Chapotraphouse

Bringing me back to a Starcraft 1 map that I made once upon a time for 1v1 games with my cousin. I called it "Nebraska." It was a max-size map with absolutely no terrain whatsoever, and pockets of minerals and vespene in each of the four corners and along the outer borders near the center.

I don't remember if it was a "real" copy of SC1, or if we were playing a hacked version of the shareware edition with this map added in to replace Byways, but we were playing a dial-up game to test out the map with both of us as Terran. I started in with the classic Terran defense -- siege tanks, turrets, and bunkers in a huge line across the center of the map, starting from the corner where my first command center had spawned in. I made it about halfway across the map -- and had started a second "wall" of the same from the opposite side, which only made it around a quarter of the way across -- when a couple of my cousin's marines blundered into it and immediately got blown to pieces by the tanks. A few seconds later, I saw the ComSat scanner sweep sparkles over a nearby section of The Wall. He didn't know it at the time, but nearly all of the bunkers were empty.

He then tried to send a wave of units down. I had been spamming command centers with nuke silos and already had ghosts positioned around his outermost defenses, and just waited around for his troops to pass by. I had nothing to follow it up with (unless I started moving my tanks, but then those would have no anti-air support) because all my supplies were devoted to three nukes and a fuckload of tanks, but I figured what the hell, and started letting the nukes fly. The first one took out what turned out to be all of his turrets -- and therefore all of his stealth detectors; he didn't have any science vessels yet -- and the second trashed most of his supply depots and about half his SCVs. He ragequit before I could launch the third. If he had found the gap in the wall and wandered through it, I had no defenses.

We didn't play much after that.

Loading up the Byways map on the full version was always a blast though; burrowed Zerg are hilarious on those secondary resource deposit locations.