EPTOn August 21 2011 03:25 Markwerf wrote:
Blink stalkers are one of the key weaknesses of TvP mech play and probably the reason meching isn't that good imo (along with immortals). Stopping blink stalker harass is nearly unstoppable with mech as stalkers are super mobile and severely stomp hellions and unsieged tanks.
The way to stop it therefore is really to have planetaries at all your base beyond the first two as they can defend harass alone. For the rest you really need well positioned siege tanks that cover both main and natural, this makes mech simply impossible at some maps imo but decent at others.
At high level mech just becomes unplayable imo as the mobility of it is just terrible while it's hardly strong enough in straight up fights to make up for that. Ofcourse someone will say Goody or whatever is doing fine with it but that's simply not true either, there is no top T that mechs consistently with success
Blink stalkers are one of the key weaknesses of TvP mech play and probably the reason meching isn't that good imo (along with immortals). Stopping blink stalker harass is nearly unstoppable with mech as stalkers are super mobile and severely stomp hellions and unsieged tanks.
The way to stop it therefore is really to have planetaries at all your base beyond the first two as they can defend harass alone. For the rest you really need well positioned siege tanks that cover both main and natural, this makes mech simply impossible at some maps imo but decent at others.
At high level mech just becomes unplayable imo as the mobility of it is just terrible while it's hardly strong enough in straight up fights to make up for that. Ofcourse someone will say Goody or whatever is doing fine with it but that's simply not true either, there is no top T that mechs consistently with success
You got something wrong there. I watcheda lot of Goodys games and his strat is not the reason he loses so often - it's clearly his mechanics. Just watch his games, his lack of multitasking is baffling at times, his unit control often nonexistant. You often see some single hellions in mineral lines firing at pylons for about 30seconds, unsieged, clumped tanks and queues about 3 tanks at times.
If he played his strat with korean mechanics, he would be pretty damn good. Also, as far as i know he rarely varies his composition to the point that he has many ghosts agaisnt immortals.
