Anti-cannon pin in trick(Protoss)

[King_master]

In some games, you have those protoss players early in the game that like to cannon in another protoss player. If this happens to you and you do not like cannoning people in this is the trick for you.

-The solution is simple build an early perimiter of cannons in your base before he gets a pylon in. Start near your recorces and your choke point then spread out. Try to continue your gateway construction as much as possible at the same time you are building cannons so you can rush him after his pylon rush fails. This will require tons of minerals, but hopefuly you are good at building probes.

[Sambo83]

haha... why don't you just build dragoons and keep them on your cliff. Let him cannon outside your base like a dumbass, then reaver drop him, and then use your reavers to break his contain, expand, gg.

[Spartan-II]

And what if while your breaking his wall, he builds mass goons or super owns you with a drop?

[Sambo83]

lol?

I don't think I've ever been "owned" by a drop PvP other than ht drop by very skilled players.

The point is, you don't make cannons to counter some dumbass cannoning you in. You make reavers. By the way, it's a dumbass tactic. It maybe happens to me 1 in 20 PvPs?

[ReD_ICE]

What about terran for anti-cannon? (i know tanks are the obvious answer, but still, cannons would take way faster than tanks in terms of elapsed time.

[MidnightGladius]

Well, in TvP, you'd be going for factories anyway, so if they skipped or got a late gateway, so much the better for you. If they're really slow (and/or depending on the map), you might be able to get your first 2 vultures out before his cannons come online. If you can do that and break their economy, it's gg.

[ReD_ICE]

i still think it would take more time to tech to vultures than cannons.

[MidnightGladius]

who knows? They're walling with cannons, right?

[Cpt.Chronic]

Walling with cannons? No. More likely they'd be rushing the terran wall with cannons and zealot support. If you see this just take like 6 scvs to kill the cannons as they're being warped in. If there's zealots there already just try to repair your wall for as long as you can while you get tanks then just tank drop him after killing the cannons and expand.

[MidnightGladius]

I meant walling you in with cannons.