Last Edited: Sunday, March 23, 1997 05:42:32 PM
Well, it was Josh's first Warcraft 2 game. Josh has never played anybody but the computer before, so I decide to handicap myself. I say I'll use peons and mages. Josh says no. I said I'll use sappers and peons (we all know what woulda happened then :) ). Josh says no. I said I'll use peons and Gryphons. Josh says no. I'm getting frustrated, so I say I'll use peons, farm, THs, and dictate terms of the level. Josh says, "YES! YES! YES!.
I say Maze, low resources, one peon only, fog on (duh), cheats off (duh part 2). I start in the upper left.
I get my farms and peons cranking and never stop building peons. When I have 10, I put up another TH at my base for more production. I should have found a new mine, but oh well. At 20 peons I check Josh out. He's in the bottom left and completly walled in, with towers to boot!!!! That was hilarious. He walled in vs. PEONS!!!!!!!!
I set up another mine somewhere near the center. Josh has 6 peons (I had one of mine rush through a crack in the trees) and has 30,000 out of 40,000 still in his mine. I have 50,000 gold and decide to use some of it. I walled in Josh's wallin just outside of his viewing range. I put 10 layers of walls on it!!!
It's almost an hour into the game. I set up two more THs. Josh, meanwhile, has broken out through my wallin and sallies out with 2 level 1 grunts and 2 level 3 archers. I charge them with 15 peons. Josh breaks and runs back to his base. I cut him off at one of the turns, blocking his path with little peon bodies :). Then my force came in and crushed them.
Josh comes out with about 9 grunts and 4 archers (same level). Meanwhile another suicide peon has told me Josh just got his Keep and his mine is out. I have roaming peons searching for a secondary base. I have 100k gold and 10k lumber. I can't make peons fast enough. My first 2 bases are out of gold and look like they have been clearcut (a hard thing in maze, indeed). Josh sacks my smallest base with his force (my 3 peons there got 2 kills :) ).
I tell Josh I'm getting tired of this. Josh says I'll never win (he has 10 towers back to back, and I say don't bet on it. I make 10 barracks (what can I say, I've been there for 2 hours!). Josh has no blimps and doesn't notice. I make 15 more farms and 2 smiths. I start pumping out level 5 grunts and level 3 ballista (I was bored).
After I have 40 grunts and 5 ballista, I go out. My grunts decimate all of Josh's lumbering peons (his base was out of it) and kill 2 grunts sent to kill them (still level 1, I might add). My ballista start shooting at his towers. Josh repairs them. It doesn't matter cause I can kill towers alot faster than 3 peons can repair. My grunts surge into his defenseless base and level everything.
All of this is 10 minutes after my first barracks.