Glory: Hello Android, how are you?
Android: I’m fine thanks, let’s start the interview.
G: The starter, how did you get into dow?
A: My brother (ThE)MaFiA) one day brought home a key for DoW Beta and got me started, I was playing Brood War at that time and I didn't really believe I could like DoW, but I tried with him, we started playing the ladder together and I slowly fell in love with DoW
G: So did your BW experience help you with DoW?
A: Yes of course it did, especially because of the Micromanagement required by BW, you know to play BW you have to be ultra-fast, managing a lot of units, defending, attacking, producing all together, ever heard about the APM crap thingie? (Action per Minute) I used to reach more or less 300 per minute, so you can figure out the speed and my headache while playing
G: So have you played high level broodwar or were you jsut a good noob?
A: I used to be ranked b4 on Wgtour, that is surely a high rank, but I was just a lucky boy!
G: We have just been informed that DoW is going WCG 2005, are you going to try competing?
A: Consider me already there
G: What made you play Space Marines?
A: I was Terran on BW, so I was always been fascinated by 'humans' and SM were the closest thing to it, btw I was humie on WC3 as well.
G: And what is in your opinion the real strength of Space Marines? Except for their scouts.
A: Their flexibility, the fact you can play so many different tactics and obtain various results; snipers of course are very useful though. Talking about scouts, IMHO they're not really overpowered, simply against the typical other races tactics, scouts is the correct answer, so maybe THEY should change their tactics instead of complaining
G: Well they are a tad strong IMO, I don’t think you should be able to rush with a scouting unit…
A: And about what people call "Android Rush", it works against wartraxx, but if you got the right counter (like Pink did) it’s useless.
G: For the people that don’t know, What’s the Android Rush?
A: 4 Scouts + FC + Marines in a fast sequence of attack, you gotta push your enemy to death and without breaks, exactly BW Style, uh and of course you gotta tech while you push.
G: And SM weakness?
A: They're rather expensive, also, compared to the other races, if you exclude the cheap scout rush they tend to be slightly less effective on earlier tiers, even if, theoretically they own on tier 3.
G: Who are in your eyes real DoW experts?
A: Pink, Noob, Josey and also OneGuy
G: What’s your opinion on clans?
A: Well since I'm clan leader of Clan ThE) of course I endorse them fully and I think they're a great chance to gather people with the same interests, also they're a chance, (if it is a good clan) for everybody to become a better player, by training with clanmates, help by clanmates etc...
G: And what’s your opinion on relic’s online support?
A: Another patch would be needed, but they're good guys, I mean, they gave us such a beautiful game, that's almost flawless, they work hard for us, everybody should appreciate them, afterall some poor guy from Relic most probably spent his christmas coding some patch
so I think we owe them at least some gratitude...
G: Well thanks for the interview, and I hope you stay on your top spot for a while.
A: Thanks man, take care.