It always amazed me that this bizarre map ended up balanced. Thank you very much Lee Young Ho.

Jaehoon uses his core in the wall. sends a zealot in the opposite direction of his scout. Delayed expansion from both players, anticipating aggression and trying to stay flexible. Jaehoon's zealot and first dragoon repelled by four marines and a vulture. Looks like an FD push is coming. Two goons hasrass the wall as their shields recharge. Here comes the tank@! The zealot dies along with almost all the marines! the dragoons are having a nice engagement. Two vultures, two marines, and a siege tank sit at the wall as mines complete. Two mostly-dead dragoons are joined by two fresh ones. Jaehoon takes his natural.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:03 GMT

#42

PianO adds another factory. Jaehoon's robotech completes simltaneously. Starport with control tower was already up! A dropship fills up and Jaehoon's probe luckily goes right under it! Jaehoon sends his dragoons northward to stop the drop and roll!

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:05 GMT

#43

The Dropship contains 4 vultures. The shuttle unloads in Jaehoon's main and cuts off the natural with mines, but Jaehoon already had dragoons waiting on both sides! the vultures stream in from the big ramp as well, and siege less tanks are wiped out! Jaehoon's far superior force rolls back out and lock the second PianO push down! From one bad engagement, Jaehoon takes Game 3 on Katrina. 1-2, match point for Jaehoon. (not that they're going to Match Point as in the map, lol)

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:07 GMT

#44

PianO selects Bifrost 3 for Game 4. How is this map for TvP anyway?

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:08 GMT

#45

PianO at 8:00, Jaehoon at 2:00.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:09 GMT

#46

Unlike the previous games, Jaehoon doesn't scout even after placing his gate. That's odd, PianO builds his barracks at his third to the north. What's he planning?

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:11 GMT

#47

Second gateway goes down as the core manifests. PianO thankfully scouts it as his barracks floats back to his choke. Two marines are already out for him.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:13 GMT

#48

I guess it's an interesting way to deal with cheese when you only need a barracks to wall off. ANyway, Factory is long since up. Dragoon arrives to torment the landed barracks. PianO already had a vulture through, which just edges around the back of Jaehoon's base. Repair on the barracks. It should hold. Jaehoon has four dragoons with range. Thanks to fast siege tech, PianO just barely holds after losing all marines and multiple SCVs.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:16 GMT

#49

It's difficult for me to make out a good game plan on this map, but it seems that PianO is banking on drops until he can secure his third and go for 200/200. Jaehoon at last places his natural and immediately builds his assimilator as robotech completes. Two seperate dropships land one at the natural and one on the cliff east of Jaehoon's main, containing two vults and a tank each. They deal minor damage, but the only unit that survives from PianO is the the tank on the cliff, which runs off. Stargate and Templar archives placed at the natural for Jaehoon as PianO adds a 4th and 5th factory.

c3rberUs

Japan11286 Posts

December 09 2014 13:18 GMT

#50

Now that I think about it, I don't remember any of PvTs on this map.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:20 GMT

#51

Arbiter Tribunal completes. Vults mine outside Jaehoon's main as a dropship is scouted by an observer outside Jaehoon's main. It drops vultures which die without doing anything. An optical flare medic accompanies the siege force! Jaehoon 's severely wounded dropship lands vultures in and deals no damage. PianO having absolutely no luck with drops across this series. His tank force mines the field and moves forward. Large push. Medic dies without accomplishing anything., but Jaehoon's entire force just fucking dies. On only two bases and rapid tech, he just wasn't ready for the full siege force PianO brought in.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:23 GMT

#52

Game 4 on Bifrost III goes to PianO! Jaehoon selects...

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:24 GMT

#53

And the final game begins on Neo Harmony! Close spawns, Jaehoon at top left, PianO at top right.

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

December 09 2014 13:26 GMT

#54

Come on PianO, it's payback time!!

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:28 GMT

#55

Jaehoon adds another gateway. He is late to take his nexus, and PianO's already completed his.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:30 GMT

#56

PianO puts down a bunker. PianO would need to pull a Jaehoon to lose this advantage. PianO just built a proxy CC at 5:00! Jaehoon's robotech is going up. His four dragoons sit outside the bunker and harass, as PianO awaits the completion of siege. It completes. Jaehoon retreats.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:31 GMT

#57

Jaehoon adds a 3rd and 4th gate. PianO's proxy base is established. Cmon Jaehoon, don't lose to this cheese.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:33 GMT

#58

Charon boosters being researched as the Stargate and Templar archives are simultaneously completed.. Jaehoon takes his third at 8:00. Jaehoon has map control and pushes towards the main with his dragoon force. He has no clue that there's a proxy and his force is already smaller than PianO's.

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

December 09 2014 13:34 GMT

#59

First arbiter coming in short order. Jaehoon still hasn't taken his third. PianO has a commanding lead, and sends Vultures to mine the 9:00 area and harass Jaehoon's natural. PianO's builds his fourth command center, Jaehoon sees it and thinks it's his third.