Not really. Charge to catch up with opponents running away from you for example. Charge the one furthest away, all your Zealots catch up, and then you can block and kill even more units. Requires plenty of micro though.

Endorsed

Netherlands1221 Posts

August 08 2010 20:43 GMT

#62

This should definitely not be removed.

Now delete this topic before Blizzard sees.

Ouga

Finland645 Posts

August 08 2010 20:47 GMT

#63

This is actually a lot more interesting than VRs. With VRs it was just bug and I really hoped it was fixed from the second I saw it. This looks like it requires way more effort to actually get benefit from, and benefit seems smaller, but I suppose with some creative play a strategy could be based on getting the surprise attack going with this. Imagine terran seeing one lot wandering, then suddenly 20 lots charge to 1, and they all charge to that lot, could potentially make big havoc in midst of marine/tank lines. Anyhow, this looks like something that despite not probably being intended, doesn't need to be patched.

I congratulate you if D.Bowder will ever call them Fazelots

Powster

United States650 Posts

August 08 2010 20:52 GMT

#64

I can think of some times when this will be useful.. you just lose a fight and only have zealots left while enemy has stalkers (has happened to me often). Your forward pylon dies so without it you will be losing zealots one by one till you reach your base.. with it you can reach your zealots running away towards your base a lot faster...

TitleRug

United States651 Posts

August 08 2010 20:55 GMT

#65

On August 09 2010 05:52 Powster wrote:
I can think of some times when this will be useful.. you just lose a fight and only have zealots left while enemy has stalkers (has happened to me often). Your forward pylon dies so without it you will be losing zealots one by one till you reach your base.. with it you can reach your zealots running away towards your base a lot faster...

Nice! I agree using this you can get away with your stray zealots, so you don't lose all of them if all your stalkers die.

RifleCow

Canada637 Posts

August 08 2010 21:03 GMT

#66

This is big if you think about zealot surrounds. Instead of attack the first unit you should instead attack the unit farthest away from you that way the zealots run a farther distance. This will also be useful a other have said in retreating zealots.

wiibz

United States15 Posts

August 08 2010 21:17 GMT

#67

Moderator edit: image macro's are not allowed.

haha

Sorry moderator! :3

adi1133

Romania109 Posts

August 08 2010 21:24 GMT

#68

I think that zealot speed is badly implemented, it should still have auto-cast but also be activated manually so that zealots can retreat or just sprint without actually attacking something in the process.
btw I hate zealots im a terran player ... but this should add some must needed complexity to statecraft 2

FrostNixon

Bulgaria215 Posts

August 08 2010 21:26 GMT

#69

I kinda dont see the point of this - sure u can do it with 5-6 zealots but at the point where u have charge you should have like 20 or more.

Luperts

Sweden28 Posts

August 08 2010 21:30 GMT

#70

awesome stuff faze, keep finding more of this!

AcrossFiveJulys

United States3612 Posts

August 08 2010 21:33 GMT

#71

this is actually something that people have known about for awhile, but it's good you made a thread on it.

ensis

Germany340 Posts

August 08 2010 21:43 GMT

#72

what a crap, but funny as hell though^^

FC.Strike

United States621 Posts

August 08 2010 21:53 GMT

#73

Pretty cool, I suppose I should add it to the mechanics thread eventually.

Field

United States9 Posts

August 08 2010 23:16 GMT

#74

I actually just messed around with this, theres actually a pretty cool thing you can do thats sort of related.

If you select all your zealots, tell them to "C" charge the one in the lead and then "A" attack off in the distance before they reach the zealot they're charging, even if you don't have a target, they'll all rush that direction for about 15 units. Pretty cool stuff.

awesomoecalypse

United States2235 Posts

August 08 2010 23:38 GMT

#75

Hope this doesn't get removed. Fazing was cool, but it was also broken--once you could do it, Void Rays wrecked everything. But this is perfectly reasonable--a bump in efficiency, in exchange for taxing micro, but not at all broken.

Chronopolis

Canada1484 Posts

August 08 2010 23:46 GMT

#76

I think a better method would be charging towards your own staker, and then using blink to extend the charge.

Defeat

United States476 Posts

August 08 2010 23:47 GMT

#77

I agree with adi1133. It would be nice and add more depth if charge could be used manually.

Whole

United States6046 Posts

August 08 2010 23:53 GMT

#78

It seems like a creative player would need to toy around with this to get some usage out of it.

I could see this being used to help set up a quick flank. If an army is approaching and you have some of your Zealots out of position, (on the side instead of the back) you can do the Charging trick to catch up with a properly positioned flanking Zealot. If I would see this in a high level game, I would be so happy.

Z3kk

4099 Posts

August 09 2010 00:02 GMT

#79

I don't like how you name everything (only two that I know of, but still

) after yourself, but I suppose you have to right to do so because these tricks are pretty cool--and actually useful--indeed!

You should stick with toss; zerg is blurghish in my humble opinion.