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Replay of the Week #3

This week's replay
Ares[Master]Eun[fOu]
Race
Protoss
Terran
APM
304
257
Color
Beige
Green
Map
Blue Storm 1.1
Position
1 o'clock
7 o'clock


The game starts with Eun spawning at the bottom position and Master at the top. Master chooses to put his first pylon in his choke, setting off with his probe to scout the Terran before his wall is up. He puts down a gateway next to his pylon, effectively shortening the width of the choke, whilst causing total chaos in Eun's main. The terran is forced to put up his gas early and cut his SCV production, making his refinery at 10 supply, and the probe kills off the SCV building his barracks, forcing him to send another two to deal with the problem.
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Master's scout probe gets exceptionally irritating.

At this point, Terran's position looks a little ugly. He has only five SCVs on minerals and three on gas, and though he gets his factory out on time he loses another SCV in his mineral line to the scout probe. Two of his gas mining SCVs switch to minerals, and though the probe tries to kill off the SCV building the factory, a marine comes out and stops any further losses. Master has chosen to FE, his nexus being warped in before his gas or core, also making a zealot for some further harassment at Terran's wall. Eun has resumed mining with three SCVs on gas, and though the zealot comes knocking at his door, the zealot is held at bay by a marine and the scout probe, which has been milling about in an attempt to claim more SCVs, is finally cornered.

Master's gas has finished, and his nexus and core are not far from completing as Eun's machine shop finishes. However, the Terran decides to skip tanks, and starts pumping out vultures and researching mine tech, also putting down a starport at the back of his main, cutting SCV production at this stage quite a lot, with one of his gas SCVs once again switching to minerals.

Eun's vultures begin their harass, though they are not entirely successful with Master losing very little, although they do manage to plant some mines outside his natural. The protoss builds his second gate close to the first, creating a choke big enough for one goon at a time to go through. A dropship is coming out for the Terran, and as it loads up four vults he puts down his expansion. A robotics has come up for Master, though he chooses not to go straight for observers and instead warps in a shuttle and reaver tech.

Master warps in a pylon to the far left of his main to detect drops, but unfortunately for him it finishes just as Eun's vultures touch down and begin causing havoc. He takes down several probes and a goon, but using his shuttle Master manages to save his injured dragoons from dying. Meanwhile, reinforcements have arrived from Eun's main, mining in Master's now defenceless expansion, though it does little damage and his harass is thrown off.

However, his CC has finished, and Eun maynards some SCVs over and puts down a second factory. He also has a wraith out; having seen the support bay in the Protoss main, he builds another one and also researches cloak tech, whilst finally building his first tanks and getting a second machine shop.

The shuttle heads towards Eun's base, and unfortunately for him his wraiths go past it and allow it to land, though it deals very little damage before being destroyed. Master takes his second natural, and with very few units on either side the game is getting a bit quiet. Protoss has four goons and Terran three tanks, but nothing else; the Protoss gate count is rising, though no probes are currently mining his second gas. Terran's tanks have set up camp on the high ground on the left side of the map, but are not sieged.

Eun's wraiths are not retired yet, as they cloak and take out three probes, though one of the wraiths is killed for it. The remaining one accompanies Eun's tanks to the opening outside Master's natural, providing vision for his tanks to fire on the expansion. Without the force to take him down, the Protoss natural falls quickly, though his second natural finished at roughly the same time.
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Eun smashes down Master's natural.

The tanks move out and, after reinforcements from Eun's main arrive they attempt to destroy Master's second nat, but an angry horde of probes and some dragoons destroy most of his tanks and force him back.
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Master is forced to use his probes to defend.

Current Position
MasterEun
Running Bases
2
2
Supply
79/90
65/100
Upgrades
0-0
0-0-0
Resources
minerals.gif343/vespene.jpg691
minerals.gif764/vespene.jpg354

At this point, Eun takes the opportunity to start building another three factories, siege up on his ridge and start his engineering bay and academy. Master starts to rebuild his natural and blocks off the back entrance to his second nat, preventing any vult harass coming from there, and takes his third expansion at the bottom right, sealing off the left entrance with a pylon line.

Both players are now producing like mad, with Eun having a solid defence on the ridge and putting down his second expansion. A zealot bomb claims two of his tanks and damages quite a few others, and as Eun doesn't resiege too quickly Master's force charges into him head-on, completely obliterating half of the Terran army. However, the combined force of an SCV wall and several tanks sieged up at Eun's second expansion halt any further attacks, with Master having too few zealots to attempt running in.
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Eun's force is annihilated, though his second expansion remains safe.

Eun recovers very quickly, immediately retaking the ridge, though Master has started warping a Stargate in. Several of Eun's vultures run past the Protoss army and sacrifice themselves to take out a large group of probes in Master's second natural.

With so many vultures gone, Master attacks, with some horrendously painful looking storms smashing down a large part of the Terran army, but even after losing all that the Protoss is forced to retreat with only a handful of goons and an archon left alive. With a top left expansion soon finished for Eun, the situation doesn't look too bright for Master.
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Master's templars inflict some heavy damage, but are ultimately routed.

A storm drop in Eun's natural changes things, as the vast majority of the SCVs there are killed off as Eun is busy elsewhere, sending another group of vultures into Master's second expansion, this time finishing all the probes mining there.
Current Position
MasterEun
Running Bases
2
3
Total Bases
4
4
Supply
118/200
102/176
Upgrades
1-1
0-0-0
Resources
minerals.gif558/vespene.jpg478
minerals.gif215/vespene.jpg604

Both players have only modest armies at the moment, though an arbiter is warping in for Master with statis tech on the way. Another vulture group goes on a probe hunt, but is ultimately destroyed by being trapped between Master's army and one of his pylon walls. However, a slightly smaller one impressively manages to wipe out a large part of Master's army by mining it down, and Master is now ahead in supply.

A back attack by Master prevents Eun expanding at 12, and as the Protoss goes back home he is ambushed by Eun's army, which gets badly stormed but nonetheless forces Master to retreat. Master comes back not long after, brandishing a recall-ready arbiter, which promptly recalls a mass of zealots straight into the middle of Eun's sieged tanks. Eun loses all of his tanks, though the group of vultures left behind is easily enough to hit down Master's fledgling force. Instead of engaging further, Master hits down the building CC at 12, stopping Eun's expansion plans again.
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Another encounter leaves Eun hurting.

Master's army now has three arbiters, all with quite a bit of energy, but these are all that stand between him and defeat - Eun is equal with him on supply and sports 3-3 upgrades, and also matches Master's two running expansions.

The ensuing battle sees Eun lose again, with many of his units put in stasis by the five arbiters now in Master's army. His 12 o'clock expansion attempt is once again foiled, but with the number of zealots Master lost to mines, he can't afford to push further. He does, however, take the 6 o'clock expansion.

Some of Eun's vults stray towards Master's bottom right expansion, miraculously catching a group of probes being maynarded to the 6 o'clock expansion right outside the pylon wall and destroying all of them. Another group was maynarded from above, but most of them survive and the vultures retreat.
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A lone shuttle surveys over No Man's Land.

As if the Arbiters didn't cost him enough gas, Master starts producing mass templars and making archons, being relatively short on minerals. Eun plants a colossal minefield and sieges his tanks behind it, preventing any land army from disrupting his expansions as Master's army is far too small to have any effect. That turns out not to bother Master too much, who recalls his army into Eun's expansion at the top left and storms all the SCVs before they can run. As Eun's army encloses him, another arbiter recalls most of Master's army back out again, saving it.
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A nasty recall destroys Eun's expansion...

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...and Master evacuates in style!

Shortly afterwards, Master continues his teleporting tactic and destroys Eun's 12 o'clock expansion, with no SCVs escaping, then recalls himself back to his base. Eun heads right for the Protoss ridge, but is cut down by the Protoss army after many of his units are put in stasis.
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Eun's main army is shut down permanently.

With no real units left to fight with, Eun's minefield is defused and his remaining expansions destroyed. Having no chance left to recover, he gives up. GG.

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