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So, how do you guys defend hellions?

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tgun
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
434 Posts
July 05 2011 13:36 GMT
#1
I do it a little something like this:

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whersmyspacebar
Profile Joined November 2010
United States220 Posts
July 05 2011 13:51 GMT
#2
2 baneling nests - hard counters hellion harass
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
July 05 2011 13:51 GMT
#3
I suppose you move that top spine to get out ^^?
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RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
July 05 2011 13:55 GMT
#4
So what happens when he decides to go helions drops your main looks pretty unprotected juding on the minimap
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
poundcakes
Profile Joined March 2011
Norway239 Posts
July 05 2011 13:55 GMT
#5
Wouldn't drops trap your drones or at least funnel them into easily roastable clumps?
The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay to fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
Th1rdEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1074 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-05 14:15:03
July 05 2011 14:14 GMT
#6
Get a mutalisk? A roach? You're blocking your gas.. and also you're not spending your larva cuz you wasted money on all those useless buildings
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
July 05 2011 14:18 GMT
#7
And when he drops your main? :/
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taldarimAltar
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
973 Posts
July 05 2011 14:23 GMT
#8
lol it's a joke guys... Anyway fxo fighting in the Gstl!
vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
July 05 2011 14:26 GMT
#9
Standard.

Gl in GSTL tgun!!!
Aka XephyR/Shaneyesss
Rorra
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia1066 Posts
July 05 2011 14:30 GMT
#10
Well i make make roaches vs blueflame generally, but hey you're the player on a professional gaming team, so i guess you know better.
tgun
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
434 Posts
July 05 2011 14:36 GMT
#11
You guys need to include pictures so I can learn!
Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
July 05 2011 14:36 GMT
#12
Hahaha, I love the fact that there's 2 bane nests tied in with the evo chambers. =)

Do this in GSTL! They'll never see it coming... It CAN'T fail. ...nowaitno!

tgun fightinggg!~
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Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
July 05 2011 14:39 GMT
#13
On July 05 2011 22:55 SEA_GenesiS wrote:
So what happens when he decides to go helions drops your main looks pretty unprotected juding on the minimap

Scout medivacs -> make four more baneling nests.
Calm
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada380 Posts
July 05 2011 14:45 GMT
#14
Hahaha I'm going to post this link every time someone asks for help vs hellions in the strategy forums. Could you make a guide for protoss and terran tgun?
Mercury-
Profile Joined December 2010
Great Britain804 Posts
July 05 2011 14:47 GMT
#15
How does this hold up against Banshee follow-ups?
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-05 14:47:48
July 05 2011 14:47 GMT
#16
If you cover the entire base surface area in buildings, they CAN'T drop.
Jayjay54
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2296 Posts
July 05 2011 14:48 GMT
#17
pure gold
Things are laid back in Unidenland. And may the road ahead be lid with dreams and tomorrows. Which are lid with dreams. Also.
tgun
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
434 Posts
July 05 2011 14:49 GMT
#18
On July 05 2011 23:47 Mercury- wrote:
How does this hold up against Banshee follow-ups?


Not very well.
Torenhire
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States11681 Posts
July 05 2011 14:51 GMT
#19
On July 05 2011 23:47 Talin wrote:
If you cover the entire base surface area in buildings, they CAN'T drop.


It's brilliant!!
SirJolt: Well maybe if you weren't so big and stupid, it wouldn't have hit you.
Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
July 05 2011 14:56 GMT
#20
Just use Ultralisks instead of the Baneling Nests, so you dont waste minerals.
This is our town, scrub
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