved it for a while, but eventually, after getting to diamond as zerg, I just stopped wanting to play. Not because I was losing, but because I just didn't have fun playing it anymore. Recently, my main computer died (dropped a belt on the case and the bios fails to boot), and most games refuse to install on this computer, so I decided, why not try my hand at brood war, for the first time, in a serious fashion? That shit will install on a p1!
And on with the show!
So I get on iCCup, after using this handy thread. I decided to play protoss because I always liked dragoons and watching pros do shuttle play. I join a game, on Python, against a terran. The countdown begins. My heart begins to pump faster, my mind races. What should I do? Do I know any PvT builds? Do I even know this map? Whatever, gotta start somewhere! Let's just do this as well as I can!
The game begins.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/yd1Yn.png)
I can do this...
I open with something entirely improvised, at the natural choke, to block off... marine runbys? I don't know why I did this.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/QlcFf.png)
Why did I do this?
He opens fake double, and I proceed to build two extra gateways and goon range. I learn about the push when I move to his base with two dragoons and a zealot, which is my entire army.
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Visions of soiled pants pass through my head.
I steel my nerves, and think, with a little bit of dragoon micro, I can pick off some stuff while he makes his way to my base, to soften the push up so I can hold it!
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/UNFo3.png)
I think I hurt a marine.
The push makes its way to the front of my base, and I have two goons to hold it. I pray to the gods of BW that he right clicks past my stuff, so I can hold this push.
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It's getting cold...
While I do my fail micro, and he curbstomps my two goons, three more pop and hold it off! I kill the vulture, the tank and a couple of marines! One goon remains. I put up a forge (because I can?), get a robo and more goons+a shuttle to do a goon drop (since that's the only thing I have to drop with) while I assault the front of his natural with the rest of my goons (because hey, if he pushed that early with a tank/vult/marines, he can't POSSIBLY hold all these goons, could he?)
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He can.
I get cornered, pummled and I gg and leave the game.
Dazed and confused, I seek out assistance from the sGs clan that I joined from the thread referenced earlier in this post, but I'll talk about that in my next blog post!
If you made it to this end, thanks for reading through my blog, I hope you enjoyed it! Feel free to let me know what I should do to improve the format, or leave general BW tips for newbies like me! Or just yell at me for being awful. That's fine too!
Edit: replay at this here link!
 
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Outnumbered in every picture =/
Maybe he was korean gosu and you are actually really good!
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On February 24 2012 03:28 ReketSomething wrote:
Outnumbered in every picture =/
Maybe he was korean gosu and you are actually really good!
Nah, I'm awful! I'm getting better though, so I don't care, it's fun anyways!
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Italy12246 Posts
That's a pretty brutal experience, but keep on trying 
Mine was getting hydra busted by Phrygian because i don't know how to ffe on whatever map it was since i couldn't find the natural with my probe...turns out, 2gate stargate expand sucks in bw lol.
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This is pretty entertaining, you are in for a world of fun I tell you. You should post replays too though, would be fun to see.
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lmao. adorable :3
dem marine runbys XD
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On February 24 2012 03:48 Teoita wrote:That's a pretty brutal experience, but keep on trying Mine was getting hydra busted by Phrygian because i don't know how to ffe on whatever map it was since i couldn't find the natural with my probe...turns out, 2gate stargate expand sucks in bw lol.
I will! Thanks!
I've only done one PvZ, and I did do an FFE, but that's another game for another blog!
On February 24 2012 03:48 HopLight wrote:
This is pretty entertaining, you are in for a world of fun I tell you. You should post replays too though, would be fun to see.
Is there a specfic website to upload BW replays? Or does TL have a built-in function for BW reps?
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You can use the ICCup replay uploader or replaydepot.net
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On February 24 2012 03:58 Gecko[Xp] wrote:
You can use the ICCup replay uploader or replaydepot.net
Thanks for the tip, uploaded to ICCup! I'll start doing that with the ones that will follow.
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You just had the wonderful experience of getting FD pushed. and as you found, the experience is oh so fun.
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block marines runby lol
awesome man, even though you lost the game you had the balls to make a fun blog about it :D
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Croatia9530 Posts
I love these kind of blogs
Welcome to the wonderful world of Brood War!
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Just fyi, there's maybe one or two scenarios where you would ever want to put your gateways in your natural like that and they're probably a little above you're level. Build those gateways in your base!
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These are my favorite battle reports. Not worrying about being constrained to standard builds, just playing and learning from error. Thanks for posting!
And welcome to sGs! I'm a Protoss as well so I can help you out and play some games with you if I see you on. I'm sGs.Smile. See you around!
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God, the part where you talk about microing yours goons to soften the push followed by the screen of 2 dead goons and a perfectly clean terran army walking by made me laugh so hard. :D
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Lol~
I was actually hoping you'd be able to somehow magically pull through in the end for an epic comeback
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Netherlands45349 Posts
Disregarding everything, Python is a downright terrible map in my opinion.
Still its good that you are trying BW, its really so much fun.
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Haha great blog, fun stuff!
If your looking for people to play with/teach you feel free to hit me up with your skype name and I'll add you to the sGs skype group.
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Haha nice blog. I love Brood War blogs.
"He can possibly hold all these goons,"
If I had a win for every time I thought this I would reach B rank every season.
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