Perfect EMPs???

On January 09 2011 11:40 iAmJeffReY wrote:
Definitely the EMP. But don't count it out as you were worse, landing an EMP is just like landing a storm -- it's a part of the game.

As a terran -- how hard did your dick get when you saw that EMP land, and the sentries all have no mana?

I get such a eBoner when I land moneyshots, as I call them, EMPs. Like when ya see 4 immortals clumped, and BAM down, 16 food gone. 1000 minerals gone!

On January 09 2011 14:26 patron wrote:
As the victim here let me settle the score. Yes I was outplayed, but I had an army that would have been able to win that engagement with proper forcefields. The reason I lost was because I didn't spread my sentries, didn't scout my opponents army b4 hand, and didn't even need to engage at that point anyways. I would have been just fine defending my 3rd and pumping a few extra colossus. However had Ogna responded then with a sufficient number of vikings, he would have still won. All in all, Ogna deserved the win, but emps definitely decided the outcome of the big battle.

On January 09 2011 14:29 SecretA5DC wrote:
How do you get EMPs to land on Vrays? I swear I keep missing them all the time

On January 09 2011 14:29 SecretA5DC wrote:
How do you get EMPs to land on Vrays? I swear I keep missing them all the time

On January 09 2011 14:30 gangstarr wrote:
Nice to see a mannered player that can accept a loss.

On January 09 2011 14:10 Kakisho wrote:
Agree, but I kinda think landing good EMP's are too easy. In broodwar, landing perfect storms was kinda hard because if you were fighting a hundred lings, twenty hydras and a bunch of ultralisks, they came in, in akward streams from several angles, because you could only select 12 at a time.

In SCII every single unit is in a tight ball and move fluidly. EMP is also practically instant and has a very big radius. Too many things going for it. Imagine if EMP shot a projectile, that detonated 2 seconds afterwards?

The worst part of EMP is that the opponent cannot REACT to it. If you didn't know your opponent has one ghost, in his army of 100 marines marauders, medivacs, then you're kinda going to take extremely high damage from the EMP. If the opponent had psionic storm, you can retreat and try to bait bad storms. How do you bait EMP? The Terran player just has to click when there are as many units under the circle as possible and boom, instant. Then the Terran player can make sure he gets most of the spellcasters, all of which happen to be very slow units (templar, infestor, ghost, mothership, queen, raven, sentry) who can't really do a thing to REACT to EMP.

The only counterargument to this is that you have to spread out your units. But it's hard to keep your army spread out, when moving around, it's really micro intensive. And also, a ghost can EMP multiple times, so a few ghosts can easily cover a large area.

I know this isnt' the right place, but I felt like ranting.

On January 09 2011 14:50 Skank wrote:


Guess who tends to have the most balled up army? Terran.
Guess which race EMP affects the least? Terran (it can be useful vs infestors).
Guess which race had to learn to spread marines and marauders months ago to avoid fungral growths, banelings, storms, and collosi splash damage? Terran.
Guess which race using storms, that have massive aoe, and gets outplayed by EMP's because they've never had to spread their army before? PROTOSS!!!!

On January 09 2011 15:00 mR.bONG789 wrote:
imo emp should have a travel time, compared to storms they are much better againest protoss. 100 damage to shields instantly vs 80 damage over 4 secs means that even if the emp doesnt hit any spellcasters they will still take off a huge chunk of hp.