Offensive Phase Prism Strategy

you can just have warp gates at your base to warp in units anywhere on the map.

More warpgates yes.

More gateways meh.

 

You can only warpin units anywhere in prism power, not anywhere possible. You need a pylon or phase prism in prism mode to get there.

The phase prism can be used as a replacement for the arbiter's recall with this possibility. Turn your units into prism power, send in the prism near an enemy base and have all your units rematerialize under its power field. But there is a risk, the prism is very vulnerable from the time that the prism is in place to until all the units are fully materialized. During this time, it cannot escape from attacks and is unable to fight back.

 

That would require a very large amount of warp gates to be successful as they can only warp in one before they have to cool down. Also remember that the only units that can be warped in are units that can be made from the gateway: zealots, immortals, stalkers, DTs, and HTs. Unless you load up other units onto the phase prism and then launch the attack, there's no way to get those units there. This strategy also has a high chance of failing because if the phase prism's destroyed, so are all the units being warped in, and along with that, all the resources you spent on them.

 

blizzard stated in their first Q&A that they tried to incorporate the warp-in sistem in all of their protoss buildings

 

wOOt! Imagine warping in a Mothership at an unsuspecting enemy who is building an expansion. (Just like in the original Mothership demo, that looked so awesome... I think I'm going to watch that video again now, just to see the warp in.)

But it does sound a little overpowered if you would be able to warp in any unit you like wherever there is Prism / Pylon power. If you would built many units at the same time so that they would all warp in right before an enemy expansion, that would just be to much.

But you said it was in the first Q&A, so it's highly unlikely that they are still trying to do this. And if they are still working on this anyway, why don't they release any information about this? It would be a shame if we wouldn't be able to discuss such an important thing as this properly.

 

hmmm..... warping the MS in an enemy base w/ small defense will be total ownage

as for the building construction....
i never knew warping buildings would be destroyed when pylon is gone...

 

you need one building for every warpable unit so it will be very expensive

 

I don't see how this is true, because I destroyed an expansion's pylon, and the buildings wheren't destroyed. It was the only pylon in the expansion, but I think the buildings stopped warping in, but weren't destroyed.

 

Warpings buildings close when the pylon is destroyed.

 

Then how was it that on b-net, I killed a guys only pylon in his expansion, but the warpin buildings didn't vanish? I still had to destroy them myself after killing the nexus he had.

 

Because the warping building was probably a Nexus or Assimilator, the only two non-powered Protoss buildings.

Or they were more warping pylons. But if you're building a Gateway, etc. it will disappear.

 

they weren't nexus or assimilators, and why would they be building about 6 pylons next to eachother for a small expansion? I think they were cannons. It was only after I started attacking them that they disappeared, but I think that was because he was manually canceling them, because thay only vanished after I almost killed them.

 

When Pylon power is removed, when a building finished warping in, it just starts as unpowered. If you want to get some use out of it (other than opening up parts of the tech tree, which buildings will always do) then you'd just have to spend the money to power it.

 

I still like my original strategy, all it needs is some protection, which most new expansions should have anyway.

 

your strategy is a good one, and imo, instead of relying heavily on escorts you should put a scout to see if there are enemy approaching, of course you must have some units guarding it cause usually there is but the scout will be able to see if the force is sizeable or not and you can engage it with your escort troops. *(or bail )

(yea i think the zergs way of multiplying that thing that pops out of nowhere that tentacle thing)

 

hmmm..... its a nice idea, but it is a bit unnecasary. if you are going to attack the enemy, then why do you warp in so many buildings. for an ekspantion it is a good idea, but ofensivily it takes to much time. if you are going to attack you just deploy troops on strategic locatiosns. but the phase cannon and phase prisme is usefull offensive since the cannons are highly mobile. if you just deploy troops and attack, the enemy will not be able to attack you beafore you attack them.

this strategy would be good when you are capturing yellow minerals since speed is necesary.
good thinking and so a owerup: for you :thumbup:

 

use 2 prisms with some protection and yo have it made i think because with 2 you have 1 for back up and + the protection be a solid plan for expanding! or setting up a foward base