Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 133

On April 04 2013 10:11 BroodKingEXE wrote:

More macro oriented games due to harder to find spawns. Naturals are generally easier to defend as thirds. Quite frankly, no one enjoys watching a game where players pick at each other's defense.

On April 04 2013 10:28 traceurling wrote:

It's like Hive ZvZs, I like seeing them every once in a while but definitely not 20% of the time...it can be cool to see players show their skills at endurance and playing the waiting game, just not too frequently

On April 04 2013 12:20 BroodKingEXE wrote:

Well ZvZ isn't what was thinking of. I was thinking of the implications of mech terran at defending. It'd would be ridiculous to be able to defend 6 bases pretty easily.

On April 04 2013 09:13 traceurling wrote:

So for the current metagame you're gonna new essentially a main and a natural, so take spawn locations and multiply by two. That leaves you with 10 based for a 5 player map, and 12 for a 6 player maps. In terms of space, mains require quite a but of space, so pretending the other mains are just thirds doesn't quite workout out cz now you don't have room for a third because not enough room analog you risk having too much money on a map. Sorry I had a more well thought out answer but my browser crashed and I didn't want to retype all of it.

On April 04 2013 18:22 ninazerg wrote:


I'm going to show you a cool trick.

To maximize the damage caused by scarabs, you always want them to path directly into the unit you're attacking. If the unit you're attacking is separated by minerals or is running away, the scarabs will not do very much damage. If you drop directly into the mineral line, it can be a lot more effective than dropping behind the mineral lines.

Note! Dropping behind the mineral lines is great for many other types of drops, such as high templar, marines, lurkers, etc., but the way scarabs work give them a uniqueness that can be a pain in the ass.

Now, here is a concept that you can play around with: if your opponent has decent reaction time, he/she will see the reaver and go "Oh, I don't want to lose all my workers, so I will pull them away." and maynard them to another mineral field. If you anticipate this, it can potentially yield way more damage for your drop. The idea is to basically drop your reaver in the retreat path of the workers so they will have no choice but to DIE.

Here,


Ignore that enormous splash of blood for a moment. That's not important right now. The important thing is that the reaver is at the bottom of the mineral field, so if the drones want to escape, they have to go south towards the ramp, or clump up near the extractor. If they do either of these, it means you will kill a lot of drones.


Another example of this would be to fly over the natural (maybe drop a zealot into the minerals), but drop the reaver at the top of the ramp.



Even if the drones don't go up the ramp, you still are able to deny small reinforcements coming up the ramp, and on top of that, you can fly to the main base' mineral field to drop there. If the zerg pulls their drones from the natural AND loses a lot at their main, then they will lose a lot of potential harvesting time.

Here is a chart of how to shoot your scarabs at things:
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On April 05 2013 06:04 Dead9 wrote:
usually people run the drones in the opposite direction instead of trying to transfer
it's still a good place to drop tho since the drones will bug out a little when they try to run without drilling

On April 07 2013 04:45 sabas123 wrote:

i don't really think so, there might be like vods with compertary shared on sites like neaver and cafe daum thou.