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As with the lift off one, im makin a thread here for anyone who wants to mothership rush and submit their replays.


Its gonna be hard for me to NOT expand until the mothership is out, but im gonna get 5 GOOD wins and upload them here

If your taking up this daily, post any entries here so we can all see how you went.

You should Proxy Nexus mothership rush

Put dat base in their base!

You should Proxy Nexus mothership rush

Put dat base in their base!

not allowed :(

you are not allowed to build a nexus until your mothership is starting to build.


But anyway, my first successful replay:

http://terranimba.com/replay/CyovR0rpRTpTIa8HYbD

This match involved a mothership recalling my army for my first strike. Did some damage, but ultimately I lost everything. But his counter attack failed because just after the recall another carrier was built and I got a few zealots there in time.

Constant reaper pressure was painful, but in the end I managed to get a dangerously large army, heaps of upgrades and, most importantly, 12-16 archons and a-moved to his base. Too bad I didn't have enough energy for an archon toilet :(

good win already

Last time around I held off a 6pool, Mothership rushed, then lost horribly in a semi-macro game. Wish I'd submitted that one - as it turns out, those were just the sort of tragic games he chose to focus the whole daily on.

Is this for Funday Monday?

Wut?
Mothership rush still works?

Wut?
Mothership rush still works?

Good sir, may you define or re-define Funday Monday first, before reconsidering statements of absolute truths. ^_^
In other words, it's Funday Monday, what do you expect?! XD
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Yes, I talked nonsense, but does it matter when I clarify it?

Wut?
Mothership rush still works?

To some extent, yes, it actually does. I was surprised to learn this too.

Wut?
Mothership rush still works?

I don't play as toss, yet I can see this quite viable in bronze/silver

Replay #2

A PvP where I ended up using the ultimate strategy

I took my mothership...

and hid DTS UNDER IT :D

http://terranimba.com/replay/gT7sAWoT8PnBSBgFN

(also used 1 observer + 3 phoenixes to snipe observers)

Wut?
Mothership rush still works?

Its Funday Monday

To quote day9

Where we would normally learn to be a better gamer except on MONDAYS where we %*@@ Around!

meaning he wants us to pull of strategies that shouldn't work and win with them.

Its like how he put out the carrier rush challenge (#188), and in the end HuK submitted 2 working replays and redefined the carrier for him.

Replay #3

I though id use both abilties this time
So i did a mass DT warp in, recalled it (to keep my DTs alive)


And then made them all into archons

which I used in a Vortex

:D

http://terranimba.com/replay/6B57BZhZchjyzN5M3

http://terranimba.com/replay/UdlGNfIyxTnvY7eQiBb

This is a game I just played. Thank god I survived long enough to actually get the Mothership out ~wipes brow~

edit: http://terranimba.com/replay/z1Kbb1T0EL

Replay number 2. Against the same person :)

02/21/2012 09:18 PMPosted by PetiteWolf

This is a game I just played. Thank god I survived long enough to actually get the Mothership out ~wipes brow~

Well if theres anything I learnt about mothership rushing its that they attack and almost kill you just before it does, then your army disappears, they panic and mass retreat.

Also, if they just killed your whole army but you have removed their detection, warp in 20 DTs and remember to make void ray hallucinations

02/21/2012 09:52 PMPosted by Mossie

This is a game I just played. Thank god I survived long enough to actually get the Mothership out ~wipes brow~

Well if theres anything I learnt about mothership rushing its that they attack and almost kill you just before it does, then your army disappears, they panic and mass retreat.

Also, if they just killed your whole army but you have removed their detection, warp in 20 DTs and remember to make void ray hallucinations

I've only been playing Protoss for about a month - half as long as I've had the game - so there's still some things I'm still learning. Mothership rushing those games taught me not to be afraid to put on some pressure, oddly enough. There are still some units I don't use enough, like Sentries. I need to use those more.

Also, DTs+Warp Prism=<3

Replay 4:

http://terranimba.com/replay/gitK3MoOHL

A failed 3-rax push (held off with only zealots and stalkers :D) ended up facing off against the deadly protoss 3/1/1 (3gate-star-robo), eventually having to face off against the dangers of max upgrades carriers with chargelot + immortal support. The mothership made for a great distraction in this replay, and was also responsible for holding off the original 3-rax push (they gave up when the mothership came out)

Final replay (of mine)

http://terranimba.com/replay/U836SMX1nmsCpjNb

Showing exactly why air units are good in PvP - Never let him keep an observer up. Kept to the "yo dawg, I heard you like cloaked units" theme of DTs under motherships

02/21/2012 06:48 PMPosted by Mossie

http://terranimba.com/replay/gT7sAWoT8PnBSBgFN

02/22/2012 09:27 PMPosted by Mossie

http://terranimba.com/replay/gitK3MoOHL

These are what I reckon are my 2 best bets of getting in, with more points going to the top one. Cause I lost the whole F***ing base and went DTs because I was behind...

I'm watching the top replay, and I notice you have the pheonixes on the same hotkey as your ground army. If they were say, hotkey 2, wouldn't that make it easier to select them and pick up Immortals - at the start before you went DTs and needed to pick off Observers - or something? You could be using them to pick off Observers, though, so I dunno. Just something I noticed.

edit: Also, very well played :D. I especially loved the first time you warped in DTs :D.