EPTCan someone explain the mechanics of playing as mech, like expansion timing, and how many facts to have, and so on.
Thanks in advance!
[Q] TvZ Mech guide?
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MoeMoeKyun
United States215 Posts
Can someone explain the mechanics of playing as mech, like expansion timing, and how many facts to have, and so on. Thanks in advance! | ||
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DeathByMonkeys
United States742 Posts
2. Youtube | ||
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mog87
United States1586 Posts
On February 03 2009 08:13 DeathByMonkeys wrote: 1. Replays 2. Youtube wow thanks for a fucking useless post. Great job, hes asking for in depth advice and timings i.e with explanations and rationale for doing things in the build and such. edit: I suppose my post isnt useful either...but geez come on. edit 2: now I think this is an fpvod by oystein where he uses a mech variation on medusa and he explains some things http://files.filefront.com/FPVodwithaudiowmv/;12848608;/fileinfo.html | ||
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KewlBeanZ
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MONSTEr2
United States43 Posts
2 bases 6 facts 3 bases 10+ facts jaedong vs light on medusa is a amazing terran destruction game fanastasy vs ggplay harass is the key to mech with vultures and valks just build up a crazy huge army and 1a2a3a4a ;D | ||
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stack
Canada348 Posts
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zatic
Zurich15352 Posts
On February 03 2009 08:13 DeathByMonkeys wrote: 1. Replays 2. Youtube This is *not* how you post in the Strategy Forum. How is about you make up for that and post a couple of pro TvZ mech replays plus a couple of exemplary Youtube videos? | ||
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
Here's the general build; keep in mind that it's somewhat map-dependant: On October 18 2008 10:13 Day[9] wrote: 1) Wall in and gas on 12 2) Build a factory ASAP 3) When factory finishes, build the addon and begin a starport 4) When the factory addon finishes, begin producing vultures (up to 4) and upgrading mines+speed 5) When you can, get a CC at your expansion and start producing a dropship, get an armory for +1 attack upgrade, and try to sneak vultures in the front. Be sure to lay mines in front of zerg’s main if you can’t get in. 6) Add on a 2nd factory, drop harass w/ vultures + mines, build 1 valkyrie and start goliath-ing, your expo should be done by now. One thing is that you should build the first vulture before the addon; you'll still get mines in time to stop any allin hydras, you'll be much safer from zergling breakins, and you'll be able to force the Zerg to turtle up a bit earlier. | ||
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T.O.P.
Hong Kong4685 Posts
There are many ways of playing mech. Someone gosu should write a guide. SuperJongMan should translate one. | ||
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
On February 03 2009 17:12 T.O.P. wrote: Fantasy's mech variation isn't the only style of mech that people play. Valkyries are never used anymore. Terrans don't get dropships that often. I see mass vulture style and straight up goliaths into goliaths and tank style. There are many ways of playing mech. Someone gosu should write a guide. SuperJongMan should translate one. It might not still be popular, but it's still a solid build, especially on Medusa Here's a nice FPVOD of it | ||
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koreasilver
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repo_mech
Canada15 Posts
Does anyone know of a generic BO opening for TvZ mech (the common style with gols/tanks and I guess vults - not valks or drops or anything like that). I realize this is really dependent on maps (because some can support ling proof walls, others not etc.), what the zerg is doing, and would need to be modified in situations, but I am just looking to have some generic BO to survive early game and get an expansion up that I can practice. I watch the youtube pro-replays and I can't figure out BO's from them because the supply numbers are too blurry and the perspective keeps bouncing all over the place. The more detail the better as I am a really new player who is still learning some basics so often even the obvious needs to be pointed out to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If someone happens to have a replay floating around that would be awesome as well. | ||
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mog87
United States1586 Posts
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
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stack
Canada348 Posts
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Cloud
Sexico5880 Posts
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Masteroderus
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wow really? | ||
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LxRogue
United States1415 Posts
As a zerg player i can say that mech builds are way more effective and annoying if the terran has a good vulture usage. Vultures may not be as effective in big battles, but they are just as effective at killing drones as they are probes, and mine fields can be just as powerful as vs P. Most zergs are good at taking 20 more expos with basic defenses, but are not prepared for a vutlure harass like in TvP. | ||
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repo_mech
Canada15 Posts
On February 19 2009 08:38 Cloud wrote: Youre not gonna get a real response to your very broad questions with the effort you placed so..do your homework first. That's fine. I'm not trying to be lazy (I bothered to search the forums and I spent hours reading those threads before I posted my question, and hours watching youtube replays), I am a sh*tty 50 APM player who only recently started playing the game and I am trying to improve. I don't even know what the "homework" to do is, so even just referring me to something I need to study is appreciated, or telling me how/why I am asking the wrong question - I'll do the work (for example the two posters above gave me suggestions to look at and I am about to go out and research them, see what I learn). There may be reasons there is no "generic BO" right from the start in mech TvZ - but I wouldn't know that, nor how to narrow my question much because I am still learning the basic idea. All I know is that there are generic BO's for siege/expand in TvP - so I thought I would ask about one for TvZ mech (since I read that TvZ mech while not a cake walk by any means is easier on the APM specifically). In general I have had a hard time finding BO's in the strategy forums and tend to stumble across them by accident in threads, and its not due to lack of search/reading effort on my part. Either I am missing something or I am looking in the wrong place. | ||
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Cloud
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