You tell me how to counter this using the brute hero. Arbiter can't really counter it either. This is especially problematic on Chasms and blood gulch (teleporters speed up travel). Pirth outskirts is pretty bad too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1b7DhHePTA
I put the AI on automatic difficulty of 60 since the AI on legendary has more health than a normal human player would. It doesn't matter if this was a human player or not. I'm going to get to your base in a very short time period and there is no options for the brute to counter it. I did this strat all the time against real brute/arbiter players and it always worked.
On chasms, the prophet can get to your base in 49 seconds (with 600+ resources to spare after demolishing your temple). Now it takes 32 seconds to construct a warehouse/temple. 32+32= 64 seconds, Prophet can get to your base in 49 seconds, do the math. Your second building will never get built.
Now what are you supposed to do? You have 1 temple and zero resources. The PoR just destroyed your only resource. That means you will only have 2-300 resources and the prophet will just keep beaming them before they finish building. Since you don't get a full refund for pending buildings, you will eventually run out of $$$ while the prophet has atleast 4 warehouses fueling him. You can't really attack the prophet using your brute hero since it does almost no damage. You can't use the vortex since it will suck up the very few resources you have. You can't build brute warriors since you don't have enough resources. There is no options left. Your screwed.
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