Perfect Cannon Placement on New Maps

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

March 04 2011 00:29 GMT

The concept isn't new: a cannon rush where you place the cannons behind your opponent's mineral line and wall it off with pylons. I believe it was made famous by Ddoro's game on Xel'Naga Caverns.

In any case, this post on PlayXP offers the best placements on some of the new maps. I think it gives some comments on strategy as well, bu I can't understand Korean. If anyone can provide insight, or find a smart way to include all the pictures, I'd be glad to add it to the OP.

Honestly, I think this deserves its own thread in the Strategy forum, but since I can't translate the Korean, I don't want to copy+paste so many pictures, and posting a single link is frowned upon, I'll just make a blog post about it.

http://www.playxp.com/sc2/tip/view.php?article_id=2645507

"translated" version:

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-res&trurl=http://www.playxp.com/sc2/tip/view.php?article_id=2645507&lp=ko_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

EdSlyB

Portugal1621 Posts

March 04 2011 00:39 GMT

Oh goody. Now that's the guide the whole community was waiting for!!!

rsvp

United States2266 Posts

March 04 2011 00:41 GMT

This goes to show how imbalanced blizzard maps are... sigh. It takes anywhere from 2-4 pylons to wall in a cannon at different mains/naturals on the same map.

Some of those placements are pretty cool but actually not all of those are the best placements. For example I know for a fact on shattered temple it only takes 3 pylons to fully wall in a cannon in the 3 oclock main (as opposed to 4 which it shows in one of the screenshots).

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

March 04 2011 00:43 GMT

On March 04 2011 09:39 EdSlyB wrote:
Oh goody. Now that's the guide the whole community was waiting for!!!

Although you were being sarcastic....it's probably true. > <

Saracen

United States5139 Posts

March 04 2011 00:43 GMT

Moved to Strategy anyways.

ChineseWife

United States373 Posts

March 04 2011 00:50 GMT

this is lols

NexaS

United States202 Posts

March 04 2011 03:58 GMT

To study these and cannon rush every game or to not study these and merely take note?

Shifft

Canada1085 Posts

March 04 2011 04:10 GMT

Oh man I didn't even think of putting a cannon below the destructible rocks on Backwater. That looks like the worst shit in history, 2 pylon wall that takes a mile to run drones to.

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