I can't believe you say mobile flak wont work at all against mercies but 4 mobile will deny transport drop... I think you have had bad experience with flaks my friend but usually it really works ok
Vision + intel + unit placement makes most of the work, flak is just there to finish the job. (always get your own perma scout going from your acu to ennemy air base when you go rambo if you are afraid and dont trust air)I think the TP glitch and the mid-air explosion are kinda cool but really feel OP and un-supcom-ish. I mean all units really suck at pathfinding moving and stuff why should we have one that actually work thats crazy
As a non-cybran player i never complain of my T1 mobile flak against mercies but cybran can be annoying. Anyway the counter is air first, flak second. You can kill 7 mercies flying nearby 2 or 3 intie with 0 micro... When we die to mercies it's usually not the fault of T1 flak, but the poor airplayer who failed to
1) scout ennemy building mercies
2) scout ennemy stockpiling mercies + killing them in base (even when you don't have air, let's say on a map like wonder, you can 99,99% of the time kill mercies stockpiles in seconds)
3) moving air near any friendly ACU going rambo
4) keeping air scouts in front of any friendly ACU
5) getting a decent line-of-vision in all fronts
6) moving inties in time when air bleep are moving
So only when our airs players play like noob do we rely on flak for mercy. The problem is unless you are onmumble/ TS and actually ask them for help most of them will fail at seeing what they should do to keep you alive. Not mentionning bullet points 1) & 2) even 2k+ player usually dont give a f*** about their supposed role in the game until they get T3 air HQ.
In huge quantities by using some T2 gunship or other high priority target to lure the T1 flak then it can begin to work a little too good. But again 1-2 inties and problem solved.
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That being said i think beetle snipe is probably too easy and with too high success-rate compared to other similar solutions like T2 bombers / mercies. Especially if you consider cybran already has the only decent T2 bomber. At least remove the wtf teleportation feature ?
Statistics: Posted by Poch — 13 Sep 2014, 19:52
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