Official Starcraft Thread

What I don’t get is why don’t terran go for emps? I would think it would work really well against carriers huddled to together. A starport is needed to continue armory upgrade anyway isn’t it?

Science Facility but yeah.

And vessel + EMP takes some multi-tasking to keep them alive (ie. not floating them above a billion dragoons or something, EMPing and then taking advantage of it quickly) and they take up a bunch of gas…
But Flash does it. He expands pretty aggressively and defends amazingly well which lets him have the gas to get fast ups and vessels. Mostly uses them against arbiters which prevents recalls/stasis, among other things.

i’m home early, looking to game for the evening…

i’m on west, in SRK holla at me^

I’m going to lose a lot of games before I start winning =/

you guys can put up replays here if you want

http://www.battlereports.com/viewreplays.php

GG’s tonight in the games i played/observed. Chaotic Blue is pretty good.

The only time I saw ghosts used against carriers the Terran player lost.

i saw one korean vid were he won with ghost and other stuff

hey i’m on East,

Sn: Zim_Lee

anyone else on? I’m in the channel SRk and no one is here.

Edit: That’s my SN on West too.

Who is Holtwife?

It has a lot to do with resource investment. Ghosts just appear too late in the game (barracks + factory + science facility + covert ops) and require a lot of gas which can be used better in other units.

Yeah, I was on West tonight and seemingly wasn’t allowed to even observe any matches. :confused: Maybe next time?

BNet SN: Iceman20.

This will probably get lost in the shuffle, but are any of these RTS games on the level of Starcraft or Warcraft 3: TFT (in terms of depth, quality, tournaments, longevity)?

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

No.

Age Of Empires II:
Only game with potential on the list but its biggest problem compared to SC and WC3 is the MUCH longer games.
Age Of Empires 3:
If ES kept with vanilla and just improved the game from there instead of adding xpacks and new civs I think AOE3 would’ve been a popular game, but they killed it with two xpacks and 6 new civs.
CNC Zero Hour:
Major imbalances otherwise good game, plus EA has shitty support.
Company of Heroes:
The expansion killed the community
Supreme Commander:
Never played it

Games suck

EDIT: Red Alert 3 is probably going to suck too.
And I’m an optimist

gg today bachho.

Sorry my internet went out. I jsut got it baCk and my roommates want to do a 2v2. We can play again later if you’re still on.

Btw at what time during the game can you find the most games on East/West?

gg. No prob, I’ll catch you another time. Looks like people are randomly on throughout the evening, so keep checking srk channel to find games i guess.

gg’s on west today.

anyone got a spare cd key o.0

I honestly used to just make up CD keys randomly ;(

Honestly, I think sc2 is going to suck. The same guy that made red alert is making it. boo.