Would a general rule of thumb be 1 sunken per medic? This is assuming you suicide a ling or something at terran as they leave their base to get an idea of unit mix.

STIMEY d okgm fish

Canada6140 Posts

June 19 2004 07:47 GMT

#23

a general rule of thumb is that 3 medics + 8 rines stimmed and healed before attacking, concentrating fire and microing, will take down 3 sunkens?

StoneR

Spain1252 Posts

June 19 2004 08:15 GMT

#24

with no lings and lurkers i think they would

Casper...

Liberia4948 Posts

June 19 2004 13:25 GMT

#25

psst
this is why you make lings when your scout ling dies to rines

Casper...

Liberia4948 Posts

June 19 2004 13:26 GMT

#26

and 3 is fine

Beast_Bg

Bulgaria1623 Posts

June 19 2004 17:29 GMT

#27

Why not make an ums map,where you can practice the sunk vs marine/medic vs someone and start different positions with moving some civilian into a beacon?
I've been planning to practice some things this way for a long time now

Ack1027

United States7873 Posts

June 19 2004 18:08 GMT

#28

On June 20 2004 02:29 Beast_Bg wrote:
Why not make an ums map,where you can practice the sunk vs marine/medic vs someone and start different positions with moving some civilian into a beacon?
I've been planning to practice some things this way for a long time now

Um, why? You can just 3 sunk and use about 6-10 lings in a real melee game and survive. If you die to first m&m rush with that defense up, you need to quit playing zerg.

Splinter

United States188 Posts

June 20 2004 13:27 GMT

#29

Watch out for those early +1 armor rines ^^

karrilover

China8 Posts

June 22 2004 00:52 GMT

#30

oo,
i think your scouting is not good enough then!!
i lost some games just as yours .when i look the reps ,i found that i even didn,t know when /how the t rush .
so ,make some lings to scout [notice terran,s number of marines and when he rush out ]
if your control is terrible,,,more sunkens . A 3 - barrack rush
can probabily kill 5 sunkens [if enough medics]
and u should make sunkens according to the time and units when he rush out .if ur control is cool ,then ,use drones andlings and fewer sunkens.
but i dongt think fewer sunken s will save your minerals.
any way ,,i.m weak too.. but i see a lotof reps ^^
wish u goodluck

STIMEY d okgm fish

Canada6140 Posts

June 22 2004 02:02 GMT

#31

u gonna spend 5+ larvas on lings every time terran moves to contain u? what do u do, 3 hatch and 3 sunk every game?

0wNaG3-

333 Posts

June 22 2004 02:27 GMT

#32

Dont feel you cant make more than 3 sunks because you dont want to look like a turtling noob. If you choose to go right to your tech after expo is up and running instead of some lings first fine. Leave an ovy or atleast one or two lings out side your base. Build 2-3 sunks at first then build as many as you think you need to survive. Even yellow gets around 5-6 sunks sometimes.

hasuwar

7365 Posts

June 23 2004 00:29 GMT

#33

Yeah..isn't this extremely obvious? make more s unkens..

Twisted

Netherlands13554 Posts

June 23 2004 01:16 GMT

#34

I'm always feeling pretty comfortable with powering drones and making as many sunks as I desire... that's sometimes 5 sunkens, most of the times 4.

FreeZEternal

Korea (South)3396 Posts

June 23 2004 01:22 GMT

#35

Im not zerg but isn't making a lot of sunkens going to affect your eco?

STIMEY d okgm fish

Canada6140 Posts

June 23 2004 03:13 GMT

#36

i think (i dont know so if im a wrong noob then flame away) if ur making drones with every larva then 1 sunken can be better than lings since it does more per larva so u get more drones if u make a sunk.. depends on how many drones u already have, assuming u have 2 hatches, if u have 3 early then u probably need ore more than larva. if they are going 3 rax its worth it to get sunks unless they are just doing it to fake you out and arent even using the rax (a smart move maybe) anywayhs lings isnt bad either, both work ok.. its ur choice, u can make either way work (pure sunk or speedling) but u will need speedling eventually if they are going to drop you anyways and u need some lings to block ur ramp so they cant run thru and speedlings can sometimes screw their guys as they move out to go lord hunting if u know how terran think or somesthing like that... um. sunks handle bats better and are less likely to all fuck up and die screwing u

JoeUser

United States684 Posts

June 23 2004 07:11 GMT

#37

I have seen ogogo put down 7+ sunks. You have to be really sexy to do it thought

Dave[9]

United States2365 Posts

June 23 2004 09:12 GMT

#38

do everything that piccilo said but just like 5 sunkens will do it, he'll just stick outside your base and contain you then so you should get lurks and push him out =]