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On February 10 2012 08:54 CookieMaker wrote:
What may be happening is a mess-up after a warpin.... If you accidentally continue to hold down shift while selecting recently warped-in units to add to your army key, then your gates will still be included in the selection.

On February 10 2012 08:46 Scrubington wrote:
This might not be the absolute best spot to ask this question, and it might sound really stupid...

I am a Protoss player, and whenever I hot-key my army, all of my warp gates are in the same hot-key as my army. I honestly can't figure out how this happens literally every single game I play. I don't have them selected when I shift + X to add units into my army hot-key. I am positive of this.

Can anybody figure out why the hell this keeps happening? Thanks.

On February 10 2012 08:37 GFwarbringer wrote:


That's a simple quesiton, but the answer isn't simple at all. It can happen because of many reasons.

We currently have a ladder lock going on, so if you play like 100 games in a row now, your mmr will get really high, but you won't be able to get promoted. Now when your mmr gets higher, you will get placed against people who are more of "your" skill lvl, so you will be placed against higher leagues. When the season starts you have to play a placement match and then your mmr decides in what league you will be placed.

But since you are not providing any additional info like how many games you did, win/loss ratio, whatever this is the best info I can give you now

Edit: Not explaing how MMR works, since people did that already in a Thread on TeamLiquid and I will by FAR not be able to get close to a detailled description as they did.

On February 10 2012 08:46 Scrubington wrote:
This might not be the absolute best spot to ask this question, and it might sound really stupid...

I am a Protoss player, and whenever I hot-key my army, all of my warp gates are in the same hot-key as my army. I honestly can't figure out how this happens literally every single game I play. I don't have them selected when I shift + X to add units into my army hot-key. I am positive of this.

Can anybody figure out why the hell this keeps happening? Thanks.

On February 10 2012 11:31 Broot wrote:
How do air attack upgrades benefit broodlords or do they? because broodlords themselves do not attack so i really dont get it

On February 10 2012 03:35 Forbidden17 wrote:

It's definitely not a standard tactic but it is seen once in awhile, even at pro level matches. It's a pretty all in strategy from the protoss, if you face this at a higher level you will not survive to get siege mode out in time. The proper reaction depends on when you scout it but what coriamon has said is generally true. You almost always need a bunker, and you may have to pull scvs to defend.

Take my word for it, at a higher level (I'm gonna guess diamond or higher, I don't have faith in plat players' ability to cheese ) getting siege mode is not a viable response to this. You can get it later if you want, but it's all-in from protoss so once you've held it you can do whatever you want and win.


That's the main reason people complain about end-game TvP, warpgates will always be one cycle ahead and the protoss army grows more and more cost effective as the game drags on.

I'm not too familiar with mech vs protoss, I always go bio and I've mostly only seen bio in pro matches tbh. From a bio stand point you want to go all out aggression especially after 3base. You cannot let the toss secure a 4th or things will start to get ugly.

I've seen some players go mech in TvP but it's really map dependent because of how long it takes for you to get a sizable army but you still need to spread yourself out to secure 3 bases at the minimum to max out. If you go mech, you need to be insanely insanely cost effective vs the protoss deathball. Constantly spend your money after maxing out because you won't be able to burn it all as quickly as the protoss will. Get tons of turrets all over the place (you can not move your army to deal with voidray/dt/zealot harass across the map), get planetary fortresses to form chokes, get every upgrade at the engineering bay, and if you like ghosts get nukes in the end game, wish him luck finding nukes when he has 5+ bases.

Sorry this is kinda vague because I'm not terribly familiar with mech in this match-up. The idea when you go bio is to simply get very aggressive, but never trade armies unless it's insanely in your favour. Constantly chip away at him and rebuild your army specifically to counter his.

On February 10 2012 11:44 GFwarbringer wrote:


Air attack upgrades do not effect Broodlords in any way. You want to upgrade the units they spawn, which can be done with the Melee attack upgrade which can be found in the evolution chamber. The same one that affects Zerglings.

On February 10 2012 10:26 PinheadXXXXXX wrote:
how do the pros have like 100 apm at the beginning of a game when all of their workers are mining or building and they are doing nothing that requires more than 5 apm? (like building a barracks or supply depot or scouting)

On February 10 2012 12:00 mooseman1710 wrote:



air attack upgrades do affect broodlords there is an initial impact damage. do not listen to that guy.


i have a question

when you're counting terrans scvs withan overlord close air on metal or shattered what does the number tell me?