Immortals would kill that so much, i remember a very weird game on the day of beta release against Strelok where he massed thors and tanks and i just went immortal... It's really not viable tbh..

Chill

Calgary25997 Posts

March 24 2010 22:17 GMT

#42

Do Thors not 1-shot immortals with their ability? Am I missing something?

h0munkulus

Austria1481 Posts

March 24 2010 22:27 GMT

#43

the ability needs 100 energy and thors spawn with 50. so it takes some time until he can use his ability for the first time.

and with lzgamers BO the thor is finished at 7:07 gametime. you can have 2 immortals at that time without sacrificing too many zeals/stalkers.

and sid would have had no problem building a robo-facility. but he over adjusted when he saw the proxy rax with reactor and built 2 more gates instead (for a total of 5).

StorrZerg

United States13919 Posts

March 24 2010 22:28 GMT

#44

On March 25 2010 07:17 Chill wrote:
Do Thors not 1-shot immortals with their ability? Am I missing something?

i think they do, but they need energy and they don't have that energy when they spawn

MidKnight

Lithuania884 Posts

March 24 2010 22:34 GMT

#45

Protoss didn't defend it nearly well enough.
He could have done a number of things, like just waiting for a bigger army and sniping SCVs first or just move to LZ's main and kill him faster than a single Thor.

You should also notice that Thor almost died at the very start (it was down to 50 HP I believe), so it was luck based.

But a really awesome game nevertheless

wintergt

Belgium1335 Posts

March 24 2010 22:39 GMT

#46

Just watched the replay, awesome game. The thor just two-shots all the protoss units. And it looked like when he just popped out, that some zealots were bugging from the force field otherwise Thor (and terran) woulda died.

Quanticfograw

United States2053 Posts

March 24 2010 22:42 GMT

#47

lol..... that was entertaining but that protoss defended it horribly. didnt know thors were so strong

-fj.

Samoa462 Posts

March 25 2010 00:32 GMT

#48

On March 25 2010 06:48 Pulimuli wrote:
wont protoss have enough immortals to rape the shit out of those 2 thors?

Well, the 2 thors arrive at about 5:35 + walking time, so on Steppes of War it's about 6:20 or so.. with 3 and 4 thors at about 7:20 and 7:40.. In any sane protoss build they would have 2 immortals max.

I also worked out an insane out of control unsafe protoss build that goes straight immortal -- with that build they would have 6 or 7 by the time the thors got there >:D

Jimmeh

United Kingdom908 Posts

March 25 2010 01:03 GMT

#49

Commentator made a few errors. For example when the probe scouted initially he said something along the lines of "since there's no barracks he's going to know there's either a proxy barracks or a fast expand" when the Orbital Command was being built so there was obviously a proxy barracks.

jaybrundage

United States3921 Posts

March 25 2010 01:03 GMT

#50

That was a pretty awesome build. Keep up the innovation. : )

DrivE

United States2554 Posts

March 25 2010 02:56 GMT

#51

That was a beast thor with 40+ kills. In the beginning it looked like lz was going to get pwnd.

xnub

Canada610 Posts

March 25 2010 03:03 GMT

#52

This is just like the 5 queens and ultra strats or queens alone.

Its cool but does not mean much /shrug

Trap

United States395 Posts

March 25 2010 03:14 GMT

#53

Me and Fortune.Syn were curious and tried it. Went gate robo gate, obs saw fast armory and I started another chrono'd immortal when I saw the Thor come out. Thor got taken out in a few seconds by 2 immortals even with all the SCVs and I don't think I lost any units.

Rep's here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?icnimmnnyym

-fj.

Samoa462 Posts

March 25 2010 06:35 GMT

#54

He lost because he didn't make enough THORS

tyCe

Australia2542 Posts

March 25 2010 06:40 GMT

#55

Haha, what an interesting build.

Sid didn't play it out very well though and I'm sure he's kicking himself for losing that game in that way. Even with the game progressing to the contain in Sid's base (though it shouldn't really have happened), Sid could have easily warped his gateway units to the back of the base and massed units enough to take the Thor out, or at least not have warped his units within range of the Thor.

TelesisGQ

United States83 Posts

March 25 2010 07:13 GMT

#56

That's easily the most hilarious plat-level replay I've seen yet.

virusak

Czech Republic344 Posts

March 25 2010 07:27 GMT

#57

well, sid pretty messedd up his micro, lots of the zealots he had when the thor came weren't attacking at all, just standing there or trying to get to the thor instead of at least killing the scvs

Kare

Norway786 Posts

March 25 2010 07:29 GMT

#58

How can people say they didnt know Thors were this strong, its a fucking planatery fortress with legs :D