The 1st game: FFl v Pip

GAME 1: FF v Pip
Map: Sin Gaema Gowen

Players	Race	Starting position in map
Freefrag ("FF")	Zerg	12
Pipboy ("Pip")	Protoss	6

Authors note: A game to show that when playing Starcraft, a Zerg sunken can beat a Protoss Sunken anytime.... Also a game to show whether you should play either honorably or evil, but never both.....

The game starts up with FF opening with his ala-trademark style " fast expansion" outside his natural. Pip, having started off by scouting with his probe soon found his opponent's expansion. Seeing his opponent expanding gave Pip an idea that he wanted to try for so long.

It was at that moment, a darkness emerged and engulfed the honorable exterior of Pip. "Ooo...FF is expanding. good....good....." Pip thought. Skillfully, he moves his probe unseen by FF's troops. And then.....

"Zwark!" The sound of an evil tactician is born!

Note the mini-map: See how close the canons are build to FF's base?

FF, being unaware of the impending doom of the cannons, went on building his expansion. With great care, the creep slowly covered the surrounding ground with new born larvae popping out of the hive. "Good" FF thought. This will serve as a sieging ground to start his sieging against Pip. But wait! what was that sound?

Note the pic: See how much EVEN CLOSER the canons are build to FF's base?

FF notices that Pip did the unthinkable- a dark tactic!!!

The sight of the first cannot began to glow when FF began to notice that there was a probe near the proximity of his base.

“Damn it”. FF thought. He has to think of something quickly before the photon cannon is finished warping.

He then remembered a game he won when he played with Druggy (to be told at a later chapter). Quickly, using an idle drone, he morphed it into a creep colony. Now, in terms of building tiers, a creep colony had to be built first before it can be changed into a sunken colony. Therefore, there were 2 building tiers that to needs to be achieved before a sunken colony could attack. However, from his game with Druggy, FF knew that a sunken colony would have a faster build time and more hit points (“HP”) than a cannon. The creep from the sunken colony would also prevent the Protoss pylon influence to grow. Even if the build time was slow also, there was no way that a cannon could deal more damage than a sunken.

“Success!” FF gleefully thought when the cannon was defeated by the sunken. However, his victory was short lived when he realize Pip had already a dozen Zealots waiting at the front door of his expansion. Not only that, while the sunken colony had stopped the growth of cannon surrounding the base, there were still the other cannons to deal with.

“Wait a minute….Pip just started to learn his dark tactics…how could an honorable player like him have massed troops and build cannons at the same time? There must be some struggle with the dark and light inside of Pip” He thought.

True enough, there was indeed a struggle with the dark and light forces residing within Pip. “Hmm….I must use this to my advantage” thought FF. Fortunately, there was enough troops in the expansion to defend against the zealot rush and the cannons, being the stationery objects they are, can’t move without the sphere of influence of a Pylon. FF smiled. He knew what to do. All he had to do was just wait…..

“Hmm…..what to do ? What to do? My cannons are on the north-east of FF’s base. My Zealots are on the south west of his base.” Shall I attack or shall I just wait? If I wait, all FF has to do is amass his army and just either breakthrough my army or cannons” thought Pip.

“Oh ! I know! I’ll attack that sunken colony, that way I can continue to build more cannons.” Skillfully using his macro abilities, Pip highlights a dozen Protoss Zealots and have them attack the sunken colony.

However, FF had several troops waiting to defend the sunken at the cost of their lives. The Zerglings served as wonderful meat shields against the Protoss Zealots despite having a 35 hit points only. At the same time also, the sunken was giving the severest punishment to all that comes within the proximity of the creep.

“BWAHAHAHA!!!” the game was echoed with the triumphant laughter of FF

All that remains now was to decimate the remaining force of Pip. With the huge amount of resources gathered from the surviving expansion, FF had amassed an immeasurable amount of zerglings.

The remainder of the game is best illustrate by the following pics when FF zerglings hammered Pip's entrance:-