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if you're out of pylons, but have a nexus (which means you have supply), but you don't want to make probes, because you only have like 500 minerals and your only nexus is in your main and your main AND natural AND your third are mined out (it was a long game). If you build a probe you need to long-distance mine from the gold and you're on backwater gultch.

You have 1 Warp Prism, and 1 Observer. Your opponent has no attack units except for a queen that is slowly, slowly making its way towards your base to finish you off.

So you instead want to spend your money on units, let's say, 2 zealots and a sentry, or 2stalkers or something. You want to lay down a power field to power all your gateways. However, you placed your gateways in a triangle shape around a photon cannon and cybernetics core which means the only way to power all of them at once is to open the warp prism over the cybernetics core, leaving not quite enough power field open to warp in a zealot because the core and cannon block your power field. Your opponent is, let's say, a zerg player, and his only units are 1 queen and 3 spore crawlers.

Normally you'd make a pylon, so you could make a couple stalkers and kill his queen then press on to kill his 3 buildings, but your opponent is very wiley and has positioned about 10 overlords around your gateways, spreading creep. He planted several spore crawlers nearby since he doesnt' want your warp prism to power the gateways. HOWEVER, if you can fly past the spore crawlers (you can, it's a speed prism) to your cannon, you can power it and he won't be able to edge his spore crawlers any closer since the cannon will shoot them.

In this case you'd want to power the warpgates, and turn them back into gateways since you don't have enough room to warp anything into a power field, and make a stalker or something to kill the queen.



One could imagine other situations where you base trade against a banshee rushing terran, and you need to use your warp prism to power your final cannon, your only means of detection, which is also guarding your final gateway. You have 2 stalkers, which means you can hold off his final banshee IF YOU CAN SEE IT, but you can't actually attack him. Due to the way your cyber core and many extraneous gateways are laid out, the only way to power both the cannon and at least 1 gateway would require that you not have enough room to warp in a stalker-- so you make it through the gateway. In this case you also have a nexus but it's close by and easy to protect (part of the building cluster around which this cannon provides detection).