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SO I hear you liek banelings? - Page 2

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Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28678 Posts
November 11 2010 20:26 GMT
#21
of course banelings make sense for zerg.. wtf.. units have no free will and do whatever they are told - there's no situation where a suiciding unit makes more sense. and they don't make you lose map control, because the very nature of zerg in sc2 is that a complete trade of forces means zerg came out ahead, as they are expected to have higher income and much greater production potential. in addition, you don't always lose every baneling, and often the banelings will be lost but the rest of your force will be nearly intact..

if you don't like the unit, fine, that's entirely up to you.. but your reasoning isn't reasonable.
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Servius_Fulvius
Profile Joined August 2009
United States947 Posts
November 11 2010 20:34 GMT
#22
I've noticed the trend for mass marine pushes as well. My biggest issue isn't that banelings are suicide units, it's that I don't have enough production to replace my army. You can hardly blame banelings for this; it's my fault for not throwing up a decent amount of hatches and/or missing injects.

When used correctly banelings have incredbile cost-effectiveness. I like throwing them into major ground battles in zvz especially because of the mind game they play on my opponent (blings COULD do a ton of damage, so I have to retreat into bad positioning!)
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
November 11 2010 20:52 GMT
#23
On November 12 2010 02:43 Hittegods wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 12 2010 00:04 SubtleArt wrote:
On November 11 2010 20:58 Hittegods wrote:
Never watched BW enough to see a unit called scourge?


Never watched BW long enough to understand that the role of a scourge is dramatically different from that of a baneling?

No, aren't they exactly the same?

Of course not? The only similarity they have is in that they both suicide when they attack. That's the only similarity that they share.
Hittegods
Profile Joined April 2007
Stockholm4641 Posts
November 12 2010 00:28 GMT
#24
On November 12 2010 05:52 koreasilver wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 12 2010 02:43 Hittegods wrote:
On November 12 2010 00:04 SubtleArt wrote:
On November 11 2010 20:58 Hittegods wrote:
Never watched BW enough to see a unit called scourge?


Never watched BW long enough to understand that the role of a scourge is dramatically different from that of a baneling?

No, aren't they exactly the same?

Of course not? The only similarity they have is in that they both suicide when they attack. That's the only similarity that they share.

Did you stop reading where you stopped quoting? Read the entire thing and I hope you can figure out what I meant.
This neo violence, pure self defiance
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
November 12 2010 00:38 GMT
#25
lol the part at 50 where the burrowed banes own 404040 units on scrap is my banes
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
SubtleArt
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
2710 Posts
November 12 2010 01:21 GMT
#26
On November 12 2010 09:28 Hittegods wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 12 2010 05:52 koreasilver wrote:
On November 12 2010 02:43 Hittegods wrote:
On November 12 2010 00:04 SubtleArt wrote:
On November 11 2010 20:58 Hittegods wrote:
Never watched BW enough to see a unit called scourge?


Never watched BW long enough to understand that the role of a scourge is dramatically different from that of a baneling?

No, aren't they exactly the same?

Of course not? The only similarity they have is in that they both suicide when they attack. That's the only similarity that they share.

Did you stop reading where you stopped quoting? Read the entire thing and I hope you can figure out what I meant.


While we're on the topic read the entire thing and then hopefully figure out what I meant.
Morrow on ZvP: "I'm not very confident in general vs Protoss because of the imbalance (Yes its imbalanced, get over it)."
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