On March 02 2011 20:16 SupremeMe wrote: They should really remove the "magic box". That is just straight up fucked - Imbalanced imo
zerg would have no way to stop that otherwise.
Honestly, just bring marines (instead of helions) and the Z wouldn't stand a chance anyway. Marine/Tank/Thor utterly melts away everything (except broods). Magic boxing is a very necessary feature. If 6 thors (1800/1200/36) could destroy 30 mutas (3000/3000/60) the game would be broken
Damn the terrans are getting stomped, first qxc with his 0-5 and Tarson with his 2-3 sure SjoW is looking ok at 2-1, but he really got it handed to him versus mOOnGLaDe. And Fenix is out with his 0-3 atm i guess.
I think alot of people here dont appreciate how much effort goes into magic boxing that many mutas while keeping up with macro and micro for other units. SjoW simply made no marines, a point that Day9 was emphasizing all game long. There is nothing OP about the magic box, SjoW just failed to respond to mOOnGLaDes mutas with the appropriate mix of units. Not to mention SjoW's mass of Hellions did a pretty piss poor job of pressuring, he left like 8 of them just sitting at the watchtower for a long long time.
On March 02 2011 20:19 philly5man wrote: Makes me wonder what would happen if SjoW had the number of Thors that equalled the Mutas in supply count. He 'only' had about 4 Thors in that last battle, against what seemed like 30 Mutas?
He had at least 6 thors there.
In equal supply thors would probably counter mutas, but its still much better to make some marines.
I believe it was equal supply thor wins when numbers aren't really high. 3mutas lose to a thor yet costs 100 more gas. In larger numbers I think muta wins because of the tons of glaive bouncing.
On March 02 2011 20:21 Doraemon.doraemon wrote: what's going on with these foreigner terrans? qxc, fenix, sjow... very bad showing from them, tarson was okay
Eh, Sjow just got outclassed by a good player. He's handled his other 2 opponents today (Fenix/Socke), the guys from Code A are just on a different level.