On January 23 2014 14:59 aZealot wrote: FUCK! I don't have a GSL sub, either. It might be time to purchase one just so I can watch the vods of "Carrier has arrived".
Man, it did my Protoss heart good to see carriers owning it up for the win. :D
best part was when he recalled the carriers and the interceptors traveled half the map to get back to the carriers rofl
Awesome. Mama Carrier, I'm coming home!
Alright, looks like they will get some money from me. I can't not watch these games and this series. :D
On January 23 2014 14:59 aZealot wrote: FUCK! I don't have a GSL sub, either. It might be time to purchase one just so I can watch the vods of "Carrier has arrived".
Man, it did my Protoss heart good to see carriers owning it up for the win. :D
best part was when he recalled the carriers and the interceptors traveled half the map to get back to the carriers rofl
Its a next level scouting strategy.
hmm so fly a carrier into a base with MSc then recall and the interceptors will scout the base, truly next level scouting!
On January 23 2014 14:59 aZealot wrote: FUCK! I don't have a GSL sub, either. It might be time to purchase one just so I can watch the vods of "Carrier has arrived".
Man, it did my Protoss heart good to see carriers owning it up for the win. :D
best part was when he recalled the carriers and the interceptors traveled half the map to get back to the carriers rofl
On January 23 2014 14:57 Green_25 wrote: Supernova made the wrong stuff, needed ghosts and mines.
Not sure if you are trolling or not.....
Not trolling, cloak fucks protoss air up really hard. Mines are actually fast and can chase down carriers/tempests. It works decently
Forgot who he was playing against, but HTOMario, who always mechs in all matchups, used mines to fight Tempest/Carriers and it worked excellently. You just have to build a shitload of mines. Ghosts are good too because of EMP of course, and Cloak.
And whoever said Observers everywhere messes up mine shots? The mines won't shoot at them unless they are revealed. So that doesn't really make sense.
On January 23 2014 14:59 aZealot wrote: FUCK! I don't have a GSL sub, either. It might be time to purchase one just so I can watch the vods of "Carrier has arrived".
Man, it did my Protoss heart good to see carriers owning it up for the win. :D
best part was when he recalled the carriers and the interceptors traveled half the map to get back to the carriers rofl
Awesome. Mama Carrier, I'm coming home!
Alright, looks like they will get some money from me. I can't not watch these games and this series. :D
On January 23 2014 14:57 Green_25 wrote: Supernova made the wrong stuff, needed ghosts and mines.
Not sure if you are trolling or not.....
Not trolling, cloak fucks protoss air up really hard. Mines are actually fast and can chase down carriers/tempests. It works decently
Forgot who he was playing against, but HTOMario, who always mechs in all matchups, used mines to fight Tempest/Carriers and it worked excellently. You just have to build a shitload of mines. Ghosts are good too because of EMP of course, and Cloak.
And whoever said Observers everywhere messes up mine shots? The mines won't shoot at them unless they are revealed. So that doesn't really make sense.
I believe he means that observers will reveal the mines and you can then target them with the carriers.
On January 23 2014 14:57 Green_25 wrote: Supernova made the wrong stuff, needed ghosts and mines.
Not sure if you are trolling or not.....
Not trolling, cloak fucks protoss air up really hard. Mines are actually fast and can chase down carriers/tempests. It works decently
Forgot who he was playing against, but HTOMario, who always mechs in all matchups, used mines to fight Tempest/Carriers and it worked excellently. You just have to build a shitload of mines. Ghosts are good too because of EMP of course, and Cloak.
And whoever said Observers everywhere messes up mine shots? The mines won't shoot at them unless they are revealed. So that doesn't really make sense.
yup should be him. he just massed widow mines, run them in and boom goes interceptors/carrier/tempest
On January 23 2014 14:59 aZealot wrote: FUCK! I don't have a GSL sub, either. It might be time to purchase one just so I can watch the vods of "Carrier has arrived".
Man, it did my Protoss heart good to see carriers owning it up for the win. :D
You can save money and emulate the games yourself by building 3 stargate carrier and amoving over a computer opponent.
Those were some really bad games, Supernova had no answer and got totally rolled by the carriers both times.
I hope TheBest MKP's it up and lifts to the Gold. Although with the ZvT overlord scouting it might not work as well...still though, he's cheesy enough to do it.
On January 23 2014 14:54 Inty wrote: Supernova really needed widow mines. They do so well against carriers since they are cheap and fast to build and do a lot of splash since carriers stack up so much.
Only problem is that you can't target fire with Widow Mines.
Stop Micro as demonstrated in that video doesn't really work in a late game situation like vs Carriers where Observers are almost guaranteed to be around. You'll lose all your widow Mines without really a chance for them to lock onto the Carriers.
But don't believe me, I want you to go test it yourself. Try using Widow Mines vs Carriers. Interceptors completely fuck with the Widow Mine AI. Widow Mines work fine vs Void Rays and Tempests but they are completely useless vs Carriers.
I don't blame people for not knowing this since Carriers aren't exactly common, but I've for whatever reason spent plenty of games in Mech Vs Protoss fighting Carriers. The only way to really beat them is Vikings and Thors in large numbers, Widow Mines don't work.
Maybe that was a bad video to show but you can choose which target the widow mines will hit as they are burrowing/right when they burrow. If you do it correctly they will hit the carrier and not the interceptors. If you just burrow them and not target then yes might hit interceptors. Also if it is late game and you engage with widow mines, thors, and vikings the widow mines have lower priority while unborrowed meaning they need to do a lot of micro to kill the widow mines since they are small and numerous in which case your thors and vikings have more time to do damage or focus on thors and vikings and take a lot of damage from widow mines. I guess this this shows a little more of what I am talking about but not all of the micro.
Can any higher level players give any insight as to Supernova's mech strategy against protoss? Is this something that could possibly work in HotS if it was refined?