EPTOn April 06 2011 23:22 Blacklizard wrote:
I always like to read these things, too. I do feel for the arguments, but I still have a big problem with Amulet going away. Terran have almost all the harass and scary dps options. Late game amulet kept Protoss on even footing. I think game 4 of this match (below) is pretty good proof of how Terran has so much forgiveness in their play and Protoss does not... and without Amulet you sometimes can't find holes in the enemy to exploit. EMP is a big deal without amulet. Teching backwards to Colossus late game is dangerous because vikings can pop really fast. See game 4, where P was ahead the whole game, ahead on upgrades, defended everything, harassed some (dark templar had 7 kills after the hellions got probe kills), made almost no mistakes, and then... well just watch if you haven't already:
http://www.gomtv.net/2011championship/vod/64329
I always like to read these things, too. I do feel for the arguments, but I still have a big problem with Amulet going away. Terran have almost all the harass and scary dps options. Late game amulet kept Protoss on even footing. I think game 4 of this match (below) is pretty good proof of how Terran has so much forgiveness in their play and Protoss does not... and without Amulet you sometimes can't find holes in the enemy to exploit. EMP is a big deal without amulet. Teching backwards to Colossus late game is dangerous because vikings can pop really fast. See game 4, where P was ahead the whole game, ahead on upgrades, defended everything, harassed some (dark templar had 7 kills after the hellions got probe kills), made almost no mistakes, and then... well just watch if you haven't already:
http://www.gomtv.net/2011championship/vod/64329
I have seen that game too. Just because Tastosis said the tactic was superior doesn´t mean it´s automatically true. Watch the game again: After the 13 minutes(videotime, 19 or so in gametime) San did some bad engagements, suffered harass etc. so he completely lost his advantage until the final fight. Then, both had roughly the same supply and San had a pretty bad composition. MVP had almost as many vikings as San had Stalkers, while most of the army was Colossi too. He also lost lots of HT by having them in front of his army, then after catching EMP he morphed them right in front of the enemy army. He even transitioned into DT twice(2 DT shrines), the second DTs just didn´t do anything, because the bases were already DT-proof.
The opening of San was awesome, but he got chipped to death. It´s no matter of forgiveness of the race.
