thA_4K defeats the notorious Ardonite
 
    I have not the faintest idea why Ardo challenged me, at that time i had quite a high rating (1150?), well for me anyway.  Since he had the guts to duel me, he must be good i thought.  He created the game, and also picked the map.  Have to admit I was a bit worried, Ardonite could beat vAldiCi back then and of course... playing zerg on Ashrigo is just bastardly.  I assumed that he knew wat he was doing, so I picked Terran.  I hope all the details are here, since this was quite a while ago.

    I told him to take it easy, since i was using an experimental tactic.  And so he did, i think.  I was placed at the top left of the map, while Ardonite was in the top right.  I started with my now 'quite bitch ass' double Command Centre build order.  Which was just expanding early.  I floated my finished CC to the island middle expandsion of this map, while building barracks, a bunker and engineering bay back home.  I turreted my expansion and got tanks in my main... all this time i had not an idea what Ardo was up to, which was bad since Ardo had just found my expansion.
 
    "Who said u could take the middle?"
 
    Ardo managed to drop a single zergling in my expansion and started knocking at my turrets, so i used a single SCV and held that off.  When I finally got comsat on both CC's I found he had not expanded to the expansion outside his main, and that he'd just flew up the tech tree as I saw a Hive.  I was curious why he had not expanded so i decided to tour the map with a group of marines, which of course came across a fully functional expansion at three o'clock.  Ardonite had made no defense there and my marines made quick work of his expansion, the down side was they all got plagued down to 1 hitpoint.
    He was quite pissed off after i killed off his expansion and came in with heaps of hydras, zerglings and ultras at my main, i was very forunate that I had enuf bunkers and tanks to hold it off.
    Shortly after, I took advantage of razing his expansion and the knowledge of his tech units and made my first offensive move of the game, by tank&bunkering outside his base while making SCV's like mad at both bases.
 
    "Wats wrong?"
    "Your outpost outside my base!"
 
    I was sure Ardo was in starving for an expansion  now, since he'd climbed up the tech tree so fast.  And as usual, I was right =).  I denied Ardo of a much needed colony, after annihilating his many many attempts with large groups of stimmy marines.  I then launched my first offensive in the form of a small scaled tank push which ended up as a mass marine assault.  This attempt was easily held off by Ardo's Muties and Defiler Plagues(screenshot here), but I continued to stand ground with bunkers, turrets and tanks outside his base.
 
    I could sense that Ardo knew he was in trouble, as he lacked much needed gas.  And he showed that he needed gas when he did a brilliant zergling drop on my main, razing several buildings and destroying many of my peons.  Unforunately for Ardonite, that would be his last move.  As I had earlier constructed 3 starports and was pumpin wraiths which raped his lings even tho they did heavy damage, here's a screenshot of this bloody scene.  Knowing he was all out of everything, I ran in my group of wraiths hunting overlords and finally after a fierce 30 minute battle Ardonite is forced to surrender.
 
    I thought it was a good game, tho Ardo was cursing and complaining after the game... he obviously dislikes losing quite a lot.  I'm sure Ardo wants a rematch sometime, and I always look forward to playing a good rival.  GG Ardo.
 
 
-thA_4K
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