Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Ive done that. But usually not enough points to get top for whole game ;;
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Ive done that. But usually not enough points to get top for whole game ;;
What have you been doing build wise TvT?
Each larva can be made into whatever you want at any time. Not sure what you are thinking of.
Making up builds. Both times was a reactor gas expand. I will probably end up doing something like that in the future as my standard tvt build. I think however I will delay starport based on scouting to get either more rax or faster ups or something. What made it even better was in the 2nd game when I said 'GL HF' he responded with 'oh i will have fun'. To bad I had to ruin that.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Its a general rule. Zerg is usually making drones or army. But there are multiple larva on each hatchery and each larva can be made into something. So they could make 1 drone and 4 zerglings on one hatchery at once, but most people dont always do that.
Ahh ok. Thanks bro
Yes. That saying is referring to the fact that all Zerg units spawn from larvae (which spawn from Hatcheries). So a single larva can turn into either a Drone or a unit. You can split your larvae between Drones and units, but I've never heard or seen anyone do that successfully for an extended period of time.
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Knowing the timings of your opponent's builds will help you a great deal as well.
Example: Against Zerg I usually expect mutas around the 9-10 minute mark and try to time my all-ins to hit right when the zerg player is saving up for a flock.
OrangeYouGlad
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This. I wasn't playing Zerg or Toss and kept losing to 5 stalker push and 8 roach rush. Started learning those builds and it became painfully obvious how to counter them.
I've been watching more BW and I want to mech TvP.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Dont you have to actually play before you talk about that?
TheThunder
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Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Don't know if you know or not, but you should stop by the Neogaf SC2 chat channel to hangout and game. Probably not a good idea to put your email out there like that on the internet either.
-tanks die easily to chargelots and blink stalkers.
-hellions are too weak.
-thors takes a long time to build.
the good thing is that blizzard will fix this in hots with battle hellions and the new thor replacement (which will have bonus damage against mechanical units ). so mech will be a really viable option in hots.
The problem is that approximately every Protoss unit can kill tanks.
High Templars!
I wish you protoss can have mech, I'd take bio in a heartbeat.
But Archons do alright. They can soak up 10 sieged shots before they go down.
actually storms are really good against sieged tanks since they will take full damage.
you know that mech is shit against protoss when even goody start doing bio in tvp.
goody stopped using mech after the warp prism buff.
you know that mech is shit against protoss when even goody start doing bio in tvp.
warpprism buff was actually the biggest counter to mech.
goody stopped using mech after the warp prism buff.
It's the protoss transport unit. Carries 8 supply itself but can also provide power like a pylon when stationary. That means a protoss can warp in units as well as build buildings in the provided field.
So someone could fly a warp prism to the side of my base unannounced, make it stationary and then warp in units easily?
Not cool.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
I don't know that toss use prisms that often and if they do I find it's often not very effective.
Now if more toss start hot dropping colossi, you may seem some unhappy zerg/terran.
Don't worry, they're just gateway units. They can't kill seventeen buildings per minute with their rapid fire building killing missiles while being healed by their transport.
Unless they're DTs. Muahahahaha.
Turrets near your mineral line and important buildings. If the Zerg is on two bases with mutas around the 10 minute mark, then most likely all he has are zerglings and spines defending his base. So yes, more marines as well. If you can take out his mutas you'll get ahead and you can expand freely.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
I'd also suggest that if you catch the spire around ~9 minutes and you have the available army, drop on the zerg main. In most cases the zerg will assume you're going to drop all your effort into getting turrets/vikings/thors to counter, not be aggressive.
PhoenixDark
Banned
So during my free time I
-destroyed Splinter and brought shame to Canada
-got back into diamond league
-went on an epic losing spree immediately thereafter
Protoss. Yup, totally balanced race
-destroyed Splinter and brought shame to Canada
-got back into diamond league
-went on an epic losing spree immediately thereafter
Protoss. Yup, totally balanced race
Also, Zerg need to optimally have to have at least 800+ gas when going for Spire. With that, he can open with a light number of 6 mutalisks ...which is nothing.
So if you want to stop a spire from happening, force him to use gas. Or stop him from getting 4 extractors or more.
Early pressure, upgraded bio attacks, forcing out banelings (and not dying to them) are all crucial. If you spot a started Lair, and went for tech, you can drop his main when he is halfway done with the Spire, for example.
So if you want to stop a spire from happening, force him to use gas. Or stop him from getting 4 extractors or more.
Early pressure, upgraded bio attacks, forcing out banelings (and not dying to them) are all crucial. If you spot a started Lair, and went for tech, you can drop his main when he is halfway done with the Spire, for example.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Here are some timings:
-Evo chamber at 6m, two spore colonies up asap: counters DT rush and prepares for Stargate play
-A 6 gate generally finishes around 9m or so, meaning you can pretty much drone until 8:30m unless you scout or expect some funny business. Build some units or spines in preparation for an attack, but also scout again to determine whether an attack is imminent. If not, back to drones
-Colossus: Generally out around the 11m mark or so, but usually just one and without the range upgrade
A zerg can understand all of that shit and still lose to a FFA-into-two-base-attack. Want to be aggressive? Too bad, their entire base is walled off perfectly. Mutas? That just forces them to kill you faster, with four Colossus. Third base? 6 gate*
*well to be fair I have had success getting fast thirds against FFAs on maps like Meta, but that map is zerg friendly.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Against toss and terran. For terran it's a nice way to wall off Hellions, and of course covers cloaked Banshees
u mad?
>he plays people who build cloaked banshees
>he thinks i mad when his skills are just sad
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.OrangeYouGlad
Banned
Is cannon rushing popular in platinum and above? Every other protoss I play in Gold tries to cannon rush me.
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I usually only do it against Zergs that go hatch first.
they aren't very good vs zerg.