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Arcanne
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1519 Posts
December 07 2011 06:46 GMT
#37041
On December 07 2011 15:45 blooblooblahblah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:42 Arcanne wrote:
hallucinated immortals have harden shell

blink stalkers harassment kills thors hellions and tanks in small quantities

mech doesn't work


Pretty sure this is not true.

pretty sure you should check before stating something not true
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DonaldLee
Profile Joined August 2010
586 Posts
December 07 2011 06:46 GMT
#37042
On December 07 2011 15:45 blooblooblahblah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:42 Arcanne wrote:
hallucinated immortals have harden shell

blink stalkers harassment kills thors hellions and tanks in small quantities

mech doesn't work


Pretty sure this is not true.


It is, but they still take double damage, anything over 10 will do 20, giving the shield 5 tank shots.
Horse...falcon
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1851 Posts
December 07 2011 06:46 GMT
#37043
I think it would work on certain maps. If you can pressure the front on Crevasse with tons of tanks and defend against drops you could do pretty well.

But on big maps why couldn't the Protoss just walk around your giant sinkhole army. Mothership + vortex and remove a big clump of tanks from the battle.
Artosis: "From horsssse....falcon"
nekuodah
Profile Joined August 2010
England2409 Posts
December 07 2011 06:46 GMT
#37044
On December 07 2011 15:45 hasuterrans wrote:
Sometimes Artosis is completely wrong. Lol at him saying the reason we don't see mech is b/c terran pros haven't tried it or worked on it enough. I would LOVE to hear Jinro's thoughts right now.


Jinro cries bio doesnt work vs protoss either even during the time of complete tvp domination, wouldnt exactly be a good input.
HypernovA
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada556 Posts
December 07 2011 06:47 GMT
#37045
On December 07 2011 15:44 VirgilSC2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:42 Arcanne wrote:
hallucinated immortals have harden shell

blink stalkers harassment kills thors hellions and tanks in small quantities

mech doesn't work

You're predicating this on the idea that the tanks are sieged ALL the time. We've already seen interesting timing pushes with Tanks that don't have siege, but they fell off because "Well tanks need Siege Mode."

Tanks do some INSANE DPS when unsieged.

The point of a siege tank is to control space. Marauders do a better job than unsigned tanks and can stim, mobile and easier healing method.
kYem
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom412 Posts
December 07 2011 06:48 GMT
#37046
Mech sucks really bad against Protoss, you will so slow on building up your bases and if you spend money on static defences you will way behind. By the time T can move out, P can have w/e composition he wants ( ~18mins ) . After scouting t goes mech double expanding is so easy, as T can punish you in any way.

Especially after hellion nerf, Zealots just kills mech without any problem even with bunch of hellions in front as they don't kill it fast enough.

That's why goody himself said it doesn't work anymore ( and he is the one person who has the most experience in TvP )...
Hell
SheaR619
Profile Joined October 2010
United States2399 Posts
December 07 2011 06:48 GMT
#37047
On December 07 2011 15:33 IMoperator wrote:
they need goody, avilo or jinro to talk about mech tvp


Jinro has confirm that mech is bad and same as Avilo. Goody is the only one that is still using it simply because he is insane lol. I think it bad simply because it to much risk with too little return >.>
I may not be the best, but i will be some day...
quiong
Profile Joined January 2008
United States268 Posts
December 07 2011 06:48 GMT
#37048
On December 07 2011 15:39 dapierow wrote:
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On December 07 2011 15:35 gogatorsfoster wrote:
I have to agree with Day9 and Artosis. Mech is harder to do. But it could be stronger and win a higher percentage of games. Incontrol is not making the most sense to me :\.


This isnt fucking masters league where people will just spam marine tank or M&M all day, these guys are fucking proffesionals in these games and will do anything necessary to win.


What they're saying is that all terran professionals know that mech is stronger than any other strategy but since it is so hard no one will try to use it.


which is absolutely absurd.


It's not that absurd. Its like landing triple axles or whatever in figure skating. Before anyone ever successfully landed one in international competition, they still knew that IF they were successful in landing one it would basically guarantee a win based on the technical score they'd receive for such a feat. Even years after a triple axle was first landed, many skaters still would not even try to attempt them in competition, because the risk of failure was so high. It took a long time for the move to become standard.
hasuterrans
Profile Joined April 2009
United States614 Posts
December 07 2011 06:48 GMT
#37049
On December 07 2011 15:46 nekuodah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:45 hasuterrans wrote:
Sometimes Artosis is completely wrong. Lol at him saying the reason we don't see mech is b/c terran pros haven't tried it or worked on it enough. I would LOVE to hear Jinro's thoughts right now.


Jinro cries bio doesnt work vs protoss either even during the time of complete tvp domination, wouldnt exactly be a good input.


Jinro has spent quite a bit of time working on mech if I remember correctly, he's much better than Goody. Whether he qq's or not doesn't invalidate his professional opinion. Artosis himself was one of the biggest whiners in bw so should we not listen to him now?
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
December 07 2011 06:49 GMT
#37050
On December 07 2011 15:48 SheaR619 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:33 IMoperator wrote:
they need goody, avilo or jinro to talk about mech tvp


Jinro has confirm that mech is bad and same as Avilo. Goody is the only one that is still using it simply because he is insane lol. I think it bad simply because it to much risk with too little return >.>


I would take Jinro's take but not avilo's hell Avilo thinks terran is the weakest race lol.
When I think of something else, something will go here
rfoster
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1005 Posts
December 07 2011 06:50 GMT
#37051
On December 07 2011 15:36 IMoperator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:35 gogatorsfoster wrote:
I have to agree with Day9 and Artosis. Mech is harder to do. But it could be stronger and win a higher percentage of games. Incontrol is not making the most sense to me :\.

I disagree with mech being harder... mech tvt and tvz is definitely easier than marine/tank or bio.



I dont know how you can say that, in TvT specifically. The most harass you can pull off is helion drops. And bio actually tears up mech pretty well. Marauders with a good flank can really mess up tanks. Mech is harder in the fact that one mistake will lose you the game. Maybe you don't have to micro as hard, but the decisions you make and the unit movement is much harder, and more important. Mech vs zerg is also hard for me to pull off, because I don't know what to do vs mass roach drops all over the place; also if you move out too early the zerg can sometimes kill you, but if you don`t push out their economy becomes huge.
AxionSteel
Profile Joined January 2011
United States7754 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 06:50:33
December 07 2011 06:50 GMT
#37052
On December 07 2011 15:48 SheaR619 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:33 IMoperator wrote:
they need goody, avilo or jinro to talk about mech tvp


Jinro has confirm that mech is bad and same as Avilo. Goody is the only one that is still using it simply because he is insane lol. I think it bad simply because it to much risk with too little return >.>


GoOdy doesn't use it anymore, in an interview he says he is training Bio now because Mech doesn't work.

Techno
Profile Joined June 2010
1900 Posts
December 07 2011 06:50 GMT
#37053
Artosis is quickly losing any streed cred he had with me.
Mech is shit, man!
Hell, its awesome to LOSE to nukes!
nvrs
Profile Joined October 2010
Greece481 Posts
December 07 2011 06:50 GMT
#37054
On December 07 2011 15:39 Al Bundy wrote:
This discussion makes me want to swith to Terran and play mech in every game


Good luck with that bro
hasuterrans
Profile Joined April 2009
United States614 Posts
December 07 2011 06:51 GMT
#37055
On December 07 2011 15:50 AxionSteel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:48 SheaR619 wrote:
On December 07 2011 15:33 IMoperator wrote:
they need goody, avilo or jinro to talk about mech tvp


Jinro has confirm that mech is bad and same as Avilo. Goody is the only one that is still using it simply because he is insane lol. I think it bad simply because it to much risk with too little return >.>


GoOdy doesn't use it anymore, in an interview he says he is training Bio now because Mech doesn't work.



In TvP. I think he's still meching in the other matchups.
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
December 07 2011 06:51 GMT
#37056
The very few times I hit mech at GM i stomped it, even coming back from stupid worker deficits. It's just WAY too hard to deal with protoss mobility. Pure blink stalker collossi can just blink/walk into the terran main at any point and there's no way a mech army can get back up the ramp, even from the nat. As long as you dont attack into a defensive position and wait until the army's on the move you'll crush mech with any spread out robo + blink stalker composition. Incontrol's 100% right, until we see something like spider mines or more defender's advantage, mech TvP won't be viable. There's a reason Korean terrans aren't using it.
Yhamm is the god of predictions
AxionSteel
Profile Joined January 2011
United States7754 Posts
December 07 2011 06:52 GMT
#37057
On December 07 2011 15:51 hasuterrans wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2011 15:50 AxionSteel wrote:
On December 07 2011 15:48 SheaR619 wrote:
On December 07 2011 15:33 IMoperator wrote:
they need goody, avilo or jinro to talk about mech tvp


Jinro has confirm that mech is bad and same as Avilo. Goody is the only one that is still using it simply because he is insane lol. I think it bad simply because it to much risk with too little return >.>


GoOdy doesn't use it anymore, in an interview he says he is training Bio now because Mech doesn't work.



In TvP. I think he's still meching in the other matchups.

Oh yeh my bad, thought you were talking about TvP.

There's not a single player who's using mech TvP seriously apart from 2 base timings or those gimmicky thor/banshee plays.

Rainbow tries it on his stream and fails miserably

Let it Raine
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1245 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-07 06:59:34
December 07 2011 06:52 GMT
#37058
On December 07 2011 15:42 GeorgeForeman wrote:
I feel like Artosis's entire argument is predicated on the idea that Goody is horrible but still has marginal success. Therefore, Mech must be better than we think.

I find that very amusing. :-)


goody is just an example

incontrols argument is that mech sucks because no one does it.

artosis thinks mech has some potential. as far my zerg brain is aware, mech vs toss sucks because of things like blink and warp prisms. Sensor towers yes, but you still need stuff there to deal with a bunch of units being warped/blinked in. (which is ez pz while youre maxing, but hard to do if you want to kill someone without having to base race.)

also pros do what they already know. everyone does what they know. did you guys not see the entire start of sc2? cheese. cheese everywhere. there's still lots of stupid all ins, but soooo much more macro play compared to then. cheese stuck around because everyone did what they knew. macro play > all ins. everyone knew this, knows this etc. but people stuck with cheesy all ins because it was EASIER and it still won them games. It takes people to lose a lot and feel hopeless to start going crazy with innovation. (special cases not included)

in the case of mech I think everyone thinks the mobility factor isn't overcomeable (w/e) so you combine that with the fact that MMM ghost viking is still winning an insane amount, and you've got people that don't even have a REASON to try mech out.

also the conversation started not about mech, but about a tank centric army like tvz instead of pure bio just running around the map. that was a good sounding idea. I was talking to my gm terran friend and was saying how zerg deals with protoss by using awful units to transition into good units whereas terran uses mediocre units to transition into more mediocre units. there's no real late game transition. (That i've seen in tournament play anyways) I think the tank centric thing could be really, really good.

anyways that's my thoughts on the strategy talk. (keep this segment coming)





Grandmaster Zerg x14. Diamond 1 LoL. MLG 50, Halo 3. Raine.
stratman
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada110 Posts
December 07 2011 06:55 GMT
#37059
There are obviously builds and ways to play the game that haven't been worked out yet. Artosis was saying that he thinks mech TvP is among them. Day9 was saying he thinks that might be the case. Incontrol was saying it's not possible.

The fact that no one is using it is does NOT mean that it's not possible - incontrol was wrong for saying this. But it does suggest it might be hard to get to work (or bad).

Don't see why anyone would get upset about this. There's no proof either way. It's not possible to know right now what the game will look like in a year.
VanGarde
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden755 Posts
December 07 2011 06:57 GMT
#37060
This is why so many people do not improve at Starcraft 2, it is much easier to just make statements on the internet and declare this and that impossible. I am a bit surprised that so many people here are so arrogant as to think that there is nothing more to figure out in this game. I mean, before the infestor patch no one ever made infestors, then they nerfed them and I bet you even if they nerfed them back to the old style infestor they would be used still cause zergs figured out how to use them.

The same goes for mech in TvT, hell that did not even take a patch. No one, NO ONE, not even the pro's used mech in TvT for pretty much the entire life span of Sc2. I guess a week before the koreans started meching anyone could had used the same arguments that are being flung around here right now. "if pro's are not meching in tvt then it can't be good" etc. Yet over night, people figured out how to mech in TvT and suddenly it was so strong that blizzard actually had to patch the hellion to make marines more durable against them.

Don't come here and say that there is no way to make mech work in TvP.
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