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Willravel · 10-22-2007, 11:41 AM

Istagib was fun, but I felt like it really gave people like you, with uncanny skill, too much of an advantage. When you've gotta just open fire with your rifle right after you've spawned and you can't get to another grab location, there's a challenge.

My favorite moment was a 3v3 money map (SC money, ZC, NR) and I happened to be playing a StarCraft legend: Random. This was the guy who invented the reaver drop back in 1999. I was always a pioneer of the scout rush and I decided to give it a shot with my strongest stuff.

I was on fire. I had stargates building scouts before my ally had even built barracks up and running, and he wasn't a noob. I managed to get 24 scouts up and running at the 5 minute mark while simultaneously holding the entrance of my base with only cannons (I'm a cannon fiend, never less than 4 deep). It wasn't long before I had mass scouts and had decimated Random's allies while he was mounting attacks against mine. Normally I'm the type that defends my allies even more than myself, but I saw that they were each able to get builders into my base, which was basically empty, and start rebuilding. I had something like 51 scouts fully upgraded at the 17 minute mark and it was now basically me vs. Random as one of my allies left and the other was rebuilding slowly. Random had mass corsairs and cloaked wraiths (he'd mind controlled some scvs) much faster than I had anticipated and I had to basically set a trap for him. He'd been sieging my defenses for some time and where I'd normally retreat to my entrance, the cannons simply weren't there. Luckily, I had, anticipating his reaver drop, heavily defended my nexus with cannons. I did the unthinkable; I led his vast air force over my nexus by pulling my scouts all the way back. WW3 ensued right over my source of minerals.

When I emerged victorious with 26ish scouts and more building, he changed tactics and started going heavy ground and anti-air with goliaths and dragoons. I simply flew around the outside of the map while his army approached my base and took out his nexus. He left the game, and I had a Bawls energy drink to celebrate.

10-22-2007, 11:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	Istagib was fun, but I felt like it really gave people like you, with uncanny skill, too much of an advantage. When you've gotta just open fire with your rifle right after you've spawned and you can't get to another grab location, there's a challenge. My favorite moment was a 3v3 money map (SC money, ZC, NR) and I happened to be playing a StarCraft legend: Random. This was the guy who invented the reaver drop back in 1999. I was always a pioneer of the scout rush and I decided to give it a shot with my strongest stuff. I was on fire. I had stargates building scouts before my ally had even built barracks up and running, and he wasn't a noob. I managed to get 24 scouts up and running at the 5 minute mark while simultaneously holding the entrance of my base with only cannons (I'm a cannon fiend, never less than 4 deep). It wasn't long before I had mass scouts and had decimated Random's allies while he was mounting attacks against mine. Normally I'm the type that defends my allies even more than myself, but I saw that they were each able to get builders into my base, which was basically empty, and start rebuilding. I had something like 51 scouts fully upgraded at the 17 minute mark and it was now basically me vs. Random as one of my allies left and the other was rebuilding slowly. Random had mass corsairs and cloaked wraiths (he'd mind controlled some scvs) much faster than I had anticipated and I had to basically set a trap for him. He'd been sieging my defenses for some time and where I'd normally retreat to my entrance, the cannons simply weren't there. Luckily, I had, anticipating his reaver drop, heavily defended my nexus with cannons. I did the unthinkable; I led his vast air force over my nexus by pulling my scouts all the way back. WW3 ensued right over my source of minerals. When I emerged victorious with 26ish scouts and more building, he changed tactics and started going heavy ground and anti-air with goliaths and dragoons. I simply flew around the outside of the map while his army approached my base and took out his nexus. He left the game, and I had a Bawls energy drink to celebrate.