Warcraft II #20

Warcraft II #20
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"SINGLE23, SINGLE24, and SINGLE25"

NOTE 1: SINGLE22 is very dumb so I'll skip it. On 02/02/2015, I did a time attack of Pac-Land (the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 version) and got a final time of 43 minutes and 57 seconds. Exclusive to this version are two-animation-frame intermissions that play at Round 8, 16, and 24. The hardest part was Round 26, by and far. It has a very hard section of ghosts riding airplanes and log jumping - I lost TWO lives on that segment alone! After 32 rounds, you get "Congratulations! X Rest Pacs Exchanged for X00000 points", where X is the number of lives you have left. Then you see (from left to right) the ghosts, the mother fairy, Pac-Man, and Ms. Pac-Man waving at you (I think Baby/Junior Pac-Man was there too, but I'm not sure). Then a tree with Power Pellets appears and it says "The End". You then get a Game Over and can input your name (up to six letters). By the way, the Arcade version has more rounds, but after Round 32 it starts off from Trip 5 on a harder difficulty. There's also a Pro mode that is as hard as Arcade version's Trip 9 and beyond, but I'm not doing that. By the way, my final score was 554,900 points.

NOTE 2: On 02/06/2015, I did a time attack of the "Beginner Course: Medium Rank" of Cameltry, and got a final in-game time of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. It's six levels long, and wasn't that hard despite how tight my time was at certain point. You get a picture of a couple together and it says "Nice play! They lived happily ever after." Then you're prompted to enter your initials and the game ends. My final score was 93,950 points. By the way, I am not allowed to use continues.

NOTE 3: On 02/07/2015, I did a time attack of the "Expert Course: Hard Rank" of Cameltry, and got a final in-game time of 4 minutes and 44 seconds. This time it's eight levels long and is much harder. I completed the final stage of that course with 00.7 seconds left! This is what I get for my reward: a different picture and the text "Nice play! One day, a strange peaceful dream..." My final score was 124,700 points.

NOTE 4: On 1/31/2015, I completed the first 18 levels of "Captain Toad Treasure Tracker". The hardest part was the first boss, a giant bird. It's divided into two phases. In phase one, you must get up a giant tower while he blows wind at you from time to time. I think you're supposed to hit him once or twice with a veggie, but it's hard to do. He doesn't fight back until the second phase, but here he attacks you with giant tulips and wind gusts. The tulips kill you in two hits if they fall on you, but getting gusted off the platform is an instant kill with only four spots to prevent it. You must hit it three times with the giant tulips that take three pulls to uplift (you're given a single red mushroom after the second hit). If you die for any reason, they take you back to Phase 2 of the boss. You keep any gems you have from that point and but lose your coins. If you get Game Over, they put you back on the first phase of the fight again. Have fun beating him with only three lives! When you beat him, the power star and the person you were trying to save lands head-first into the coin pile you fought him on. Then you must pull out the person by pressing A near them five times (yes five!) Now you can get the power star to end Episode 1 after a brief cutscene. By the way, I only died three times throughout the run (two of them were from falling off the map and the last one was from getting hit while in small form at the bird boss). Episode 2 is now open!  (UPDATE on 2/21/2019: The Switch and 3DS received a port of this game.)

Okay so here we have SINGLE23.pud. I'm the Red Orcs, and I have a Teal Ally. I have to face Orange Humans, White Humans, and Yellow Humans. I began with Gul'dan, a Grunt, and a Peon. So I moved my peon to my gold mine and got out a town hall. I start with 1500 gold, 1500 lumber, and 600 oil. "You may think that it's a hard pud, but if You know what to do, it'll be easy for You." I was worried about my 18 game streak here as I got up my Great Hall and Barracks, then began pumping peons. Around three peons trained, I made my Lumber Mill (but first I right clicked on a tree to perform the lumber bug). Orange sent out a Gryphon Rider and I screamed at the guy who was watching this. He laughed at me. So I Death Coiled them and attacked them with Guldan. I began upgrading axes and trained some axemen. It was gonna be another one of THOSE games. Right on cue, Yellow sent out a Gryphon Rider, followed by another one. I kept pumping axemen and throwing down farms. I then decided to get up a Blacksmith then go to Stronghold. I tried to make a Catapult and sent it up-left. I got attacked by three Gryphons so I made an Ogre Mound. Then I realized that to get to Fortress I had to drill 200 oil. So I got berserker training followed by Lighter Axes. That's when I found out Gul'dan was affected by weapon/armor upgrades. SWEET! My catapult came under attack and I decided to leave it be until Orange and Yellow ran out of gold. I then got up a Goblin Alchemist and decided to get up a Zeppelin since I was told I had a teal ally. I flew around Orange's town and saw a TON of guard towers. I found a rescuable grunt and some more towers. Hahaha. As if they would help. Teal was at Fortress and had a lot of Ogres instead of Axemen. As I was leaving his base he built his altar of storms. I got up a sapper and sappered the trees to the oil patch. Then I got up regeneration. I decided now to get up my shipyard. Then the worst thing happened. Teal's peons got STUCK. He was still able to get Temple of the Damned and Death Knights. Then yellow decided to attack my shipyards. The second I had enough oil, I upgraded to Fortress. I left six axemen by my shipyard to protect it. The enemies decide to attack my oil tankers and slay them since they were out of axe range. I was able to get a destroyer up and my Altar of Storms. I got the ogre-mage upgrade followed by Bloodlust, Runes, and a Temple of the Damned. I got Death and Decay, Haste, and started pumping DKs then made a foundry and got my first cannon upgrade. All of a sudden, the Gryphons started coming again. I was trying to destroy Orange's towers with my Juggs but three towers firing at a jugg at once quickly wrecked them.  I forgot about white and decided to get some transports instead. I sent my DKs in, Death and Decayed the towers, then killed him because his defenses were CRAP. My whole plan was to be sneaky with Death Knights. White was next on my hit list. I went to his island with my DK and Death and Decayed everything. Then he was gone. I freed Teal and all his men. We went to my base. They started to walk around and bloodlust themselves. By the way, you can "turn off" an AI Ally by going near their Fortress. That's what I did. My army doubled in size. But it wouldn't matter because my DKs were the only unit I needed. Until I found that yellow was surrounded by Trees. Time to get some sappers. After getting four, I blew up the trees. I ran my DKs in there and death and decayed everything except one Gryphon Aviary. With just Death and Decay and my DK's attacks, I killed three whole enemies. I then counted my men. I had 20 DKs, 8 Grunts, 23 Axemen, 14 Ogre-Mages, and about 2 Catapults. I went through standard "chop down all the damn trees and mine all the mines" because I had nothing to do. Then when they were all gone I had my peons finish off the final building and hit V for Victory. Hahahaha. I win. I had 268 units, 94 buildings, 1,804,970 gold mined, 553,375 lumber chopped, 62,200 oil drilled, 153 kills, and 86 razings. Me and my ally lost a combined 280 units and 2 buildings. I move up to 38-4 (19 game streak).

SINGLE24 comes up next. I'm the black orcs, and I have to face Purple, Teal, and Orange. The starting conditions for me were 2000 gold, 1000 lumber, and 1000 oil. I began with 8 peons and Zul'jin. The guy told me that losing him would result in failing the pud. So after rolling some things, I quickly got up a Barracks and a Lumber Mill, then began pumping axemen and got the first axe upgrade since I feared an aerial attack. I began chopping downwards and upgraded to Stronghold as soon as I could. I chopped my way to Blue's rescuable towers, so I took a peon and saved them. I got up an Ogre Mound, a Blacksmith, and a Goblin Alchemist. "They're destroying our city!" Sure enough, Teal sent some Gryphon Riders over my town but got stopped by the towers I saved. Then I was having resource troubles. This was one of the things that usually tells me why I lose. I got up a Zeppelin and began to scout with it. I could already tell I needed a Catapult to get rid of the tower, but I decided to save it for when I upgrade to Fortress. My first mine blew up, and I began getting the mine to the right. I got up the Altar of Storms and Temple of the Damned after my Fortress completed. The whole time I was pumping Ogres. Orange then showed up with some Level 4 Knights/Footmen, and Level 3 Archers. I saw Orange build a FARM next to his men. The SECOND the Ogre-Mage upgrade was done, I researched Bloodlust and got up my first Death Knight and researched Death and Decay then haste. I kept checking up on Orange's Knights to make sure he wasn't getting Paladins. He did, meaning my DKs were about to be excorismed. I then got the second axe upgrade and berserker training. Then I saw Orange had a mage and two Ballistas. One of them took out TWO of my towers and I didn't have a Catapult of my own. Then a mage Blizzarded another tower. Now I decided to save Blue's Fortress. This was because I saw they had more mines then me and there was one mine to the south. I ran into the unit limit due to all my towers. Then I couldn't stop Orange's mages from destroying my southern towers. I decided NOW to sapper into orange. But then purple sent out all of his men. They didn't have any Paladins so they were easy to take down with all my Bloodlusted men. This was when I noticed Zul'jin was throwing storm hammers instead of the usual axe. After killing them all, I charged in and destroyed everything there. My Death Knights and Goblin Sappers were now the stars of the show after I killed Orange. I pretty much had it at this point unless I fell asleep in front of the keyboard. I had 9 Axemen including Zul'jin, 12 Ogre-Mages, and 18 Death Knights. I slowly but surely moved through the town, destroying towers, buildings, and peasants alike. I got them down to one Gryphon Avairy then surrounded it with some peons. After mining out ALL the gold and chopping ALL the trees, I destroyed it and hit V for victory. The stats were cool. I had 178 units, 89 buildings, 1,092,610 gold mined, 573,375 lumber chopped, 278 kills, and 107 razings. I lost 22 units and 12 buildings. My score was 52,435 and I had the "Commander" rank. That's more like it! I move up to 38-4 (20 game streak).

We move on to Single25.pud for our third and final pud of this log. I'm the Red humans, and my opponents are Blue, Teal, and Purple, all Orc. It was fun being Orcs, but now it's time to go back to the humans. We start with 2000 gold, 1200 lumber, and 1000 oil. Two were planning on going Grunts and Axemen. The third was planning on going to Bloodlust. I quickly trained a peasant, and sent one to Lumber and two to gold. I had two starting farms, and figured that I would go Footmen myself. I got up a Blacksmith and Lumber Mill too. Of course I pulled off the lumber bug by right clicking the trees and getting my mill up followed by the first weapon and arrow upgrade. I got upgraded to Keep and the first shield upgrade as well as the second arrow upgrade. The second my keep was done I got up a Stables. Still no attackers yet. Blue threw five Level 1 Grunts at me. CRAP! I lost a footman to them but it didn't matter. I got up my first Knight. Then I got my final sword upgrade and went to Castle at 3 Knights, 2 Footmen, and 2 archers (soon to be Rangers). Suddenly all three opponents attacked me at the same time. NONE of them were upgraded. NONE. So I killed all of them but took medium losses. Teal sent some Ogres into my town (now at Level 3). I got up a Mage Tower, trained a mage, researched Blizzard, and saw a Goblin Zeppelin flying over my town. I then researched slow and got up a Church. Both Purple and Teal attacked me at the same time but I was able to fight them off with four Slows used. The church was done, so I got up my Paladin upgrade and healing. Teal attacked me AGAIN and I fought them off with slow. I was told by the guy to Holy Vision the four corners. When the camera moved over to Teal's base, I saw he had Death Knights. This told me to get Exorcism. I saw Teal send over another Ogre to me. I clicked on it... crap, Teal is at OGRE-MAGES! So I got Longbow and Marksmanship for my Rangers. He then got two Death Knights to Death and Decay my Mage Tower. I had to rebuild it. My mine blew up, and things were looking really bad. There were only three expansions left and they all fell in enemy hands. I couldn't get to them because if I attacked I would leave myself open. I decided to send my mages around to Blizzard the expansions. I only got one with 50,900 gold in it. I decided I would need a Gnomish Inventor to even stand a chance against my opponents. Suddenly Teal's funds ran low and he stopped producing men. Teal and Blue tried to mine from the same mine and I quickly got my men there. I researched Polymorph, and things got better and better. Me and Blue somehow mined from the lower right mine and I didn't notice. I decided to kill Teal first. However, I lost a lot of mages. I was still able to kill Teal, which is what I wanted. I guarded the final gold mine on the map with all my Paladins and Footmen. After playing peasant slaughter for awhile, Blue sent a massive army of... Grunts, Berserkers, and Catapults. I was able to kill all of them with little losses. I kept doing this until blue and purple ran out of gold. Then it was Operation Clean-Up Time. After playing hit and run with Blue's final men, I killed all his buildings with my Blizzards. After he was dead, I began pumping out Mages NON-STOP from my Mage Tower. Then after getting a sizable about (about 60+) I blizzarded purple's whole town, leaving a single farm behind on fire. Then Operation Lumberchopping began. It started at 8:30 PM, and after I took a break to go to bed, it ended at 6:55 AM the next day. There was THAT many trees on the map. After that, I destroyed the last building and hit V for victory. I had 211 units, 51 buildings, 251,210 gold, 623,875 lumber, 782 kills (the highest kill count so far I think), and 95 razings. I lost 36 units and one building. I forgot what my score is but I think I got the Lieutenant Rank despite all those kills - boo! I move up to 39-4 (21 game streak).

TO BE CONTINUED...

Get used to me playing as the humans, for there will be a lot of them later on in this season...