Broken Nuke rush

If two people rush a nuke, it can be fired within the first 10 minutes. Its a guaranteed win if there is some base clustering due small start boxes. Success rate is very high even if it gets scouted since most people don't care to make an anti that early. Even if they make an anti, one of the Nuke rushers can easily chose Spiders factory and stun anti with 1-2 widows. Rush can be done even faster if eating factories.

Can't say I have seen a lot of nuke rush lately. Nuke can easily end up as dead metal in the current meta, if the enemy makes anti properly and protects it adequately. Its often better used defensively, if the enemy starts wining somewhere you just nuke your own frontline. Scorched earth strats.

Spreading out your econ is a general good practice. If people cluster all their econ in a tiny region, the're taking the risk of one massive event wiping it all out.

As a player with the most experience doing this shit I decisevely say
this strategy works only vs dumb and clueless lobster team and heck even they adapt after a while and by the time you finish the nux they will have 3-4 antis covering all points of importance

Guess why I rarely do nux rush nowdays? Lobs do spam antis :P
Widow can be countered by a windwall around anti, cheap and super efficient. Even total lobs learned it nowdays :P

After a certain anti nuke density is reached it becomes impractical to use nukes... - too expensive to scout and kill/disable anti nukes

As a surprise strategy it can be quite good tho, like a billion other strategies :)

I tend to just build anti when the energy grid is linked and at about yellow color. Building it when you're done escalating the econ means it won't hurt your econ curve, and still comes online early enough to probably catch a rush. Off course scouting your enemy's entire situation occasionally with air is a good idea.

Owl is the most OP unit, needs nerf.