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sikyon
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada1045 Posts
December 01 2010 18:49 GMT
#21
On December 02 2010 02:59 Chill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2010 02:52 Twitch89 wrote:
If you're planning to morph the DTs anyway, why not go HT-Archon instead?

The Stove is an old build from Brood War. It was going Scouts (a terribly underpowered flying unit), into DTs, into Arbiters (a cloaking spellcaster like the Mothership). The build was pretty nonsensical and arguably bad; however, it was so unpredictable that it worked even against top players occasionally. It was the equivalent of a slap in the face.

The Royal Stove required a fourth step: morphing a Dark Archon (extremely underused spellcaster) and using Mind Control (a permanent Neural Parasite) against your opponent. This was like getting slapped in the face while your girlfriend watched and fucked your best friend.


That sounds amazing :O (except for the girlfriend part)

I've always wondered how viable pheonix into DT's were...
Weken
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom580 Posts
December 01 2010 18:53 GMT
#22
On December 02 2010 02:25 Sabin010 wrote:
2. Switch to DTs
3. Get a Mother Ship.


This just made me lol for like 5 minutes

seriously i see no way of this build working againsed a good player who dosnt muck up badly. Fristly you are vunrable at the beggining becasue you have no real proper defensive units and you are compleatly relying on ff.

When the phenioxes come out you still can defend very well. Then you get DTs which may contain him becasue your phenioxes can snipe the overlords however me can easily defend becasue the zerg will already have some spores up becasue of the phenioxes so they will prolly do no damage.

Then you get a mothership and some archons. Hmm ok firstly archons arn't a core army unitand are only used when ht are out of energy. Finaly the mothership, err despite the thread going around about it being used in pvp getting a mothership randomly isnt going to be that good because there best ability is to create a clacking field. hmm there might have detection considring you have just used dts and they will have spores because you have phenioxes.

So congrats you have just created only of the worst builds that you can do on SC2.
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary26004 Posts
December 01 2010 18:54 GMT
#23
GUYS, this isn't a real build. Why are you analyzing it? It's a joke that makes you giddy if you pull it off in Broodwar, and he's searching for the SC2 equivalent. That's it.
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aquanda
Profile Joined January 2003
United States477 Posts
December 01 2010 19:10 GMT
#24
Void ray would give u a free expansion against non muta (get 1 pheonix with the void to discourage), and then get dt to kill the zergs 3rd. You're now even on bases and how you play from here is up to you. Seems pretty solid honestly, unless he gets spores to counter voids instead of hydra or queens. I'm gonna test, but without mothership.
burninglegionx
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada22 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-01 19:20:46
December 01 2010 19:14 GMT
#25
we should have a "do the stove" week and see how many poor Zs we can kill with this build.

I've experimented with 1base, 2gate-star phoenix -> DT -> expo with 3rd gate + forge + cannon.

But mass hydras + 3~4 overseers just rape this (this was before roach range buff. I believe early roach pressure will hurt a lot too).


edit:

just theorycrafting, but this might be a fun 2v2 PP vs ZZ build: one player 1base 2star spam phoenixes

while the other protoss goes fast dts. Then send some resources over to the stargating player to get fleet beacon + mother ship asap.
On your PC, the units seem to perform quite poorly. I think there might be something nearby the PC that is causing this problem for you. You may need a mirror to find out what it is. :D
aquanda
Profile Joined January 2003
United States477 Posts
December 01 2010 19:26 GMT
#26
Yah I just tested it against a decent Z and it didn't really do anything. Oh well.
Sabin010
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1892 Posts
December 01 2010 19:28 GMT
#27
Did you get the Mother Ship?
Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5913 Posts
December 01 2010 19:40 GMT
#28
On December 02 2010 02:59 Chill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2010 02:52 Twitch89 wrote:
If you're planning to morph the DTs anyway, why not go HT-Archon instead?

The Stove is an old build from Brood War. It was going Scouts (a terribly underpowered flying unit), into DTs, into Arbiters (a cloaking spellcaster like the Mothership). The build was pretty nonsensical and arguably bad; however, it was so unpredictable that it worked even against top players occasionally. It was the equivalent of a slap in the face.

The Royal Stove required a fourth step: morphing a Dark Archon (extremely underused spellcaster) and using Mind Control (a permanent Neural Parasite) against your opponent. This was like getting slapped in the face while your girlfriend watched and fucked your best friend.


So what's the metaphor for the the point where you MC a SCV and tech to siege tanks and start recalling cloaked sieged tanks?
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Grend
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
1600 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-01 20:03:00
December 01 2010 19:40 GMT
#29
I tried it too, but he was too bad for it to have any point.
Oh and recalling cloaked siege tanks = Royal Stove.
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aquanda
Profile Joined January 2003
United States477 Posts
December 01 2010 20:36 GMT
#30
No, of course I didn't get a mothership...the build was killed as soon as he got an overseer. he had 4 queens and hydras in production when my DTs got there.
Gemini_19
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1261 Posts
December 01 2010 20:43 GMT
#31
This thread just made my day. I have got to attempt this xD

All hail the Stove!!!
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Grebliv
Profile Joined May 2006
Iceland800 Posts
December 01 2010 20:45 GMT
#32
lol at people calling this gimmicky, standard as it gets folks
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JonnyLaw
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States3482 Posts
December 01 2010 20:54 GMT
#33
On December 02 2010 03:54 Chill wrote:
GUYS, this isn't a real build. Why are you analyzing it? It's a joke that makes you giddy if you pull it off in Broodwar, and he's searching for the SC2 equivalent. That's it.


There are decent DT/phoenix builds.

There a lot of threads about them.

DTs delay long enough to get HTs on the field.

HTs for feedback on overseers + phoenixes mean keeping overseers alive is very hard. DTs do great damage if they don't die first. They absolutely destroy hydras. Colossus get boring.

Sorry to derail. Doing this exceedingly fast and getting a mothershi, well, awesome.
Sabin010
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1892 Posts
December 01 2010 21:11 GMT
#34
Has anybody done this. I'd like to see a replay of the stove.
palanq
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States761 Posts
December 01 2010 21:49 GMT
#35
where is the option that we declare every week to be stove week
time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
windsupernova
Profile Joined October 2010
Mexico5280 Posts
December 02 2010 00:58 GMT
#36
LOL @ the people analyzing the stove.

I'll be sure to do this all this week when I play against Z. Maybe against Terran too
"Its easy, just trust your CPU".-Boxer on being good at games
Bonham
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada655 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-02 01:26:08
December 02 2010 01:23 GMT
#37
Where does the name stove come from?

Edit: nm, looked at original build thread.
Darthturtle
Profile Joined May 2009
United States718 Posts
December 02 2010 02:10 GMT
#38
On December 02 2010 04:40 Antisocialmunky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2010 02:59 Chill wrote:
On December 02 2010 02:52 Twitch89 wrote:
If you're planning to morph the DTs anyway, why not go HT-Archon instead?

The Stove is an old build from Brood War. It was going Scouts (a terribly underpowered flying unit), into DTs, into Arbiters (a cloaking spellcaster like the Mothership). The build was pretty nonsensical and arguably bad; however, it was so unpredictable that it worked even against top players occasionally. It was the equivalent of a slap in the face.

The Royal Stove required a fourth step: morphing a Dark Archon (extremely underused spellcaster) and using Mind Control (a permanent Neural Parasite) against your opponent. This was like getting slapped in the face while your girlfriend watched and fucked your best friend.


So what's the metaphor for the the point where you MC a SCV and tech to siege tanks and start recalling cloaked sieged tanks?


That is the royal stove.

Although traditionally, the sometimes-forgotten fifth step was to transition into losing your whole fucking base and then trying desperately to win with just Terran units, and then leave the game saying you should've won that.
mangsky
Profile Joined September 2010
51 Posts
December 02 2010 05:02 GMT
#39
yeah skip the DT, anyway
you do not want him to invest in detection at this point
lest it render your mothership useless
lyAsakura
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1414 Posts
December 02 2010 05:09 GMT
#40
On December 02 2010 14:02 mangsky wrote:
yeah skip the DT, anyway
you do not want him to invest in detection at this point
lest it render your mothership useless


That is the point.
You want your units to be as crappy as possible to make victory so much more sweet.
WeMade FOX would be a deadly SC2 team.
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