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Originally Posted by goofyballer
Swarm hosts are definitely good against mech but I haven't personally figured out the sweet spot for how to use them most effectively yet. Depending on the map, the mech army may be able to just avoid them (and it's super easy for you to get caught out of position and just straight up lose a base), and once they get a lot of tanks their army will be pretty good at shutting down the locusts and your swarm hosts won't really be doing much damage, and will only be good for controlling position (since he can't just ignore you, he'll still have to set up defensively to stop the SHs).
On this subject, here's a relevant game I played tonight:
http://www.twitch.tv/goofyballer/b/499842878?t=20m
He opens with a marine-tank push and I (barely) hold it off with ling-bane, he transitions into mech. I had assumed he would stick with bio so I went up to mutas, try to hit his 3rd, he has a thor out and tons of turrets so I back off, my mutas can't do much. I figure this might be a good opportunity for swarm hosts.
.......and they do basically **** all. I try to siege his 3rd, he has enough tanks sieged there to basically keep my locusts from doing anything, I try to siege his 4th, he has tanks there too and my locusts still do nothing.
He gets up to raven-viking-tank-thor, seeker missiles crush my army, I wind up quitting with a 10k/5k bank because I have literally no idea what I can do to win.
eta, watching the replay: even more frustrating is that this game is basically a throw. His 3rd is super greedy, he takes it with a unit count of 1 thor, 7 hellbats, 1 marine; supply is 131-71 at this point, I have 64 drones to 44 SCVs. He takes a 4th when supply is like 190-120. At the same time, having the high ground w/ chokes on Yeonsu + lots of sieged tanks + defense vs mutas...idk what the **** I'm supposed to do against it.
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Last edited by goofyballer; 02-01-2014 at 07:20 AM.