[BR] Fun TvT

Right after my opponent typed gl hf, I sent him a private message saying "Darn, he's terran." Then I realized that I had just sent it to my opponent!
We quickly discover that we accidentally crashed into each other on the way out the door. Neither of us are terran players so this could get very messy.
Since the cheese we had planned relies mostly on surprise, we had a gentleman's agreement to not use those strategies.

He does make one reaper at the beginning, and it receives its just reward.




It did scout my barracks and factory though. However, my true intentions were not yet revealed.




Soon, I go for the marine/widow mine attack off two bases. A furious battle ensues and he already has to micro for his life.




I should explain here that widow mine versus widow mine strategies are the pinnacle of positional play. Similarly to siege tanks, they have massive AOE which take a while to set up. However, they are dodgeable and are invisible. This means there is more positioning, scans, similarly to tank wars.



In fact, he realizes this and gets some widow mines as defense.













In the above pictures, the opponent goes for a widow mine drop while pushing back my widow mines with bio and widow mines. And there was much rejoicing.
Seeing that mines would not win the game for me, I went with the one unit that goes really well with mineral-heavy builds.




Not to be outdone, my opponent goes for a massive doom drop!



…And, unfortunately, I only had turrets on one side of my base.




I did, however, have one ace up my sleeve which would be very difficult to counter.






The second battle of the game happened a minute or so later, right after he lost a ton of units to seeker missiles.







I land seeker missiles which should instantly win the game in any normal scenario.



However, in a rare instance of standard play, I brought my marines closer to his to minimize splash damage and prevent an easy retreat… and seeker missiles kill nearly all of them.

It was a terrible battle. And by terrible I mean the many noble lives that were lost. I in no way mean the bad micro I showed.
After the battle, I regroup and go for an attack.



The usual seeker missiles obliterate everything.




Long story short, I somehow lose nearly my entire army and retreat.



I build up my air army while attempting to harass with hellions.






I suddenly realize that I should be upgrading, and I go for the 23 minute double armory build.



Once again, a tiny hole in my defenses allows easy harass from my opponent.



I patch up the hole, in my own way.




Another move out…



Another battle…



And another giant explosion.



I chase him back to his natural expansion where he has enough thors to engage my army without too much fear of seeker missiles.



Unfortunately, since my ravens are clumped up, he gets massive shots on them and manages to clean up my entire army.



The retaliation from him is massive. Hellions, ravens, and banshees are not particularly great counters against thors, nor are PFs.



However, with a hellion flank and landed vikings, I actually manage to push him back, killing everything but two thors and allowing time for my BCs to get there.









My opponent was not happy with losing his third base.



My battlecruisers get into his natural, and with reinforcements, execute swift justice.






GG!
He goes on for another ten minutes, hiding buildings, but eventually leaves.