okay, BLISS asked me what went wrong for them here...

- after the first few minutes, you became too focused on the center-fight. maybe some halberts to raid your opponents economy or even drive into their artillery (hold-fire, go into their middle, manually fire. the AoE of the emissaries might even help you)

- maybe instead of going Shield switch to gs. Shields get shredded by the emissaries as well as you see. The Gunships would have been only useful for a few moments until your enemy gets 2 or 3 raors, but this might give you the time to get
those halberts and cripple their economy.

- you could have used a cloaker as well

- but in general, i think it´s the fac-matchup. even tho you had a few chances, IMHO emissary really has too much AoE and just dominates all other arty.

- okay, could be that hover isn´t the best choice for this map either as you trade power for speed, wich is not helpful on that map.

- or get silo and napalm your enemy´s factory/arty.


i am only 100% sure about my first and last point tho.

Haven't watched the replay, but did you try cloaked manual-fire Lance's picking off Emissaries and Tremors which are scouted with Halberds?

Only if the Tremor knows where to fire, generally people will fire at a particular location...

Anyway, I've now watched the replay.

As katastrophe says in his original post, a cloaker would have helped a lot. There's no excuse to not invest 600 metal when you have 3000 worth of Lances that need protection.

I also recommend having fire at radar disabled.

Oddly enough, in the mid-late game halberd monospam would have worked perfectly as a counter to his Emissary spam... I strongly recommend scouting throughout the game, Sparrows are cheap compared to the value of knowing your enemy's army composition and disposition.

but don´t forget to build energy. cloaker drains a lot.