If you stack non-tank units into tanks and siege them, will the non-tanks stay put after the forcefields disappear? Because I can think of nothing more terrifying than a tank filled with Banelings.

synapse

China13814 Posts

September 04 2010 03:12 GMT

#24

Float a few buildings over random places around the stacked tanks and glhf :D

love1another

United States1844 Posts

September 04 2010 03:17 GMT

#25

On September 04 2010 11:43 Sanguinarius wrote:
Interesting. Dont know how useful.

If you don't remember how powerful tank lines were in BW, watch some TvT replays of BW. This basically means you can get an unbreakable ground defense. Awesomesauce.

MaestroSC

United States2073 Posts

September 04 2010 03:20 GMT

#26

but if someone gets inside the range of ur siegemode ALL of ur tanks are gone...

I am no genius.. but i think spreading them out is still better for obv. reasons.

Fluent

United States32 Posts

September 04 2010 03:22 GMT

#27

On September 04 2010 11:18 bobbeh wrote:
Or you could push a line of siege tank forward without unsieging

Ichabod

United States1659 Posts

September 04 2010 03:25 GMT

#28

Could most likely do something similar with vortex *if you siege them at the exact same time, or right after they come out*

babolatt

Canada312 Posts

September 04 2010 03:30 GMT

#29

I'd be interested to see how hit detection works on these stacked tanks. What happens if they get attacked? Does one tank get hit or do all tanks get hit?

oesis

117 Posts

September 04 2010 03:33 GMT

#30

bobbeh, you cant push sieged tanks with ff. Sieged tanks react the same way to force fields when sieged as buidlings, which is not at all. You could actually place a ff directly on top of a siege tank to defend it from lings.

Kpyolysis32, units that are stacked with tanks with spread out after force field ends, unless they are are trapped, like between the tanks and a wall.

Vokasak

United States388 Posts

September 04 2010 04:19 GMT

#31

The only time I can see this being useful is if you need to have a lot of firepower at some critical location, like overlooking your choke on Blistering Sands. Thirty tanks at max range is better than 1 or 2 at max range and the rest at various distances behind them, especially with no overkill, etc etc. If the choke is narrow enough you can be reasonably safe from splash.

I don't see this being practical though, especially since you need two races to pull it off.

aG.Admirai

Canada55 Posts

September 04 2010 04:24 GMT

#32

On September 04 2010 11:20 gogogadgetflow wrote:

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You have activated my trapcard: Its 30 siege tanks!

^this. but yea, thats pretty sick

Keitzer

United States2509 Posts

September 04 2010 04:40 GMT

#33

On September 04 2010 11:04 sicajung wrote:
and what is the goal of having this "ff-staking-thing" actually?

like poster above you stated.... TP 2v2

Ebrithril

Canada28 Posts

September 04 2010 04:48 GMT

#34

Although not practical in this scenario, could it be made into something useful? What about on enemy units? A perfect circle around a large group of zealots or something in order to compress them into one bite sized storm for your handful of high temps? Could lead to a very cost effective exchange assuming you could ever afford the gas to get high temps as well as a fair few sentries.

iCanada

Canada10660 Posts

September 04 2010 04:56 GMT

#35

So, would it be possible for a Protoss player to, say, stack five or six zealots together so that they all hit and move together? If it works like the Muta magic box i'd assume that you could move them without them being unstacked, and then you could stop them as they reached a target for an instant kill.

If possible, this could give Protoss players a huge melee advantage as theywouldn't have to worry about surrounds or anything like that, they could just all attack at the same time.

EDIT: Nvm, i'm an idiot.

<.<

Piski

Finland3461 Posts

September 04 2010 06:06 GMT

#36

Funny tactic :o Not so useful but funny

oesis

117 Posts

September 05 2010 00:49 GMT

#37

Ichabod, I checked it out, and yes you can siege tanks on top of each other following a vortex, nice find. On the down side you can't stack pre-sieged tanks on top of each other with a vortex because vortex forces tanks to unsiege.