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[Q] Any use to unsieged Siege Tanks?

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Kakisho
Profile Joined January 2010
United States240 Posts
March 05 2011 21:14 GMT
#1
Pretty simple question, but has anyone ever found any merit to using unsieged tanks opposed to sieged tanks? For example, marine and SCV rush, that uses less SCV's and a single unsieged tank. The siege tank could be used for a little extra DPS but mainly as something to soak up damage that the SCV's could repair.

Or is there anyway to make use of the fast DPS of an unsieged tank?

Is there any reason to not get the siege upgrade, for Siege Tanks?
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VeryAverage
Profile Joined January 2011
United States424 Posts
March 05 2011 21:18 GMT
#2
There is zero reason not to get the siege tank upgrade.

However, using tanks unsieged can be good if you have flat out superior numbers. You see it a lot when some guy only has one or two sieged tanks + marines versus about 7-8 unsieged + marines, you just bust the lower number of tanks.

Otherwise, it's not going to work that well.
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
March 05 2011 21:18 GMT
#3
Always get the siege upgrade.

Keep them unsieged if you don't intend to make a strong full push, but to just do a bad run-by or poke.
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Coriolis
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1152 Posts
March 05 2011 21:18 GMT
#4
The only real usage I've found for them is if you have a lot more tanks than your opponent in TvT, or using unsieged tanks to survive early pressure and transition into mech in tvp. A tank is roughly equivalent to 1.5 stimmed marauders. They're also decent for fending off marine drops in tvt but usually you want them sieged.
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iEchoic
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1776 Posts
March 05 2011 21:21 GMT
#5
A few uses:

- If your opponent roach drops on you, you're better off unsieging, killing roaches as they drop and letting their high dps go to town instead of splashing all over your own units.
- Very strong against stalkers
- Often times better than sieged tanks for a-moving an opponent's tank line, as the siege time takes too long and unsieged tanks are very good against sieged tanks
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Spiders
Profile Joined February 2011
United States86 Posts
March 05 2011 21:21 GMT
#6
You should always get the siege tank upgrade, however sometimes it's better to be unsieged. Such as vs broodlords so your tanks dont kill all your marines because they're attacking the broodlings.
nitdkim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1264 Posts
March 05 2011 21:22 GMT
#7
There are situations in battle that you don't want to siege your tanks. Basically any situation where if you siege your tanks they won't fire any shots. Either the other guy's army is killed by your army or the other guy's army is so massive that he'll clean up your army in an instant.
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julius33
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Estonia79 Posts
March 05 2011 21:23 GMT
#8
Unsieged tanks have greater DPS then sieged ones do, the only difference being that they dont do the splash damage
So in Tank VS Tank situation, an unsieged tank will win.
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QQmonster
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada240 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-05 21:29:34
March 05 2011 21:27 GMT
#9
tvz factory timing rushes don't really need siege until you get to the guy's natural to take out sunken colonies. there are also 1-1-1 TvP timing rushes that dont need siege mode, you just use it to do DPS against stalkers.

Dont get the upgrade if you don't intend on making a lot of tanks past the first couple youre using for your rush. In high numbers getting the upgrade is really beneficial, otherwise marauders are more cost efficient.
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Blade2322
Profile Joined November 2010
Japan99 Posts
March 05 2011 21:28 GMT
#10
I use them in a TvP 9min timing push with 6 tanks and 16 marines. Tanks do very well against stalkers and marines will deal w/ any immortals and zealots.
Selkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States530 Posts
March 05 2011 21:28 GMT
#11
To clarify what's being said above:

A siege tank, unsieged, will deal higher DPS against an armored target than an tank in siege mode. So, if a tank won't be dealing splash damage, it will deal more damage unsieged. Also, against ultralisks, it's better to be unsieged, and against buildings, unsieged. (The large ones)
QQmonster
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada240 Posts
March 05 2011 21:30 GMT
#12
On March 06 2011 06:28 Selkie wrote:
To clarify what's being said above:

A siege tank, unsieged, will deal higher DPS against an armored target than an tank in siege mode. So, if a tank won't be dealing splash damage, it will deal more damage unsieged. Also, against ultralisks, it's better to be unsieged, and against buildings, unsieged. (The large ones)


against ultralisks i find the best method is to let the tanks shoot once from max range, then unsiege and start shoot-n-scooting.
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n3mo
Profile Joined May 2010
United States298 Posts
March 05 2011 21:33 GMT
#13
On March 06 2011 06:28 Selkie wrote:
To clarify what's being said above:

A siege tank, unsieged, will deal higher DPS against an armored target than an tank in siege mode. So, if a tank won't be dealing splash damage, it will deal more damage unsieged. Also, against ultralisks, it's better to be unsieged, and against buildings, unsieged. (The large ones)


this basically sums it up. although for static defense (cannons, bunkers, spines, PFs), the range is helpful - although it'll take longer to kill the building, you can hit it without taking damage in return.
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Zeke50100
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States2220 Posts
March 05 2011 21:34 GMT
#14
Don't forget that unsieged tanks are much better than sieged ones when breaking rocks. I always chuckle a bit when players siege to take down large buildings XD
HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
March 05 2011 21:39 GMT
#15
On March 06 2011 06:33 n3mo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 06 2011 06:28 Selkie wrote:
To clarify what's being said above:

A siege tank, unsieged, will deal higher DPS against an armored target than an tank in siege mode. So, if a tank won't be dealing splash damage, it will deal more damage unsieged. Also, against ultralisks, it's better to be unsieged, and against buildings, unsieged. (The large ones)


this basically sums it up. although for static defense (cannons, bunkers, spines, PFs), the range is helpful - although it'll take longer to kill the building, you can hit it without taking damage in return.


Siege Tank has a range of 7, unupgraded PF's have only 6 range.
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Jayrod
Profile Joined August 2010
1820 Posts
March 05 2011 21:48 GMT
#16
sjow used to do non-siege timed attacks against protoss... maybe 6 weeks ago? I would imagine it had to do with timing, but I havent seen it enough to study it.
MozzarellaL
Profile Joined November 2010
United States822 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-06 00:27:40
March 06 2011 00:26 GMT
#17
When Zerg has tier 3 units out on the field its generally a bad idea to keep tanks in siege mode. It is also good for keeping a mobile army, base sniping new expos while his army is engaged elsewhere, and overrunning Terran tank lines
djdoodoo
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom192 Posts
March 06 2011 01:30 GMT
#18
well sometimes if its literally one tank vs one tank and one person goes in to siege you can drive up to him before he sieges and he can't actually shoot you. Also they're good at killing hellions.
Whitewing
Profile Joined October 2010
United States7483 Posts
March 06 2011 01:35 GMT
#19
Unsieged tank dps is higher vs. single targets than it is sieged. This can be very useful if you're using the tanks to take down important structures quickly, or important units. Tanks also can kite a good amount of units while unsieged with micro, which is hilarious.
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farseerdk
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada504 Posts
March 06 2011 01:38 GMT
#20
Use them to kill destructible rocks faster.

But yeah there isn't any SC2 equivalent of the Fake Double that I've seen...
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