Seems very inefficient to me. I'd rather not spend 100 minerals, 200 gas, and 60 seconds of build time on a unit that can only deny broodlings for 20 seconds. Not to mention, they'll be essentially useless in the inevitable transition to ultras. You mention harassing with auto-turrets, but flying around with a couple ravens is just about the quickest possible way to lose hundreds of gas to easily massable mutalisks.

Also, thors are fairly awful against broodlords, even if they aren't getting broodlinged to death. Their attack is just too slow and broodlords don't suffer from clumping like mutas do.

To me, the money and time is better spent building dual vikings from a reactor'ed starport.

Soleron

United Kingdom1324 Posts

March 27 2011 16:15 GMT

#42

Since they also work against Corruptors, there's no reasonable way for the Zerg to take this down in a standard TvZ lategame battle. Anything else gets hit by tank fire.

TemplarCo.

Mexico2870 Posts

March 27 2011 16:17 GMT

#43

Could be, rather than getting vikings just a few Ravens could do it... Very interesting. :D

Griffith`

714 Posts

March 27 2011 16:20 GMT

#44

+1 This is AMAZING if it works - will test it more extensively in unit tester. Almost anything is better than making vikings. The durable materials will finally have some real viability - 6 minute PDDs is lolz.

ZidaneTribal

United States2800 Posts

March 27 2011 16:26 GMT

#45

Ravens obviously will not substitute for vikings, which actually kill broodlords, but ravens certainly won't allow zerg to spawn tens of broodlings in your tank line. Broodlords will not be able to force you to unsiege all your tanks if you can squeeze in one or two ravens.

edit: broodlord no longer a "trench breaking" unit vs terran?

XXXSmOke

United States1333 Posts

March 27 2011 16:27 GMT

#46

On March 28 2011 01:15 SoLaR[i.C] wrote:
Seems very inefficient to me. I'd rather not spend 100 minerals, 200 gas, and 60 seconds of build time on a unit that can only deny broodlings for 20 seconds. Not to mention, they'll be essentially useless in the inevitable transition to ultras. You mention harassing with auto-turrets, but flying around with a couple ravens is just about the quickest possible way to lose hundreds of gas to easily massable mutalisks.

Also, thors are fairly awful against broodlords, even if they aren't getting broodlinged to death. Their attack is just too slow and broodlords don't suffer from clumping like mutas do.

To me, the money and time is better spent building dual vikings from a reactor'ed starport.

Dual reactor starport is the faster way to lose to ultas, Pop out 15 vikings just in time, to kill 6 BL's and watch your army get rollled by ultas.

Gracksaurusrex

United Kingdom171 Posts

March 27 2011 16:28 GMT

#47

Ghosts with snipe are amazing against brood lords

Philip2110

Scotland798 Posts

March 27 2011 16:29 GMT

#48

Pdd's block broodlings wow didnt know that :o

Dragar

United Kingdom971 Posts

March 27 2011 16:30 GMT

#49

That's hilarious.

Griffith`

714 Posts

March 27 2011 16:30 GMT

#50

A raven can store up energy, and durable materials will provide you with an almost endless supply of point defense drones. PDD with durable materials lasts 360 seconds. In that time, you will be able to regenerate 200 energy on your raven - meaning a single raven would be able to keep up 2 PDD persistently's for the ENTIRE game.

1Eris1

United States5797 Posts

March 27 2011 16:30 GMT

#51

Actually now that I think about it, you wouldn't even need vikings with this. Tank/marine+3-4 ravens, toss down PDDs, stim and run the marines up and snipe the BLs. Marines are actually really good against BL's, they just have trouble when theres a lot because of the broodlings

abominable

101 Posts

March 27 2011 16:32 GMT

#52

occasionally scout / scan his spire... greater spire - make vikings.

ravens are really good if you have spare gas to use, but even if you use PDD you still need vikings to kill them...

Sapphire.lux

Romania2620 Posts

March 27 2011 16:33 GMT

#53

What a fantastic find! The Tanks can remain sieged while the Thors(with superior upgrades and scv repair) fight the Broodlords! No more Vikings spam and Ultra switch to auto win! Mech just became a lot stronger vs Zerg. Yey!

abominable

101 Posts

March 27 2011 16:33 GMT

#54

On March 28 2011 01:30 1Eris1 wrote:
Actually now that I think about it, you wouldn't even need vikings with this. Tank/marine+3-4 ravens, toss down PDDs, stim and run the marines up and snipe the BLs. Marines are actually really good against BL's, they just have trouble when theres a lot because of the broodlings

the zerg doesn't have a ground army? :D

1Eris1

United States5797 Posts

March 27 2011 16:36 GMT

#55

On March 28 2011 01:33 abominable wrote:

Show nested quote +

the zerg doesn't have a ground army? :D

Notice the tank part

BigOleDonkey

United States43 Posts

March 27 2011 16:40 GMT

#56

Haha I didn't know this either. I clicked on the thread expecting to hear someone suggesting to HSM the broodlords. Learn something new every day.

Strivers

United States358 Posts

March 27 2011 16:42 GMT

#57

i wanna see a vid of this

N3rV[Green]

United States1935 Posts

March 27 2011 16:46 GMT

#58

I love this kind of news, really shows people "hey, we DON'T know everything yet!" since some people seem to have fallen into some sense of "well the game is figured out, that's why we have standard plays duhh" which is completely false.

We still know next to nothing about this game.

Wonderful find good Mr, OP.