Phase cannon rush, attack, strategies

what i am going to do is build phase shifters and phase cannons and use the phase shifters pylon power ability to teleport the cannons into the other guys base! i think it will be brilliant

 

You can't teleport buildings. You could have just sayd it in the Phase Cannon Topic...

 

o sorry. im drunk lol

 

Plus, the phase prisms will be at least as high-tier as Shuttles; probably even more. By the time you could build them AND enough phase cannons, the enemy would have enough defenses to destroy the cannons before they could do any damage.

 

It would probably be as much of a rush as a Nuke rush or... Ultralisk rush: not much of one.

 

well seeing how they are the protoss basic defense structure I highly doubt its high tier however, I dont think you will be able to materialize them like units w/ phase prism

 

well waht are they when there phased, they look like units to me.

 

The Siege Tank looks like a structure when it's sieged. Larger Terran buildings can move, looks can be deceiving.

 

generalrievous, I said that the phase PRISMS will be high-tier. I think that phase cannons will be available early in the tech tree, though I also think that they may require an upgrade to move around.

 

i was just thinking since phase cannons can materialize anywhere theres power it might work

i dunno what would happen if the prism died tho

 

You all have a big misunderstanding.
According to the literature, War Gates only work on producible units. As in, only units that have not been made yet. Each Warp Gate can make one unit anywhere in psi, and then has a cool down. You can't just send units rolling through a warp gate into psi.

(Edit: And I even brought proof:

"Functionally a warp gate is similar to a gateway in that both devices open a spatial rift. However, protoss forces moving through a gateway must emerge in close proximity to the structure, whereas those summoned via a warp gate can be projected to any part of the battlefield that lies within the psionic matrix." - From blizzard's web roster

Remember that the old explanation for Protoss build times was that it took time to open the rift and blah blah. Hence these Warp Gates still open the rift to that stash of Zealots or whatever wherever they are. You can't just teleport a force that you have waiting around, like you could with a Nydus Canal (maybe Worm too...))

 

DUDE :-X Nobody is talking about warp gates and warping units in. Where talking about moving Phase Cannons from one position to another by deploying phase prisms along the road...

 

maybe cannons can go anywhere thats powered even if the road isn't?

 

No, they go * whoosh* if they go outside psi (unless deployed in building form)

 

how long does the phase prisms psi ability last anyway?

 

DUUUUDDEEE :-X

Phase Prisms deploys into a Pylon, so it stays as long as you want (untill you undeploy)

 

Only way to use phase cannons to attack is, unless u build pylons to the way of your enemy base (which is quite timecosuming, resource wasting, and of cos, pure stup*****)is to use phase prisms and move them slowly, taking alot of time. If you build alot of them, still timeconsuming and waste of time and resource wasting. By the time u get cannons and pylons or phase prisms, u probably dead already

 

hmm that COULD work but by the time you are ready to do it, it wont be a rush anymore. That would be a very interesting strat to do during an attack though.

 

If the phase cannons are going to used to attack anything they should NOT attack alone, after all (in SC1) dragoons where better that photon cannons.

 

Actually dragoons have a shorter range than photon cannons until they've got the range upgrade. and also photon cannons have a faster cooldown
Although dragoons can get attack and armor upgrade