Protoss response to Terran Mech?

On May 16 2013 09:21 DemigodcelpH wrote:
Immortals, Voidrays, and Tempests are all mech hard-hard-hard-counters which is why it isn't considered viable. Mix in HT if he has non-massive air or goes ghosts. If you're not referring to a specific timing attack that tries to exploit teching then you're simply being outplayed in that you probably would've lost to a bio build too. Perhaps, if you think you're going to be hit with a timing push, play less greedy or just simply work on your macro.

On May 16 2013 09:46 S7EFEN wrote:
Mech generally is a mass hellbat/viking with only a few tanks and thor/banshee/ghost support. You want to have a much smaller amount of zealots in your main army and rather dump your mins into cannons (for hellbat drops) and WP zealot and DT harass wherever is weakest.

Your main army wants to consist of immortal/archon/blink with colossi/VR/tempest/ht support based on how he varies his composition and you basically want to kite his hellbats across the map when he aims to push and use forcefields to keep his hellbats back. You should be able to force a ton of siege and unseiges and counter attack with warpprisms and slow his push hard, getting free hits off on his hellbats with your colossi and then pick off a few vikings/tanks etc with your stalkers.Once hellbat numbers drop you can mass zealot warpin and crush his army.

Mech in general needs to do a bunch of damage early / midgame with hellbat drops/mine drops in order to be comparable to bio TvP.

On May 16 2013 10:04 TokO wrote:
I don't know if the upper posters are playing at higher levels than me, but I've had pretty good success with multiple robo immortal and primarily chargelot archon. The most important thing about mech is that if he is playing siege tank heavy, every extra angle you attack a siege tank line, you half their strength, so spreading out your armies is very essential.

Thing about zealot archon is that the first wave of zealots will melt pretty heavily, but then you should warp-in another wave of zealots and add them to the battle really quickly. Archons kill hellbats very well after they got the biological tag.

If you scout a defensive mech player, you should really just try and ramp out your economy until 4 base and try and bank enough to keep rolling out max upgraded zealot-archon along with immortals. Be consistent with doing good protoss play like spreading pylons around, if you can warp-in an extra flank, you can very easily crush a mech player who is trying to be offensive. At one point you fly in a warp-prism in his base and camp his production with zealots and blink stalkers. If he has made a ring of turrets, then you should definately be in a position of economical advantage and then you can just keep pounding on his door.

edit: S7EFEN definately probably play against a higher level mech and in those cases his advice is probably better, but it also seems much more micro-intensive.

On May 16 2013 09:46 S7EFEN wrote:
Mech generally is a mass hellbat/viking with only a few tanks and thor/banshee/ghost support. You want to have a much smaller amount of zealots in your main army and rather dump your mins into cannons (for hellbat drops) and WP zealot and DT harass wherever is weakest.

On May 16 2013 15:25 HanSomPa wrote:


That's a horrible idea. On 3 base mid-late game any competent meching Terran will have a PF as his 3rd, and several turrets at every mineral line. Your DT/Zealot WP harass is costly in gas and APM. A maxed out or 180 food Terran will see your small army and simply A-click you to victory. That's very wrong imo.

On May 16 2013 16:09 Scarecrow wrote:
I prefer Blink-stalker - collossus. Expand aggressively w. cannons. Stay on top of your upgrades. Use blink to spread out vs tanks and you can easily move your entire army up and down cliffs which is a nightmare for mech to deal with. Collossi melt the hellbats (light) and forcing vikings makes the terran really gas stretched and mass blink stalkers take care of them well enough. Add storm later if needed.

On May 16 2013 17:11 rsvp wrote:
Easiest way I've found to play against mech is to expand everywhere while massing air (carriers are preferable. Not sure why everyone loves VR/tempest when carriers are just straight up a-move wins that don't die to widow mines like void rays). When he comes to attack you just counter into his base with whatever small ground army you have and force a base trade. DTs are also great in these situations.