Khaydarin amulet analysis - Page 43

OP, the scope of your analysis is limited. So they take about the same amount of time to construct, but what about the investment and time required to even make the unit in the first place, let alone use its abilities? How does the addition of the unit effect the capability of your army, the size of your army? Its the scope of the ability to obtain this unit and use it, as follows:

Ghost: Supply Depot, Barracks, Ghost Academy, Ghost. 30, 60, 40, 40, 170 seconds. 100, 150, 150/50, 150/150. 550/200 minerals and gas required to get one ghost, complete with EMP.

Templar: Pylon, Gateway, Cybernetics Core, Warpgate Reseach, Twilight Council, Templar Archive, Storm Research, Templar. 25, 65, 50, 140(93), 50, 50, 110(73), 5, 545 seconds (451 with chronoboost). 100, 150, 150, 50/50, 150/100, 150/200, 200/200, 50/150, 1000/700 minerals and gas required to get one templar with storm.

The above is the minimum time required and minimum resources required to obtain 1 of either unit. Please, no silly arguments about "its not that simple" because yes, no idiot would believe the game works like that. The point is, the required time and resources to gain 1 templar with storm minus Khaydarin is ridiculously more expensive and time consuming for a protoss player over a terran's ghost which requires no additional time or resources to upgrade EMP or even Snipe.

Have some of you even considered the fact that the protoss army already requires a massive gas investment as compared to the gas requirement for a terran bio army, the choice army many detractors use in the matchup?

Khaydarin exists for the reason to allow templars to catch up with the progression of the game. Drop harrass, mutalisks, are well defended by a templar warping into his base (a base that will take him a long time to get out of to join the main army) - but remember, a templar becomes virtually useless for the next 2 minutes while it regains energy for another storm. Again, consider the gas investment required for this one attack, which was not spent on the actual army, and an attack that can be dodged as well.

I find it foolish for any player to find any fault in the way templar works or even the advantage of the amulet. Should not the advantage be given to the enemy player through all the time they have to scout and prepare for approaching templars?

Indeed, a macroing player only has themself to blame for allowing a protoss to gain the advantage - an army with significant templar support, without doing anything to hinder their progress. Blizzard has not given the PvT matchup nowhere near the required time to transition into different builds. I even believe the ghost is severely underused in the matchup and I'm sure many abusive strategies involving it are waiting to be discovered.