zvz moving rally point

Adrenal6land

United States46 Posts

July 30 2012 01:50 GMT

Just thought i would mention this as ive been watching streams and no one seems to be doing it.

When i play a zvz I make an oversier (could be used with overloard speed) and just hot key the oversier with my main army. (i usually make 2 or 3 as the game progresses)
I then rally all my hatcheries to it. If in a battle and dont wanna be going back and forth grabbing the reinforcements they come right to my army no matter where it is.
Yes it gets picked off from time to time by fungals or hydras but most of the time it goes un checked by the other player. This is also great for keeping tabs on player 2's army early in the game. just have an oversier following a roach around and itll hover over their main army.
works great in pvz and tvz as well. if your facing a mainly ling/roach army. just have a unit follow around the main army, medivac/viking/phenox/obs/warp prizm (obs is kinda too slow but still works for a while) not sure why i dont see this more often

Megaliskuu

United States5123 Posts

July 30 2012 01:53 GMT

I just hit shift+unit hotkey and add eggs to my army. Seems to be the most common way of doing that.

Adrenal6land

United States46 Posts

July 30 2012 02:06 GMT

yeah i used to do that but i found problems. sometimes i couldnt attack move when i had stuff all hotkeyed, not sure why. and i found it easier to hot key them as they show up. also was good cuz with a unit there (the oversier) i would always know my retreat path and never lose units that were on a move/attack command to the other side of the map.

just what ive been doing lately. maybe this will help someone. if not you can always use it to scout/keep tabs on the other zergs army.

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

July 30 2012 02:52 GMT

For some reason this reminded me of the old strat of giving a DT a follow command on an observer and having the observer patrol around the map. Sick way to deny the third on XNC and check for the 4th and kill creep tumors without looking. Too bad people make overseers now.

Which is probably why I thought of this.

So this is kinda cool, but if I don't hotkey my stuff after making them they have this terrible habit of getting lost here and there. Guess I have bad control but zvz is pretty hectic. Cool method, I can see how it would be useful for mutalisks.

leo23

United States3075 Posts

July 30 2012 03:40 GMT

On July 30 2012 10:53 Megaliskuu wrote:
I just hit shift+unit hotkey and add eggs to my army. Seems to be the most common way of doing that.

this works perfect.

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