The Replays Time Forgot [Archive]

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

September 22 2009 15:24 GMT

Don't mind me, Im just gonna use this here thread to archive my writing, since it will hopefully now be a regular part of Pony Express I would like to have my own place where I will keep all of the editions.

Edition 1

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Hello denizens of TL.net, I find myself with extra time on my hands, and a dose of melancholy in my heart, so I have decided to revive some old but ever so awesome replays through a series of * battle reports *.

I hope you will enjoy it.

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For my first one, here is Lomo[fOu] (Terran) VS Ameba[S.G] (Zerg) on Luna the final.

The game starts out with Ameba spawning at the top left position, and Lomo dropping down his terran forces on the lower right position, where they start harvesting minerals and planing how to crush each other.

The slimy zerg.

The bold Terran

Lomo decides he wants to end this fast since he has other planets to conquer, and lets face it, Shakuras isn't really a catch as far as planets go, so he makes his barracks at 8.

Ameba, suspecting no foul play, decides to go for a normal expansion.

The dreaded 8 rax

unsuspecting victim

Lomo's punishment squad consisting of 2 marines and some scv start marching upon the zerg base and encounter minimal resistance, once they reach their goal the Scvs swiftly start constructing bunkers in order to thwart Amebas hatchery.

Rushing was never this easy

The first bunker is complete, scvs are planing where to put the second one, and some drones are bothering the marines trying to get in the bunkers.

Lomo starts construction of a second bunker closer to the hatchery, it is complete, but soon goes down, his marines however manage to retreat into the first bunker and continue wreaking havoc, note that ameba has his drones on marine blocking detail at his choke, his drone micro is very good and he manages to crush the puny reinforcements.

2nd bunker up and running

as soon as the bunker is up, it get shut down again, but some bold marines manage to run back to the first one

With some patience, and a lot of lings, ameba manages to destroy the second bunker and eviscerate the poor fellows hiding in it, he is back on track. In the mean time Lomo has been using the commotion to start constructing his expansion in his main.

not so tough without your fancy bunkers ?

meanwhile, somewhere else...

Now that the rush has been dealt with, Ameba begins overseeing the construction of his lair, and sends some of his lings to see what Lomo is up to at his home base, a small skirmish happens with some marines.

soon the terran will know fear

Lets call this one a draw ?

As soon as his lair is done, Ameba puts down a den and starts researching lurkers. Lomo however has other plans, and as soon as his expansion is up and running, he amasses some mnm and decides to go cause some trouble.

What ? No mutas ? what a noob.

Ok boys lets light this place up a little.

With some nice micro Lomo takes down one sunk and its ling protectors, but then sees the lurkers are done and rushes up the ramp, he meets some resistance there, but in the end he manages to get inside Amebas base and cause some trouble before the lurkers catch up.

Firebats are useful after all ? Who knew.

And if you ever come back again, we will... erm... kill you ?

But Lomo has tasted blood and he is not letting it go so easily, his next wave of forces come and this time do *slightly* more damage, with some pretty nice micro he manages to mop up some lurkers and in the end even kill the hatchery, but ends up contained by 3 lurkers. Things are not looking good for Ameba.

Hi, have you seen some friends of ours go by this way ?

They are sending a dropship to pick us up, right ? erm.. yeah...

Back at base camp, lomo has 4 barracks, a factory and a starport on the way, things are looking good, lomo is relaxed and is enjoying life. But when things seem darkest for the zerg, a defiler mound is seen going up, when did ameba get his hive ? I have no idea (O_o)

Lomo has been quite the industrious little fellow

WAT? When did this happen, i was too busy looking at the marine micro (T_T)

Ameba manages to scrape together some lurkers and lings and chases away the remnants of the terran army that busted up his expansion, his defiler mound is up, he is thirsty for revenge (-.-). Lomo in the mean time is still enjoying life, he is seen hunting overlords around his base with his pet wraith.

How many of these terrans do i have to kill ?

Just passing some time, the zerg is dead anyways right ?

Ah, the first defiler has come out, fed on some lings, and is now outside of Lomo's base, up to no good, but its only 1 little defiler, and there is only 1 little lurker and about 10 puny lings, what could they possibly do against the might of the terran armada ?

up to no good.

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This shouldnt be happening !!! Wasnt i winning a second ago ??

As the first dark swarms are cast, it is obvious that the tables are turning, Ameba manages to push the terran forces all the way back into their natural... with 1 lurker, swarm seriously should be baned !! Lomo realizes he could probably run through with some troops, and he does, he now has a small army outside of his nat blocking zerg reinforcements.

I can tell you from experience, this is seriously not fun !

Lomo and his band of merry survivors,

Ameba somehow manages to kill a number of scv, and sets the CC at Lomos natural on fire, Lomo is forced to abandon his position and retreat to high ground, but he still has a trick up his sleeve, he has taken the top right main, and will soon be taking the bottom left one too. Will ameba notice it in time ?

Although he is shaken up, Lomo still isnt giving up.

The noble scvs are forced to abandon their post.

Lomo finally sees that this whole swarm thing is getting out of hand, and he mines up the his ramp, while again expanding, this time to the bottom left. Ameba is just being ameba and continues swarming all over the place.

Lets see them zerg critters get in now.

Two hidden expansions now for Lomo, will they pay off ? Tune in next week to find out.

Now lets take a second and look at Amebas drone count, I have no idea how he is doing this, his drone count is so low, and he manages his economy so perfectly it almost make s me wanna regress to zerg.. almost.

This man is insane.

Thats like 8 drones on minerals the whole game !!!

Remember that band of terrans that broke through the swarm on the first zerg push ? Well they are still out there causing trouble where they can, Ameba keeps somehow slipping past them and finally manages to conquer the infamous terran ramp, Lomo cries.

Blocking detail sucks ass (T_T)

As i terran i feel i am in a position to say, that most of the time, this is not a good place to be in.

Lomo manages to reclaim his ramp and claw his way down back to his natural where he tries to establish his expansion again, mines are used, lomo feels safe. But amebe is having non of that, he keeps coming, not even mines will hold him back, in fact they are helping him...

Irradiate all you want, i have 10 drones back at home, il just macro up some more defilers.

Nice minefield, mine if i use it ( get it, mine, mind, i crack my self up).

Also not a good position to be in, terran expert talkin here.

Things are going downhill for Lomo, but hey at least he still has his hidden expansions...

err. im pretty sure you guys arent supposed to be here ?

expansion number 2 has seen better days.

So now both of Lomos expansions are burning up in flames, and Ameba just keeps on coming with swarm and units, after all he has 10 drones at home, why wouldnt he ?

Damned zergling ratted us out.

Defilers managing to cast a swarm before sufferin a gas related death.

With both his expansions in shambles, and swarm all the way up his ramp, Lomo gives his men a last inspirational speech, gathers up the scv and marine forces and prepares for a last stand, if he has to go out, hes gonna go out Starship troopers style, Ameba does not care (-.-).

Erm, with some clever micro Lomo might still be able to save the day ?

Our only regret is that we have but one life to give for Lomo.

In a heroic display of not caring how many of his scvs die, Lomo makes a last stand, and after his last scv has died, taps out, and probably proceeds to smash stuff around his house, this was his game from the start, but Ameba was having none of it.

Hope dies last ? No, Lomo's SCV die last.

Lomo taps out, thats it thats all folks, tune in next week.

Thats it for now, I hope atleast some of you have enjoyed it, now i know my inane writing cant do this replay justice, so i have uploaded it so all of you fine gentlemen can watch it as well, now it is a older replay, but i have been able to watch it on 1.14 (why do i still have a copy of 1.14 on my computer ?? (O_o), so here is a guide written by some nice men that will explain to you how to watch the replay.

replay and guide :

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83254
http://repdepot.net/replay.php?id=7187

Would like to thank Kwark for putting up with my stupid questions and TL.net for being awsum, I hope some of you like this, if yes, then i have a couple of more reps like this that i would like to share in the future.

Have a nice day.

Edition 2

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Hello once again my faithful fans, the both of you, after many many months of me being a lazy bastard, i made the second part of my old replay series, and i hope you will find it enjoyable.
For those of you who haven't seen part one, you can find it here :

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=86531

The two of you who are familiar with my work can go straight to the battle report !
Lets get the ball rolling, this time i will be reporting on a game between Ameba[S.G] a zerg that can kill you just by looking in your general direction, and a ancient toss by the name of enusung[GsP].
This was the first replay of korean players going at it that i have ever seen, it blew my mind and made me quit bgh, enjoy.

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As the game starts, we have the protoss spawning at top left position, and the zerg on bottom right, the map is Neo Forte ( i miss it

)

High tech aliens

Plain ol slimy aliens

Eunsung sends a probe out early, obviously up to no good, while ameba, being zerg and all, just makes some drones.

Bisu build !!!!

Hey wait, this doesn't seem to be the bisu build, what the...

Ameba is doing something we dont see much these days, adding a second hatchery in his main before expanding, and a pool right after, meanwhile eunsung has sent out one brave zealot soul to chase down a lone scouting drone and wreak havoc on the unsuspecting zerg population.

Now whats this all about ?

Come back here and fight me like the ma... erm zerg you are.

Upon arriving at the choke of the dreaded zerg enemy, the zealots set up formation while a probe starts building a pylon and some cannons, but ameba is having none of that and soon some zerglings ruin the probes fun.

I dont think we have a zoning license for this guys...

... and they didnt, and if its one thing zerglings hate, its illegal building.

After seeing those mean zerglings tear down his buildings, enunsung deduces that they will soon come to his base hungry for me, so he starts setting up defences and manages to hold off the slimy invaders with the help of a cannon, ameba uses the confusion to expand twice.

I'd make a 300 reference but im scared of getting crucified by the internet hordes

zerg's doing what zerg's do best, expanding.

After chasing off some rather annoying zerglings, eunsung expands himself, and uses his gathered zealot horde to put a stop to ameba's 3rd expansion, some more zerlings drop by to save the expansion and kill the zealots but not before they get the expo, run in and kill a few drones. Good times are had by all. After finally dispatching the troublesome zealots, ameba decides its time for a counter attack.

These protoss aren't even fighting back ! Easy as dragoon icecream !

Thats one way to open a door i guess.

Some zerglings manage to claw their way into eunsungs base, but die a photon related death soon after, but not before scouting important tech buildings. Ameba is doing some teching himself, he has a den up and a spire soon done.

Just like them bug zapper those fancy city slickers have.

Marvel at the power of zerg technology, thats not just any ordinary slime !!

Soon after his spire is done, ameba decides hes gonna end it right here and now, assembling his brave, albeit a bit stupid troops, he attacks, he kills some cannons with his mutas and lings, but sairs come to save the day and eventually the attack is repelled, at this point, ameba is not pleased (-.-).

How many cannons must we kill before they let us at those probes ?!

As soon as the imminent threat is over, eunsung starts adding more gateways, obviously pleased with him selfs, who are these mere bugs to stand in his way ? He moves out of his base and starts setting up a 3rd expansion, but the damn bugs are one step ahead of him, obviously the work of some foul magic !

One step in front of the bugs !!!!

Meanwhile, somewhere else...

Using the fact that eunsung has obviously gone to the bathroom without pausing, ameba sneaks some lings in and shuts down eunsungs fancy new expansion, he sure is goona be pissed when he comes back from the bathroom. Eunsung chases off the troublesome pests and sets about expanding once again, only to be thwarted once more, this time by lurkers.

kekeke, ninja sneak attack.

Why are there spines where my base is supposed to be (T_T)?

Finally back from the bathroom, eunsung decides its about damn time he wrecks some zerg stuff, so he sends his army to wreck ameba's newly made 4th base, but ameba shows a terranesque level of camping and fends it off, eunsung gathers his troops once again for a crack at the lower expansion, and even manages to break through, but before he can step on some puny drone necks a tide of zerglings mops up his troops.

Well il be damned, those spines aren't just at my expansions, i wonder what they are.

Breaking out the REAL big bug zappers.

Eunsung finally gets his 3rd up and running, and decides, what the hell i might as well take a 4th 5th and a 6th while im at it. Ameba expands twice more, lest he be mocked forevermore by other zerg's for getting beaten at a zergs game, expanding. Also he throws up a hive and some fancy looking tech buildings, but who cares about that when there's expanding to be done.

I wonder how many of these i can take before actually picking a fight ?

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The minimap does not predict good fortune for ameba.

Ameba decides it's go time and throws up a few swarms, but he kinda forgot to bring any units except for a few soon to be dead zerlings. Eunsung, busy with the swarms fails to notice another band of lings entering his new base and making a snack of his expansion.

At this point, i think the colors on my monitor got screwed up, im seeing these red archons, go figure.

Yum, nexus, tastes like chicken.

After snacking on some nexuses the lings finaly get shot down by the newly formed cannons in bottom left main base, after a brief ceremony for his fallen lings, ameba launchers a series of assaults on Eunsungs expansions and some ultralisks (crap where did they come from ?(O_o) ) manage to crack that hill nexus.

Im not sure about protosses, but as a terran player, this usualy isnt a good place to be in.

Oh how the mighty have fallen, not so tough now hill nexus !

In a dazzling change of game pace and tactics the both players... well erm, expand again (the dreaded hill nexus lives again !), but this time with a LOT more cannons and sunkens since their new bastions of power are, well in the same neighborhood.

What the heck, i have extra money anyway.

Not quite as fancy as the house across the road, but it will do.

Ameba decides its time to pay his neighbor a visit, a not so friendly visit, now thats all and good, time for some attacks anyways, but with sunkens, what the hell ?

No worries, its just some more terranesque camping...

...What in the name of... Are those things moving towards my base ?

Meanwhile somewhere else, ameba sends a commando drop squad, the lads manage to take out a whole bunch of tech and gates, eunsung is wondering, why cant we all get along ?

Needs more ketchup.

I think its time to set up a new command post.

Eunsung, realising he just lost a good part of his production and tech facilities does the only rational thing, starts making carriers and dark archons !!

Ahh, the Utopia Planetia ship yards how i have longed... no wait, wrong universe .

Some more of those weird red archon fellows, i really must get this monitor fixed.

Now at this point, the map is pretty much mined out, and huge stockpiles of resources are had by all, this can only end one way, eunsung starts investing his hard earned money into static defenses and carriers, while ambea, like all good zergs, well just makes a bunch of stuff.

Bah, this sort of thing happens every pvz, so typical !!

Hm, now how did this happen ? Must be somehow related to those weird red archon chaps.

Eunsung, sensing that things arent going to well, makes some more of those strange red archons and somehow starts stealing ultralisks from ameba, im confused.
Mustering the full fury of the swarm, ameba attacks the lower left main, spells are flying all around the map, i have no idea whats going on, i start convulsing on the floor much like when i watched that episode of pokemon.

I think my new pets need their rabies shots.

Stuff.

With some elbow grease, and a WHOLE lot of dead zerg, the lower left base finaly meets its end, a few carriers and weird red archons survive to tell the tale.

Well it seems that ultralisks with no upgrades arent that scary after all.

I just dont get it, why done these bugs like my shiny buildings ?

After seeing the might hill nexus fall again, eunsung decides its time to play hi last gambit, he uses what minerals he has left to fortify his last base and make peace with his god, expecting the final charge at any second, meanwhile ameba is having some fun.

uh, whats gonna happen here, where are those drones going ?

Must be humiliating getting your shit ruined by drones.

Its time to end this once and for all, the whole map is mined out, there is nothing more left to do but gather the troops and join one last glorious battle, Eunsung cowers in his base behind a wall of those weird red archon and cannons.

Even the drones hate eunsung and want a piece of the action.

The final preparations being made.

The final battle is about to begin, enjoy the show, here, i will even provide you with a soundtrack.

And once the dust and dark swarms have settled, this is the only thing that remains...

Only units left alive on the map, what a way to go.

At the end i would like to say, once again, that my inane writing cannot to justice to this game, and although it may not be as entertaining as the previous one, it is still a great game and blew my mind when i first saw it,

I will provide you with the replay, since i left a ton of stuff out of the game, the original draft had over a 100 screenshots and i just couldnt fit it all in, so consider this like a preview or something.

REPLAY : http://www.repdepot.net/replay.php?id=13953
HOW TO WATCH : http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83254

Once again thanks to TL net for being the best site evar, and if you like this, drop a line here, i would appreciate it.

Edition 3

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Hello and welcome to the third edition of " The Replays Time Forgot ". If you haven't read the previous two editions and have no idea whats going on, this is where I take a godlike old rep and mutilate it with my inane writing, but there are pictures, pretty pictures, so that kind of makes up for it.

So lets dive right into this one, some people have pointed out that they would like to see this rep so here we go :

Nal_Testie vs HbQ[GsP] on R Point (pvt)

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The game starts with Testie spawning at bottom right position and HbQ at the top right, they start gathering the shiny minerals right away.

another early morning for the scv's I wonder does this job pay well.

probes on the other hand have no union so they work for free

The game starts like any normal tvp, HbQ sets up a wall at his ramp and Testie goes for a normal 1 gate core build, but HbQ isn't planing on expanding just yet, he adds a second factory soon after his first one, but a sneaky probe spots it before getting blown up by a marine. Soon an attack force is seen moving out towards Testies shiny base.

Expanding is for wimpy zergs, this is how real men open

Here comes the pain train choo choo

Testie, having spotted a 2 fact prepares his defenses and gets ready to deflect the attack, HbQ rallies his factories to Testies base and continues making vultures but with some fancy micro and a zealot that poped out at just the right time Testie defends.

Come up here, no you come down here, no...

This sneaky zealot picked the right time to warp in

While his troops were laying down the law HbQ took his natural, Testie, seeing that he couldn't expand right away because of the 2 factory makes a reaver and a shuttle, but HbQ floats his barracks into his base and spots it, the barracks get destroyed but its a small price to pay for the information and the reaver does no damage.

Despite not being a wimpy zerg, HbQ reluctantly expands

I dont know if reavers can feel fear, but with this shuttles driver I would be terrified, he sure likes those turret missiles

While his reaver was doing nothing at all, Testie double expanded to catch up with HbQ, meanwhile HbQ expands again, at this point im starting to wonder, maybe he is a zerg after all.
Not wanting his reaver to go waste Testie uses it to harras HbQ's new expansions but it gets chased away by some tanks. All this time HbQ has been macroing like crazy and he prepares his first attack force.

Im in ur base, stoping your expansion

huh, when did this happen ? I really need to stop watching these reps on x8.

Testie has also been busy, taking fourth base and doing some crazy macroing of his own, he sets up an ambush for the mighty terran armada thats about to come rolling over his way. HbQ sets out to do battle, and expands two more times like the zerg he is, a huge battle ensues and ends in what we could call a " draw " both armies being obliterated, but a few vultures and one tank stay alive, so HbQ kinda wins.

im guessing the weather conditions aren't to HbQ's liking.

Glorious victory !!!!

After his great victory, HbQ rallies his survivors and some reinforcements and starts rolling toward Testies 4th base where he proceeds to set up shop and beat up on a poor nexus. Not wanting to lose his pretty nexus Testie sends all of his troops to save it, some mines get in the way but in the end, largely thanks to one ninja dt he manages to fight off the attack.

I hope atleast the DT have a decent union, this guy works hard for his money.

HbQ doing what all zergs do, saturating his expansion.

After the first battles, and with no truce in sight both players continue to macro and prepare for another showdown, this time Testie uses his shuttles filled with templars to soften up the terran ball before the big fight, using the high ground as a excellent position to throw a few storms. Another battle breaks out, but this time Testie is the victor !!

somebody better gets some AA up here fast.

This planet really has bad thunderstorms

Now with all this macroing and all his fancy expansions, HbQ decides hes not making enough killy things fast enough so he throws down more factories, now at 14 factories it seems like there is no stoping him ! Testie on the other hand makes the only thing i hate more than storms, the dreaded arbiters.

14 factories, can he do this ?

argh, I hate these things so much, i wanna rant so bad right now.

Now that the arbiters are out, not even his fancy 14 factories are helping HbQ that much, staisis is a bitch, but he still gathers up a large enough force to roll out and threaten Testies 5th base that he has taken while I wasn't really paying attention. When he finally arrives at the 5th base he does what any reasonable terran would do, he starts building a cc right next to the nexus before he even won the fight, now thats confidence right there.

i hope those arbs dont have any energy...

How could this possibly end badly ?

Despite odds being against him, the brave CC manages to get built but before it can start mining some mean dragoons come and chase it away, while all this was going on HbQ expanded AGAIN, I swear he must have been a zerg at some point, now with even more expansions he, you guessed it, adds more factories, now at about 22-24 (too lazy to count) he is obviously compensating for something, keep in mind all of this time Testie is macroing from 12 gateways and is doing just fine.

brb, i suddenly have a strange craving for ice cream.

can he seriously do this ? Isn't this like breaking the limitations of the game or something, ive never seen this many factories in a 1v1.

Now at this point Testie decides that HbQ has been expanding enough, and sends some troops to bust up his latest acquisition. He succeeds with his plan but HbQ arrives soon and mops up the ragged survivors.

No more zerging around for you HbQ

HbQ doesn't take kindly to trespassers.

Now at this point HbQ has so many expansions that I have no idea when he took all of them and how, but they are there, and Testie doesnt like it, he sends another band of merry protoss to destroy another one just below HbQ's might production facilities. Right after that little skirmish they both gather up in the middle for another go at each other, death ensues but in the end Testie is left standing once again, damned be storms.

Whats with all the CC hate ?

As a terran player, I am not amused by this turn of events. (-.-)

Now, almost all of the map is mined out except a few choice spots and the small islands, so Testie takes one of the last remaining non island spots, and also casually drops some high templars to storm the scvs at HbQ;s last mining base, sexy. Too bad some vultures do a drive by on the poor expansion.

used to be templars.

all up in those probe's grill (what does that even mean ? Slang confuses me)

Even after killing the probes mining there, HbQ wants more and sends his troops to level that expansion, and after that probably salt it so nothing grows there ever again, he is a mean mean person. But Testie isnt going down without a fight, even a hallucinated fight. After defending, he takes one of those fancy little islands, I wish I had one of those.

Huh, can one of you guys who plays this game tell me why are those dudes blue ?

Harass : you're doing it wrong.

Somehow, even without any expansions HbQ manages to gather a giant tank force, he must have been saving up for a rainy day. Testie also has a sizable army but he decides he could have even more, and cast some sort of hack or something to triple his army. A big fight happens and this time the survivors are few.

Bet you dont see this all too often

distraction in action

HbQ manages to commandeer the last mineral island from Testie and gathers his troops for one final fight, what happens next is a real nail bitter, who is gonna win, I have no idea, stasis, storm, everything is everywhere, i'm scared to look in fear of a epileptic seizure like that time i watched pokemon.

All your base are... oh screw you internet, im not doing it I still have some dignity left.

Avert ye eyes lest your soul be consumed by the awesomeness of this game

Now this is how a game of sc should end, go put on The Final Countdown and watch, both players gather up everything they have, even probes and scvs, Testie starts wrecking HbQ's base, but HbQ is having non of that, they meet in the field in front of his base for a final confrontation, a stasis goes off, will it be enough ? Once the dust settles, it seems no, all that are left are probes, they bravely try to fight off the tanks but to no avail, HbQ stands victorious and Testie taps out.

Is this game awesome or what

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/2005/scscrnshot092109143916.jpg
And that wraps it up, damn.

In conclusion, I believe Testie posted this game as a christmas gift, and it sure beat whatever crap i got from my parents that year, watch the game, be amazed, if you like it leave nice comments, if you don't I will come to your house and you don;t want that since i don't shower that often.

Now for the technicalities

If you want, check out the first two editions here:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=86531
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=94577

The replay is here :
http://www.repdepot.net/replay.php?id=21384

If you are unsure how to watch, go here :
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83254 * hope it still works *

Listen to this during the end :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_ro2aerQg

Thanks and have a good day.

Edition 4
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First week of college, im panicking, no time for intros ! Lets jump right into this one

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oG)FinePix ( T ) vs ToT)Sen( ( Z ) on the LT of 3 years ago (Luna)

The game starts by the two ancients spawning at bottom right (Sen) and top right (Finepix).

He only has 4 scvs and I fear him already.

This Sen guy used to be good right ?

Sen does what zergs like to do, expands, but Finepix opts for something that we don't see that much these days, a 2 rax opening, what is this nonsense !!

Bet you haven't seen this in a long time, I know I haven't, except when I do it on colloseum in fear of the dreaded ramp hatch (T_T)

Not much going on here, but hey look, its sunco... aww he left

Finepix quickly gathers up a horde of marines and medics after adding his academy and refinery and sets out to do some damage, but Sen is having none of it and quickly starts throwing up sunkens to thwart him, a battle ensues.

Good ol sunk breaks, I miss this

Silly terran, you cant pass through there.

With 2 sunkens done and 2 mere moments away from completion, one would think that Finepix would play careful and just be happy he forced Sen to sunk up hard, but noooo, Finepix is out for blood and he manages to take down 2 sunkens, clearing a path for himself and making it as far as the ramp, there he is greated by a lair that somehow appeared on the ramp while i wasn't looking and some lings. While all this pressuring was going on, Finepix took his natural.

Lair here to save the day ! The lings might have helped too.. a little ...

huh, even these old timers knew that expansions were good for you, go figure.

Sen makes a den before a spire, no sexy muta micro

, ah they didnt have lan latency anyway.
Finepix on the other side, after expanding adds one more barracks, a ebay and a factory.

These days when you see this you start panicking and rambling something about hidden spires, bless you lan latency muta micro

this poor factory all alone, separated from the barracks

Finepix quickly got bored with all this " building stuff " nonsense so he attacks again, this time breaking through the sunkens, some serious damage would have been done if two lurkers didnt happen to chance upon the marines. The attack is diverted just in time, and Sen takes another expansion at the 7 o clock main.

Thwarted yet again, and poor Finepix just wants to get his wallet he left at Sen's base.

Dont try this at home, Sen is a professional.

Finepix adds another factory while he is still on 3 baracks, he also starts his vessel tech and prepares for the first major battles of the game, meanwhile sen has started his hive, no doubt up to no good like all zergs.

It must suck just sitting on your ass while you are waiting for that guy piloting the science vessel to show up hungover, ah the life of a marine.

When you see this badboy pop up as a terran, you die a little inside.

The hungover guy piloting the vessel finally shows up and the terran push can begin, Sen doesn't have all that many units because he is counting on dark swarm saving his ass, damn I hate swarms, and yes, these reports are terran biased ! Finepix manages to mop up a rag tag band of zergs in the middle, and sets out towards Sens main base, there he is greeted by more zergs, and with some surround action sen manages to stay alive.

This tvz business seems easy when you have over 300 apm

my new catchphrase is " this does not bode well " I feel this is a good place to use it

After getting flanked in from of Sens base, Finepix adds more barracks and starts macroing up a storm, on the other side of the map, a defiler mound goes up, I throw up a little.

Finepix is too aggressive for all this building nonsense, I bet he outsources it to someone.

Oh god, is that what I think it is ? At this point of a game I usually just pull out my computers power cord and throw it out the window just to be on the safe side.

From his freshly added barracks Finepix gathers up a new bunch of dudes and sets out to pound on Sens 7o clock expansion, his numbers are many, but dark swarm does not care (-.-)
After defending, Sen takes the 7 o clock natural and the min only next to it.

I get so lost when zergs just defend their expansions with swarms, Finepix on the other hand just makes 2x more units than me and sends them in the general direction of the base, and it works (T_T)

Not even swarms seem to stop Finepix, but they do, thats why i said " seem " !!

Sen manages to claw himself from deaths grasp once again with swarm, and now that his 3rd gas has kicked in, he slams down a ultra den, Finepix just keeps being Finepix and attack moves more units that it should be possible to make in Sens general direction while expanding, Sen has nydus canals, Sen does not care.

Nydus + swarm = expansions that just wont die

Go home ultras no one likes you.

Sen now has 4 gas, ultras are afoot, and swarm is everywhere, things seem dark for our young hero Finepix, but then he drops some marines in Sens main, buying himself more time to mass up like a mofo, Sen tries to take the last remaining main but that doesn't last long and his expansion suffers a bullet related accident.

Im sure this killed some stuff, and got killed by some other stuff, but I was getting my tea and im not really sure what happened after this, it was pretty awesome though.

now now,. don't get greedy.

What happens next is the part of the game that I like to call " dear god thats a lot of marines "
As you might have deduced, a lot of marines and medics are moving about the map, but no matter where they try to go they are greeted with ultras and swarm, but Finepix at least gets to take that last main Sen was trying to whore for himself.

Talk about stonewalling

A rare moment of the game where Finepixe's marines aren't covered by these strange orange clouds.

Finally managing to work his way around the ultra/swarm planetary blockade ring, Finepix sets course towards the bottom left natural and starts shooting at things, what happens next is so brutal that I implore you send your children out of the room ( do it Manifesto !)
Swarms go up, lings attack, lurkers burrow, ultras move in, a moment of epic attack coordination leaves nothing alive, even the vessels are all picked off by perfectly cloned scourges, at this point I had one of those FFFFFFUUUCKK moments.

Moments before a PTSP inducing incident

I seriously didn't need to see this, I fear tvz as it is.

After what I shall from now on refer to as " the rape at nat 7 " Sen takes the initiative, and actually attacks the terran base, blocking off the defending forces with a swarm, and letting his ultras wreak havoc on the unsuspecting population, he also sends a bunch of lings to take out Finepixes top left base, at which he felt, no protection was necessary.

Maybe a firebat or two would help ? maybe.. damnit nothing short of 20 tanks would help.

Maybe now these scvs will shell out for that home security system.

Sen manages to rape both top left bases and score some building kills at Finepixes nat.
The terran, seeing that swarms are blocking him access to his main goes to counter the bottom left base, hoping that " the rape at nat 7 " wont happen again, and he even manages to kill the dreaded nat 7.

What in the name of.. Whats that, a new kind of Archon ?

Someone really needs to let those firebats do their job.

Seeing how his nat was pretty much lost, Finepix gathers up his troops on his ramp and puts up a medic wall, man being a medic is a crappy job, they use you like bricks to block stuff. Meanwhile he still has troops roaming the map but they run into some not so friendly ultralisks.
Sen takes the mineral only in between his and the Terran base.

And you think you have a bad job ?

one of those cant we all get along moments for the marines.

While all of this was going on, Finepix used to commotion to retake the top left expansions, but once again, he didnt put anything there to keep them safe and they got raped. Sen on the other hand diligently uses swarms to keep his expos up and running.

not this again (T_T)

Finepix sees the wonders of a good home security system.

Now after over half an hour of being at each others throats, they both manage to get into each others mains and start having fun, Sen losses all of his tech, and Finepix just lifts off his buildings and mocks the zerglings, but the supply depots dont have that luxury.

Now this is something i enjoy seeing

Lol zergling newbs.

And so we come down to the end, Sen has his bottom left base and the nat, and the min only next to it, but not much drones to his name, and no tech or army buildings except a pool, he does however have a lone defiler survivor, Finepix has a bunch of mnm and a vessel, he engages the sunken line once, and gets driven off, then irradiates the defiler, but not before the defiler could do some nasty spell casting, with a final ling surround all of the terran troops get destroyed. Dare I say it, it was "nat 7" all over again, Finepix cries and leaves the game.

Does this work on buildings ?

Thats a lot of terran ! too bad they are mostly medics, a claw related death is suffered mere moments after this picture was taken.

Yarr. thats it for this week folks, its not really a game with many amazing moves I could describe, its just Finepix having 2x more units than he should banging on Sens door the whole game while Sen defends like a good of Swarm, check it out yourself, im sure I missed things.

Now for the technicalities

If you want, check out the first three editions here:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=102414

The replay is here :
http://repdepot.net/replay.php?id=22026

If you are unsure how to watch, go here :
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83254 * hope it still works *

Laters.

Edition 5

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Hello once more and welcome to this weeks edition of Inane Battle reports (TM)
This week's game might not be as mind blowing to todays players like it was back when it was played, but for nostalgia value its priceless.
Its gonna be Grrrr (p) vs Zerglee (z) on Blade Storm.Blade Storm

So lets get the ball rolling
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Grrrr warps in at bottom left while ZergLee spawns at top right, they both send their peons to gather minerals and thats where any semblance of a normal game by todays standards stops.

The high tech protoss warps in

The Caveman zerg slithers forth ( im not racist I swear !)

Grrrr decides to make a gateway and start his gas while ZergLee confuses me by making his second hatchery in his main right next to the first one, and then going for a pool.

Bisu Build ?? Not on my watch you son of a church !

I didn't know that BGH strats where all the rage six years ago.

After starting his pool Zerglee reverts to a more zerglike state of mind and starts his natural expansion, meanwhile Grrrr has started building some zealots to protect his ramp, added a core and is no doubt up to no good.

This must be one of those 1 base builds ive heard so much about

Zergs will be zergs.

After his core is done and he has enough zealots to hold his ramp, Grrrr slaps down a citadel and a forge, planing for some sort of +1 push or whatever protoss players did back in 2003. ZergLee meanwhile has started accumulating a hydralisk force.

most peculiar i would say.

have no fear the den is here.

Soon after he gets his citadel and starts upgrading, Grrrr puts down a templar archives to get in on some of that storm action, and then starts his expansion, but not before protecting it with some cannons. Zerglee on the other side, has gotten his lair up, and with the help of that den mentioned earlier has started lurker production.

storm + cannons, safest way to expand known to man that doesnt include tanks !

Lurkers are afoot !

Finally, after all that teching and expanding a clash occurs, zerglee slams his newly made lurkers and lings into some cannons and it doesn't go all too well, but he does manage to break through to Grrr's ramp and wreak some havoc but he gets shut down by some storms soon after.

This does not bode well

A contain might have worked better ? I dont know im not versed in this pvz nonsense.

After showing to Grrr that he has enough units to just slam them into photon walls zerglee decides to take another expansion at the top left natural. Grrr decides to build up a ball of furious protoss death.

What can a man say about zergs and expansions that hasn't been said before, if you have any ideas PM me !

Finally, a contain ! gotta love contains.

While all of this expanding and containing was going on, zerglee constructed a evolution chamber and started some upgrades, and has also added a spire from which mutas will rise to the sky and terrorize the local population, oh and also theres this hive thing constructing whatever that may be ! The mutas fly about a bit and manage to wreck a forge before getting stormed, Grrr is still massing up his death ball and has taken his back door nat.

Fly my pretties !

Hive you say ? Why does that sound farmi... oh my god... thats used for ultras isnt it ?

Grrr finally decides hes had enough and breaks out with his fury ball, he strolls out like he owns blade storm and sets up his shiny new expansions. Zerglee, seeing that the fury ball is large indeed decides to invest in some static defenses at his expansion, and take a island.

That is many sunken yes? ( God im horrible someone stop me from making cheesy references)

A island being take ! Note the protoss expansions on the minimap (i forgot to take screenshots of it ok ? Back off !)

So that hive i mentioned earlier has finally finished and been used in the construction of a greater spire, I dislike greater spires almost as much as defiler dens, ultralisks caverns, nyduses, and in general anything that needs a hive. Zerglee still has some of his mutas alive and he sneaks them behind enemy lines to form guardians, a sound plan indeed, but he is fast thwarted by some well placed storms, and, would you guess it, a maelstrom.

oh my, I, I don't like.

So pretty, so shiny, there should be more of this !

After clearing up the guardians Grrrr decides to poke his nose about the middle a bit but is greeted by some real big zerglings, using storm and maelstrom again he manages to fight them off. Meanwhile zerglee is up to no good and is planing a doom drop.

Spells, more, I must have moreeee

everyone loves a good doom drop.

Finally the dreaded doom drop arrives, zerlings pour out, ultralisks make building sized craters as they descend, DEATH RAINS FROM THE SKY !! And then some zealots and archons stop by and just kill everything, the doom drop wasn't really as doomish as expected. But zerglee uses the confusion to his advantage and launches a second attack on Grrrs expansions, and he manages to chomp down on a tasty nexus.

We are way past "This wont end well"

But alas, the doom drop managed to cause this, luckily some zealots came by in time to stop them from doing more.

Zerglee manages to expand 3 more times and is now ready to start macroing up a storm of claws and teeth, Grrrr still has his ball of death roaming the man, and they clash in the middle repeatedly, but Zerglees every attempt is thwarted by maelstroms and storms.

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Clash upon clash, on a sea of dead zerglings shall Grrrr set his throne !

Some zerglings managed to sneak by the main force, but you cant sneak by storm.

Zerglee tries to take the second island expansion, and he sets up his hatchery there just in time as a taskforce of archons descends upon his first island with shuttles, this daring commando raid shuts down all zerg operations on that island. Meanwhile in the middle of the map nothing changes, zerglee continues to smash into a lot of storm and mael.

Like the James Bond of archons.

Will zerglee ever learn !

Commando archons descend on the other island in zerglees possession and fry everything in sight, not even the larvae are spared (T_T), at the same time Grrrr takes command over the other island he liberated a few moments ago and constructs a formidable cannon defense there. Storms and maelstroms are still dominating the middle.

No survivors ! Not even larvae

I wish I had a island like this, but something more tropical, and with less zerg neighbors.

Zerglee must really dislike his own units because he keeps suiciding them into a wall of shiny protoss steel and magic on the middle ground, he is making no headway and cant hold onto his islands, things are not looking well. On the other hand life is good for Grrr, he barely has to move around the map at all except for some fancy 4 shuttle drops.

maelstrom in action all game long.

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Some zergs finally manage to break through the middle, but they dont last long.

Seeing that he cant really do all that much by now, zerglee gathers what little of his force that remained unslamed into protoss walls, takes all his drones, puts on some sad music and goes down with his ship, he slams it all in a straight line into some cannons and storms and then gives up.

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If they weren't zergs I'd be kinda sad now.

In the end Zerglee gave all he had for his race, but it just wasn't enough, he kept losing wave after wave of units while not doing much damage, and in the end it caught up to him. All in all not that much of a amazing game by todays standards, but like I said its here more for its nostalgic value, and Grrrr's maelstrom play is impressive non the less.

Now for the technicalities

If you want, check out the first four editions here:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=102414

The replay is here :
http://www.repdepot.net/replay.php?id=22724

If you are unsure how to watch, go here :
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83254 * hope it still works *

Laters.

Edition 6

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Hello denizens of tl net, welcome to the sixth edition of my little column, maybe better known to most as " I wish someone would take away his keyboard "

Now, for a start lets get some technicalities out of the way, first thing, the trial version of the only program I could find that converts pcx files without huge watermarks has run out, so if anyone could recommend a good program, I would be thankful.
Also it would appear, that in my idiocy, while manually converting this weeks pictures I managed to make them all weight 900kb, I hope this wont affect loading time too much

Next thing is, I have to thank Ares[effort] for providing me with this weeks replay which I couldn't find myself in the cold black void that is the internet.

Now, for this weeks game, its gonna be shorter than usual because im a bit strapped for time, and also the game it self is shorter than what I usually post, it might not look like a awsum wtf game, but im doing it because for me it marks a end of a era in BW, and the start of a new one, one that would last for a long time. But don't worry, with the next edition I will return to boring you with 1 hour reps, preferably tvt because im mean like that.

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This weeks game is gonna be iloveoov vs savior on Into the Darkness
I remember watching this game and thinking, whoa, who the hell is this savior guy and how can he dismantle the monster that is oov this easily, it shocked me, and it was the first time I really heard of savior and boy did it stick, I never would have guessed he would go on to roll everyone for such a long period of time, I call it the dark age of tvz !

oov spawns at the top right part of the map, and savior takes the bottom left for himself, all seems well in the kingdoms of zerg and terran as they send their peons to mine the precious ore.

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Just look at em, already macroing like a champ !

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Is this savior chap any good ?

But alas, all is not as it seems, as Savior sends out his first overlord in the correct scouting direction, oov sends out his scv with trickery on his mind, he starts a proxy barracks hoping the catch the slimy one off guard, but who would have guessed it, a drone chances upon the hapless barracks and forces a cancel, the game has just started and oov is already in the hole. After his great victory, Savior is content to just expand.

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What kind of tomfoolery is this, the macro terran rushing ?!!

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It appears to be some form of expansion or something along those lines, fascinating indeed.

After his rush attempt is thwarted, oov starts a refinery and a barracks at the same time, no doubt cursing something about map hacking under his breath, soon after his barracks are constructed and enough gas is gathered, a factory can be spied going up near his ramp, savior puts down a 3rd hatchery at his expansion choke and a pool.

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no doubt about it, its mech ! awww no wait

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Turtle whore

Savior decides to start his lair tech with mutas on his mind to punish the insolent terran for his rush attempt, oov meanwhile decides to start his natural expansion, hoping he can get in on some of that sweet sweet oov macro that everyone is talking about.

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Lairs aren't all that bad, I have nothing against lairs, I wish zergs stayed at lair longer.

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If you thought he was macroing before, just look out now !

oov's marine count is low due to his failed proxy rax and his fac opening, and savior takes perfect advantage of that as he runs in a bunch of speedlings and takes out his newly formed expansion while expanding once more himself, things look grim for our simian friend.

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no macro make oov sad

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Now im no progamer, but when I get bashed by D people over at icc, 3 zerg bases to 1 terran is never a good thing.

At this point those mutas mentioned earlier finally take to the sky and start cruising for a bruising (oh my, why do dumb things stick in my mind). They soon arrive at the terran base and are met with a wall of turrets, seeing that there are no scv kills to be had they start killing marines, they are cold cold bastards and they don't care who they kill, as long as killing is being done !
Oov meanwhile, while not busy losing his marines to mutas is trying to tech up to vessels and set up his natural expansion again, oov no expo, oov no macro, banana ? ( i just love that joke

)

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Only with the implementation of my " guns to CC's " program can scenarios like this be stopped.

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Mutas, what can a man say about mutas that hasn't been said before, hm, they kinda look like dragons or something, weird dragons, actually they arent much like dragons at all..

Savior is all over the map, looks at those red dots go, he has some spare APM so he decides to use that for teching purposes, a queens nest is going up, and you know what that means !? (except that I just vomited a little) thats right, hive time, I sure hate hive time. Oov has meanwhile managed to macro up a sizable enough force to try and retake his natural from 3 barracks, but not without constant muta harass.

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prelude to terror.

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Man those mutas look annoying, il have to keep that in mind next time I play savior

Just as oov moves out with a bunch of marines to finally secure his expo a whole bunch of imba comes rolling towards his troops, zerglings, mutas, and a quick surround make short work of the poor ex cons and oovs expansion attempt is thwarted once more, it is a sad day for the macro terran, and to add insult to injury, his fancy new cc gets shot down while menacingly floating near some minerals.

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a piece of my soul floated out of my eyes

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silly mutas, you cant put out CC fires with glave wurms.

Once again the game consists of oov trying to macro up enough forces to expand and tech, while savior is saturating his 3rd base and is up to no good with that which must not be named ( hive tech for all you non terran players ) Soon a defiler mound is seen going up paired with a greater spire, in fear of what is about to happen I alt tab and watch some care bear clips to calm myself.

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Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts...

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Oovs tech that I forgot to post earlier !

Rawr, yells oov and decapitates a nearby banana with his powerful jaw, he has finally managed to take his natural, what could possibly stop him know, the man who could macro from 10 rax even though he has only 5. He fortifies his entrance with a bunker, all is well, except for those guardians killing the dudes at his expansion

. Savior decides to seal the deal with one more expansion and a ultra cavern)

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does not bode well.

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Good thing there were no ultras this game, not even the care bears would help if they were.

Oov decides to give one last twitch of resistance as he moves all of his mnm and some vessels out hoping to punish saviors insolence, but he is soon greated with some lurkers that savior obviously got while I was watching those care bear clips, and with some guardians backstabbing the poor mnm, they soon become a stain on the floor.

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oovs first attack in the game, how will it end, tune in next week to find out !

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Last week on " oov moves out " oov moved out, now join us for the conclu.. oh my god, spikes, spikes everywhere arrrghh.

All that is left now is to attack move into oovs expansion and end it. This game made me sad, but savior did a nice job of not letting oov expand and get his macro mojo working, but one cant help but wonder, how would it have played out had that hacker drone not spotted the proxy.

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OVER !

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See you all in the next edition.

Now for the technicalities

If you want, check out the first five editions here:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=102414

The replay is here :
http://www.repdepot.net/replay.php?id=4123

If you are unsure how to watch, go here :
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83254 * hope it still works *

Laters.

Edition 7 (02.07.2010)

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This game isn't all that ancient, according to gg.net its just 3 years old but it was still a very funny game when I first saw it and it stirs up a feeling of nostalgia in my heart.

Today you are watching the venerable [ReD]NaDa battle it out with SiR@SoNi at Peaks of Baekdu ( that strange inverted version I played only once because I hate being in a hole ) in a riveting game of TvZ. Im sure most of you know Nada and how godlike he is, for those of you who hopped on the sc2 train, do yourself a favor and go watch some of his old Vods or replays, and look him up in the TLPD to see what a force he once was. I dont recall much about SiR@SoNi, I watched him in a few replays and he never failed to deliver, and he does not disappoint in this game.

Nada starts out in the top position, while Soni spawns at the bottom, whipping his drone hordes into a frenzy of mineral collection and all around debauchery.

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ah, precious unobtanium

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the Na'vi, ready to defend their lush forest paradise.

Soni does something you dont see every day, he opens up with a gas first, no doubt up to 1 hat shenanigans, soon afterwards he throws down a pool, no doubt cackling like a maniac at the carnage he will soon wreak. Nada on the other hand opens with a normal depot rax, arranging them into a makeshift wall hoping to at least slow down the zerglings that will surely come.

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gas first, textbook definition of evil.

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fortress of doom

As soon as his pool finishes, Soni starts ling speed, a lair and some lings for pressure. On the other side of the map, Nada starts his gas and academy from just 1 barrack, he also manages to sneak a scv in and spot the 1 hat, the scv tries to confuse the zerglings by twitching about the zerg base, but the lings will have none of it and he ends up in a shallow grave.

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Lairs, lairs aint that bad, ling speed on the other hand, the bane of many a D+ terran.

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I wonder what really goes on in those *academies* with all that screaming.

Now, with his lair complete, Soni unveils his master plan by making a den and starting Lurker research, he also amasses a small but bold force of zerglings bent on destroying all that Nada stands for. They gather at both ramps to Nada's base and start pouring down, the makeshift wall does little to stop them but its better than nothing, Nada's bold ex cons are forced to retreat and press gang some scvs into battle. As the dust settles all the marines are dead, but they did enough damage and the scvs mop up.

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Lukers are afoot

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guess who's gonna have to clean this up, scvs have a crappy union.

Soon after that 2 hydras take to the field, leaving the safety of their slimy abode they make their way across the map and start morphing to lurkers near the middle. The terran base is finally secure with 1 firebat out hungry for zerling blood.

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this is as safe as it gets, the good life

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stop sneaking about, come out of those eggs and fight like men !

Soni, seeing that opportunity to keep Nada in his base for a while decides to take his natural, hes finally starting to play like a zerg ! Nada on the other hand, still on 1 barracks, and seeing the 1 hat tomfoolery decides that a factory would be best to support his bold marines.

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soon, ancient machines of war will take to the field, sowing death in their wake.

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not much going on here, those veins always creep me out though.

As soon as those devious lurkers morph they set course for the cliff above Nada's minerals, with no mercy in their eyes, no thoughts for the families of the scvs mining there, they set out with murder on their minds. Luckily a small band of proud terran soldiers anticipated such a devious move and they set up in a skirmish line, waiting to strike. A small battle ensues and the lurkers are chased away, one of them lives to shank scvs another day.

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red rover red rover send a lurker right over.

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just look at this beauty, who says you need fancy 3d graphics.

But while those marines were battling the forces of evil on that cliff, another pair of lurkers set up shop on their ramp and started stabbing at their precious barracks and depot, The marines retreated to halt their advance, supported by a newly constructed siege tank. Seeing his chance, Soni sends that one remaining lurker to once again try killing scvs from the cliff above, this time he has more luck.

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and people wonder why I hate these hole maps.

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what can a man say about tanks... more splash, bigger range ! MORE DAMAGE

Predicting that Nada wont be leaving his base any time soon, Soni starts constructing a spire, seeing air superiority as the key to victory. With some scans Nada finally manages to chase away the lurkers from his base, and a small but hardy band of adventurers is seen heading out from his base, a tank shoots a lone lurkers, I laugh.

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I really need to start taking some more interesting shots

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recon lurker 17 wont make it home, presumed as lost in action, in time he will be found, as spring uncovers his bleached bones. (if you know where this is from, I love you)

As Nada moves his troops across the map to siege Soni's slimy new expo, he also starts building a starport so he can field the mighty science vessels, also he got 3 barracks while I was busy watching tv.

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no, seriously, why do I keep taking shots of buildings, I cant even make jokes when things are interesting, let alone about damn buildings.

The siege goes well for a while, shelling the expansions and picking off stray zerglings, but soon the skies darken above the poor expeditionary force, and the mutalisks show no mercy, it was starship troopers all over again. With a victory under his belt, Soni expands once more, this time to the bottom right corner.

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ah, now this is more like it, you cant spell terran without mass shelling.

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blast, Toruk Makto

With Nada's first force left behind to fertilize the grass, Soni sends his mutalisks to murder some scvs, I dont know why its called harassing, they cant even fight back, thats murder in my book. Luckily some turrets were already built and the mutalisks get chased away after some micro. They continue to circle Nada's base backed up by some zerglings, bent on not letting Nada get up his ramp and threaten his new expansions.

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now here you dont just see a hatchery, you also see a control tower getting built, notice how I capture the essence of action

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some people, or hideous aliens, dont know when they are not wanted.

But alas, the mutas couldnt hold out and Nada's army manages to force their way up the ramp, with the help of a vessel they establish air superiority and start expanding while sending some marines to Soni's corner expo. Soni on the other hand sends all of his forces to sneak into the terran base from the side.

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for some reason, every time I try to get up a ramp like this, they have to fish my body out of the river with a hook, Nada is obviously hacking.

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argh, if such a thing as iccup PTSP existed id be having it right now, like flashbacks of Nam.

Now this cant end well for anybody, both players have all of their armies heading for their enemies bases, no defenses are present, and they both hit the others base at the same time, not even the children are spared. If you don't love base trades, you don't love Starcraft, and possibly your grandparents.

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hah, an undefended base, but where are is the terran...

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hah, a undefended base !

Lucky for Nada, some crazy bastards rigged up engines on his buildings, no doubt expecting this turn of events, he is able to lift off and the great exodus starts. Soni cant fly, but he sure can expand, he still has his corner expansions and is busy preparing his defenses there.

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i wish they let the depots lift off as well

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these zerg are such turtle whores, amirite, whos with me ?

Nada uses his powers of remote viewing (or scaners, whatever) to spot the new zerg fortress, he is not daunted by the task at hand and sends out what is left of his troops to lay waste to it and possibly salt the ground underneath so nothing ever grows there again.
With some micro he manages to destroy Soni's expo and the zerg is forced to send all of his drones and troops to another expansion he took while I wasnt paying attention.

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damn you internet, I will not sully my good name with a 300 reference !

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all aboard the pain train !

But luck is not on his side today, a scv is already there, showing no mercy as his fusion cutter cuts deep into the hatchery, the jig is up. Meanwhile somewhere else, Nada finally manages to float his buildings over to Soni's old base, and lands both of his CCs ready for harvesting.

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look at em go, he should be on terran propaganda posters

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terran is so underpowered atm, they should start every game like this ^^

Forgoing all base defenses, Nada sends all of his men (and some medics) to once again burn forts and salt the ground, but this time lurkers are afoot, and he is forced to just poke about looking for holes to exploit, but Soni, as if he had terran ancestors, camps flawlessly.

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foul zerg campers, why cant they fight like men

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what could stand in the way of such mighty warriors... oh, look at all those sunks

Soni manages to find 2 mutalisks that somehow survived up until now, probably hiding in a cellar, he sends them to slaughter some scvs at Nada's base but terrans will be terrans, and a bunker with a marine is ready to chase them away. Seeing no damage could be done, he is content with getting his lair up again, and trying to get some more lurkers.

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now this is muta harass I could live with

Seeing that the game couldnt be straight out won at this point, Nada retreats all of his convicts back to his base for some safety while his 2 command centers replenish his scv count. Soni, being a sneaky zergs, wastes no time taking advantage of the situation, and once again lurkers are seen shanking scvs from the cliff above. Meanwhile a lone ebay that was floating over the bottom right expo, watching for signs of infestation, gets gunned down by those 2 mutalisks, I sure hope those things are unmanned.

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these things should have guns on them, or bunkers, that would be awesome

A tank is once more seen on the field, as he fires powerful voleys shelling all the lurkers foolish enough to approach Nada's domain. Soni meanwhile once again uses his lurkers to keep Nada in his base, setting them up on ramps and cliffs, and being a all around villain, I wonder if he has a mustache.

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RIP vessel, he almost made it

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how much lurkers on his ramp can a man take !?

He was told he was going on a scouting mission, just a quick sweep around the base for zerg forces, he had no reason to doubt his orders, just another scv, one of the many that make up the backbone of the terran economy. he kicked the motors on his suit into drive and slowly cruised out of the base, climbing over the ramp. All seem quiet and normal, his com crackled and a new set of coordinates were fed to him, he was told to go there and just wait. As the scv set himself over the coordinates, he sensed something was wrong, the ground seemed disturbed, as if something big had burrowed there. He realized too late, as the tank volley was screaming down towards him, that he was being sacrificed for the greater good.

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and im just supposed to stand here, right sarge?

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war is hell

With the damned spying ebay out of the way, Soni was once again free to expand to the bottom right expo. After tangling with some lurkers outside of his base, and running his vessels back and forth avoiding scourges, Nada finally manages to push out once again towards the Zerg base.

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finally, something other than lurkers to fight.

Oh man, I was so hoping we could avoid this in this game, Soni made a Hive, and I popped some anti anxiety pills, I dont like Hives, Ultras come out of hives, defilers come out of hives, guardians come out of hives, they arent nice people. Well at least Nada managed to finally secure his base and expansion.

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FOR THE LOVE OF HUMANITY NOOOO

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it was the best of times.

Leaving his tanks at home to defend, Nada attacks the bottom right expansion, I once again have no idea how he knew it was up because I was staring at something else, Soni tries to throw up a swarm to defend but to no avail. Meanwhile somewhere else, swarm go up at Nada's base and lurkers start shredding stuff, the expansion is in flames.\

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it was the worst of times

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ive had nightmares like this, expansions that just wont stay dead.

Seeing his base in danger Nada quickly rallies all of his men back to the base where 2 lurkers and a defiler are laying down epic amounts of smackdown, tanks oce again try to sacrifice poor hapless scvs for lurker kills, but the evil dark swarm thwarts their aim, the scvs die in vain.

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good thing vessels are small, highly mobile craft

Swarms keep raining down upon Nada's base as the insect hordes make aiming impossible for his troops. Soni takes 2 more expansions, but in doing so, stretches his resources too thin. 2 lurkers without swarm cant hold out for long, and are soon mopped up by tank fire, and once again the terran troops are free to roam the map. Soni losses a new expansion to marine fire.

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Nada has Soni riiight where he wants him, in his base with swarms.

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i take a perverse pleasure in watching zerg expansions die.

Using his momentum Nada kills both of Soni's expansions, leaving his mighty artilery cannons at home for defenses, his sends all of his marines to flank the zerg base. The marine army faces no resistance as they waltz in and start shredding zerg buildings.
At the same time a drop occurs on Soni's last expansions, and with a last desperate attempt at resistance, he taps out and leaves the field, seeking planets to devour somewhere else.

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what the... how did those get there, recall no doubt

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I should tape myself yelling GG like the koreans for situations like these.

aaaannnd thats a wrap, a classic game of base trades, and everyone loves base trades, except gingers, they have no souls.

Thats all, and also if you have some awesome old reps PM them to me, il run out soon.

FaCE_1

Canada6172 Posts

September 22 2009 15:32 GMT

:D

This is just really good.. THX

How much old ?? I probably have toushand of old replay

CaucasianAsian

Korea (South)11579 Posts

September 22 2009 15:37 GMT

i really appreciate all the work you put into this. GJ

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

September 22 2009 15:42 GMT

age of the replays doesn't really matter, as long as its not something "new" 2-3 year old games or older, as long as they are awesooomeee.

timmeh

Austria177 Posts

September 22 2009 16:11 GMT

Woah, with all these screenshots, you may as well have recorded and uploaded it.

Good stuff.

koreasilver

9109 Posts

September 22 2009 16:11 GMT

I remember when you posted that Lomo vs Ameba game. That game is just ridiculous.

andiCR

Costa Rica2273 Posts

September 22 2009 22:44 GMT

hahaha awesome.. took me forever to read this, but it's great. GJ!

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

October 06 2009 06:12 GMT

New issue is up here and in the latest pony express.

ZhenMiChan

Netherlands1181 Posts

October 06 2009 12:45 GMT

wow i love these, thanks a lot!

FaCE_1

Canada6172 Posts

October 06 2009 13:19 GMT

#10

<3 this.. Thx, its really nice to read

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

October 06 2009 14:20 GMT

#11

lol the blue hallucinations!

Too bad Dota stole Testie's soul ;(

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

October 20 2009 09:08 GMT

#12

updated with the latest issue here and in PX, please love me !

KwarK

United States42688 Posts

October 20 2009 09:45 GMT

#13

I love you Besi but that Blade Storm rep is one of the most overrated reps of all time. It looks awesome when you see it in the pimpest plays video and there's all sorts of crazy spells and death blobs and shit but in the actual rep Z just suicides an army, P takes the opportunity to expand over half the map and then racks up 5k minerals while having more gas expansions than the zerg. Then instead of attacking with a LOT of zealots he sits around spending only gas on cool units like archons and darchons and camps. It's fun watching but awful bw. A good rep only when you select clips from it, as pimpest plays and now PX has done.
But I still wanna carry your babies Besi!

Piste

6177 Posts

October 20 2009 09:59 GMT

#14

i remember em

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

October 20 2009 09:59 GMT

#15

i know its not that much and its pretty much zerg just running into a wall all game like i pointed out, but its a ancient rep that almost everyone from that time loves, and also i ran out of replays to do

KwarK

United States42688 Posts

October 20 2009 10:10 GMT

#16

TvT replay where Boxer vs some guy on lt and both wipe out each others bases and there is a cc on an island at the top left burning down on red hp and if it dies there are no more ccs on the map and but the guy has no money and has to choose between mining with like 1 scv and repairing and eventually it dies and then they're just trying to kill buildings with a few tanks and goliaths and dropships left and boxer wins by dropping shit on tanks and exploiting sight range.
Great rep. My comp is dead atm (I'm in the uni library) but if you can't find it I'll see what I can do.

grobo

Japan6199 Posts

October 20 2009 10:32 GMT

#17

Thanks for doing this, really entertaining and it's great to see these old games again.

besiger

Croatia2452 Posts

November 03 2009 18:43 GMT

#18

edition 6 is out my faithful hordes of fans !

KwarK

United States42688 Posts

November 09 2009 19:04 GMT

#19

Testie vs Mondragon ZvZ on Rush Hour (3?). Mondie kills Testie's pool but Testie already has a hydra den. Testie never rebuilds it, insteading going pure hydra. On the other hand Mondie starts using the full Z tech tree vs the hatchery tech of Testie. Swarms, guardians etc vs insane hydra macro.
Great game. Unfortunately I lost all my replays and maps when my computer broke.

n3m0

Portugal247 Posts

November 19 2009 20:51 GMT

#20

This is really good :p

As for ZvZ I remember Satanik vs Xiaozi also on Rush Hour 3! Uber epic game.

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