Ardonite Burns Tha_4k

This is one of the brood wars games. I was sorta hesitant to go up against the machine at first, since he's mad good and stuff, so I decided to screw it and go with my brand spankin build order that vAldiCi just taught me a day or two ago. And as for the war story itself, I decided that it would sound better if it were developed as a story, instead of the crude form of prior reports. ~Ardonite






Okay, this was my third game as Protoss in anno domini MM. Just prior to battle, 4k observed my skirmish versus Valdici, a mad reaver tactic; therefore it was necessary for me to use another strategy, a mad goons tactic! I warped in the top quadrant, and he spawned in the bottom quadrant. My build order came directly from Warlord Valdici himself: make lots of probes, lots of dragoons, and discombobulate thine foes. Prior to the dragoon technology phase exists a period of eight zealot warpings. I commanded my first warpedling to seek out 4k's encampment, checking the right start location, in vain. I sent the second to survey the left start location, in vain. And by the pigeon-hole principle, that means he had been securing the lower quadrant spawn. I had aggregated the first warpling in addition to two more recent ones near the center of the map, waiting for the surveyor to return from the west. With the four neophyte zealots, t'was time for an attack. Up the hill with no bunker in sight, he appeared to be setting himself up for the Four Zealot Sneak. Following the far edge of the high ground, they scampered about his unaware defense, directly to his poor defenseless drunken workmen, where I began the slaughter, in a kosher manner of course, drawing all the blood from each victim, saying a prayer at the felling of each. 4k wasn't happy about this, ceasing the massacre with his fortifications. By this time I'd stolen another four zealots beyond his choke point, to the far north region of his high ground, beyond the horizon of his scouts. The first barrage injured his economy, and the second cluster inflicted even more damage, since his own assault upon my base occupied him at the time.

Speaking of his attacks, he hustling about, securing the terrain just beyond the reach of my encampment, deterring me from expansion, with a Supply of Vultures, Spider Mines, and Seige Tanks. Their volleys destroyed power to my choke point. Beginning the seiging of my fortress, and isolating my fresh nexus at my natural secondary resources.

His levels of technology weren't much further beyond my own, and my battle-experienced dragoons were holding their ground against the onslaught of tank mortars. Then began my rush for higher technology, second only to keeping my main fortress secured.

I made the executive decision that if he intended on controlling land routes, that I would create air routes, and via these jet streams, I would flank my adversaries. This combination of dragoons with shuttles was very effective in holding off his attack, for neither the tanks nor vultures could reach the shuttles hovering above them. And once a dragoon was dropped from the shuttle, it would activate the nearby spider mines, and destroy both itself and the tank beside it, a kamakazi mission.

After lengthy attempts at clearing the areas outside of my outpost, I found his troops reinforced too often, and with too powerful of units to continue doing this for much longer. And my resources within my outpost were expended, leaving me with my cashe of ore and the depleted geyser. The probes now useless within my own base, I gave them the Suicidal Order to March to my Expansion, this meant crossing the line of fire of his tanks. Ave atque vale.

My hopes of victory were fading, I decided it was time for twisting of the situation, via four shuttles, I Air Lifted Eight Dragoons to the far side of his base. His patrolmen weren't there, and his bunker, unmanned. The Trojan Horse had succeeded in striking behind the lines, unexpectedly, using the standard methods of destruction: pillaging, razing, and raping. The dragoons' assault left the buildings to burn themselves to the ground, and created a wake of destruction in their paths.

Victory still remained indecisive, since his tanks had burst through my choke, and had begun to lay waste upon the far buildings of my hamlet. But in the time of my attack upon his base, I'd been secretely developing new information, stored within the Templar Archives. This new technology allowed me to warp in some dark templar, illusion weaving warriors. It only took two of these savage warriors to slay the entire assaulting tank platoon.

With his Troy in ruins, and his standard slain, he succumbed to my powers, and raised the white flag.


After all is said and done, it all comes down to the mathematicans who calculate the tolls upon our civalizations, and produce this Charming Battle Report, just now flattened out with dry stone.



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