So I ask myself, what is there that most other starcraft sites don't have?.....

Aye, trigger maps. Just like, Fer those of ye who remember, zzt which started it all, Starcraft came with a campaign editor, and thus tapped a sorce of skill and power that's cheap as dirt. (at least ways where dirt be plentiful) While most of the masses looked past it like a rotting fish nailed to the guardpost doors of vallhalla, some actually took it to themselves to build some right nice maps. And so without further ado,

• Magic: The Gathering A great map. Five players start in thier own acloves which open into the middle, SEEN, arena. Each have different spawning units, buyable heros and spells. Each color has thier stength as far as units go. It's surprisingly close to the actual MTG ideology; Blue spawns templars which storm like made and illusion everything, just as the REAL blue has all sorts of "tricks" to really piss of the other players. Red has kick ass units, power. White has seige cannons and can buy turrents and bunkers. Black has some evil stuff, but I havn't seen it put to good use. It has spellcasters, the Kingpeice of the game. It dies, you die. Tough, but a low offensive potential, it's important for buying units and spells. The game shares the basic "kill stuff to get better stuff" rule, but it's very cool, and very well done.
  
• WWII Europe-allied hope A large map, lots of stuff premade. The map of Europe is fairly well done. Players take on the roles of the main forces and not-so-main-forcesof World War II. What I like about this map is that it doesn't care how much you kill, but how much land you conquor (and build on), and what factories you take. Unit development is not stressed, and a few events make a decient impact, but not overpowering element. A good game for those who can take on the world (germany) those who enjoy teamwork (russia, England and, sniker, france) and those who like to stay under someone's wing (norway, italy, is spain in there?) a good renactment too.
  
• Defend the temple(final) This is a fun map. hoards of enemies and heros. Lots of hidden stuff. Just don't expect to win the first time ...I still haven't. It's a staple of the UseMapSettings. You have to try it.
• V-tec Paintball Old map, been around forever. Also team map, similar to the starcraft fortress.scm that comes with the game
  .................yes, starcraft DOES in fact have a few wired into it. As if anyone would check.
  
• 225 upgrades fast and free Yeah, I know it's not much of a name. (or a map) but it was the cornerstone for the unlimited upgrades. If you havn't figured it out yet, all units, buildings, and upgrades are free and instantly built. There is a cap of 255 on the upgrades, but that will still have your little lings tearing through building like thin tin. So it's sounds easy righ? but your friends have it too. Still don't know how he did it. Well, I'm informed that Erik Boydston doesn't know either, and he made the map! The original one to have this feature was Zealot Farm. So go find whoever made that one and ask him.
  
• Godzilla Yup, it's the big guy himself. (in this version he has friends) A huge prebuilt city of 5 players with buildings and units that build fast&free vs. the city crushin Mr. G
  
• Hydra Rancher From long ago, someone made a map vaugly relating to a show called monster rancher, it evolved into this. Units are expensive, buildings are not. Similar to zergling blood, but with buildings, a partner, buyable units and boundless upgrades.
  
• Elements RPG (LW-final) A large RPG. it's decient, for an RPG on starcraft. Rename the file to read "Elements RPG (LW-final)" because I had to change it to get it up here.
  
• Silver dragons RPG fairly standard starcraft RPG. Which I have to say is boring as hell.
  
• Ghost Nuke Maddness Ultimate Platinum cruddy name eh? a basic spawing map but this time with ghosts, plus a few quick building silos which usually make for a short game.
• (RISK) Basic Zealot Gold15 a fairly good representation of the board game RISK. If risk was a good game, this would be fun.
• World War 1 v6.1 a "dumbed down" version of WWII. well... I guess if you get confused by all the hubub of starcraft this is a good map for you.
• Zergling Blood A ancient popular map, needs at least 4 players. at the least. It can teach you a bit about the inner workings of mass zerglings. (and how nasty kerrigan can be)
  
• Zergling Blood Platinum III This is one of the newer version of zergblood that I actually like. (most are pathetic attempts with some cruddy gizmo) a slightly more complex map.
• ZerglingMarineZealotBlood a wierd and twisted version of zerg blood. choose which race you spawn.

A note: I changed most of the file names to make it web-friendly, so you can expect a lot of annoying dl for the same version map, sorry.

Also, My friend Andy is making a map. it will TRY to be historically accurate to the story of the Illiad. I didn't actually read the book so I'll leave that part to his hands. Although if he ever gets it up and running I'll be sure and snag it from him and get it up here.

General-

• lol= laughing out loud. it took me awhile to get this one
  
• brb= be right back
  
• afk= away from keyboard. yeah I know, the slobs are lazy.....

B-net-

• Mucho money maps= these maps are basic maps but the mineral patches won't run out, newbies just hole up in thier home and wait.
  
• Lag= how bad your connection is. lag is bad
  
• Comp stomps= multiple players take on a single computer just to raise thier stats. the scum bags...
• dl=Down Load. many users still don't know some maps have to be downloaded, but others have quickly shortened the name for it due to use.

StarCraft-

• UMS= Use map settings. aka, trigger maps. it's one of those acronyms that no one explains. it comes from the option of what types of maps to show/play.
  
• Rush= sacrificing mineral production to get attack units faster. Zerg were best at this. howerver, so many peole are such whiners that call any attack before 5 minutes a rushed attack. It's totally untrue, but alas it's b-net.
  
• Reaver drop= 2 reavers in a shuttle getting droped, usually behind the lines, duh. but it was so effective at one point it was the pinnicle stratagy, before v1.5 or .4 something like that made it harder.

  hmmm, can't think of much else...

Ok, here's a tip for you. If you want some StarCraft images, sounds, or random stuff, go to this one Russian site. You'll either need a translator plugin for IE or be fluent in Russian to make full use of it. It has anything you could want. A lot of sites with this stuff has been shut down because of copy right bull. But I guess blizzard doesn't have many strings into the KGB. Good for backgroungs, good shots of units, some fan-art, a bunch of useless screenshots, and it has stuff from the cutscenes.

Wow, That's All I got right now. And all I'm going to have really. I made this site with a tribute to starcraft in mind, but I'm fickle in my devoution and doubt that I'll go back to StarCraft. It really IS warcraft in space.

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