On December 16 2009 09:41 Kyuukyuu wrote:
edit: and if you make ten bcs and yamato correctly on a zerg, BOOM! the hive and the entire air defense network is gone!

Hell yeah, I remember doing that in the campaign.

Falcynn

United States3597 Posts

December 16 2009 01:15 GMT

#25

He gave you and the rest of us some good laughs, and a small sense of nostalgia. I'd say it was a pretty good gift

Tooplark

United States3977 Posts

December 16 2009 01:20 GMT

#26

I love the warning to Zerg players: "Beware the Firebat rush."
And the unit counters section is really weird. Scout counters Muta, Guardian and Queen? Mutas > Science Vessels? The counter to High Templar is Arbiters?

Athos

United States2484 Posts

December 16 2009 01:27 GMT

#27

When I had just bought the game like 6-7 years ago I used to read the Prima strategy guide and I definitely remember some of those statements. Some of them really fucked me up for a long time, like using firebats against protoss players, and that you should keep attacking and never stop, 'because the opponent is always just on the cusp of falling'. That one especially kept me back for a long time.

Sharp-eYe

Canada642 Posts

December 16 2009 01:27 GMT

#28

I got one of those with Battlechest when I first bought SC. I find their general tips to be the most useful, especially "Play at a high energy state. Constantly be scanning everything, check your buildings, your units, minimap." That is the best thing I read there!

TheFallofTroy

Canada780 Posts

December 16 2009 01:46 GMT

#29

lol, I still have that sheet that came with the battle chest. It was a tech tree layout and it showed the siege tank, and right next to it was the goliath, but it was also called the "siege tank" haha. Then it had the dropship two spaces over and it was called an "observer" rofl.

Those strategy guides were really funny and bring back a lot of old memories of the first time playing Starcraft.

Chef

10810 Posts

December 16 2009 01:57 GMT

#30

Know your history, noobs.

DamageControL

United States4222 Posts

December 16 2009 02:10 GMT

#31

On December 16 2009 09:52 bigsack wrote:
That's really sweet and thoughtful of your roommate; wish I had a friend/roommate like that. And the tips are just so funny!

Exactly my thought. Obviously useless, but quite nice of your roommate!

Salv

Canada3083 Posts

December 16 2009 02:13 GMT

#32

Haha, well it's the thought that counts.

nayumi

Australia6499 Posts

December 16 2009 02:50 GMT

#33

On December 16 2009 08:56 Sanku wrote:
Not excatly the best tips; Battlecruisers are terrible in TvP, as Protoss has masses of Dragoons at that stage of the game; EMPing the arbiters would be better. Also scouts are almost never used in PvT unless you're Bisu. Recalling archons would be pretty ineffective you wouldn't be able to squeeze many in there. Zerg needs more gas than Protoss for Ultralisks and Lurkers. These tips were probably made when the game was released and there wasn't much strategy

clearly post of the week ...

minus_human

4784 Posts

December 16 2009 03:46 GMT

#34

On December 16 2009 08:57 JeeJee wrote:
i assume you came to canada from romania, yes?

Maybe he did, but over here we're glad you didn't.

LuckyFool

United States9015 Posts

December 16 2009 03:50 GMT

#35

the strategy guide on battle.net (starcraft) says to go wraiths in TvP because they are useful for harassing probes especially when you research the cloak upgrade for them. ^_^

WindCalibur

Canada938 Posts

December 16 2009 04:35 GMT

#36

Wasnt the prima strategy guide released like 12 years ago? I had one when I bought my battlechest and I think i read it somewhere that it was printed in 1997 or something.