Terran - Lacking spells? - Page 4

On May 19 2011 23:53 Techno wrote:

Ya mean EMP?

On May 19 2011 23:37 phil.ipp wrote:
stimpack and emp are the micro spells, all the other spells are not that time sensitive like storm, feedback, forcefield, blink

the most time on ladder its like

feedback raven or some medivacs, cast guardian shield, cast good forcefields, cast good storms, blink into better position, micro your collosie

and for terran its like press T and A (attack), then click, s(stop), click, s, click, s
and most of the time he doesnt even need EMP, cause the protoss fucks up on some of his 1 million tasks he has to do at the start of the battle

On May 19 2011 23:53 lurked wrote:


Hmm... EMP? Siege tanks? Heat Seeking Missile? Nuke? Lacking area spells compared to the other races? Yeah, I think I see your point here.... or not...?

On May 19 2011 23:57 Olsson wrote:
When you mean spells you mean like abilities. Well I believe Thorzain did an amazing display of like 18 marauders with 3 medivacs against about 22 stalkers, 7 zealots, 2 colussus and they won with minor micro just by activating Stimpack.

Also Thor 250mm strike cannons are nerfed now but seriously if used they do a ton of damage. If you get one out early and baby sit that long enough to get the shot of you can do so much damage on the opponents army. It does like 10 times more damage than a fungal.

Besides Terrans have the Repair and Medivac heal ability which no other race has, and it does a ton of difference.

On May 19 2011 23:57 Olsson wrote:


Also Thor 250mm strike cannons are nerfed now but seriously if used they do a ton of damage. If you get one out early and baby sit that long enough to get the shot of you can do so much damage on the opponents army. It does like 10 times more damage than a fungal.

On May 19 2011 23:56 lurked wrote:


Nope, I mean EMP, Stim pack, Siege tanks, PDD, Heat Seeking Turrets, Cloak for both banshees and ghosts, Healing from medivac, Snipe, Nuke, Scan, Mule, Supply drop, Yamato gun, 250mm stike cannon...

Want me to name other terran's spells?

On May 19 2011 23:34 tofucake wrote:
Protoss - storm and forcefield
Zerg - burrow, fungal growth, neural parasite, contaminate
Terran - stim, EMP, nuke, 250mm strike cannons, siege mode, PDD, auto turret, cloak, cloak

I think Roffles is lost and confused.

On May 19 2011 23:56 Dezire wrote:
stim / HSM / PDD / EMP / Snipe, wth thats more than i have as toss ._.

On May 19 2011 23:54 Arkless wrote:
Not including passives like charge or concuss

T Spells/ useable Abilities
Stim, seige, snipe, emp, cloak, nuke, 250mm cannon, auto turret, PDD, HSM, banshee cloak, yamato,mule, scan total= 13

P Spells/ useable abilities
Blink, forcefield, guardian shield, hallucinate, feedback, psi storm, make archon??(we'll count this one) warp in, graviton beam, vortex, recall, total=11 (am I missing something?)

Z Spells/ useable abilities
Burrow,inject larvae, transfuse, creep tumour, fungal, infested terran, neural parasite, changeling, corrupt, contaminate total=10

As u can see, simple math shows terran leading in spells......

Edit: as I was writing this the ops ban rolled over lol

On May 19 2011 23:56 locant wrote:


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emp only does actual damage to protoss units, and even that is small compared to fungal and storm. Tanks if you havnt noticed arnt a spell and can only be in a fixed location anyway. Heat seekers you just run from and do tiny damage anyway, if you have eyes you can avoid a nuke so yea i think terran are at a massive disadvantage when it comes to area spells.

On May 20 2011 00:00 Blasterion wrote:

You missed Viking modes also if u count injects etc then u didn't count Supply drop

On May 20 2011 00:01 lurked wrote:


Yeah, and storms can be avoided, colossi's dmg too... What else do Protoss have for AOE?

Oh, right... Nothing...

And Zerg's have Fungal(Only spell that cannot be avoided at all, and were you have to suffer the entire DoT), + banelings.

And of course, siege tanks isn,t a direct AoE spell where you chose where it deals damage, but it's still a spell, that allows you to deal tons of AoE...

Terrans have a really comparable(if not the best) AoE dmg potential of all the races if played well, but you say they are at a massive disadvantage because, like all other AoE except fungal, they can be avoided if the target isn't too bad?

I don't understand why you say that is a massive disadvantage as AoE abilities?