EPTOpticalFlare in TvP - Page 3
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nite2
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Vin{MBL}
5185 Posts
On October 29 2006 23:19 GrandInquisitor wrote: What? You guys are all wrong. It was a desperation move by boxer (which worked) but he lost the game anyway. And it's different cause cloaked wraiths raped so many carriers really quickly. Blinding obs in normal TvP....saves your mines? agreed, the gas used is better spent on tanks | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
T goes normal bio but with optic flare as first academy uppgrade. P goes DT. I am Z, my ally is P. You can guess the rest... I first thought it was some bug when I heard the "tzzinn" of the DTs at my sunken with my OL just next to it... We are newbs, and the other guys were probably better than us, but I cant really see why it wouldn't be viable at higher level. I mean, it is not like you can micro your slow OL a lot. Of course, the gosus never seems to play 2v2... Or do they? | ||
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merz
Sweden2760 Posts
SaFT went early 2 stargate carriers, looked like he had the game won. Boxer charges in with optical flare on observes and then just takes carriers down with ghost / wraith / goliath combo. SICK. Old old old game, but still pure art. | ||
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nite2
182 Posts
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GuYuTe-
United States550 Posts
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siro)
Australia848 Posts
but its mostly useless vs anyone good =( | ||
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nite2
182 Posts
I lost the game(coz i didn bring a fresh medic from my nat), but i believe u can see how powerful this can be if used in the right situation. I was able to contain half of his army and then kill the other half... Unfortunately i forgot to send new medic so he was able to break thru and flank me. PS u must view this rep using BWLauncher, otherwise it seems like its corrupt. | ||
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mcmascote
Brazil1575 Posts
On October 29 2006 23:03 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: This sounds really good in theory. However, in reality you forget that a good toss will clear standing (unprotected) mine fields extremely quickly. If you do manage to set it up a good toss will only move his obs in range while having goons nearby. This makes micro actually difficult. Imagine being able to notice an ob moving in range of mines (the hardest part) scanning and then targeting before the mines are clear/the medic killed. Specially if the P has obs speed which most good p users get mid game for mobility. Further if you are planning to blind obs that go close to your push (army); then it becomes far more wise to simply spend for 4-5 marines(which you will probably have anyways) and kill the obs flat out. So ya its cute and could get you some style points but to actually spend time and a little focus on preparing this is a waste of time  simple as that. But if ur goal is to get FUN, you should try everything you want, you wont be the next oov anyway.. always play 4 fun! | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
When I did this I usually opened 2 fac vult + medic tho, and expoed if I couldn't do any damage. Man, I had another gosu strat.. 1 fac cc, sneak out 4-5 scvs, make barracks with all of them while 2 fac tanking from main :D Oh man, that was art. Hm, and marine medic tank rushing (I had art timing) on Dahlia.. Then I had been preparing this marine medic tank into proxy starport for dropping units down at his nat on dahlia (unfortunately it sucked balls vs reaver/dt ).Man, terran is such a cool race, protoss doesn't have as many artsy tactics honestly :[ On October 29 2006 20:40 Cloud wrote: I used flare once to nuke a toss, was a cool game to play, nuked the toss like 8 times and then ran out of gas ;p. Stupid rush hour and its 2500 gas expos. t.t Funny thing is, had i done any other thing than that, like playing normal or w/e, i would have prolly got owned much sooner, i just suck that bad at tvp and he wasnt so bad :p I had a very nice TvP vs maleorderbride, like 40 minutes of nuke attempts + blinds and lockdowns and drops xD Ahh, this reminds me of a very old strat I used to like on Lost Temple 2 T vs 9 P, I opened gundam, but it was very loose and instead lead to a 'fast' expo if it didn't succeed, then I would drop his cliff (since it's so big and covers 2 nexii) while adding a second starport and another factory or two, then I would make BC/Tank :D Oh and my ZvP was legendary.. Tonnes of queens flying around, defiler rushes were frequent, and lots and lots and lots of gayness (I couldn't win ZvP games without guardians naturally my biggest fear was corsair/dt). | ||
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Purind
Canada3562 Posts
Haha, does this even exist? | ||
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LastWish
2013 Posts
Observer cost : 25/75 Games winning with gay strats vs noobs : Priceless Umm FA I think toss have a lot of art strats - goon+web, stove, arbiter+reaver, hallucinations... | ||
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nite2
182 Posts
matter fact, if nada does it in a single match, ppl will embrace this... just watch my replay in EDIT3 and u'll see what i mean. its equivalent to stasis field if toss' army is divided. | ||
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tae
United States101 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On October 30 2006 08:37 LastWish wrote: Medic cost : 50/25 Observer cost : 25/75 Games winning with gay strats vs noobs : Priceless Umm FA I think toss have a lot of art strats - goon+web, stove, arbiter+reaver, hallucinations... But they are not as cute :[ Toss really doesn't have 2 completely separate tech trees (ie mech / bio-mech). Although I remember when gorky park was being used I experimented with sair reaver vs terran LOL :D | ||
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dropthesky
Canada285 Posts
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nite2
182 Posts
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Lisk
Latvia376 Posts
blinding obs > killing it, because it wastes psi and distracts having to kill it. | ||
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LG)Sabbath
Argentina3024 Posts
if you blind, protoss has to search all his obs for a working one (if enough ones are blind this can be very time-consuming) and protoss might not notice his obs is blind and send units thinking theres no mines, possibly losing many units | ||
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nite2
182 Posts
On October 30 2006 13:14 Sabbath wrote: and protoss might not notice his obs is blind and send units thinking theres no mines, possibly losing many units has happened in the reps i posted in the first post  | ||
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