QUOTE(Moonflown @ Aug 6 2010, 04:22 PM)
If a zerg roach/hydra rushes you it means he's most likely operating on one base only, else it wouldn't considered rush. Turtle up with stalker, sentries and collossus are you're good to go.
When you're able to break their containment rush straight to the zerg base because he won't have enough larvae to replenish with one base. Also remember to use forcefields to push roaches away from your main army and let collos and stalker out-range them.
depending on the containment situation, colossus may not be advisable due to them being a huge "hit me target".
hydras and mutas will be able to take it out easily
not to mention, colossus takes a whole lot of time, zerg roaches/hydras dont. need robotics + bay, then to even ultilize the range upgrade (force field you mentioned) you need to well, have it upgraded
HT's or even DT's if the zerg isnt careful enough to get overseers would do a MUCH better job at warding that containment, and proceed to counterattack. not to mention, if you go DT, it would cause an upset for the zerg to 1) get seers 2) evo chamb > spore which would ultimately slow down his replenishment too from the counterattack.
Added on August 6, 2010, 4:47 pmQUOTE(raylee914 @ Aug 6 2010, 04:19 PM)
i used to put 5 gates...but with combination of units zeal/stalker/collo... is that better just use stalker with collo? cause i notice that my zeal always die before rushing into their mass hydralisk and roach =.=
you need chargelots, zealots are useless.
that said, they DIE FOR A PURPOSE. they are your meatshield. would you rather have your colossus/stalkers melt away without zealots or force field warding off a roach army? unless ur micro is damn good and zerg isnt focus firing (typical roach player wont as FF'ing roach tend to produce a LOT of overkills, that said, he could multi group roach but thats damn advance micro'ing ady and is only seen amongst diamond league players and rarely [almost never] plat or under) then you can go pure stalker/colossus
in a way, pure stalker would be better than colossus as they are cheaper, and easier to pump out. thus you're getting more firepower in short term (you got rushed and contained, lets not even go long term) but yeah, overall colossus do provide a much higher long term firepower compared to just stalkers.
This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Aug 6 2010, 04:47 PM