Countering the mothership

when it does the shield ability, get your units and run away
when it does the ground lazer ability, get your units inside the dropship/overlord
when it does the dark hole ability...you...uh...this one you cant dodge. for dark hole, use everything you got

how to kill it

lockdown
then hit it with everything you got

 

well if your terren cant you just use the shock wave thing sci vessle uses that takes the shiled away then use the thing the ghost dose to freeze it, and then alot of valks or you know what ever kind of anti air units the terrens will have.

 

Although lockdown seems like a very viable choice to counter it, I have a feeling the Mothership will not be targetable by it. It would simply make killing this behemoth far too easy. The Mothership is going to cost an absurd amount of resources and supply; for it to be taken down by a mere Ghost seems a little unfair.

 

You also have to remember that we don't know if Science Vessel or Valks are coming back or even if Ghosts still have lockdown (they damn well better though!)

 

waiting until it does its planet cracker attack then launch a counter attack would be effective like have some bcs come from the side and use some marines as decoy

 

use vikings, if it planet cracks, u fly, if they black hole, u walk. just wondering, will collasus be pulled in my black hole as it is suseptable to AA.

 

some of the units i metiond might not be comeing back but the abilltys might go to another unit.

and you might be able to use lockdown on mothership becuase no one will send the mother ship anywhere by its self it would be alot more effective to send a army with it, so lockdown might work on the mother ship, but with a army there it wont be matter.

 

that is a good idea but, but dose black hole only work for air?

 

Yep, only to air units. We even had a thread a while ago saying how un-black holeish it really was because of it ^_^

And that is a rather good question t4k9. I would assume not, although it would be a fun little animation seeing the Colossus getting ripped in half by a black hole

 

Well if you can....

Lock down and nuke it...

 

Actually, the Swede who leaked the first images from the new info flux said he blackholed the entire army of his Protoss opponent (don't remember if he mentioned ground units were in it, I know he said Tempest armada) but that also included the opponent's own Mothership! So right now, you can indeed blackhole another Mothership! This is definitely subject to change however.

 

Zerg players could fly assloads of Scourge at this thing from more than 2 directions.

Terran players would utilize both ground and air AA to avoid having an entire group wiped out from 1 of the Mothership's offensive abilities.

 

scourges arent confirmed yet but sounds like good idea

 

yeah i think it says ghost still has lock down, i forgot were i read it though.

 

ghosts without lockdown would be like reavers without scarabs

 

it's the ultimate unit for protoss, it should have invulnerability to spells

 

Invulnerability to spell? So you need an a**load of units to kill it? Anyways, it's very easy to counter the Mothership. Provided there are no detectors nearby, cloaked Ghost + Lockdown + Nuke will wipe the Mothership's brilliant blue arse off the planet.

 

I think a combo of Viking ground-form and viking air-form should do the trick. You'd need a fair bit though. A flight of BC's with Yamato researched would also do the trick. If you remember the gameplay footage, they stopped yamato-ing the Mothership because it would have been destroyed. I think 6-7 yamato's would drop it, so spread out your bc's and then yamato that thing.

Or just nuke it twice.

 

The easiest tactic would be to not let it happen at all. Rush em before they even get their Gateway up. SCV rush!

 

i got a counterattack for the black hole but it is includes sacrificing your own units
firstly get your swarm of muta/ bc etc
secondly set them into 2 groups
Finally IF the mothership uses the black hole onto your 1st group SEND in your second group and pwn the mothership
but of course the mothership would prob use it twice but atleast it has aa cooldown xD