Bloodbath at the Hidden Shrine
| Date: | Wed, 24 Mar 1999 |
images from Blizzard's site |
| Narrator: | Christopher Alexander |
| Human Players: | Christopher Alexander (Protoss) and Erick Lee (Terran) |
| Computer Players: | Protoss, Terran, (Super) Zerg |
| Version: | Normal Starcraft with Super-Zerg |
| Map: | Hidden Shrine, 128x128 |
1st Battle: We decided to play against the Super-Zerg, a StarDraft
modification which improves the statistics of all Zerg units. My
strategy was to rush to Reavers, while Erick started with heavy Marines.
My race to Reavers left me relatively defenseless, so I was caught with
only two Photon Cannons when the Terrans hit me with an early group of
Marines. After killing the cannons, the remaining 5 Marines started
shooting up my Cybernetics Core. Before they could finish I build a
Reaver. Once I had my first scarab I very carefully targeted the center
Marine and managed to blow them all up with one shot! Meanwhile, Erick
just barely beat off the first attack (zerg I think), then sent his
Marines out to attack the Terrans, who were between us. While his
Marines were away from his base, the Protoss hit him with an awfully
large number of Zealots. He managed to blow up his own Bunker with his
Seige Tank and his defenses crumbled. I shuttled over a Reaver and saved
him by sniping at the remaining Zealots until all were dead. All of his
Marines were killed by the Terrans and he had virtually no SCV's, so my
Reavers started slowly demolishing the Terran base. Unfortunately, a
godawful number of Super-Hydralisks then swarmed Erick's base. If was
quite disheartening to see a direct scarab hit into the center of the
Zerg force score zero kills. His base was overwhelmed in short order and
we lost the game.
2nd Battle: This time I was hit with a 3 Zealot rush when I had no
defenses at all. I finally fought it off by building a couple Photon
Cannons and a Zealot, but I ended up losing the cannons and my Forge. I
successfully build a Reaver, but then I was hit with a triple-team and
totally destroyed.
3rd Battle: I vowed that this time, I would defend myself properly. I
build 4 Zealots and 6 Photon Cannons and laughed off the initial Terran
attack. Erick had accidentally left the computer opponents on random so
there were 2 Terrans and one Zerg. The other two players attacked Erick
but he defended himself successfully. I began practicing my Reaver Drops
on the opponents; Erick took a center expansion but I was too busy. When
my 2 Reavers + Shuttle dropped on the Zerg, Erick sent 3 Seige Tanks and
12 Marines to help out. The computer players banded together and
responded with massive force, crushing all of our units. This didn't
bother me too much, but Erick was left with inadequate forces as the
computer began a relentless attack against him. After a great battle my
Reavers took out the central computer expansions. During this time the
computer twice attacked me with large Seige Tank forces, but both times I
quickly resrponded with dropped Reavers and only lost one Photon Cannon
each time (plus some badly damaged buildings). Unfortunately, endless
waves of Seige Tanks were slowly defeating Erick, while I still had no
expansion, so we decided to concede the game. Maybe next time we
shouldn't bother with the Super-Zerg; we seemed to be having enough
trouble with the regular opponents. Erick complained bitterly about the
lack of Medics in original Starcraft; I agree that it really hurts the
Terrans.
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