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Terminator vs. Polt Engagement

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eFko Slovakia7 Posts October 17 2012 11:45 GMT #1 Hi there, this is my first post. I really liked the engagement that Polt had against Terminator in GSL, so I made a crude diagram of it as an endorsement...:-) Cheers guys! eFko

Capped United Kingdom7236 Posts October 17 2012 11:53 GMT #2 Expected arnie. I am disappointed.

Grend 1600 Posts October 17 2012 12:07 GMT #3 I want more stuff in this post! more pictures, some graphs and some text!

bgx Poland6595 Posts October 17 2012 12:11 GMT #4 He will be back!

eFko Slovakia7 Posts October 17 2012 12:44 GMT #5 Sorry i know it's crude...I don't remember exact stats of units at that particular moment...The basic idea of that manuever was, that Polt lured Terminator's army to form a noodle with slow moving high templars, archons and immortals lagging in the back, while separating his ghosts from his army and EMPing the hell of all energy based units...At that moment he just turned around his army and stimmed in which caused Terminator to flee in panic since his templars had no energy for storms...Beautiful...:-)

Daswollvieh 5553 Posts October 17 2012 13:34 GMT #6 Should´ve gotten in the chopper.

Desertfaux Netherlands276 Posts October 17 2012 14:15 GMT #7 no arnold, 1/5. Polt back in business <3

meteorskunk Canada546 Posts October 17 2012 15:07 GMT #8 That's great work. You said enough with the diagram. You even put Polt's base's location on there! I didn't watch the GSL but I'll write what I got from it. Polt begins with his infantry/medivac/ghost army below and to the left of, or south east of, the Protoss. He uses the shift command to move the army in a boomerang-shaped path up towards, and then left away, from the protoss army. He swoops in, just infront of the army, and then retreats. He intends for the protoss to try to engage because the attack appears over-aggressive, meaning pregnant with good storm opportunities. The protoss "bites" like a fish on the bait, hoping to abuse the infantry's over aggression with storm. Polt has other plans. With the Protoss ball chasing his infantry, Polt can engage on his terms. He optimizes the infantry by retreating, then splitting, and then stimming This however is not attack's power point. During all this, the crux of the attacks, the ghosts have taken a strategically planned alternate route. They take an alternate path that works in conjunction with the infantry. Incognito, thanks to cloaking, the ghosts travel left and then up as the infantry goes up to lure the protoss right. Polt hopes to catch undefended high templars with the ghosts. He knows the high templars, the strength of the protoss army, will be lagging behind the main army because of their slow movements speed. Undefended by the main army high templar are helpless from the ghosts. the ghosts go to work with EMP on the high templars, draining their energy with EMP and shooting them with high powered rifles. The engagement favours Polt very much. TL DR separates the high templar from the main army which allows his also separated ghosts to own the high templars that are too slow to keep with the protoss army that they require for defence from the ghosts. 5/5. keep doing these!!1

rvng Canada30 Posts October 19 2012 22:27 GMT #9 Nice post -- I always assume that I have to EMP first before stimming and engaging and that usually ends badly as my ghosts try to get in range and end up getting charged by Zealots. Good idea to use them as cleanup and use my main infantry as bait. Thanks to meteorskunk also for your description

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