Why the Terran problems are not an imbalance issue - Page 10

Repairing. Scvs, the workhorses of T can repair structures and mechanical units. Multiple scvs at once can repair the same target. Viability/usefulness in combat: Very high SCVs repair automaticly everything what they can, also can be targeted to repair what you think is the most important. They dont run out of energy, as they only need a bit of resource to do the repairing. Problem: Absolutely yes, definetly, for sure. Why?
1. First, are the Terran mech units that weak in combat to need a bonus like this? I leave it up to you to decide, next:
2. SCVs do not run out of energy.
3. SCVs are not expoused to attacks. In fact while repairing Thors they might be overshadowed thus fully protected by Thors. Also units do not attack automacticly the scvs, as their priority will be always the Thor. A thor surrounded with scvs is immune to lings, as they will run around him. If you target fire the scvs 1 by 1 you waste a lot of shots and time. Let's see you have 10 roaches selected if you right click 1 scv, some of the roaches wont reach it, some will waste their shot, as it only takes 4 to kill ans scv. You canot possibly expect a Zerg that during a battle he selects his roaches 4 by 4 and right clicks the scvs which are barely visible, while the T sits with his hands on his keyboard and mouse and watches how his healed units rape everything.
4. SCVs can also reapir each other, or be helaed by medavacs while repairing.
5. SCVs are not fighting units. They are workorses as probes or drones. Do you see Probes or Drones pulled to attack? Well i saw once on Scrap Station when the P already lost made a last attack, complete failure btw. Never seen drones attacking. Ok, some sort of early cheese yes, probes and drones can be pulled when you 9 pool or 2 gate proxy or w/e, nothing game braking. Do you see SCVs pulled to attack? YES. Have you lost to that? I surely do every day. Let it be either a pre-meditated cheesy allin from 1 base, or a desperation move from the T to try to end the game when he s falling imminently behind. It works like a charm. To give you an example i recommend Morrow's last game vs Idra, hellion, marauder, scv allin. The zerg has lings and crawlers. The marauders deal with the static D, however the hellions wont kill enough lings without preigniter, but there are the scvs screwing up the pathing and repairing the hellions, making Morrow a richer Swede. (Props to him, btw, i think he's an excelent player, i really do). Or to stick with the IEM, there was a game, not broadcasted on the big stage, where Dimaga was beating a terran which almost came back, a Thor with scvs annihilted a smaller army on his own. The T lost, as Dimaga outplayed him and had a big advantage already. there are many allins, tank-marine-scv, marauder-thor-scv, i even saw medavac brought, a 60 APM newbie beat me twice with an allin like that, but i guess very good players can react properly and fend that off, however i'm not sure, and we still have the issue, that once T feels he's losing he can pull his workers and make his army a lot stronger. Neither of the races can do this, or anything similar.
6. Repair makes cliff abuse even more broken. We see how Zergs thumb down LT against T or just go for an allin every time. The cliff at the natural is killer. If u can get enough mutas out, to take down a thor, preferebly demaged by a crawler or queens maybe. Now the T can just easily hop up some scvs with his medavac OR call down a mule or 2.
I really could go into details till midnight how strategies with repair-abuse work, but i m sure most of you have done/experienced those.
How to counter this? As i said, scvs are hard to kill Splash would work, although if you have a bling army you send those in with lings roaches w/e, they will surely take out most of the scvs, however even if 3-4 remain they do a hell of a job, and the T can just call down mules. I guess storm works better.