Starcraft – How to force field properly? In particular in PvZ

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I don't have enough practice as Protoss, and playing often had situations when opponent retreats… and I can't catch him. That happens:

  • vs zergs: lings just go back
  • terran: marines/marauders kite zealots
  • protoss: … don't happen often vs protoss, but still some stalkers run away when I could catch them with zealots…

Ok, I've seen how people make a forcefields line and catch however trying to escaps: lings, roaches, zealots, etc…

I tried to do the same, but it looks like I'm doing something wrong. Usually in early game my composition is stalkers+zealots+sentries. And if I make a FF line my zealots can kill caught units… but then a new problem appears: once zealots come to kill those guys, they in turn become in a range of opponent units… and are killed. As a result there is not much value to making a FF line…

Probably I should not get much zealots when I build FF line?
Or may be FF makes sense only if I have MORE army…?

Could you please recommend good guidelines how to play with sentries and/or use FF properly?

Thank you.

P.S. Those materials that I've seen have just general information and don't help me a lot.

Best Answer

In PvT i basicaly use FFs only early on in the defense on the choke and sometimes later with hallucination.

In PvZ: When FFing retreating armys dont be greedy and try to cut them in half instead of getting all of them, when army sizes of you both are comparable. This works especially good against units that have low range, like roaches. Only very few roaches behind your FFs can attack your zealots, but most of the time the zerg will try to save the rest of his army instead of defending the cut off roaches. Dont waste valuable FF energy against retreating speedlings, except you can cut off their retreating path with single FF like on a choke. FFs are also good against a horde of zergling trying to surround your early-game-army in open field. Just make SOME FFs around your army leaving some space between them so the zealots can still attack while being flanked by FFs. You can practice this maneuver in the Starcraft-Masters Map.

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