Every NaDa fan knows that NaDa plays somewhat conservative in the beginning with harass while builds up to overrun the enemy.
After watching both the Mania vs sea.s2 replay and watching the boxer vs nada sky proleague vod i think the pro gamers have found a way to counter nada.
contain him and he will choke.
any thoughts?
reach did a gutsy thing on nada at blizzcon proxying INSIDE his base but unseen
he got damaged bad early by the drops so he couldnt do much against the contain for a while. its one online game vs someone who i dont think is even semi pro under extenuating circumstances. containing nada is much easier said than done.
Tornado terran is a TvP only build. Basically, expand, turtle, build a bunch of facts, move out when you have alot of units. It usually means sieging all your tanks at once instead of slowly moving tanks forward too, as this is much faster and lets you put the pressure on toss immediately. So, neither Mania v Nada or Boxer v Nada has any relevance to Tornado Terran play.
Ok, whew, I thought I would have to respond to this post.
I just watched the Mania vs Nada, incredible defiler control AND science vessel control, really was amazing everytime Nada tried to engage the darkswarms went down, and then when he ran a plague smacked his ass.
Plus, I'm going to use Nydus canals a lot more in the future, there is only so much Sunkens can do once the Terran has 3/3 rines.
On January 03 2006 18:24 inkblot wrote: Tornado terran is a TvP only build. Basically, expand, turtle, build a bunch of facts, move out when you have alot of units. It usually means sieging all your tanks at once instead of slowly moving tanks forward too, as this is much faster and lets you put the pressure on toss immediately. So, neither Mania v Nada or Boxer v Nada has any relevance to Tornado Terran play.
nada ORIGINALLY got the nick tornado terran for building a lot of tanks in tvz with fast siege/unsiege advancing, only later did it become a synonym for a tvp style
I remember the Nada vrs OOv series a year ago where OOv beat NaDa badly. It was worth 5 liquibet points and a lot of people were unhappy. Each game was pretty much the same; Oov contained NaDa with a large blockade. Nada was forced to go mass drops but did little or no damage and was constantly attacked by OOv's small wraith armies.
Uh, won't most people technically "choke" when they are contained? That gives the person who is containing a huge advantage in the game, and that puts his/her opponent in a big predicament that is pretty hard to get out if the person containing is very good at it. Even if a person did break a good containment, the opponent would probably have much of the map, obviously giving the person a big advantage. If you compare two newcomers in SC, and one contains, the person contained will do something to get out of it, such as drops or massing units until maxed (battlecruisers, carriers, etc.). So, even if he did break his containment, his opponent will probably have more units to kill his/her opponent, even if his/her containment was broken.
Point is, I even "choke" at containments anyway. I try to get a fast hive, so I can tech to defiler faster. For me, dark swarm and plague help so much in breaking ZvT containments. They say it's some cheap shit I do, but who cares, if I win by four pool or massing guardians, a win is still a win.
NaDa was contained in the top left by Boxer all game. Boxer had such a bead on Nada's ships that he might as well have played with vis on. It was a rediculous display of BW prowess. NaDa has one last chance to break out of this containment and tries to doom drop Boxer's main. First he needs something to distract the anti air for his ships.
Sooo... Step 1: Use your minerals.
Step 2: FLY BABY FLY
Step 3: Sneak under the radar!
Step 4: Dont forget to scan behind the defensive line to see what awaits you... o... too late.
That is the Nada EBAY float that was truely spectacular in its failure, and made Boxer look all godlike. To be fair, Boxer scanned the ebays just after they lifted, so he has ample time to prepare.
as an enormous and long standing fan of nada's 200/200 3-3 tornado technique, I find this to be an interesting thread.
I think the clumping and splash attack nature of it makes it invincible. The surface area, if you will, allows only so many protoss units to actually attack at once. The rest are essensially just waiting in line. Therefore, even if theoretically the protoss could get 400 units instead of 200 they could never break the 3-3 200/200 tornado.
The harassment isn't even nessesary. It's just to keep the protoss on its toes so it can't build 13752735723 gateways. More expos just means more units pumping out faster. The 200/200 3-3 tornado simply renders this no longer advantageous to the protoss. Ground units simply can't beat it.
I remember downloading a skyinthesea TvP tornado replay pack like 2 years ago. All the games were on temple. The only person who could even touch NaDa's tornado technique was breeze[akuta] by using 4 shuttles to drop zealot bombs and loads of units into his main to slow him down. Although now his technique is much more fine tuned and unsusceptable to interference.
So if I contain Nada i can win? ^_^a no... I think person above explained it 3-3 terran metal is incredibly difficult or impossible to break. I seriously want to see that Boxer vs. Nada game on R-point now
You think simply containing somebody with pro status will make them 'choke'?
First of all I think you're seriously under estimating tank range. If a terran wants to get 2 dropships and a few vultures out of his base 3 minutes after his expansion he will.
Secondly how could you possibly assume he has never been faced with the situation of being contained before? If that's all it took to beat NaDa he'd be hard pressed to break C- on pgtour.
That is the Nada ebay float that was truely spectacular in its failure, and made Boxer look all godlike. To be fair, Boxer scanned the ebays just after they lifted, so he has ample time to prepare.
You people do know that turrets have priority for attacking dropships?-.-
That is the Nada ebay float that was truely spectacular in its failure, and made Boxer look all godlike. To be fair, Boxer scanned the ebays just after they lifted, so he has ample time to prepare.
You people do know that turrets have priority for attacking dropships?-.-
I wouldn´t be too sure about that when I used ebays to cover my dropships some time ago it worked quite nicely... Doesn´t matter if turrets have priority or not (I think they haven´t)
you need to manually target a dropship with turrets or it will fire at the first thing it can fire at until it can kill the thing it first started firing at. using engbays or barracks to draw turret fire is pretty common and EXTREMELY effective unless he has his turrets hotkeyed and ready.
really it's often a necessity against turtling terrans.
On January 03 2006 20:57 jkillashark wrote: oops i meant he starts to play frantic not choke hehe
the 7 ebays were damn frantic i think
On January 03 2006 23:49 SpeaKinRiddleS wrote: oh yea I forgot to make fun of you.
You think simply containing somebody with pro status will make them 'choke'?
First of all I think you're seriously under estimating tank range. If a terran wants to get 2 dropships and a few vultures out of his base 3 minutes after his expansion he will.
Secondly how could you possibly assume he has never been faced with the situation of being contained before? If that's all it took to beat NaDa he'd be hard pressed to break C- on pgtour.
i already said i didn't mean choke, i meant he can get frantic because progamers are starting to prey on his early conservativness by containing him and recently he has not been boding well in being contained. eg games against oov, mania, and recently just boxer. i was merely stating a pattern and not blasting his progamer status. if it hurts your feelings i'm sorry i made you cry.
first: he did get them out, if you watched the game, he gets out a large groups of tanks and gols.
second: yes he's probably faced it before but the degree of progamer containing him was pretty darn good (boxer, chae yunsung). even against mania he couldn't break out of the containment very well. he exhausted his resources and his army died of starvation. his desperate ebay move was because he knew he was going to economically die if he didn't break out of the darn containment (which he couldn't) or go directly for the heart of boxer (which he failed)
just like julyzerg's style was analyzed and getting countered with defensive play
lame i've always loved nada and i think boxers a cheap ass XDDDd ah oh well. hm btw boxer's not called chae yunsung? or were you referring to iloveoov..
erm containing the opponent is usually the way to win tvt against any player not just nada lol.. so when he loses it's pretty natural for him to lose the most common way to lose tvt. that's like saying a zerg is weak against fast expand terran cause he lost against it a couple of times, or that a particular protoss is weak pvz against ultraling or something..
He didn't lose vs mania because of containment anyway, the only reason mania won was because his early drops had so much success. Without that early advantage mania would've had no hope of winning.
NaDa needs a style revamp. He plays with the same passive style every game. Modern day macro whores take risks to grow bigger (think Oov, Pusan, etc). NaDa still plays it safe and it's a miracle that he can keep up as well as he does. He needs to learn to be less predictable, able to macro whore, play his usual or get aggressive at a whim.
On January 04 2006 09:57 Mortality wrote: NaDa needs a style revamp. He plays with the same passive style every game. Modern day macro whores take risks to grow bigger (think Oov, Pusan, etc). NaDa still plays it safe and it's a miracle that he can keep up as well as he does. He needs to learn to be less predictable, able to macro whore, play his usual or get aggressive at a whim.
i totally agree. when july's style was analyzed he changed it up against iris. i think nada needs to change it up and not just play pockets and premiums such as minimum aq
On January 03 2006 21:54 Manifesto7 wrote: NaDa was contained in the top left by Boxer all game. Boxer had such a bead on Nada's ships that he might as well have played with vis on. It was a rediculous display of BW prowess. NaDa has one last chance to break out of this containment and tries to doom drop Boxer's main. First he needs something to distract the anti air for his ships.
Sooo... Step 1: Use your minerals.
Step 2: FLY BABY FLY
Step 3: Sneak under the radar!
Step 4: Dont forget to scan behind the defensive line to see what awaits you... o... too late.
That is the Nada EBAY float that was truely spectacular in its failure, and made Boxer look all godlike. To be fair, Boxer scanned the ebays just after they lifted, so he has ample time to prepare.