Another Note:

I experienced a rather smart response to this from a Terran the other day in a 4v4. Once I got my wall up and started my cannon, he immediately began building a bunker at his mineral line and started attacking with his first marine. By the time the cannon finished the marine just hopped in the bunker and killed the whole thing off. Rather smart. This really does work best with Protoss.

Geegeez

Canada226 Posts

June 13 2011 18:56 GMT

#302

On June 14 2011 02:37 bluegarfield wrote:
Anyone watch starwar 6 final mc vs lovecd notice the game on XNC? was the map edited by the tournament host or was it the new XNC version? MC failed to execute this boss cannon cuz the pylon somehow didnt wall off completely =.=

Even if the map was edited and you fail a BOSS cannon rush you can still beat a 4-gate. :D

(but only if you're MC)

xHassassin

United States270 Posts

June 13 2011 20:05 GMT

#303

On June 13 2011 15:27 IzieBoy wrote:

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marines can snipe pylons while staying away from cannons quite easily though

Marines can't hit the pylon without getting hit by the cannon unless they're in a bunker. Cannons have range 7 and marines have range 5.

Plus this hits before the first marine pops out.

IDK maybe I just only play shitty players but I've never lost with this yet. It's just hard when they decide to send a worker to attack your probe.

GarlicSauce

Netherlands92 Posts

June 13 2011 20:18 GMT

#304

must be me, but if you just keep droning / save up 400 minerals... and after that relocating to your natural or wherever, he will have invested 3 pylons + 3 cannons or 750 minerals for killing 1 nexus or 400 minerals (while he had to sacrifice droning up himself).

d(O.o)a

Canada5066 Posts

June 13 2011 21:58 GMT

#305

On June 14 2011 05:18 GarlicSauce wrote:
must be me, but if you just keep droning / save up 400 minerals... and after that relocating to your natural or wherever, he will have invested 3 pylons + 3 cannons or 750 minerals for killing 1 nexus or 400 minerals (while he had to sacrifice droning up himself).

You forget lost mining time and lost bossness.

Joedaddy

United States1948 Posts

June 13 2011 22:20 GMT

#306

I heard hot_bid was a troll but I didn't believe it until I read this. Will be like the 3 rax scv thread that was wrote a while back and for the next 2 weeks the BOSS CR will be pretty frequent on the ladder. Thx jerk T.T;;

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only joking

I Had no idea about how to ditch a following worker like that. Pretty neat trick. Going to have to play around as toss in team games for a bit to play around with this :D

GarlicSauce

Netherlands92 Posts

June 14 2011 07:55 GMT

#307

On June 14 2011 06:58 d(O.o)a wrote:

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You forget lost mining time and lost bossness.

True, to make up for lost bossness you must warp in 2 additional nexus'. Also, make 50 probes and probe rush him.

jeagz

France31 Posts

June 14 2011 13:09 GMT

#308

hahahahaha another bitch strategy for P, I love it :D But I still have a little question for this : let say the probe is following you coz the guy wants your probe to die horribly. What you said is that if you micro you probe correctly, you have the possibility to place a pylon between you and the following probe ? Seems quite hard :/

Coz even if you let your probe in sight, like a nuub, my guess is that the guy will launch a worker after you in any case

hytonight

303 Posts

June 14 2011 17:02 GMT

#309

this topc inspired me to go mass nexus during my random 4v4 placements...lsot all 5 games but blizzard recognized me as a boss so i was placed in gold...top 8 too.