Custom Map #8517: Impossible. By: Alastair

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Author: Alastair
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First map I felt warranted an upload. I had fun making it and even more fun playing it. Enjoy. Please rate and email your comments. Thank you

[marvinitfox]

Hm, it's kinda nice to have the tidal wave be on your side for a change.
Although it takes a bit of fancy footwork to establish a base and pickup all the needed AND not nullify your own AC emitters in the first 3 minutes.

Those AC emitter, if captured not killed, send out a wave of height-2000 AC.  Nice mojo!
me at 5 minutes in:

[Loren Pechtel]

Nothing hard about protecting those lovely emitters:

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While still paused, kill the evil nullifier!!!

Drop your CN near all that tech.  You can collect all 5 piles and kill the anti-air underneath before you're overwhelmed.

Now go to the NW corner, grab the energy and build.  The anti-creeper will have forced the creeper back, you do have to make sure you don't kill the friendly emitters but it's not at all hard at this point as the creeper has been pushed back.  You end up with several PZs for beams to deal with the spores while you build up.

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I didn't think of your strategy of ignoring the anti-air and going for the 200 point emitters.

What I don't understand is all that aether behind the inhibitor.  By the time you can get to it it's over.

Also:

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One of those spore towers in the NE can be killed with an early guppy.  I forget which one.

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[Loren Pechtel]

Hm, it's kinda nice to have the tidal wave be on your side for a change.
Although it takes a bit of fancy footwork to establish a base and pickup all the needed AND not nullify your own AC emitters in the first 3 minutes.

Those AC emitter, if captured not killed, send out a wave of height-2000 AC.  Nice mojo!
me at 5 minutes in:

I decided to try it again using your approach.  Cut 1/4 off my time, but still got the inhibitor before that command node in the corner, although this time I was charging the nullifier to kill it's guardian emittter when the nullifier got it.