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Overlords, Harder than they look...

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Reithan
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States360 Posts
April 21 2011 15:09 GMT
#1
SO, played a few games with my buddy again last night (who would prefer I stop posting his private practice matches), and staying on top of Overlord production is surprisingly much harder than I thought.

The main problem I was having was spawn larva injects finishing and OLs not being done. So I'd be supply blocked with like 8-10 larva just waiting on an OL to finish. This was a problem even with making lings, but with making roaches it was horrible. Also, with the injected larva building up, I'd have an OL spawn just to make a ton of units and be instantly supply blocked again.

I'm trying to figure out this timing, still. I know 1 OL at 9 is fine. 1 at 15-16 is fine, but once those 2 queens are out and vomiting goo all over everything, it seems like I need to be spawning like 2-3 OLs at a time anytime I'm within 8 of my current cap. Is this accurate? Do I need to stay 2-3 OLs ahead of my supply to be safe?

Oh, and that's not even considering OLs that get picked off by the enemy. Forget about building anything at that point. :/

I know it was 'worse' but life seemed so much easier when I was just building till capped then making like 3-5 OLs at a time.

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Slaytilost
Profile Joined October 2010
Netherlands968 Posts
April 21 2011 15:12 GMT
#2
I heard MrBitter talk about building 2 ovies at once when you get 2 bases, and 4 if you reach 3. Its totally acceptable to build more then one, its way better then getting supply blocked either way.
a176
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
April 21 2011 17:56 GMT
#3
for me, the key was getting to a habit/rhythm of production cycles. instead of just randomly plopping overlords, i made a mental note to build an ovie for every 4 units, since most of zerg is 2 food. "r r r r v", etc.

once i got into it, my macro with upgrades, expanding, buildings, etc, got much better.
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Reithan
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States360 Posts
April 22 2011 06:35 GMT
#4
Ok, epiphany: inject larva = make overlord.

Overlord pops, larva pop, units get made.

TADA!
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