Race Wars: Part One

Dead9

United States4725 Posts

January 02 2009 20:42 GMT

Idea stolen from Grobyc :D

Anyways, this is the first game I played during the Racewars. It's a TvZ on Othello; I spawn at 7:00 as a red Terran (the best race ofc) and Atrioc spawns on 10:00 as a purple Zerg (they cheated to win racewars, I swear it...)

I scout him on my first try (I probably should've blocked his expo here):

The usual greeting

Scouter power!

Hey, I can count~

Time to check his gas...

Hay thar droner

DENIED

I learned this one from the tosses

Pretty standard, right?

Imba lings > partially-built refinery

NOPE! At this point I've decided that (since I don't know how good the Zerg is and because his build looks like a standard 3hatch muta) I'm going to cheese. I learned this build awhile ago. It's pretty simple: 1 rax fe, then build 3 more raxes, then get stim and kill the sunkens. Epic plan, gogo~

I copied this build from Ayumi. It's supposed to roll 3hatch mutas.

One slight problem:

This build also gets scanners just a bit late...

See the red line on the minimap?

They're supposed to break down the sunkens a couple of seconds before the mutas hatch.

Well, I forgot that I didn't have range yet (I think I forgot to get it all game x_X), but I tried to pull a boxer anyways:

This is every bit as bad as it looks

Damned mining speed

If you can't tell, I cut a just a few scvs for this build...

Counter-lurkers mode (I think I spent all my excess gas here so I couldn't get range, and then I forgot to pick it up later :[ )~

I like tanks. Seige up, pewpew, popop.

Time to show off my insane anti-lurker skillz!

BOXER POWER!

Nerf lurkers plx

I swear boxer's marines have more hp...

My force after my boxer-esque assault:

Ensnare is imba

Well, one of them made it

He later dies a painful, lurker-related death. Serves him right, coward

What's this! The lurkers followed him!

I forgot to macro medics. TvZ macro is intense :[

Circle around and...

It felt really, really good to finally kill these things

I assume he's taken a third at this point, so I send out scouter SCVs (gotta save my scans), one of which finds this:

*Hi5's the hatch*

Can't let him run on three gases, now can I?

Fear the terran congo line!

He decides to go and attack my main (I probably shouldn't have moved out, eh?)

Tanks counter lurkers. I'm definately gonna win this fight.

E-z, amirite?

Pop

TT

Pop

Meanwhile at 2:00...

Well, I did some damage

And my nat?

Ensnare was bad enough D:<

His lurkers are in my main at this point (and all two of my vessels died to scourge), so I decide to go in for a last-ditch counter.

I swear I brought some medics..

Lazy medics...

I don't know what happened here...

My base:

At least he doesn't have swarm

His base:

His drone is bad at mining minerals

GG

What I learned from this game:
I am not Boxer
Turtle harder
Scout for counters
Turtle harder
Lurkers and Queens are imba

I'll upload all the replays after I finish off the battle-reports for the rest of the set
Have a happy 2009~

LordWeird

United States3411 Posts

January 02 2009 20:47 GMT

Haha, thanks for doing that. Even if the game wasn't that great you sure made it seem pretty fun

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

January 02 2009 20:49 GMT

Hehe I liked this, battle reports are fun :D And MS Paint enhances everything.

Dr.Dragoon

United States1241 Posts

January 02 2009 20:49 GMT

The 4rax works decently vs 3 hatch lurks too, you just attack a bit earlier or you contain outside. The problem is that your economy is kinda shitty from cutting scvs though.

Oh, and you failed us too...I knew I should have taken you out when I saw you in op tl-west yesterday!

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

January 02 2009 20:49 GMT

Dead we really need to play more

Descent

1244 Posts

January 02 2009 20:52 GMT

Hahah, excellent~ =)

selboN

United States2523 Posts

January 02 2009 20:52 GMT

I really enjoyed reading this! Definitely a 5/5 blog imo!

Dead9

United States4725 Posts

January 02 2009 20:52 GMT

On January 03 2009 05:49 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Dead we really need to play more

Yeah, log on more often D:<

Phrogs!

Japan521 Posts

January 02 2009 20:53 GMT

Even the shittest games seem fun when reported in this style ty for the entertainment^^
edit: 5/5~

hasuprotoss

United States4612 Posts

January 02 2009 20:55 GMT

#10

Fun read

naonao

United States847 Posts

January 02 2009 21:10 GMT

#11

paint ftw :D, loled alot

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

January 02 2009 21:13 GMT

#12

hahaha nice write up i liked it ;D

Saracen

United States5139 Posts

January 02 2009 21:34 GMT

#13

don't steal zerg's gas b/c he can just make it at the expo if you do

EDIT: writeup was really funny
let's play

Dead9

United States4725 Posts

January 02 2009 21:57 GMT

#14

On January 03 2009 06:34 Saracen wrote:
don't steal zerg's gas b/c he can just make it at the expo if you do

EDIT: writeup was really funny
let's play

I wanted to be cute :[
Plus I hate it when Zerg steals my gas (it's happened, I swear)

Navane

Netherlands2747 Posts

January 02 2009 22:03 GMT

#15

tx, fun read!

b3tty

Canada216 Posts

January 02 2009 22:07 GMT

#16

rofl : )
nice report

Atrioc

United States1865 Posts

January 02 2009 22:50 GMT

#17

= P

This was a really fun game to play and probably the only time I have ever successfully used "Operation Green SCV"

I look forward to your battle report for our second game on Destination, because i have a few choice words about the Zerg point of view.

+ Show Spoiler +

Namely how smug I was at predicting the bunker rush before losing basically every drone to it.

We should play more often!

Dead9

United States4725 Posts

January 02 2009 22:57 GMT

#18

On January 03 2009 07:50 Atrioc wrote:
= P

This was a really fun game to play and probably the only time I have ever successfully used "Operation Green SCV"

I look forward to your battle report for our second game on Destination, because i have a few choice words about the Zerg point of view.

+ Show Spoiler +

Namely how smug I was at predicting the bunker rush before losing basically every drone to it.

We should play more often!

I stole the bunker rush from my friend (hi) who stole it from UpMagic :D~

Saracen

United States5139 Posts

January 02 2009 23:04 GMT

#19

On January 03 2009 06:57 Dead9 wrote:

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I wanted to be cute :[
Plus I hate it when Zerg steals my gas (it's happened, I swear)

really? i wouldn't think that it would do much O_O
we should play

what's your iccup account
and ensnaring/stasising workers is pro

Titusmaster6

United States5937 Posts

January 02 2009 23:15 GMT

#20

lol at the medics, thanks for reporting!

Roxen000

1226 Posts

January 02 2009 23:19 GMT

#21

+ Show Spoiler +

For some reason I love this picture. Cool write up!

Kuja900

United States3564 Posts

January 02 2009 23:23 GMT

#22

I like this alot make more of these

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 02 2009 23:36 GMT

#23

haha you know what? I realized that strat forum "help me" threads wwould be 10x better if the op had to paste screens.

huameng

United States1133 Posts

January 02 2009 23:51 GMT

#24

On January 03 2009 06:57 Dead9 wrote:
I wanted to be cute :[
Plus I hate it when Zerg steals my gas (it's happened, I swear)

In my racewars game 1 vs shallowbay, his scout drone started to steal my gas when I kindly asked him to give it back. Of course he canceled, the drone made it out of my base alive and everyone ended up happy. Try reasoning with the zerg next time

AttackZerg

United States7454 Posts

January 03 2009 01:49 GMT

#25

On January 03 2009 08:51 huameng wrote:

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AHAHAHAHAHAHH

Fucking halarious.

To the op.

Nice battle reports, I enjoyed it!

Antipathy

United States222 Posts

January 03 2009 02:16 GMT

#26

Nice report!

LOL @ the infested command center pumping infested terrans.

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

January 03 2009 04:50 GMT

#27

On January 03 2009 08:51 huameng wrote:

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You paid me back next game by sparing Mr. Overlord so it all worked out in the end.

<3 manner Starcraft

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

January 03 2009 05:04 GMT

#28

On January 03 2009 13:50 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:

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You paid me back next game by sparing Mr. Overlord so it all worked out in the end.

<3 manner Starcraft

I've noticed that you have decided to 5pool me, and I would like to inform you that this runs counter to my entire strategy, and I would find it quite decent of you to remove your zerglings from my base.

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

January 03 2009 05:05 GMT

#29

Oh, and awesome report to the OP, can't wait for part two.

SecondComing

United States30 Posts

January 03 2009 05:58 GMT

#30

lol good read! i'm yiankutku btw