Planetary Fotress Weakness - Page 8

Otakusan United States. September 16 2010 12:47. Posts 26 Profile #
that pro comment was intended as a joke right? i can't tell.

edit: okay yeah it was a joke. i'm a nub.

On September 16 2010 08:14 craaaaack wrote:
lol did they advertise for tl on romanian tv or wtf is up with this thread?

On September 16 2010 11:40 SnowFantasy wrote:
We V-Tec players have been doing this for years...

On September 16 2010 10:19 Slayer91 wrote:
We v-tech players have been doing micro like this for years.
Stops the planetary fortress rush dead in its tracks. Cue benny hill music.

On September 16 2010 13:04 Purind wrote:


You were beat by roughly a page

On September 16 2010 07:31 oesis wrote:
I estimate it would only take around 15 or 20 minutes to bring down a planetary fortress with a 3-0 adrenal gland ling.

On September 16 2010 07:31 oesis wrote:
I have recently discovered a trick that allow you defeat a planetary fortress with a single Zergling.

Well some units in sc2 do not fire instantly, if you ever look you will notice some units have to face there targets before firing. In fact blizzard initially intended this to be an important part of the Thor, where it would have a slow turning rate and fast units could kite around it. Well as it turns out this same strategy can be applied to planetary fortresses. You see if you can move around the planetary fortress faster than it can turn it can never actually fire.

To take advantage of this you need a lair and ling speed, optional upgrades that make this easier are adrenal glands, melee attack upgrades, and overlord speed. As it turns out the 1 ground unit that moves faster than a planetary fortress can turn is a ling on creep(well a charge lot might but it wouldn't be controllable). Anyways all you have to do is drop creep directly on top of a planetary fortress with an overlord then run around it with a ling, attacking it every once in a while. I estimate it would only take around 15 or 20 minutes to bring down a planetary fortress with a 3-0 adrenal gland ling.

As long as a player has sufficient micro to pull this off, planetary fortresses should no longer pose any threat. I think this could even become a hallmark of high level play, where a player micro's against a planetary for 5 minutes straight while still having to macro in his base.

Ling running around Planetary


Note: I don't kill the planetary in the replay, I only take around 300 hp off of it with the ling before messing up.
Ling vs Planetary Replay

As long as a player has sufficient micro to pull this off, planetary fortresses should no longer pose any threat. I think this could even become a hallmark of high level play, where a player micro's against a planetary for 5 minutes straight while still having to macro in his base.

On September 16 2010 14:32 Budzlight wrote:


This is indeed not high level play material. Here's 2 simple things that make this almost impossible.

1. Being that you would have about 2 sec to macro/look at base/ and counter the terrans forces makes this.....
2. HELLIONS. Typical ZvT has hellions and with there speed they would be there in a heart beat.

On September 16 2010 14:23 Fantistic wrote:


This is the reason why no one will do this.

On September 16 2010 07:36 garett wrote:
oh yeah, and the terran will of course let you just run around the pf for 5 minutes.. instead of sending like one marine and ending this "weakness"