That Novus player neglected his economy too much though, only two recycling centres the whole game. He had the advantage but ran out of steam in the second half of the game because of his economy.
Nice finish though. I liked the novus sneaking his ampliers into the back of your base.
Those Amps would have been a bit more devastating if he had engaged that building killing mode (forget what it is). The only trouble is he would have had to target anything but the matter engines or risk losing the Amps
That's what's interesting about playing against Masari, and what makes it quite unique: you can't harass its economy directly with melee units, you're forced to use ranged units. The only time melee units are effective at harassing the economy is by targeting any Architects that are doubling the output of a matter engine.
This post has been edited by AgmLauncher: Dec 13 2007, 23:04 PM
Nice and action packed game. And the Masari player played pretty well with only 2 AntiMatter Emitters. Though your base was pretty much naked the whole time. Maybe a few Defense turrets and extra units wouldn't have hurt. Thank God there arn't any Engineers in this game or you would have fallen to an Engi rush lol.
On a side note, is there any way to see the game from both perspectives or is it only limited to who recorded the replay?
This post has been edited by CrimsonFrost: Dec 14 2007, 04:43 AM
"and what makes it quite unique: you can't harass its economy directly with melee units," :
Well bladetroopers + 1 nanotech + make duplicated + attack matter engine with duplicates works.. No losses, dead matter engine. If you dmg it a bit first too, you will kill the matter engine.. Just move your real ones away en let the duplicates take the blow... Fun when mixed with lvl 2 flow since The real bladetroopers will be invisible, you keep attacking with the fake ones and keep the BT'z just out of range of the enemy base.. ('n kill architects )
Lots of action in the replay, and entertaining to watch.
What is Novus' best counter to peacebringers? Viruses and using vertigo to take control of them? Even that can be easily countered if the Masari brings the Queen along.
What is Novus' best counter to peacebringers? Viruses and using vertigo to take control of them? Even that can be easily countered if the Masari brings the Queen along.
Hackers.
If you research deep enough into the Viral branch, you can disable a whole messload of PBs with a couple of Hackers. Hackers can't be auto-acquired by AI targeting either. They need to be manually targeted.
The only issue is PBs combined with Charos. That is a virtually unstoppable combo. He can fuck over an entire popcap's worth of units. He's hard enough to deal with on his own, let alone combined with PBs.
You can only hope that your opponent was stupid enough to make Charos before he techs to PBs, giving you time to double team him with Vertigo and the Founder (but that means hero respawn has to be turned off)
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Luckily i got the Peacebringers just in time