settle an important bet

...in a theorycraft dispute

what would win

10k marines vs 1k cannons

assume that the cannons are played dimensionally at 100x10 and for whatever reason dont need pylons
the marines come in waves of 250x40, maybe each line is 2 seconds behind the line before. the marines are also 0/0 and not upgraded in any way


Poll: what wins
(Vote): the cannons
(Vote): the marines



SECONDLY - and less importantly...if for some reason 2 ghosts were hanging out in the 1k cannons and each could nuke once, assuming they nuked at different times and then the ghosts disappear, what would win



Poll: what wins
(Vote): cannons and 2 nukes
(Vote): marines

10K MARINES DOZER

cannons and obv cannons w/ 2 nukes

i dont think its very close tbh

10k marines would absolutely rape both scenarios

2 nukes wouldnt do shit... they would kill like what a maximium of 120 marines per nuke

like doomer said

yeah the cannons will repair shields and the cannons inthe previous rows will shoot as well when the marines show up making it extremely hard to kill any cannons, id think if they were stimmed the marines might win though

also u should paint how they would be arranged and how the waves would go

On December 01 2008 19:44 RaiNKhAN wrote: yeah the cannons will repair shields and the cannons inthe previous rows will shoot as well when the marines show up making it extremely hard to kill any cannons, id think if they were stimmed the marines might win though

repair what shields dude... we are talking about thousnds of units, cannons and marines alike are going to die in a fraction of a second, shield regeneration is not important here at all

this thread sounds really intelligent if read by someone oblivious to starcraft imo lolol

no range and no stim and cannons will win

I once played a game on some fastest map possible where I decided to beat some guy who only built cannons using only unupgraded marines, had like literally 70 barracks blinking at some point and I built thousands of units
not even sure I could do it until i got upgrades although I might have, was years ago anyway ;(

like if it were somehow possible for all 10000 marines to attack at the same time and surround all the cannons then they would win but if you have them attack 250 at a time after eachother against 100 lines of 10 cannons where the marines are only targeted by like 20 cannons at a time, cannons are gonna win.

someone make to settle this shit

cannons would annihilate the marines

2 seconds until the next wave? that's a long time.


also the second part i don't understand -.-

Cannons easy.

Baal is noob.

it's simple, it's because the cannons far outrange the marines, that's all there is to it

On December 01 2008 19:46 Baal wrote: Show nested quote + On December 01 2008 19:44 RaiNKhAN wrote: yeah the cannons will repair shields and the cannons inthe previous rows will shoot as well when the marines show up making it extremely hard to kill any cannons, id think if they were stimmed the marines might win though repair what shields dude... we are talking about thousnds of units, cannons and marines alike are going to die in a fraction of a second, shield regeneration is not important here at all

cannons won't die that fast at all

and yes shield regeneration is important. a hundred cannons all regenerating, they will all regenerate some, the lucky ones will regenerate a lot. that hundreds to thousands of hp of regeneration

Cannons. EZ PZ.

the cannons arent gonna regenerate much if all marines come from the same area cuz it'll just be the same cannons getting hit until they die
if marines come spread out across the entire area 250 at a time with 2 seconds inbetween they literally wouldnt kill 1 single cannon and if all 10k marines came spread out across the entire area theyd prolly win and there wouldnt be much regeneration anyway

also note that it will be one line of marines shooting at a time with a few about half a second break inbetween the marines dieing and the next ones coming up.

Do 10 cannons vs 100 marines on a map and test it out.

depends on which side Chuck Norris is : /