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Abokasee
10-01-2006, 5:24 AM
When I play against protoss (im eng by the way so you might not be able help) protoss in late mid game build as many Carreir as they can it's really noobish can any tell me how counter this with Zerg
Ahzz
10-01-2006, 6:14 AM
well its your stupidity in letting him get so far in the first place but, if he's doing carriers, it means he cannot move out without easily being defeated. So, take really many expansions, I mean alot, and make high tech. hydras, devourers, defilers for possible plague and maybe darkswarm. if he only has carriers and no corsairs etc some scourges focusfired on different carriers can be good too.
lammas
10-01-2006, 6:39 AM
thats not nearly the gayest, this is the gayest.
blupp74
10-01-2006, 7:21 AM
thats not nearly the gayest, this is the gayest.

Yeah, that was pretty gay. But it worked.
Would have preferred to see you crush him though.
Glordag
10-01-2006, 11:42 AM
Indeed, that about takes the cake.
own3d0406
10-01-2006, 12:31 PM
This is why you never vote democrat.
DBCooper
10-01-2006, 1:06 PM
I would, for the record, like to say that the word "gay" does NOT mean stupid.
blupp74
10-01-2006, 1:15 PM
I would, for the record, like to say that the word "gay" does NOT mean stupid.

I can't honestly say I'm 100% sure of its meaning, but to me it's something like "that was so incredibly cheesy I can't believe I fell for that". If it succeeds, that is. If it fails, it's more "that was so incredibly lame, I can't believe you bothered to try that".
ShadeZ
10-01-2006, 6:27 PM
I know what it means! It means happy.

So the people who make use of these tactics are very happy people
Glordag
10-01-2006, 7:28 PM
Or is it the tactic itself that is happy? I guess that would require sentience. That tactic did not seem sentient to me. It seemed very orchestrated. I bet it couldn't adapt. So, in fact, the tactic may not be gay, but instead, it may be quite lame.
WickedImposter
10-01-2006, 8:16 PM
ANYWAYS *nudges back to topic* i tihnk that it is pretty stupid to let a toss tech to carriers. and ds+hyra would work well.
Ixion
10-01-2006, 8:47 PM
I would say the description of "gay" is quite fitting.
kharaa
10-02-2006, 2:06 PM
INCREDIBLY EASY to counter,

As i'm a zerg player and have been for the 9 years i've played sc..

Hydralisks+Defiler=Airkiller, 12-16 hydras 2-6 zerglings and a defiler or 2, can defeat and OBLIERATE any form of airforce out there, first you swarm, move hydras under, and plague. use zerglings to recharge your energy with consume. rinse and repeat if the guy is smart enough to get the fuck outta there.

Edit: Also some devourers couldn ot hurt at all, not for their damage output, but the amount of extra damage they grant, 9 spores on a big pack of carriers? lol, hydra does 10+3+9=21 damage a hit, thats a hero hydra basically, say you have a mass of the things, 100 hero hydras. O_O omgwinbbq.

Zerg imho is the most effective are defeating airforce, as darkswarm defeats all ranged weaponry other then tank's seige. ensnare makes it easier to take them down, after doing all this ensnare and if he runs, cast a swarm in his path, and run hydras under there and FOCUS fire.
WickedImposter
10-02-2006, 5:04 PM
plague also can help. but defilers are the most essential part of this combination.
ShadeZ
10-02-2006, 9:52 PM
Well you never know, players like reach have pulled this off successfully so you still have to be careful.
WickedImposter
10-03-2006, 5:06 PM
i know, but in a normal non-pro game, you shoudnt let them tech carriers. and if you do you should at least have some type of counter ready once they have carriers ready.
Glordag
10-03-2006, 10:42 PM
Actually, I think the question is still fitting even aside from the "you shouldn't let them tech carriers without being prepared" argument. I've played a couple of FFA's now where I'll eliminate one person, but the other was left more or less alone. The end result? Carriers, of course. It's hard to have the perfect force ready when you just wasted quite a lot of your resources on taking out that other person. It's really interesting to come up with ways to recover QUICKLY and counter carriers starting from more or less nothing but the tech.
Sambo83
10-04-2006, 3:20 AM
lol... then your FFA strategy blows balls. You never want to sacrifice your force taking someone out.. it's like these newbshits I see.. I'll double expo in FFA, and some muffing idiot will zeal rush me.. of course he gets raped byt he 3rd guy, but that never entered his mind.
Glordag
10-04-2006, 5:24 AM
lol, it has a lot less to do with strategy than it does circumstance. It's hard to control who you get into a fight with and when. Personally, I think it's a lot less "n00b" to deal with a threat as it comes to you and counter than it is to turtle up and tech. And, as you said yourself, if you try to out-expo everyone you can fall to a single person going all-out on you pretty easily. *shrug* The point was merely that there -are- circumstances in which carriers will crop up when you aren't necessarily prepared.
Cpt.Chronic
10-04-2006, 11:47 AM
Gayest toss strat ever is to proxy gates in a terran's base (or you can do it just outside if it's not a wallable map), zealot rush, and if he bunkers, build a forge and cannon push to his CC while protecting cannons with zeals.
U-238
10-04-2006, 12:09 PM
Gayest toss strat ever is to proxy gates in a terran's base (or you can do it just outside if it's not a wallable map), zealot rush, and if he bunkers, build a forge and cannon push to his CC while protecting cannons with zeals.

Amen to that. And yet when you're the one doing it it's so damn funney :D
WickedImposter
10-04-2006, 4:35 PM
lol. but its just so damn hard to counter that. -_-;;
TitanWing
10-11-2006, 12:57 AM
Whenever I hear the word "gay", I think of homosexual...

though lame seems to be the new meaning...
Scourge_Splitter
10-11-2006, 7:16 AM
I have only to say.

when u are the one using this tactic and it works... good game.
when u are the one wwho has to battle against this tactic... you sure waited long before destroying him.

the tactic itself.
it can be very powerfull whenused correctly.
when you fail: you either underestimated your enemy or can't handle a bunch of carrier.

in this case: you are the lame gayest guy for being destroyed when you could've destroyed him before that
WickedImposter
10-11-2006, 8:23 AM
this tactic wont work against a moderate player...
own3d0406
10-11-2006, 4:42 PM
this tactic wont work against a moderate player...
Mass scourges FTW!
WickedImposter
10-11-2006, 7:44 PM
lol. but thing is if he has tons of sairs youll have to have a really, and i mean really, great split in order to get to carriers. i prefer ds hydra, but sairs can nullify with dweb
ITSTORRASQUE4U
10-13-2006, 12:52 AM
I´ll say rainbow goo. Ensnare+Plague+Corrosive acid+dark swarm+hydras =capital ship death. You will see my new thread and tell me "why did you post if you were a noob?". Well, this is not about being noob or not. It´s plain common sense.

Please read my threa and try to answer. I´d appreciate it.