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[BW BR, img heavy] Adventures in D Level :D

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Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
July 14 2011 02:12 GMT
#1
Recently I’ve been playing a bit of not-SC2. Specifically, I began my quest to not be terribly awful at Warcraft 3 and, more importantly to this blog, I returned to my PC gaming roots in Starcraft: Brood War. Though I was always awful at the game (never quite managing to brank D+), its fun as shit regardless. Still, you can imagine my fear when I entered the lobby with a high D Korean, myself sitting on about 1100 points. This is my story! :

I start at the top position on Python.
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Oh how I missed starting games with a drone attempting to walk through my hatchery :D

You see, I’m a bit of a cheesy mofo agressive strategic mastermind in this game. So with that in mind, I choose to open with a 9 pool speed with the intention of making 12 lings with speed and going for a runby.
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Ah, sitting on 8 drones, a pool well underway, and I scouted him with my overlord right away. Life. Is. Good.

Finally my overlord gets to his natural and disappoints me greatly. I tell him that but he seems unfazed.
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fuuuuuu

Still, I am hopeful that he won’t have a successful block on his ramp when I get there and that I can get in and do damage anyway.
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FUUUUUUU!

For reasons that nobody beyond the D level would understand, I go up to 12 lings anyway. They obviously are useless at this point but I have now added a third hatch and droned up a bit.
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Captain Standard Man!

I am now prepared to transition into a nice, normal macro game.
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JKS LOL !!1!

I now have an idea what he’s doing for the first time since the initial 2 gate.
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Quoth the overlord: “C’mon dude fuck off!”

Having been away from sc1 for some time, it managed to slip my mind that corsairs are often paired with a unit that one shots lings without telling you about it.
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Oh. Right. Fuck

Suddenly I remember that I’m really really bad and don’t have an overlord anywhere near my natural. So I start my lair, run my drones into my main, and start hauling the fat yet oh so fine asses of a few overlords towards my nat.
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Those drones are suddenly quite happy they weren’t chosen to make the hatchery.

Finally I manage to make it over and clean up the DT that killed over half of my hatchery. Money says the guy regretted only having one. ^_^
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Another DT manages to get into my main and there’s nothing I can do about it until overlord speed comes up.
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“Muahaha” says the DT as he strokes his handlebar moustache.

Fortunately he sees more hydras and overlords in the main and comes back.
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“Oh yeah”

A couple of lings that managed to remain unkilled by DTs scout that he probably expanded.
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“I give my life to tell you that he expanded! Maybe, idk really.”

By some freak accident, My hydra range and ovie speed finished at pretty much the exact same time because I’m amazing at this game.I go attack with about 30 hydras and a fleet of overlords.
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“Instead of going to the battle I think I should go scout the left main. I mean y’never know right?” - Overlord (it was the second one from the top. Lazy bastard).

It seems like he doesnt have much of a standing army so I run right in.
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You cant really tell because of the angle but all the hydras actually look like this: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Somehow it turns out that I timed my attack perfectly to hit right before he had enough energy on his templar to storm.
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“¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “ - Hydras, “(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻” - Templar

Finally he gets enough energy for one storm. It kills a large chunk of my hydras.
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It turns out storm is pretty good in this game

Still, I manage to get up his ramp because he no longer has an army and it turns out High Templar arent that good alone and without energy.
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I scout the “way too many bloody gateways” build popularized by Combat-ex. This fellow kinda botched it though since he forgot the double observatory.

Finally he types out. And asks for a rematch. Unfortunately for him, the golden rule of iCCup is that if you steal a game from somebody better than you with a stupid all-in, you decline and avoid them like the plague.
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Really all I did after the game was write this. B)

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His hangul gets transformed into something that makes about as much sense to me as hangul and the game is officially over.


So I’m hoping I managed to write this out well enough to justify reading a whole big thing about some D level scrub cheesing another D level scrub. ^_^ Peace !


*****
bITt.mAN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Switzerland3693 Posts
July 14 2011 02:21 GMT
#2
;p it's all fun, you should do an epic cast some time (:
BW4LYF . . . . . . PM me, I LOVE PMs. . . . . . Long live "NaDa's Body" . . . . . . Fantasy | Bisu/Best | Jaedong . . . . .
Essbee
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada2371 Posts
July 14 2011 02:27 GMT
#3
Lol this is great. You sure are a pro bw player that could easily get to A+ if you played a little more
The_Pacifist
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States540 Posts
July 14 2011 02:32 GMT
#4
This is why I love picture blogs.

Btw am I the only one who imagines the hydra squirt sounds and the DT lightsaber sounds when looking at these pictures?
Essbee
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada2371 Posts
July 14 2011 02:34 GMT
#5
On July 14 2011 11:32 The_Pacifist wrote:
This is why I love picture blogs.

Btw am I the only one who imagines the hydra squirt sounds and the DT lightsaber sounds when looking at these pictures?


rofl same.

I'm sure we're not alone... probably...?
masami.sc
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States445 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-14 02:35:46
July 14 2011 02:34 GMT
#6
On July 14 2011 11:32 The_Pacifist wrote:
This is why I love picture blogs.

Btw am I the only one who imagines the hydra squirt sounds and the DT lightsaber sounds when looking at these pictures?


Oh, definitely. Hydra squirts are classic ;]
The DT swipe sound is absolutely nightmarish... *shudders*
mmmmm...
Tempest[OEC]
Profile Joined February 2010
United States417 Posts
July 14 2011 02:35 GMT
#7
Gave me a good laugh at some points. Haha.

"Unfortunately for him, the golden rule of iCCup is that if you steal a game from somebody better than you with a stupid all-in, you decline and avoid them like the plague."

Classic! Keep playing BW.
moopie
Profile Joined July 2009
12605 Posts
July 14 2011 02:42 GMT
#8
I always love these
I'm going to sleep, let me get some of that carpet.
blubbdavid
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Switzerland2412 Posts
July 14 2011 02:43 GMT
#9
Fuck yeah, D rank is the real deal!
What do you desire? Money? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all other? Whatever you desire - that is here. Tower of God ¦¦Nutella, drink of the Gods
m4gdelen4
Profile Joined October 2008
United States416 Posts
July 14 2011 02:49 GMT
#10
d rank is the most entertaining rank
like old school starcraft when boxer and yellow's play could be considered d rank today
it does to blue what blue does to you
sluggaslamoo
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Australia4494 Posts
July 14 2011 03:04 GMT
#11
There is no greater achievement in life than beating a Korean at D.
Come play Android Netrunner - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=409008
.gypsy
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada689 Posts
July 14 2011 03:10 GMT
#12
Korean rage is the best :D gj yo good blog :D
https://www.twitch.tv/gypsy93
soujiro_
Profile Joined June 2010
Uruguay5195 Posts
July 14 2011 03:21 GMT
#13
l loved this kind of blogs, keep playing bw
so we can have more blogs =)))
ace hwaiting!!
don_kyuhote
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
3006 Posts
July 14 2011 03:28 GMT
#14
On July 14 2011 11:49 m4gdelen4 wrote:
d rank is the most entertaining rank

lol so true.
Nice battle report!!!
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Hyde
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia14568 Posts
July 14 2011 04:30 GMT
#15
haha that was great :D
I love Battle Reports
Because when you left, Brood War was all spotlights and titans. Now, with the death of the big leagues, Brood War has moved to the basements and carparks. Now, Brood War is unlicensed brawls, lost teeth, and bloody fights for fistfulls of money - SirJolt
2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9529 Posts
July 14 2011 14:32 GMT
#16
Even the game wasn't anything special, this blog was quite enjoying to read due to your comments.

Hope you do more!
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jlim
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Spain943 Posts
July 14 2011 16:38 GMT
#17
great writeup i really enjoyed this

bw fighting!
FranzF1
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Chile1710 Posts
July 14 2011 17:34 GMT
#18
Amazing blog lol
Really funny (Hydras doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
lol

And yeah, beating a D korean its the best feeling ever
Member #99999^99 of the fanclub of Grape, Reality and TurN
Gann1
Profile Joined July 2009
United States1575 Posts
July 14 2011 17:39 GMT
#19
Man im protosss and i lose games to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯'ing hydras all the time :
I drop suckas like Plinko
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
July 14 2011 19:08 GMT
#20
Big <3s to everyone for the positive feedback. :D:D I'm certainly planning on squeezing out a few more of these as well as another super secret project!
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