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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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BlueScrote
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czartim said:
Do you mean no gateways or having gateways, but not upgrading them to warpgates?
I still havent gotten used to upgrading to warpgates because I'm not used to them.
A no gateway at all strategy would probably be prettytough, since they are the bread n butter protoss units.
No.czartim said:
at best you can try some sort of warpray rush, but robo and stargate cant hold off t1 units in mass. they need support and protoss air to ground is terribly weak. at the very least you'd need sentries and some good forcefields to make an all robo army viable and that will be very hard on your gas.
FFFE into 4 gas into sentry/robo vs zerg would be the only situation where it might be viable IMO. [and youll have to be very on point with forcefields to keep zerglings off you.
if you have and use gateways, there's no reason not to get warpgates.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
DemiMatt said:
I'll be watching, and waiting for one of you in the next round. *sinister laugh*
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Pandaman said:
Haha. Don't worry, you'll get more.
thunker 9000
Member
JWong said:
I dunno, is it cheese tho? I pump an observer out and scout them. If they don't have detection/air, I wall off and go for DT's. Pump out a warp prism and get some stalkers to watch my ramp.
If they do have detection, I usuually go with stalkers/sentrys/Charge Zelots and get some weapon/armor upgrades.
Its working pretty well for me
Well, I forgot the cost, but it's like 50-100 mineral and gas?czartim said:
That's pretty cheap for the extreme advantage it gives you. Especially defensively.
Oh, you said proxy rush. Warp Prism isn't exactly proxy...Pookaki said:I dunno, is it cheese tho? I pump an observer out and scout them. If they don't have detection/air, I wall off and go for DT's. Pump out a warp prism and get some stalkers to watch my ramp.
If they do have detection, I usuually go with stalkers/sentrys/Charge Zelots and get some weapon/armor upgrades.
Its working pretty well for me
Wow, that was a weird bug. Played 2v2. Got a pause a few times due to a player on the other team. A few minutes later we rushed one of their bases (the guy that wasn't lagging). Then the other guy left the game, it said that I was slowing down the game (in text at the top left; never seen that before). All of the sudden it says we won, and when I look at the game stats, I'm not listed. :lol :lol
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Mil and Panda - What time will you guys be playing.
I wanna watch that one
I wanna watch that one
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Milabrega said:
Relevant to my interests, just don't make it at 8ish, so we all can watch Demi v Alumnus.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
fanboi said:
It's dangerous to do in 2v2, relies on what you scout because most people just want to rush. If you are going to do it, though, I'd recommend a spawning pool first, so 14-pool 15-hatch or something along those lines.
For myself, I decide if I expand depending on the race and whether they wall off. I never expand real fast if it's against a zerg, but if it's terran or protoss, it's safer.
If I see the opponents wall off or build choke bases around the ramp, I go for the expansion. Otherwise, I stick with one base until I have enough roaches to do mobile defense.
Edit: I was third about 1am, but now I'm first. Guess I'm moving up to silver soon.
If I see the opponents wall off or build choke bases around the ramp, I go for the expansion. Otherwise, I stick with one base until I have enough roaches to do mobile defense.
Edit: I was third about 1am, but now I'm first. Guess I'm moving up to silver soon.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
He is gonna claim your soul
NovemberMike
Member
NemesisPrime said:
Yeah, this isn't true at all. IIRC at the top level in starcraft there is actually a split between the players that view micro as the all important skill and those that see macro as being the thing to train. You can rape somebody by having the right unit composition and not being absolutely retarded at micro or by having the best micro ever and not totally messing up unit production and economy.
LOL
so one of the many rich poker players that used to be good broodwar players, Smuft (P) is betting $5000 that he can beat Idra (Z) in a Bo5 with a week's training. Idra is putting up $500 of his own money, and other people are backing him up with the rest hoping to double up.
It's awesome how there are so many rich poker players willing to toss money at Starcraft. Smuft has also been hosting a bunch of tournaments with $500 prizes with the help of some other poker players.
so one of the many rich poker players that used to be good broodwar players, Smuft (P) is betting $5000 that he can beat Idra (Z) in a Bo5 with a week's training. Idra is putting up $500 of his own money, and other people are backing him up with the rest hoping to double up.
It's awesome how there are so many rich poker players willing to toss money at Starcraft. Smuft has also been hosting a bunch of tournaments with $500 prizes with the help of some other poker players.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Im almost praying for cheeseZzoram said:
Jokey665 said:
It's a super long thread.
It starts around here as a lot of "I'm better than you":
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=117936¤tpage=20
but takes a few pages before they grind out a grudge match with conditions and a prize
NovemberMike
Member
Corran Horn said:
idra probably won't cheese. He's pretty hardcore about that kind of stuff from what I know.
