I got inspired watching Effort destroy Sangho by dropping him 8 jillion times on Neo Medusa so I decided to try it on Iccup.

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First Drop:

Yay Nexus Kill

<3 Lurkers

Moar Hydras

and Moar Lurkers

Why doesn't he leave...

even after...

I drop his whole base simultaneously?

Sniped 4 of his High Templar as he pushed out ( First time I actually did it successfully :> )

Cows = Win

Of course he leaves without gging. This strat makes me feel smug inside <3

Clasic

Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts

June 13 2009 09:26 GMT

Damn..
Max rank lol?
You fucking raped this kid lol.

BanZu

United States3329 Posts

June 13 2009 09:29 GMT

To be honest, looking at those shots makes me want to switch over to Zerg.

Lemonwalrus

United States5465 Posts

June 13 2009 09:42 GMT

On June 13 2009 18:29 BanZu wrote:
To be honest, looking at those shots makes me want to switch over to Zerg.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=95338

Admitting it is the first step.

Clasic

Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts

June 13 2009 09:45 GMT

On June 13 2009 18:42 Lemonwalrus wrote:

Show nested quote +

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=95338

Admitting it is the first step.

Lmao

Nyovne

Netherlands19133 Posts

June 13 2009 10:13 GMT

On June 13 2009 18:42 Lemonwalrus wrote:

Show nested quote +

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=95338

Admitting it is the first step.

LOL!

barth

Ireland1272 Posts

June 13 2009 10:38 GMT

Pretty nice

I have to start dropping more, since it works really well on lower levels imo.

Zoler

Sweden6339 Posts

June 13 2009 11:22 GMT

doom drops are imba T_T

TheAntZ

Israel6248 Posts

June 13 2009 11:35 GMT

How do you even defend this? Dont really see a way T_T

Vivi57

United States6599 Posts

June 13 2009 11:50 GMT

#10

What's the general build for this?

5 hatch hydra/lurk with drop?

Eatme

Switzerland3919 Posts

June 13 2009 12:03 GMT

#11

On June 13 2009 19:38 barth wrote:
Pretty nice

I have to start dropping more, since it works really well on lower levels imo.

Yes, noone expects doom drops from zerg now so it works really well. It used to be a viable strat and is relatively easy to pull off.

Camlito

Australia4040 Posts

June 13 2009 12:50 GMT

#12

Can you upload the replay of this :D?

SoulMarine

United States586 Posts

June 13 2009 14:15 GMT

#13

spoiler please.

Also, doom dropping works very well as zerg against protoss. I do it pretty often.

SoulMarine

United States586 Posts

June 13 2009 14:18 GMT

#14

On June 13 2009 20:50 Vivi57 wrote:
What's the general build for this?

5 hatch hydra/lurk with drop?

Yeah, you just get the gas for grades. I usually dont use lurkers or lings, I just hydra the shit of them.

Durak

Canada3684 Posts

June 13 2009 15:00 GMT

#15

I was going to make a strategy post on how to doom drop but I guess I can ask it here instead. What's the mechanics for doing a doom drop so that your ovies keep moving? Do you press shift+u on all your overlords really quickly?

Piy

Scotland3152 Posts

June 13 2009 15:09 GMT

#16

tbh it'd be alot more impressive if you weren't 2.8k of mins at 3 bases at 12 mins into the game..But I'm glad you had fun :p

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

June 13 2009 15:13 GMT

#17

On June 14 2009 00:00 Durak wrote:
I was going to make a strategy post on how to doom drop but I guess I can ask it here instead. What's the mechanics for doing a doom drop so that your ovies keep moving? Do you press shift+u on all your overlords really quickly?

Clicking on the Overlord, hitting u, and clicking on him again will make it drop while moving (if it drops all the units before it reaches its destination of course) I don't know why you would want to press shift + u, I imagine that would queue unload and defeat the purpose.

The most reliable way is to just do that on all of them while they are moving. The other method is pressing u and clicking in the middle of your overlords but in my experience it's really hard if not impossible to ensure every single overlord will continue moving. Granted if it's a massive drop I won't bother trying to manually unload, if it's more than 5 or 6 overlords it's probably better to try to click the middle of them and if one or two stop deal with it individually.

Yiruru

Canada690 Posts

June 13 2009 17:38 GMT

#18

http://repdepot.net/replay.php?id=14638

Max rank only C-, I was focusing too much on watching my drops, my APM sucked. Most of my losses come from this (And DT drops which he actually did and killed lots of drones :< why can't the game warn me even if drones die in 1 hit ><)

My minerals were up since the third was mineral only, and I didn't even have enough gas even for hydras so I decided to take a 3rd gas but forgot to add extra hatches as well ;;

I just did the 3 Hatch Spire -> 5 Hatch Hydra build, got second gas and started researching overlord stuff (I think this is what Effort did too)