Oldschool Battle Report - LP Pics

The overview window we all know. Maybe someone remembers Korn. He is pretty famous now! Mondragon starting at the 9 o'clock position, Socke spawning at 12.




Mondragon starting with Pylon and Assimilator - quite unusual, but it's not his main race.




Socke starting with Pylon - Gas - Gateway




From now on both add their Cybernetics Core and the robotics facility. Socke however starts to build a few Zealots instead of Dragoons, which was quite common if you wanted to drop your opponent early on.



Socke makes the first move: he sends out his shuttle counter clock wise - a fortunate decisions,
as he is going to scout Mondragon early on.




Mondragon is under pressure, as he decided to follow a reaver build order while skipping his range upgrade. This is why the first four zealots are able to kill a lot of probes and one of the dragoons.




One reaver for Socke is done while the harass is still going on in Mondragons base. Mondragon however sneaks out a probe to take the expo south of his base.



Shortly before the last of the Zealot bites the dust the first reaver for Mondragon pops out.



Only seconds after the harass is over, the Socke's reaver is being dropped. Mondragon tries to counter with his own reaver and is quite succesful doing so. The drop does not much damage, but can rescue its cargo. The first skirmish is over, Socke is slightly leading in economy and tech-wise.



In the following minutes one of Socke's reaver constantly tries to attack Mondragons base from the south, missing the Probe that is about to warp in the expansion always by centimeteres. The harass has not much effect though, as Mondragon moves his dragoons fast enough to intercept the incoming Shuttle. Sometimes a few probes die, but nothing to worry about.



Socke decides to add another facility and shuttle speed finishes for him.



Since he is in advantage Socke takes the mineral only next to his main base - by now he discovered the probe of Mondragon and killed it.



Mondragon sends out another probe, this time trying to expand in the island expansion on the way between the player's bases. Defnitely a bold move.






Mondragon tries to hide his expansion with his drops. He outsmarts the Goon's AI a bit and gets a couple of free hits here and there.




As a matter of fact, the harass was good enough to keep Socke and his reavers constantly in his base, rather than scouting the map.



Mondragon sneaky takes the expo while Socke is busy.









Instead of doing a transfer via shuttle from main to natural and thus helping his economy, Socke decides to do a drop that would hopefully end Mondragons existence right here and right now; two shuttles with four reavers are being dropped and a fierce micro battle starts. Mondragon is able to fight back until only one reaver on both sides remain; Socke sees that he can not decide the game with only this reaver left and returns to his main.



And that's when he sees what Mondragon did there.






Mondragon is now returning the favour: he drops Socke's expansion and fires at the Nexus and the few probes that harvest there. In between he goes back and forth while once again trying to get his expansion at he south back up.



He ultimately loses the expansion in between the bases.





Quid pro Quo again: Mondragon moves two shuttles with reavers and dragoons across the map and drops Socke's main base. He kills a few dragoons and a few probes; overall not big damage done kill wise, but the economy of Socke is on hold.



While being under attack Socke now drops a probe to the upper left corner expansion in order to take it.






Mondragon decided there was not enough action: he starts to harass Socke's expansion again, sniping workers and eventually forcing his opponent to send his units there to defend. This is a trap, as Mondragons larger force already waits on the other side of the 12 o'clock main and goes in once his bait was swallowed. Meanwhile Mondragon was able to take the expansion south of his base.






Socke has had enough: a counter with four reavers directly into Mondragons main. Here the first micro screw up appears. What used to be a thrilling fight between reavers and shuttles now turns into an epic fail. Socke's shuttle is way too far away to pick up the reavers, and the reavers starting to be retarded and crawl around instead of firing. He eventually loses all of them and retreats. His advantage is gone by now.






Mondragon doesn't rest and prepares his two-way attack again. Socke reacts in time and saves most of his army and his workers, the drop doesn't too much damage and Mondragon loses more units than neccessary.






Mondragon's expansion is going well, and he takes the 6 o'clock position. This however, is really just about time as his main base just went totally dry.





Socke takes the middle expansion, but gets scouted. Mondragons forces deny every building from getting up.









Socke knows that Mondragon's main is depleted - so he goes directly for the expansions of his opponent and kills them without losing much. Mondragon is still busy to kill the middle expo of Socke and enters this elimination race with a big delay. Now the cards turn once again into Socke's favour - shortly before his base goes down, he is able to pull all his units back. His Natural barely survives.




The downside for Socke: he lost more units defending and raiding, Mondragon lost literally not a single Goon. All in all, the game is still open.






History may be a useless subject for some, but Mondragon did pay attention: when the Soviets contained all roads to Berlin the Americans started to use their air force to re-supply the western part of the city. And so does Mondragon. Operation Rosienenbomber at your service - ZERE VILL BE ORDER IN MEIN ECONOMY!



While Mondragon gathers the few minerals he needs for a Nexus Socke expands in the top left corner.








Socke sees the expansion going up and wants to deny it at any cost. He drops all his remaining forces onto the plateau and starts to rape. Mondragon eventually is able to gain the upper hand. This would still not be too big of a deal for Socke, but his minerals were already almost gone - and scarabs are expansive after all. It looks as if Mondragons decision making saved his ass and turned the game around. Again.









From now on all of Socke's expansions go down; no way he can compete with Mondragon's army. Revenge is not an option, as Mondragon's expansion is way too fortified.





After a lot running around the map the two armies meet for a final clash. Socke loses and the game is over. GG!