[D] Widow Mines, Tanks, and Space Control - Page 8

On February 02 2013 15:24 ETisME wrote:
Just watched Thorzain vs Vibe and I can't believe I overlooked this now.
I have previously made a thread about how the late game air vs air deathball will lead to the race with better air deathball wins.
Traditionally, Terran needs more siege tanks to make sure they can fend off the infestors and queens getting too close. But Thorzain relied less tanks because:
Widow mines can deal air and ground splash.

If the zerg ever tries to do a big engagement, the widow mines, HSM, PDDs, yamato etc will demolish any zerg anti air composition

I can forsee this being the case for TvP air deathball battle as well.

On February 02 2013 15:58 zhurai wrote:

I should note at least from when I was watching this game.

Vibe didn't split anything when the seeker missiles came out (the unit turns red)

On February 02 2013 15:05 SC2John wrote:


1) Are we talking like 7:00 in the game?? Because that's what this scenario sounds like.
2) Assuming your opponent has good map vision, shouldn't he see the widow mines burrowing at the ramp, or even just have units at least CLOSE to the general area to stop the drop?
3) Assuming this scenario was actually set up according to plan, couldn't said player just pull workers to kill off the ghost themselves? If anything, just pulling the probes into the area where the ghost is standing is fairly safe spot.

When I think of nukes used in the mid- to late-stages of the game, I think of defensive nukes to force the opponent back. Maybe you could do the nuke and juke stuff that was common in TvT 2 years ago where you set down the nuke, run a bunch of widow mines forward to burrow, then cancel the nuke; this forces your opponent to back off without really dealing with the widow mines and allows you to slowly step forward as mech.