Bold Dominates on Temple

Battle Report by: Bold
Map: Lost Temple
Players: Bold-404 (Protoss) vs. Player627 (Protoss)
Date: 3/08/00

Ah.. at last, my first battle report for 404.   I got a chance to come home for the weekend so I decided to create a good old "1on1 Lost Temple" game.  Player627 joined and picked Protoss, while I went with Random.  The game started and I spawned Protoss at the 6:00 start position.   Protoss vs. Protoss is my best matchup.  I built my pylon between my 7th and 8th probe and then a gateway with my 10th probe who I subsequently sent to scout clockwise.  I found Player627 in the first spot I checked: 9:00.  I saw a forge first build, and immediately realized he was not very GoSu and that I had a very good chance of destroying this guy.  I pulled my probe out of his base after taking a good look and had him wait outside for a while.  After a few minutes I decided to send my probe back in to see what Player627 was doing.. and this is what a found:

Just as his forge first build order indicated, he decided to cannon his entrance.  This was definately not a wise decision.  I thought to myself, "Ok.  I can pretty much relax now."  (I was kinda worried about how well I'd fair considering I wasn't using my own keyboard or mouse).   Now what should I do against a cannon crazy turtler?  That's easy: reaver build and mass expand.  As you can see in the shot below, my reaver build is underway.

As soon as I got 2 reavers and a shuttle I figured I'd see what kind of chances I had at a reaver drop.  I was pretty sure this kid would have some cannons by his nexus by now, considering this was not a reaver rush.. I had been building a decent force of goons and zealots while teching to reavers.   Well, it turns out he had no probe protection so I went all out and destroyed every one of his probes.

After all of his probes had been annihilated a few goons came over and chased my shuttle away.. at least he had some protection.

What next?  By now I've realized how naive this guy is so I decided to rinse and repeat.. dropping my 2 reavers, yet again, in his still unprotected mineral line while expanding to my natural.

At this point the game is becoming a waste of time, so I decided to end it.  I gathered all of my forces from my main and my expansions and sent them to the center of the map.  I guess I had about 24 1/1/0 goons with range, a few zealots, some observers and my original 2 reavers in a shuttle.

Player627 had all about 12 goons and 4 zealots accompanying about 6 cannons near the entrance of his base.  I destroyed his force with next to no losses.  Upgrades and reaver support will cut down unupgraded troops with cannon support in no time.

Looks like Game Over for Player627. 

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