Really? I was with the impression that early Marine Marauder micro can murder anything the Protoss can throw at you on the field if properly micro'd.

Yes, that means even against Collosi and Templar.

Here's a few fun facts about Protoss.

1. Shields constitute HALF of the health a Protoss unit has
2. EMP affects EVERY single Protoss unit
3. Protoss shields do not regenerate during battle
4. EMP has that side effect of taking out the energy of a Protoss unit. Proper EMP will make Sentries and Templars become as useful as faulty condoms.
5. Feedback is useless against anything that doesn't have energy. Which means that you can't feedback Marines no matter how hard you're hammering at that F key
6. Psionic Storm needs to be researched and requires 75 energy. They removed Khaydarin Amulet, so no more insta-warpstorms. EMP on the other hand. requires no research and Ghosts can research whatever it is that is needed to boost their starting energy.
7. Templars move at the speed of a snail, can't cloak, and doesn't have an attack. Ghosts can cloak, move relatively fast, and can shoot normally.
8. You can micro out of a Storm, you can't micro out of an EMP.

And besides, if you overcommitted to Ghosts in the first place, you deserve to lose.

This post has been edited by radkliler: Nov 8 2011, 01:27 AM

1. Then there are also units like the Archon which has 350/10 or Templars that are 80/40

2. Except Psi Storm radius is similar to pre-nerf EMP radius. And the whole point of the nerf is to reduce the EMP radius because frankly, its retarded that 2 Ghosts can blanket spam EMPs and roll the Protoss army over. And while you say that is hard to micro out of storms for a decent Terran (which I find laughable since if you are a decent Terran, you'd be able to micro out of a storm easily), it is impossible to micro out of EMP. You can split up your units to minimize the effect EMP has on your units, but still, it is a given that one group of units will have its shields and energy drained. Storms can only kill your units if you let it, EMP will reduce your shields even if you try to micro from it.

3. And your point is? He decided to do a timing attack in which Terrans have not yet get Medivacs.

5. You don't mass units such as Battlecruisers, Thors and Banshees. You use those units to complement your marines, marauders, ghosts, siege tanks or what-have-you into your build. And remember, Cloaking then EMP-ing Templars will make Feedback a non-issue since the Templars all have their energy drained.

6. Templars are exposed all the time.

7. Templar has 1.875 move speed. Compared that to a Marine's 2.25, a non-stimmed Marine can kill a Templar easily.

This post has been edited by radkliler: Nov 8 2011, 02:16 AM

1. It constitutes half of a Protoss units life because Protoss do not regenerate health like Terrans do. Any damage that happens on the unit itself is permanent. If I were to pull back my forces which are either in the red or yellow, its going to remain in the red or yellow till it dies. Also, we have to upgrade both Shields and Armor just to be on equal terms on upgrades which Terran's require only one upgrade for.

2. Storms are detrimental only to Bio. If you went mech, you'll find out very quickly that storming Thors/Hellions/Sieges is retarded.

3. Like I said, Terrans can heal back all 120 hit points while Protoss can't.

4. There is a reason the tactic is named MMMG. It stands for Marine, Marauder, Medivac, Ghosts. Ghosts EMP the Shields and energy off a Protoss unit, Marauders and Marines stim in and kill everything. You don't send Ghosts in just to spam EMP all day waiting to kill something.

5. Except for the fact that you can run out of a Storm? And you can heal off the damage of a Storm while the Templar is still chasing you down? And you can keep baiting the Templars to Storm just to waste its energy before you run in and kill it?

6. Storms are ineffective against Mech. Try it sometimes.

7. Except that Ghosts are still cheaper than Templars in comparison.
Here's how the tech tree goes for Ghosts : Depot --> Barracks ---> Ghost Academy
And you can still get a Factory and Starport out.
Protoss tech goes a little like this : Gateway --> CyberCore --> Council ---> Archives
And here's the kicker about Protoss, they are insanely gas intensive. So if I invest in this tech route, you won't be seeing me going Collosi till I take a 3rd or a 4th or I decide to just abandon Temps completely. And if I did abandon it altogether, I just wasted a shitload of gas for Archives, Storm research and the few Temps I made. Also Archons are 350/10, so 3 EMPs would literally, devastate an Archon.

8. EMP is a support spell, Storm is an Offensive spell. Is that so hard to differentiate? Oh just in case you didn't know, Ghosts can Snipe.

And are you seriously implying that Terran can't A-move as well? MMMG is basically A-move. Here's how it works.

Cloak Ghosts ---> EMP Sentries ----> Press T on hotkey-ed Bioball ---> 1a2a3a

Congratulations, you've just beat the Protoss.