The Epic Win

The Epic Win

There are certain successes in gaming that are so exhilarating and satisfying that they can only be described as an "epic win."

Epic wins can take on many forms. Occasionally, an epic win will follow a long string of defeats; after fighting what seems to be an impossible battle, you're able to come from behind and claim a last-minute victory for yourself or your team. Other times, an epic win is the culmination of several perfect in-game actions: your APM is high, your build orders are precision-timed, your micro and macro are flawless—everything falls into place as if predestined, and when you come out victorious, you sort of just want to sit back, put your hands behind your head, and say to yourself "yeah, that was awesome."

These successes can occur in any game you play, really; from board games to PC games, you can achieve an epic win in almost any challenging environment. In fact, while StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has only been out for about a month, we imagine that many of you have already experienced your share of epic wins, be it in single-player or multiplayer games. Given how positive and exciting these successes can be, we think it would be a great topic to open up to the community.

So, tell us: what's your epic win moment?

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genaralme #722
genaralme
3/18/2011
warp rays+big base=MASS DESTRUCTION
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Ironman #874
Ironman
3/17/2011
I had been playing my hardest as zerg against a terran who was just macroing up and turtling, not letting me even near his base. I saw the 200/200 supply army push coming and i decided there was only one thing i could do. I built a nydus in his base and put all my units in there. I managed to kill his final command center just before he was about to kill my last extractor. I was so exhilarated after that long, gruelling battle that i promptly celebrated by going to sleep for about 18 hours.
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SONICBOOM #723
SONICBOOM
3/16/2011
i lost agenst to coms, but the only reason was all my battlecrusers(about ten at a time) where killed by corrupters. i lose, but epic for me.
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CAMO #290
CAMO
3/16/2011
2v2 twilight fortress
Mass Carrier-Zealot vs mass stalker and a zerg player with like four hydras
My ally controlled all air, i controlled all grount
FTW!!
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Soren #993
Soren
3/16/2011
My opponent and I both executed a six-pool all-in. I won by building a last-minute extractor at one of his geysers.
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Uroborus #400
Uroborus
10/2/2010
@Uroborus: I had well over 100 of them
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harrydresden #140
harrydresden
9/24/2010
My epic win was when my opponent forgot to build detectors and I completely destroyed him with 4 dark templars.
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harrydresden #140
harrydresden
9/24/2010
@Stardragonvm: Btw It was my first starcraft win EVER without cheats and out of campaign.
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Khalas #635
Khalas
9/12/2010
The other day I had a game with a Terran. No matter how many times I tried I was never able to break into his base. Covered more then half the map in expansions. He than out of nowhere managed to break all of the expansions and had no more resources funneling in. I got fatigued and lost focus and didn't feel up to continuing and almost called GG. While he was destroying all my bases and my overlords I said screw it I'll have some fun and throw tons of zergling at him with my 8grand minerals and somehow where everything else failed managed to break in and bear down his main base while he retreated keeping most of his tech intact lifted off and moved to another base. I ended up starting my tech all over again and expanded while he recovered. I managed to come up with large qty of mutas, corruptors, and 4 broodlords and where 100s of zerglings failed I broke through and destroyed him.

Have a replay and will post it layer.
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Naz
9/9/2010
One day on Stepes of War i was 3 gate zealot rushed now the zealots didnt come from his base, they were being built in my base i had 3 marines and a bunker at my ramp i just lifted off built an engi bay in the middle of the map while floating my CC and factory to the protoss base. I left the marines and bunker as well as my barracks locking in the zealots long enough for me to land the command center in the protoss base. I then built a Planetary fortress next to the protoss's nexus as it finished the zealots he was producing finally made their way to my fortress they got close but they could not do the damage they needed with my 17 harvesters attacking his nexus and his workers I LOLed my way to victory i have this replay saved some where in my computer i wish i could find it to upload some where.
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LetoAtreides #447
LetoAtreides
9/9/2010
My friend and I play this more for fun than for winning. To that extent, in our 2's qualifiers we rushed 4 out of 5 times. This is the story of one of those times.

We both ended up as protoss (he plays random, i'm dedicated to toss). He says to me as the game begins simply cannon rush. Together we both successfully cannon rushed our opponents and won the game within 6 minutes. It was a crowning moment of win.
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ThePheonix #130
ThePheonix
9/9/2010
Last night, played a 4v4 on Megaton. One of my allies quit immeditely upon starting, and another one followed roughly ten seconds later. My sole remaining ally and I began an all-out rush, using the extra resources that were coming in from our allies. We cause some damage to two of our opponents, when suddenly my ally realizes that he has been cannon-rushed and his base is basically done for. He runs, and soon after I follow suit (as Megaton has all players on a team on the same platform, I soon realized that *I* was being cannon-rushed as well!) In the meantime, our rushes stalled, and although we had hurt two of our foes, the other two were just fine.

So we quickly rebuild, taking advatage of the many yellow fields on the map, and decide to make one more rush-like push. Somehow, I manage to slip Dark Templar up into their base, with heavy, heavy support from my ally, and take out the buildings and workers of two of our foes. My expansion base is then found and destroyed, leaving me with one probe, 450 minerals and 4 dark templar to my name. I race down to my ally, and start to rebuild, and somehow we managed to squeak out a win against the remaining two players. It took over an hour, but it was quite epic.
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DaftCactus #584
DaftCactus
9/8/2010
it was a 3v3. Me and my 2 friends. y one friend accidentally dropped at the beginning of the game because he was lagging and pressed s when it asked him to surrender. So my friend and i ran in with all our probes and killed one guys nexus and proceeded to take out the next guy. he lifted his CC and we pulled back and went to kill the next. he walled himself in; he was terran. we fell back to our bases and played. we ended up winning somehow. I just had to save the replay
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DaftCactus #584
DaftCactus
9/8/2010
it was a 3v3. Me and my 2 friends. y one friend accidentally dropped at the beginning of the game because he was lagging and pressed s when it asked him to surrender. So my friend and i ran in with all our probes and killed one guys nexus and proceeded to take out the next guy. he lifted his CC and we pulled back and went to kill the next. he walled himself in; he was terran. we fell back to our bases and played. we ended up winning somehow. I just had to save the replay
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TheGloob #991
TheGloob
9/8/2010
my most epic win was in a 3v3 when my team was gone and left and my command center was was floated into a corner and i had 18 fully upped battlecruisers i ran around the map and beat all 3 players (1 terran, 1 zerg, 1 toss)
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TheGloob #991
TheGloob
9/8/2010
@TheGloob: also i killed around 300 units with the battlecruisers
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KENPACHI #466
KENPACHI
9/8/2010
most epic win i have had so fare is in a 2v2 random game i and my teammate were protoss the other players were both terran they thought they would be smart and build there barracks and mac shops rite out side our base they hit my teammate first together wit mars and marines as they were attacking i can wit some lots to assist but it was to late he left with in the very beggining of there attack so i broght my zelots back and went to work.... 7 gates warping in zelots and stalkers.. wave after wave they sent of marines and maraders and tanks to i fought them off and slowly fought my way out of my base putting up pylons and warping troop after troop and finallly i realize there buildings were in the center i made my attack zelots in from stalkers in back finally got them off gard then it was easy they were both trying to make new barracks and macshops at there main bases but it was all to late i solo beat 2 terran players i felt pretty good and yes i have it saved i watched it rite after cuz i was like wow i really did that lol EPPPPIIIIIICCCC WIN!!!! ^_^
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RickyRecon #158
RickyRecon
9/8/2010
1v1 zerg vs zerg. We both do 6 pool and simultaneously our 6 zerglings pass eachother while on the way toe eachothers bases. I get to his base and kill off his drones, then hatchery while he does the same to me. I start working on his last building, spawning pool and barely kill it while my spawning pool was at 10 health left. I won by a matter of a second or two...
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Berserker #453
Berserker
9/8/2010
In any match when I swarm the opposition, preferrably Terran, with ten+ Roaches as early as possible. Burrow, line up behind workers and BAM! Then just head back after the defenders come by. It's even better when they had their supply depots lowered to let by their own units.
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RoidRage #482
RoidRage
9/8/2010
In a 4v4 matches the 30ghost 8 nuke strategy is king. I proceeded to nuke 8 bases including expos at once and then 8nuked there army which they attempted to run away from little did they realize i had nukes coming down all around there army, goodbye over 500supply worth of troops. I then 8nuked the last guys in the games base listening him curse my name. I built 30ghosts so they would waste time killing them off while my other ghosts nuked them.
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OmNomNate #488
OmNomNate
9/7/2010
I was playing a 3v3 and the enemy team was completely dominating. Little did they know was that I had floated a CC over to an island and started pumping BC's. With the added income from my allies I manage to pump out a force strong enough to decimate all 3 of the other players 'armies consisting of Thors, MMs, vikings, carriers, void rays and other various toss/terran units. With only my island base and my ally's suffering expansion we managed to pull a victory out of thin air. BC POWER!
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ExMachina #726
ExMachina
9/7/2010
Making it through "Outbreak" (in 9 days + research) first attempt w/o losing a single prior campaign mission non-stop in my first big game-starting marathon.

The angels were singing to me...
"God gave Starcraft ][ to you... gave Starcraft ][ to you..."
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ArsMoriendi #835
ArsMoriendi
9/7/2010
Or killing 31 Void Rays in a 2v2 with some-odd number of Mutalisks and Marines, and then proceeding to steamroll the Stargate laden base that our opponents had so nicely presented for us.
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ArsMoriendi #835
ArsMoriendi
9/7/2010
Nydus Worm. Kulas Ravine. Last building left. I win. Curse Void Rays. :x
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TiDragon #163
TiDragon
9/7/2010
It was one of my placement matches vs Protoss. They had a big attacking force, but so did I. I saw it coming... and immediately launched my huge force at their unprotected base. As well as one drone, which I had build a hatchery right outside it.

The toss destroy my entire base, but don't know where my last building is; meanwhile I destroy their base. I win with one building left.

He never saw it coming.
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StratosFear #114
StratosFear
9/7/2010
Another game I was playing a 2v2 and I confined both enemy terrans to stay within their base after my ally cleared their mineral lines with a couple of reapers. After taking most of the expansions on the map (some even right next to a terran's main base), I overlord dropped hydralisks into the back of one of the terrans' main bases along with a queen (which I didn't realize was still in one of them) with mutalisks for support. I decided to have a little fun and ended up creep tumoring his base as he lifted off his buildings. After his ally came to save what was left of his base (basically nothing more than the buildings blocking the ramp at this point), I retreated. With all but 2 non-natural expansions under my control, I spent the rest of the game swarming my opponents with wave upon wave of 100+ banelings every 2-3 minutes. Their 50-75 marine armies didn't last long, and they even resorted to using a planetary fortress to block their remaining base. I barely even noticed it as I plowed right through. I just laughed because by the time their marines could actually attack me, they were already doomed as the building only managed to stop them from attacking me while I killed it off in a second.
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StratosFear #114
StratosFear
9/7/2010
A protoss tried to cannon rush me but ended up walling himself out of my base with his pylons powering the cannons. Since I already had a scout outside of my base, I simply expanded someplace else while getting ready to baneling bust the cannons at the bottom of my ramp. After taking care of several waves of zealots and stalkers, I wiped out his mineral lines as well as all of his pylons with a few mutalisks twice before sending in a horde of ultralisks to finish him off. Let's just say his pylon-less cannons didn't help much, as did his warp gates.
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Darktek #131
Darktek
9/7/2010
And another win that was epic was me getting cannon rushed. I lift and run to the next base over. XD come back and win again ( Please stop cannon rushing IT FAILS Platnium +)
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Darktek #131
Darktek
9/7/2010
And another win that was epic was me getting cannon rushed. I lift and run to the next base over. XD come back and win again ( Please stop cannon rushing IT FAILS Platnium +)
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Darktek #131
Darktek
9/7/2010
Blistering sands if i recall. Terran Vrs protoss. Scince this is a map that requires no scouting. He puts his first probe in a ducked off spot in my base and makes his gateways. I scout him and immediatly notice he has nothing (My thoughts are hes cannoning or something). In my base i find the whole 4 gateway base with zealots massing. I only have a few marines so i do the only thing i can and Make my bunker. This is only enough to slow down my death and i notice he will make the push eventually. I then realise my scout is still out there. I give the mofo a dose of his own medicine and make a bunker and barracks and destroy his probes then his main with just 3 marines. Then watched as he spent the remainder of his resources on Zealots to get mowed down by gauss rifles. GG no Re.
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Tora #721
Tora
9/7/2010
It was a 3v3 with me being terran and two protoss vs. triple terrans. I scanned all three of their bases to see that they were massing nothing but marines. I proceeded to mass produce helions fully upgraded while my toss friends went collosi, high templar and stalkers. The biggest army I have ever seen of marines came knocking on our front door (shared choke into our mains) and we met them with all that we had. It was the most satisfying moment so far to see that many marines barbecued in a torrent of hellion fire, lasers and psionic storms! After that we pretty much waltzed into their base, had to roast some more marines and was given the gg. Fried marines served best with epic win!
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Waffles #610
Waffles
9/7/2010
I simply sent a ghost in at an enemy base. When i got close enough too see what he had, i found a few supply depots and a bunker (which shot me away and let my ghost down to only 4!! health). I then used a nuke on this base entrance to open it up for my ally who was coming in with a small army of high end protoss troops. When the nuke fell, i expected to see the destruction of supply depots, but to my amazement, the ENTIRE enemy's army was behind it. Needless to say, the entire army worth anywhere from 80-100 supply was OBLITERATED!
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DocBoris #999
DocBoris
9/7/2010
My finest game in recent memory was a 1v1 PvT. He did the typical Terran flowchart play of massing up marauders with a few marines mixed in. First I went fast colo and killed one push, then templar before he could come back with another MMM ball and vikings. He emplaced turrets, tanks, and improved bunkers everywhere in his base and natural so that even with a huge ground army I couldn't push in. After expanding several times and denying his expansion and counter attempts thanks to superior map control and micro he suddenly figures he should gripe at ME about turtling, calls 'Toss hax, etc. Long story short he managed to take a third expand but it cost him the game as I got a little drop of my own in from behind his main. He flies his buildings to the map corners, openly tells me he's just going to sit AFK while I have to get air to hunt them down and doesn't gg at the end.

Beating a flowcharting turtling rage-filled Terran player is priceless and it always makes my day when I can do it with either 'Toss or Zerg
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CamelHumper #521
CamelHumper
9/7/2010
when i *%!% and blood doesnt come out is an epic win
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SunAlver #871
SunAlver
9/7/2010
Mine would be one of my first games on Sc2 after placements. It was a 1v1 TvZ and I messed up a placement on my wall and the other player 6 pooled and rushed me. While I sent my Command center to an isle on the map, I lead my SCVs to the other side of the map where is zerglings went after the SCVs. Literally for the next 5 minutes, I microed my SCVs at the opposite side of the map, tieing up all his zerglings while I rebuild on the island and built marines from the barracks I kept on the mainland. Eventually he got the SCVs and he started looking for me, but by that time I more or less rebuild and actually lead the marines into his base and took out a bunch of his drones and all his tech before they died. He finally realized I had fled into the island *some 15 minutes into the game* and started to go air, but by that time I had marines and missiles turrets to fight it off. While he tried to get enough air to kill me, I got 2 medivacs worth of marines and muraders into his base and the Guy started cursing at me so bad before rage quiting
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acidrain #518
acidrain
9/7/2010
2v2 ladder match. My team was Terran vs 2 Zerg. They completely wiped all my units out at the end of the match. I had three battlecruisers, and about 10 marines with 2nd tier upgrades on each. My teammate made 10 fully upgraded Thors and he wiped out about 30 zerglings, 10 mutalisks, and 3 ultralisks. I sent my three battlecruisers to their base and wiped out both opponents bases. We basically starved the Zerg opponents out, but we were down to our last men. The timing to take their bases out were perfect.
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Staltradon #291
Staltradon
9/7/2010
I was playing a 3v3 and we had one of every race i was terran. 4 min into the game i was destroyed by a mass marine/marauder rush but i was able to salvage 4 cloaked banshees and a viking. me and my allies pulled off the win with a mass air rush (muta's and warp rays)
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fuzzledMitch #732
fuzzledMitch
9/6/2010
I was doing a 4V4, and I was terran. I got destroyed by mass zealots in minutes, but I lifted off 2 rax' and landed them in an allies base, using my stockpile of resources to see "who wanted a tech lab or reactor built!" In the end, my allies took out the enemies and I got the win too! :P
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PTZ
9/6/2010
I think I just had one today. I was playing random (got zerg) in FFA for the win-as-all-races achievement. Including this one, I played with Zerg about a grand total of 5 times so the epitome of my strategy was to mass as many lings as possible, 1a them, hope for the best.

It was a 4ppl FFA on Kulas Ravine where one of the Protoss went for early (4-5) Voidrays and forced a surrender on the other two opponents who couldn't defend vs them. He then flew over to me and started ripping up my base.

With nothing to lose I just 1a'd all of my lings to 'his base' (actually, I only got to his base after I ended up sending the lings to the two others first since I forgot to scout who was where >_>), managed to break his pylon+gate wall and have the lings (about 60 of them) flood into his base. He had a single voidray there which fought valiantly but didn't really slow down my lings.

This forced him to retreat the voidrays that were attacking me to deal with all my lings. He finally killed my lings when I killed all of his buildings things but 1 pylon. At this point I only had an extractor and an evolution chamber left and the drones which he didn't finish killing before retreating.

He sent 3 of his 6 Rays to finish off my two houses while I 1a'd all my remaining drones to take out his pylon now guarded by three rays.

To end this epic story, my 15-30isj drones took out his pylon (though I lost all but like 5) before his 3 rays took out my two remaining buildings (the chamber was killed and extractoe was at about 60% hp).

Upon watching the replay I was amazed at how I managed to win that and also at how incredibly close he was to winning himself. =o
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PTZ
9/6/2010
@PTZ:

Gah, so many typos. Where's the edit button. Also, having just read someone's post about building a last-second extractor, I just realized that my (noob) games is very similar to that pro game that came to a very similar conclusion of a zealot bace racing a zergling. lol