Mass Widow Mines

I got my butt handed to me by mass widow mines. I can’t keep the observers alive, mines kill everything. I tried tempests because I had a feeling he was going into mass BC and tempests out range mines. But, still lost. How the hell do I deal with this? It takes so much micro to try and handle them, but all the terran player has to do is burrow the mines and wait.

Would be extremely grateful for any help. I have a replay but for some stupid reason I cannot link it…forum is saying you cannot post links…what the hell?

Colossus and stalkers possibly?
It all depends what you faced, if its pure widow mine then just a standard composition without zealots and either storm or kite the mines with colossus stalker, if hes dropping them onto your army then stalkers and kiting works.

As you say its hard to tell what you could have changed without a replay but its prob better for you to focus on improving in general rather than how to beat a specific niche strategy that you probably wont face again.

There was a patch about stalkers and hydras so they out-range mines when a-moved (hydras with the +1 range upgrade included of course).
So a stalker with an observer right-clicked onto him should clear any mines on the map with patrol command.

You can also spread cannons on the map because mines cannot attack buildings.

So as cake141 already suggested, stalkers + splash damage (collossi) and I would add a few sentries for hallucinated phoenixes to quickly find mines. (suicide scout in front of your army)

Edit:
https://imgur.com/XnhjdYd
https://imgur.com/RXabwyP

Edit2: Always post a replay if you need help. (maybe you’re doing the right thing and a tiny upgrade on your hotkeys / mechanics will help).

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If the lad was just massing mines you could’ve always stormed them and kited back to your disruptors and colossus.

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