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Silmakuoppaanikinko
Profile Joined November 2010
799 Posts
December 23 2010 11:43 GMT
#61
On December 23 2010 20:35 ensis wrote:
they are almost as strong as one stalker and only 25 gas more expensive, so they arent even half bad.
and just scout and clear watchtowers or kill off pylons. maybe harrassment is an option, but its not that good of an idea i think.
A viking does 12 dps against whatever. A stalker 6.94 against light and 9.72 versus armoured.

The point is more that a viking has 120 health and a stalker has 160.

Viking dps, in either mode, is great, their hp is just shamefully low.
Workers and town centres are the ultimate counter to turtles.
Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5912 Posts
December 23 2010 14:28 GMT
#62
Except you prolly won't have upgrades on the viking.
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Silmakuoppaanikinko
Profile Joined November 2010
799 Posts
December 23 2010 16:35 GMT
#63
On December 23 2010 23:28 Antisocialmunky wrote:
Except you prolly won't have upgrades on the viking.
A +3 stalker still has a dps of 11.8055556 against armoured, whaddayaknow, a stalker can never out-dps a viking.

People who say that vikings have low dps are out of their mind, in either mode vikings are high dps / low hp units, the stalker is sort of the inverse.

The reason Vikings lose to a lot of units is their low health and 0 armour, not their dps. Which makes them great for taking out workers in high speed, and then lifting off and flying away before the other can shoot them down.

It's the same with air, for cost, their dps is insane. But they have sooo little hp. They actually do much more dps against a phoenix than the reverse, but the phoenix wins because it doesn't have 120 hp. I never got why vikings aren't called paper airplanes.
Workers and town centres are the ultimate counter to turtles.
ledarsi
Profile Joined September 2010
United States475 Posts
December 25 2010 21:33 GMT
#64
Yes, that's exactly the problem. For cost their dps is insane, but it has low hp. The advantage that air has is that HP is buffered somewhat by only being targeted by anti-air weapons. Landed vikings give up that protection, and they retain their terrible hp.
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eatpraylove
Profile Joined October 2010
United States53 Posts
December 25 2010 23:27 GMT
#65
I've used them for three of the things already mentioned:

* Dropping onto balled-up tanks
* Dropping onto undefended mineral lines
* Adding them to a ground army for a little extra firepower.

Plus, it's funny to watch them waddle around--like March of the Penguins or something.

However, I don't think I've ever seen a high-level player do any of those things so I sure as hell am not going to recommend any of them. Anyone got any replays or videos of such?
link0
Profile Joined March 2010
United States1071 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-25 23:32:07
December 25 2010 23:31 GMT
#66
Their dps isn't insane at all. 12 dps for 150/75, yay...

0 armor and 0 self-healing and extremely slow speed in both modes.
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