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StarCraft 2's impossible mission has been beaten after 14 years by a guy who turned the 'Archon Toilet' into an 'Archon Bidet' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The big ship on the right casts a black hole and sucks the other air ships into it. These are strong units and normally are pretty spaced out so they are safe from splash damage. The black hole however spits everyone back out in the exact same spot so they are momentarily clumped together. So to take advantage of this you have those big blue balls of energy called archons. They have short range, lots of damage, lots of splash, not so good hp/shield so they are kinda of squishy. But if you throw them into the black hole too then they can come out at the same time as the enemies and blow shit up (since clumped enemies + your units in range with lots of splash)

And that's the archon toilet!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The only thing is that archons aren't squishy, they have a huge shield and basically no hp. So their entire gimmick is they regenerate health. Zealot, the "tanking" unit in the toss army has 100/50 hp/shields, and it's cheap. For archon it's 10/350, but expensive. They can also be further reinforced with the shield battery, which will regenerate their shields like crazy. For comparison, the huge flying ships that got owned in the "toilet" were battlecruisers - 550/0 hp/shields.

What makes them squishy against terran is the introduction of the ghost - which has a spell that does a shitload of shield damage, after which the archon is one fart away from death.

Edit: also the thing that cast the black hole - the mothership - is 250/250 hp/shields.