A Starcraft Question

[Garth Vader]

Try and get the tanks when they are moving. I like a mixed force of zealots and dragoons.

I am a big far of Archons, but if a human player is using EMP Archons bite.

[Footie Mad]

The protoss "slugs" are called reavers and scarabs are the missiles they fire.

[DinoDoc]

Reaver drops are the best way to deal with a Terran in vanilla SC.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Garth Vader
I am a big far of Archons, but if a human player is using EMP Archons bite.

That's why I love Dark Archons. Feedback will pretty much take out a Science Vessel, and even if it doesn't destroy it you'll still be safe from its EMP for awhile.

[Dauphin]

Using mind control to take over an SCV and a Zerg Drone (?) is wonderful. You can have three armies for the price of one.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by loinburger
That's why I love Dark Archons. Feedback will pretty much take out a Science Vessel,

Mind control will net you the Science Vessel though.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Mind control will net you the Science Vessel though.

Sure, but then my Dark Archon is useless and vulnerable. Science Vessels usually aren't worth it, IMO--their abilities aren't very effective against Terrans (though Defensive Matrix is nice for Reaver drops), and I don't need another unit that can detect cloaked units (since mine are cheaper and better). The only time I'll take any kind of risk to snag a Science Vessel is when there are also Zerg on the map, since Irradiate is killer against them; usually I'll save my Dark Archons for real prizes, like Battlecruisers, SCV's, or Dropships.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by loinburger
I'll save my Dark Archons for real prizes, like Battlecruisers or SCV's.

SCVs? What good would they be? If anyone lets you tech your way up past marines, you've won already.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
SCVs? What good would they be?

They're useful for repairing my stolen Battlecruisers.

[DinoDoc]

Good point.

[monolith94]

"Using mind control to take over an SCV and a Zerg Drone (?) is wonderful. You can have three armies for the price of one."
Wrong. You get three armies for the price of three armies, albeit it's still nice to have three armies.
I only play as Protoss! It just makes me feel oh so civilized. Those pathetic fuzzies and scalies can't stand up to our combined military forces!
The favorite things I like about the Protoss:
Flexible defence, Cannons are really cheap and easy, terrifically mass-produceable. Nothing quite like seeing a row of 20+ photon cannons.
Observers. Information is critical too success. Know your enemy, and you can counter him.
Basically everything about the protoss rock. Reavers are the ultimate anti-invasionary weapon. I'll never forget being mass-rushed by countless numbers of zerg grunt attackers, and watching them be slaughtered by my small amount of cannons, zealots, and especially reavers.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by monolith94
"Using mind control to take over an SCV and a Zerg Drone (?) is wonderful. You can have three armies for the price of one."
Wrong. You get three armies for the price of three armies, albeit it's still nice to have three armies.

Doesn't each "army" have its own supply limit of 200. Therefore you can have an army three times the size of anyone else.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by monolith94
Nothing quite like seeing a row of 20+ photon cannons.

You're the reason why I hate playing on Big Game Hunters.

Doesn't each "army" have its own supply limit of 200.

IIRC, no.

[SnowFire]

Yeah, each army has a supply limit of 200, but it's rare enough that you hit even that on most maps. The "steal another race and use their supply" strategy is generally only useful on massive huge 8 player Free For All maps with tons of resources. Team games, or smaller maps, go too fast for it to be even remotely profitable.

[loinburger]

Battlecruisers and Ultralisks also take up so many supplies that most of the time even if I steal some drones/SCVs it's not really worth it to build up the enemy's tech tree. It's not so bad with stolen Zerg units (since Overlords are useful in their own right, and Ultralisks take quite a few supplies but not an ungodly number), but I've got to build a supply depot for each stolen Battlecruiser before I can begin churning out any Marines, and by that time the game's probably over.