The key to winning in Nexus Wars is two very simple things.
First thing you do is continually make Immortals. They have 100 shield and their special ability allows only a maximum of 10 damage to be dealt to them if they still have a shield up, making them a great unit to tank with right out of the gate. It should win every engagement for awhile. If they don't build any ships don't change anything.
If they do build ships only build Phonixes for awhile, then start adding in Tempests. That will cause Tempests to pile up. Eventually you will have hundreds of Tempests piled up and churn through everything.
In the few hundred games of Nexus Wars I have played nobody has ever beaten this strat. The ones who come close to overcoming it, I just add in some Hellbats + healer and give them insane amounts of armor xd.
So just in my conclusion to this, Nexuas Wars could be a great example if they cut out the Immortals and the Hellbat tanking. Seriously when you get a Hellbat's armor up really high it only takes 1 damage per hit at a certain point they are all but unkillable. As long as you don't have crap like that in the game you should be ok.
protoss is a crutch. My friend and I go double zerg just for fun.
immortals don't have that ability anymore. must be a long time since you've played.
Carriers are the best unit because the attack upgrade is buffed to +2 instead of +1 per interceptor.
My friend and I average a win rate of around 5:1 to 10:1
Lurkers are surprisingly amazing because they have the longest range of any ground unit and they do line damage. It's also easy to manipulate your opponent's ability to detect their stealth. Corrupters pull detection away from immortals and tanks.
I could go on but I think I'll cut it here.
Oh they must have gotten rid of it hehe.
Yeah the immortals were extremely OP. When I played with my friend in duos what we would do is immortal spam or one of us makes Hellbats and upgrades them and the other makes healers and upgrades.
You can force some pretty interesting pile ups by creating lots of Phoenix in the early game because they can't atk ground units they just fly right to the enemy's base, causing enemy ranged units to follow it. Then once they start going backwards you can start piling up your own ground units.
Nexus wars was a lot of fun, almost more fun than the actual real game in my opinion.
Maybe we should play a game or two.