[L][D]HotS Terran Mech Resources/Q&A - Page 15

On August 11 2013 18:40 BurningRanger wrote:


Is there a specific reason, why you didn't mention the splash damage and the range of a sieged tank? Tanks and Immortals fill completely different roles. You can't compare them.

On August 12 2013 01:02 larse wrote:


Of course they fill different roles. One is a siege unit and the other is the counter...

On August 10 2013 16:41 Nightsz wrote:
Mech just simply does not work against a protoss player who knows wtf they're doing. You're putting urself at a huge disadvantage with siege tanks especially when protoss has mobile siege units that don't require siege time.

On August 10 2013 08:00 saaaa wrote:
Hi guys,

what do you think about this opening of major against ryung on bel'shir vestige in the wcs round?

http://www.twitch.tv/wcs_america/b/431489773
(game starts at around 31:00)

I'm not quite sure if i should invest time to learn the build. It's a gas first into fast reactor fac with viking/raven and later cloak.

And what do you think about gas first builds with Double CC later in generell? Are they viable as standards?

On August 16 2013 08:48 Aquila- wrote:
I am really having trouble with mech TvZ at high master. I want to make it work but always die to the smallest mistake, can anyone give me a tip on the following:

1) When facing swarmhosts, how many tanks should I get before going into ravens? I am never able to get a 4th base up, I dont have enough gas to have constant tank and raven production. I need to sit in 1 place and defend while he can take the entire map, also he can attack another base with faster units. If I leave tanks at each base I die to swarmhosts.

2) Zerg tech switches. So lets say I face roach hydra viper. Or swarmhosts. I get enough tanks, some vikings or ravens, depending. He attacks, we trade armies, I scan his rallypoint to see that he makes. I dont see anything except some hydras, so I remake tanks. It turns out he had 14 ultras in production and I flat out lose because I have not enough thors and some useless vikings and ravens. Or he can go muta, force thors, then into swarmhost, thors useless, forces tanks, then he uses spire to go broodlord and again my tanks are useless. This switching of tech is killing me so often.

Overall it is really frustrating to mech these days, mainly because swarmhosts make me have to turtle, not beeing able to take more bases while zerg takes the entire map and tech switches back and forth.

On August 21 2013 04:40 vBr wrote:



1) Swarmhosts: All dependent on your economy. Mostly, Zergs tend to open Muta into Swarmhost to force as many Thors as possible. The number of Tanks is obviously a countermeasure to the amount of Swarmhost. As many Tanks as possible I say. When you transition to Ravens is, to me, not about Tank-count but rather about how many gases you are mining. Until you are on 4 bases, a Raven transition will limit any gas-required Factory production thus risking defeat against Swarmhost alone. My advice for you is to build as many Tanks as possible until you are safely on 4 base. At that point, you can trade away some supply for Ravens.

2) Tech switches is the bane of mech, but whether he builds Ultra och Roach/Hydra should not really be a big deal for you. While mech is a rather passive playstyle until you have established a minimum of 3 (preferably 4) bases, you shouldn't let him amass a critical amount of gas. Winning a fight matters not if he can remax in a different tech right after (mass muta or mass ultra are generally the most feared options). You need to learn how to count and plan your game after that.

If the game is 30-35 ingame minutes in and you just fought for the first time with his hydra/roach army. You won convincingly, what do you do? Unsieging and a-moving across the map is likely the last thing you want to do. At that point, you need to realise that he has banked a SERIOUS amount of gas (5k perhaps) and you can expect an instant maxout incoming. At that point you might want to take another base perhaps or send a small force to take out his 6th base or something like that. The longer you let him accumulate gas, the more scary his remax might become. For this reason, I don't play passive and instead play aggressive until he has enough Swarmhost to force me to bunker down.

Ultras you can manage with building placements. Frankly, I don't recall the last time I lost to Ultras. A Muta remax? Well that's tricky. You really need 3-4 Thors in any mech composition and you should already have upgraded range + armour on buildings so that you can throw up an abundance of turrets if required. Scanning is key, the sooner you know - the better. Realise that if he builds 30-35 Mutas after you win a fight, then his gas supply is likely diminished significantly - if you defeat that Muta number, he might just be out of gas after that.

On August 27 2013 17:59 fried_rice wrote:
What do you think of the new season maps guys???

Yeonsu: looks good for mech; EDIT: NVM, ITS FUCKING HORRIBLE

Frost: Veto'd after a single match (TvZ), this map seems very stupid and very hard to play mech on;
Polar Night: Not sure about this one, it seems to have potential but I'm scared of blink allins on it;

I wanna know what the high level mechers have to say about this.

EDIT: Ok, so it looks like all these new maps are all very anti-mech/anti-terran, veto'd them all.