EPT[D] TvZ SkyMech - Page 2
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Demnogonis
Finland80 Posts
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ToastieNL
Netherlands845 Posts
Thanks for all the nice responses in this thread! I really appreciate it! I would like to make one more note; Don't let the assumption that the Raven sucks lead you. Just assume the Raven -in the right composition- is awesome. -PDD nullifies 20 corruptor attacks, so having 3 Ravens with 6 PDD gives you 120 non- shots, enough to let your vikings fire 4 times at idle corruptors if there's 40 corruptors. Air control! -HSM forces a disengagement in which Terrans (with superior range) get A LOT of free hits off. If you HSM some clumped corruptors, they either have to run or die. Just make sure they don't run into your army, but that shouldn't be to hard. -Battlecruisers have amazing air to ground attacks when upgraded, especcially on buildings (8 damage per .16 seconds, hell yea!) Battlecruisers are the tanky units as well as the basekillers. I'm not sure if this is true, this is all theory, but I want to try, and I want to learn how to get into a lategame position to do this with! So please, instead of all crossing this out like it is bullshit and terrible, give it a look, try a few builds, transition into SkyMech lategame, try the Raven, use some Battlecruisers, hell, go 50 Viking 20 Banshee 10 Ghost for all I care, just try it!! Kind Regards! | ||
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courtpanda
866 Posts
On February 15 2012 11:40 Demnogonis wrote: Dunno, to me it seems like TvZ is about hitting him in the face until he can't see straight anymore. Constant aggression, abusing drops, not some magic T3 combination that doesn't exist. Ravens are slow to produce, expensive and come out of expensive buildings that have better things to do. In addition to that they are slow, fragile, easy to target and have pretty crap spells. Just recently I saw a game where Seeker Missile was used, and I only saw that it can't catch burrowed Infestors. That's pretty lame for a 125 energy spell out of a 200 gas caster. i once killed a zerg as terran by staying on two base and just trading armies while denying his third constantly. i would attack with a force while macroing at home, then attack with the next force, and repeat. he raged when i told him i was only on 2 base all game. | ||
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Rahb18
United States17 Posts
early on you can make a lot of pressure with drops and banshees... | ||
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Mehukannu
Finland421 Posts
You could also try to making marines for harassing, but I don't know how good they would be without upgrades (mainly stim) and the time required to make 8 marines for a medivac (you could make reactor, but I don't know if you would want to spend even 50 gas on it since skymech would be quite gas heavy). Maybe reapers would be a good harassment tool too with speed upgrade, but again it cost gas and are slow to rebuild so losing them would be quite annoying. On the plus side, you most likely wouldn't need to make medivacs for them to do harassment and they can also snipe buildings pretty fast(!) and thus could slow zerg teching and transitioning into BL/infestor army, thus making it even easier to transition into skymech. All in all, you would need to be a lot more aggressive to buy the time and to make sure you don't die while doing the transition, because of the slow build time most starport units (raven, battlecruiser. perhaps even banshee?) have. | ||
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ToastieNL
Netherlands845 Posts
Kind Regards! | ||
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