As you probably know, landing a terran building will destroy all interceptors that happen to be under it.

I wonder why no one ever does that?

For example, if 9 carriers are attacking 6 factories, it is actually possible to fend off the attack just by lifting/landing the factories. In this situation, you will lose about 3 facs but will kill all the interceptors from 9 carriers.

yn01_

Canada149 Posts

June 14 2008 00:53 GMT

Lol so you would rather use building attack then make goliaths or prevent the toss from carriers in the first place? Not to mention decent players will just micro the carriers.

GrandInquisitor

New York City13113 Posts

June 14 2008 00:57 GMT

Dude you missed this theorycraft bandwagon, like, three years ago. This has long been patched.

Way cooler in my mind is the old swarm crushing trick, where landing buildings in dark swarm would make the swarm go away.

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Kyrgyz Republic1462 Posts

June 14 2008 00:58 GMT

Obviously I mean the situation where toss abuses carriers' mobility to attack you main while your army is elsewhere. There is also no way to micro the interceptors, they always attack in the same pattern.

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Kyrgyz Republic1462 Posts

June 14 2008 01:00 GMT

Was it really patched? I didn't test it myself, but a friend of mine told me that it still works. Hmm..

Edit: there is no mention of this in patch.txt, so I believe it was not patched. Maybe it is just banned in the league rules or something?

Theorycrafting it may be, but I thought about that while watching some game (can't remember which one exactly, but it was high enough level) where terran just let the carriers kill all his factories because it was too difficult to move the goliaths back. He could kill at least 50 interceptors by lifting and landing his facs just once. What is the reason not to do that?

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

June 14 2008 01:06 GMT

It's not patched... when was this ever patched?

houseurmusic

United States544 Posts

June 14 2008 01:11 GMT

someone test and post the replay?

Seraphim

United States4467 Posts

June 14 2008 01:23 GMT

I have just tested this and it indeed still works

knyttym

United States5797 Posts

June 14 2008 01:30 GMT

O really its not patched? I could have sworn it was hmm
only time I see this useful is when carriers target yur cc and u hav all of your scvs repairing it

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

June 14 2008 01:33 GMT

#10

Ok i do NOT trust this guy. THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC? FUCK THAT!

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United States228 Posts

June 14 2008 02:42 GMT

#11

If carriers move after attacking, the interceptors are still outside, just right behind them following so closely you can't really see them unless they turn. If you land a building right on the carrier when it is like this, it will kill all its interceptors in one swoop. Imagine if you could attack a protoss and know that they will send their carriers directly back to defend, and on the way land a barracks on them.

This could work, but carriers usually aren't stacked that tightly so I'd guess at best you would kill 3 carriers worth of interceptors. Also it assumes they don't just kill your barracks because they are in such hurry to get back to defend, although programers probably have the multitask to just kill it on the way.

skyglow1

New Zealand3962 Posts

June 14 2008 02:50 GMT

#12

Banned in some leagues/competitions/tournaments but not all of them if I remember correctly.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

June 14 2008 03:04 GMT

#13

I swear to god somebody used it on Ride of Valk vs some protoss, that game was fucking epic, anyone?

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

June 14 2008 03:18 GMT

#14

Boxer used it a lot with CCs and stuff.

XCetron

5226 Posts

June 14 2008 03:23 GMT

#15

why is it banned, thats dumb.

Seraphim

United States4467 Posts

June 14 2008 03:57 GMT

#16

On June 14 2008 12:23 XCetron wrote:
why is it banned, thats dumb.

die, traitor

United States2898 Posts

June 14 2008 04:03 GMT

#17

ya i thought this was patches

and it was banned cuss a building that costs 125 minerals can crush massive amounts of interceptors which costs 25 mins a piece... this isn't war3, it's called TERRAN not NIGHT ELF. In SC, your buildings are not supposed to be able to attack! "outside of canons / turrets etc..."

XCetron

5226 Posts

June 14 2008 04:13 GMT

#18

meh it should be fairgame, imo. Some of these glitches are cool glitches so they should be allowed.

Februarys

Korea (South)259 Posts

June 14 2008 04:20 GMT

#19

On June 14 2008 12:57 Seraphim wrote:

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die, traitor