I’ve given up on trying to find mineral dumps for Nova given her higher tech units can be massed and delete waves with minimal risk using P1 so towards the end of the mission I can just griffon strike everything.
Hellbats can be good as a general unit though on some maps and against some compositions. Having them hold position in front of Siege Tanks is an easy strategy to make them very useful.
Stukov Bunkers.
I once saw someone indeed using them as units (moving around and attacking), and I found that cool (bunkers have their attack + attacks from troopers that reach both ground and air, and they are an unusual unit unlike all those variant-type).
I wish he had a prestige to enhance that instead of the weird P3.
Stukov Tanks: Best tanks in the game by a longshot. Insane range, powerful damage, great mobility, and their spine crawler covers their close-range weakness.
Swann Wraiths: A very different playstyle to standard Swann, but wraiths are quite powerful when used right. Stutter-stepping with wraiths brings out great DPS… just make sure to snipe AA splash ahead of time.
Dehaka Impalers: Powerful single-target anti-ground units with ludicrous DPS. Seriously, Impaler damage is ridiculous.
Karax Colossus: Great addition to Karax’s compositions for anti-ground damage. Just a small handful of Purifier Colossi can rake in immense kills. They’re also his best answer to defending on Dead of Night. Just remember to not use all-army during the night.
Artanis Immortals: This one doesn’t quite fit the same definition as the others do… actually screw it, it does. Every Artanis I see just goes mass dragoon without any immortals. Which is quite a shame. Even Artanis couldn’t screw up immortals, and they still manage to be his best anti-ground unit. Seriously, take the time to make some immortals. You’ll thank me.
Alarak Ascendants: Tfw his best unit is underutilized LOL. Ok but seriously, most Alaraks I meet in the queue either go mass destroyer or robo. Use ascendants, guys! It’s a difficult playstyle to learn but the rewards are immense.
I’m playing a lot of Artanis again. Trying to not go mass dragoons. Making it a point to go with Immortals / Reavers against mechanical ground, Zealot / Archon against biological ground (with some Immortals off only 1 Chronoboosted robo facility when the enemy bio is accompanied by Ultralisk or tanks)+ Zerg air, I’ve been trying to use Phoenix’s as well if I can. Immortal / Reaver / Phoenix + mineral dump spinlots is actually great on Miner evacuation.
I’m still making dragoons but trying not to mass them these days.
I just thought it was funny because Blizzard used to make you transform them. But then they changed the factory so that you can build the hellbat from there, as well as the hellion. Happened on ladder too.
Underutilised units:
Critters (or whatever they should be called in Starcraft 2)
Source of essence, biomass, and possibly others, and if you see them and somehow have nothing else to do, you can click them until boom and collectible stuff ready for the receiving unit (not sure if it work with something else than the 2 things I listed)
For a while, I thought the infested structures were Armored, but they’re actually Light! Makes Colossi, Hellbats, and Hellions more ideal against them. As a bonus, when broodlings spawn from when they get destroyed, all of those units do splash damage and can swiftly take them down.
Still, may want to take along some anti-Armored units to better deal with Aberrations and standard enemy comps that do have the Armored tag. Speaking of which…
Early on, you could get by with just Dragoons, but later on vs. ground Armored units, you get more mileage with Immortals in the mix. That said, I’ve been lazy about this :\
I’d say Nova’s Ghost/Banshee combo. If we are on heavy offense, if you build nothing but Ghosts and Banshees you have a 100% permanently cloaked army, which allows you to basically march around the map with impunity, since Snipe will instantly obliterate any detector that comes near you.
I used this on Dead of Night while my teammate defended and literally just continued a non-stop, completely unimpeded assault both day and night and there was not a single thing anything on the map could do about it.
Admittedly, it is probably slower than other Nova comps, but still really fun watching the enemy panic because they can’t do anything as you pick them all off.
Depending on how I’m feeling, a few flaming betties at home and a bunch of micro’d cloaked wraiths can go around 1 shotting most infested structures and detectors with there pulse amplifiers. Great alternate if your stuck with an “idef” ally.