Archons, the epic comeback! - Page 7

mufin

United States616 Posts

September 06 2010 01:34 GMT

#121

On September 06 2010 10:03 SC2Phoenix wrote:
Surprised people didnt know about this. Their was a couple threads back in beta about this.

I saw the sentry/collosus/vortex insta-gib trick as well as the nuke one (which kinda requries 2v2 to be done effectively) back in beta. After reading blizz's patch note about ff unable to trap units coming out of a vortex I thought the "trick" was fixed. Even if the ff part wasn't nerfed, doing this with archons would be much more effective as it insta-gibs air units as well.

Maybe *crosses fingers* this might give blizz incentive to change the mothership up a bit. Wishful thinking is all it is for now

Shissar

Netherlands15 Posts

September 13 2010 07:41 GMT

#122

I have been testing this strat with a zerg friend of mine in 2v2. We just get our normal build (i only tend to go to stargate istead of robo). We stop initial rushes and expand. I will start teching to mothership and he will get some banelings out. After we got both we can defend easily against anything bio. So we will go anti air and we are safe. Last night we had a league game against 2 zerg players they went hydra / roach. And they had 2 full 200psi armys. We had some muta's robo and bio. They attack I vortex and pull the one hydra army in the vortex. My friend puts about 15banelings in there. And BOOM about 160psi worth of hydra's destroyed by 15banelings. His noobish friend still attacks. So i put my second vortex down. And boom again 160psi gone. They rage quit

When you do this try to put your vortex on the end of the stream of units so if he tries to flee his units AI might sent them in the vortex.

Ofcourse we are only rank 2 silver so not sure if it would work in diamond.

But when you are in 2v2 as Zerg Toss. Just get a mothership when you can spare the money. And you will have the best defence against bio balls. You can go archon but it is so expensive i dont think its really viable.