On April 27 2009 12:56 Purind wrote:
Tanks are clumped and have 1 hp and are sieged

Zealots are modified in the map editor to have enhanced stats

oh true they could all have 1hp, unsieged. and lose? -shrug-
Who really cares though? pointless OP =/
(unless he has something clever)

n.DieJokes

United States3443 Posts

April 27 2009 05:01 GMT

#22

The map tile set is shield batteries?

Hot_Bid

Braavos36388 Posts

April 27 2009 20:33 GMT

#23

the tanks are allied with the zealots so the tanks dont attack, zealots win
the tanks don't actually exist they are imaginary, zealots win
the tanks have 0 hp and instantly die, zealots win
the tanks are not actually tanks but are actually zealots with 0 hp, zealots win
the zealots are fenixes and have 10000 hp, zealots win

Chef

10810 Posts

April 27 2009 20:38 GMT

#24

You can wave the white flag if you want, I'm still gonna blow your ass up if I don't like you.

Hot_Bid

Braavos36388 Posts

April 27 2009 20:44 GMT

#25

On April 28 2009 05:38 Chef wrote:
You can wave the white flag if you want, I'm still gonna blow your ass up if I don't like you.

what? are you talking to me or him

because my solutions to his problem fit perfectly given what he's said in this thread

Chef

10810 Posts

April 27 2009 21:01 GMT

#26

Him. He said "The solution is to surrender." It's like saying "ALLY VIC PLZ."

Your solutions were beautiful and I feel wiser from having read them

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

April 27 2009 21:16 GMT

#27

burrow the zealots they'll never find you

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

April 27 2009 22:25 GMT

#28

I think that you don't need to worry about this problem, just pick terran.

The 10 tanks should win no problem.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

April 27 2009 22:31 GMT

#29

do the zeals have legs and do the tanks have seige? If so
9 tanks in a very tight circular clump. all the zeals run into the middle of that clump, other tank blasts it all to hell. Remainder zeal runs to 1 tank and rapes due to unseige.

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

April 27 2009 22:36 GMT

#30

Oh I definitely solved it this time!

LastShadow made the map specifically to play PvT!

Sparkwind

United States42 Posts

April 27 2009 23:24 GMT

#31

if you focus ten siege tanks on one zealot at a time, it is game.

every here is assuming they are siege mode.

why use them in any other mode. siege tank = siege mode.

if all i've got are three zealots, that probably means i've underproduced units, screwed up my economy, or been heavily attacked and taken heavy casualties by that point.

sure i can do the theorizing with the best of them.

ten siege tanks - if it were an ally game perhaps they are all hallucinations.
ten siege tanks - where's my arbiter? stasis them, cloak my zealots.
ten siege tanks - shuttle my zealots in
ten siege tanks - except i have ten stargates and ten carriers in queue 90%!
ten siege tanks - corsairs baby
three zealots - and my army of dark templar!
three zealots - run one in if they are all sieged then send in my SEAL TEAM
three zealots - i got speed - i run and kill all their workers first because i'm closer to their base!

not everything is tactical based on the situation. some situations you just got to assess correctly and save yourself time.

lingering over a loss is traumatic to yourself, and everyone around you.

Nytefish

United Kingdom4282 Posts

April 27 2009 23:48 GMT

#32

Well you'd both lose since neither of you have buildings. If it's a UMS with that trigger disabled then you can only win if your opponent quits first.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

April 27 2009 23:59 GMT

#33

On April 28 2009 08:24 Sparkwind wrote:
if all i've got are three zealots, that probably means i've underproduced units, screwed up my economy, or been heavily attacked and taken heavy casualties by that point.

3 Zealots vs. 10 Tanks could just possibly be a situation where you have 4 bases vs. his 2 and more production. Maybe you just need to thin his tank count.

Because of the vague definition of "win" in this situation (defeating him is obviously not possible, but coming out ahead on resources is), you can't really come up with a serious adequate answer.

Honestly, I can't see what answers you expected to get, unless you were intentionally trolling.

Sparkwind

United States42 Posts

April 28 2009 00:17 GMT

#34

if the scenario was not adequately descriptive, and that is causing maddening analysis, let me explain a little background.

there was an argument with a yahoo starcraft moderator, in which my statement that
you don't need to lose units to win a StarCraft game. brought heavy criticism from that moderator. his point was that it was acceptable to him to send in units without any regard for their well being. my refutation, was that generals who care about their units well being win more battles.

would you rather be seeing how many units you have alive after a battle, or counting how many dead.

that was erased from my posts on that thread.

in my first post here, i made reference to things i was ranting about, and people started going ballistic about that comment. i actually wrote something to the effect "the theory that good strategy includes acceptable losses is bad theory".

it got me banned from my own blog (lol), and so i started a strategy blog post for those people who were still debating it. bunch of people jumped on here starting to analyze it for fun, which is cool, however some people didn't see the point of why i posted.

that's about it - if there's anything else let me know.

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

April 28 2009 00:24 GMT

#35

On April 27 2009 12:31 Sparkwind wrote:
three zealots.
ten siege tanks.

any way to win?

there are no other units in queue, there are no other units not mentioned.

On April 27 2009 12:39 Sparkwind wrote:
most players send those zealots in.

i call that a strategic error. the right play in this situation is surrender - it is an option.

Since when does surrendering = winning?

lesser_good

Canada698 Posts

April 28 2009 00:26 GMT

#36

wasn't this closed

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

April 28 2009 00:29 GMT

#37

On April 28 2009 09:17 Sparkwind wrote:
there was an argument with a yahoo starcraft moderator, in which my statement that
you don't need to lose units to win a StarCraft game. brought heavy criticism from that moderator. his point was that it was acceptable to him to send in units without any regard for their well being. my refutation, was that generals who care about their units well being win more battles.

As much as I doubt the intelligence of Yahoo moderators, I have a suspicion that you're oversimplifying his position. Blindly suiciding units won't let you win, but LOGICALLY giving up units in key situations (e.g. suiciding a force of relatively cheap and easily replaced zealots to thin the tank count) goes farther toward winning than reducing every loss possible. To use an extreme example, if you could use a single zealot bomb on a tank formation to take out 3 tanks, why WOULDN'T you?

On April 28 2009 09:17 Sparkwind wrote:
would you rather be seeing how many units you have alive after a battle, or counting how many dead.

Neither. Its a combination of both, your position on the map, and what else you have in the background. Starcraft is complex enough that you can't reduce most encounters to a single number, or a binary decision of "win" or "lose". Whether suiciding those 3 zealots into 10 tanks was a win for you depends on so many other factors such as how quickly you can replace the zealots, how quickly he can replace the tanks, how much the resources cut out of your mining, how critical the zealots might have been to something else, what potential damage the tanks might cause before you can muster a force to beat them, etc.

Faronel

United States658 Posts

April 28 2009 01:15 GMT

#38

This thread is running off of nothing.

Sparkwind

United States42 Posts

April 28 2009 02:36 GMT

#39

answer to the blog post
(final - there are other answers BUT DONT RAMBLE THE THREAD)

for the terran in that scenario the answer is a 90% probability of a yes.
for the protoss in that scenario the answer is a 10% probability of a yes.

given that both bases are in the early stage of the game.

--> this is a important point made in the comments - and i was a bit dense about evaluating it from that perspective - at what stage in the game, and what transpired earlier in the game, the mindset of both players, it is quite possible the terran may quit if he doesn't not know that the other player only has three zealots and suspects a massive decoy effort, and so on.

regarding the yahoo moderator - believe me he was stubborn about his position about how he viewed troops. and i was stubborn about how i view mine.

there is value in keeping your units alive. if you don't mind losing a game to a pro or whoever you play, just try playing the game that way with the focus on trying to keep as many units alive as possible. you might see what i'm talking about.

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

April 28 2009 02:47 GMT

#40

You didn't include that in the original question. Your answer involves information that you never shared with us, so the 'correct' answer was unattainable.

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