i just played this game where i feel i did ok up untill the point where i saw he had thors, at that point i had no idea what to do to beat his MMM + thors mix i feel i did a good job in punishing him every time he left his base. and i got units that i felt would be effective and i thought i had enough ( though my macro fell down mid game and i started acting like an idoit) this guy one based me for 30 mins with MMM + thors against my 2 base heavy gateway and im wondering what i should do vs thors. i went templar rather than collosi for the marines but it seemed all the marines got knocked down to half health rather than dying any thoughts on this game, as ive looked over it a couple of times and just go blank on thors over and over. I dont play terran well at all so im not really sure of weakness of said thors.
Thors are weak against many Protoss units, such as Zealot, Carriers, Pheonix, Void Rays, and DT. VRs in general counters Terran well, unless they starts building massive Battle Cruisers. To counters MMM, as long as you take out their Medivacs, Zealot with speed boost will destory them.
I agree about the VR thing. But I don't think battle cruisers counter VR's very well. My ideal counter for VR's is mass vikings. Thor's take time to build and are expensive, just know if he's getting alot of thor's he's spending alot. Funny how 1 post a guy is saying how thor's are useless, and this post a guy is saying how he couldn't stop them. Using speed might help, cause Thor's are super slow, maybe try & get them out of position, maybe isolate 1 off by himself with VR's
How about Immortals and Colossi, or HT and lots of Lots? If your micro is better than mine (and I assume it is since you're Plat...) that should at least give him pause, and may even cost you less in resources. Actually HT in both cases is a good opener, it's fun watching the MMM pop under a few storms. Personally not a huge fan of VRs against terrans, since their basic troops can shoot and can take them out too easily. You got some but too late to do much, even then they nearly wiped out the marines. Biggest problem was you just sat off him for too long. He started with 2 thors when you started to pressure him, you let him have the time to build more. If you had spent the 3000 minerals you collected you would have easily fought him off and won the game - your micro was better than his it seemed. Like you said you had him scared in his own base for a long time, time you could have had VRs, immortals, colossi, a crapload of lots. Anything, really, but in this case I think colossi walking over the area in the middle and shooting down would have killed off his marines. Then immortals go to town on the thors
