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ZvT 3hatch BO - terran contains with bunkers

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8882
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
2718 Posts
April 08 2005 09:33 GMT
#1
I dont like the 3hatch build orders ZvT, but I would like to learn how to use them properly.
My problem are terrans who contain me with bunkers. And then slowly send tanks.
If I go muta (and 3hatch is a general muta bo?) Im really fucked. First of all they slowly start to eradicate my sunken line (even if I build them as if I was guardian rushing, it doesnt help that much).
I can gather like 9mutas + some lings (10-12? maybe I shouldnt power so much? and make more lings?) and try to destroy the contain, but if he stops scv production he can invest in turrets and add some bats (not many tanks).
Most people will say that I should muta harass, but still he usually stops making scvs and turrets the main. Even if I kill some depots or make him lift barracks, he still is destroying my sunks and can destroy my natural and raze the main (usually the terrans go do or die mode, in pro replays Ive seen them go back... why? -_-).
What to do? Ive tried massing lings and it had mixed results, I could clear part of the contain, but it would lead to a situation with me having no army vs a terran with some (which makes it hard to expand and gives him the advantage).

I dont know, maybe I should try going hydra, but wont the terran just turbo newbie my cliff (or even make the gay factory on cliff? some people like containing).
If I decide to go hydra, I should make drop first, but Im not sure what's the general BO.

Someone said that the contain strat is unstopable? I just shouldnt use it? Are the terrans playing wrong and not containing, or maybe I should mass lings? o_O
Ive tried some 3hatch hydra BOs, but they dont work too well on maps with cliffs (but seem to be great on bifrost).
I have returned
[GiTM]-Ace
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4935 Posts
April 08 2005 10:07 GMT
#2
seriosuly i been wondering the same thing.cause i like 3 hatch alot.in the reps i saw alot of z's dont sunk as hard and get lots of lings idunno.what i like to do is steal t's gas so i can slow their tech down and should be able to defend.but yea terran contain is a bitch.espcially proxy fac it works well. and i never know what to do
I may not be the best player right now but I think I can beat any 'best' players. I'll beat all the best players and become the best player. Watch me. - Jju
idontknownick
Profile Joined March 2005
United Kingdom98 Posts
April 08 2005 10:16 GMT
#3
why not play with doing the drop and lurk upgrades at same time, drop lurk(also do the trick by going 1 drone to island expand with the ovie) to harass main then upgrade movement to overlords (by now or u should leave 1 lurk in sunkens or the terran should return to his main to save his main thus making u able to go expand) as long as u have upgrade movement, go mass drops and then do your game cause u will have expos.
I cant stand the smell of Orcs.
Smorrie
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands2922 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-04-08 10:38:46
April 08 2005 10:23 GMT
#4
if you're going 3 hatch muta/ling you'll have quite some time to make mass drones -,- just stop powering at some point and start making lings so you'll have like 20-24 lings while you're waiting for your spire to finish (you need to make those lings in case he drops anyways).. then start making mutas until you have enough shitz.. if he's pushing you with tanks, just make some extra sunks to stall him from shooting your hatch. Oh.. and use your first muta's to cut off his reinforcements!

when i'm going 3hatch i always try to steal terran's gas, that way you can slow his tech down a bit + you know if he's moving out with his first rines to do some damage at your exp/drones.. if he doesn't kill his gas first, he'll be on his way to your base.. so he'll have late gas, mostly you can assume he goes 2cc then ;p

If you expect him to go fast tankpush (when he takes his gas earlygame already) just start making lings earlier already so you can take his force down before he actually builds bunks and shit.
It has a strong technique, but it lacks oo.
loloko2
Profile Joined January 2005
Mexico433 Posts
April 08 2005 10:30 GMT
#5
YES YES, can someone tell me now I WAS WRONG? can someone now re-call my topic?

8882 i'le solve your problem.... try 3 hacth and MASS LINGS, when terran comes to your base you should have around 30 lings, if you atack him with a very small macro-managment you should finish his tropps before he builds bunkers,

IF HE IS ABLE TO BUILD BUNKERS OUTSIDE YOUR NATURAL YOU'RE DEAD ESPECIALLY IF ITS LT....

DO NOT SAY MASS MUTA IS THE SOLUTION BECAUSE IT IS NOT!, ANY GOOD decent terran will make around 3-4-5 turrets in his mineral line, and if he sees more mutas, he will add a bunker, that way, he will start slow pushing you and GG...


ps: if you go fast lurk, = dead, if you go 2 hatch lurk, maybe you can finish him, (depends on the game) if you go 3 hatch ling+ lurk, you're dead,,, if you 3 hatch mass lings, you 90% finish him...

I HAVE LIKE 3 REPLAYS, of each case im telling you about..

i also have a replay with a nice move, 27-30 lings burrowed, when the terran came to build me bunkers.. i just unburrow and killed everything... he couldn't even kill me 10 lings..

gl hf~
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loloko2
Profile Joined January 2005
Mexico433 Posts
April 08 2005 10:34 GMT
#6
OH and btw if you're going 3 hatch lings, be sure to make spawing pool before the second hand or sometimes its even better before the first hatch,,,,, then dont stop creating lings,
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exalted
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States3612 Posts
April 08 2005 10:35 GMT
#7
3-4-5 turrets is nothing vs 12 mutalisk, just GO mass muta, kill his fucking cc, gg the game, build 8-10 sunks in your natural if you have to, DON"T lose it, gg him. Bunker is more of an issue but you can also try picking off his tank, he'll only have 1-2 so its not as if your sunks are going down asap.
too easy
exalted
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States3612 Posts
April 08 2005 10:37 GMT
#8
The only problem where this is an issue is especially with 3hatch and he opens factory first, in which he has the option of fast drop or tank drop, both which are deadly vs 3hatch because of delayed tech. Since this is what you are referring to, your best bet is mutaling to take down that contain.

On April 08 2005 19:34 loloko2 wrote:
OH and btw if you're going 3 hatch lings, be sure to make spawing pool before the second hand or sometimes its even better before the first hatch,,,,, then dont stop creating lings,


What the fuck? Pool before hatch if you're going 3 hatch lings? Like it makes a difference? Stop posting in the strategy forum please. Since you're on the forums right now, /msg exalted on useast, lets game.
too easy
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16981 Posts
April 08 2005 10:38 GMT
#9
On April 08 2005 19:30 loloko2 wrote:
YES YES, can someone tell me now I WAS WRONG? can someone now re-call my topic?

8882 i'le solve your problem.... try 3 hacth and MASS LINGS, when terran comes to your base you should have around 30 lings, if you atack him with a very small macro-managment you should finish his tropps before he builds bunkers,

IF HE IS ABLE TO BUILD BUNKERS OUTSIDE YOUR NATURAL YOU'RE DEAD ESPECIALLY IF ITS LT....

DO NOT SAY MASS MUTA IS THE SOLUTION BECAUSE IT IS NOT!, ANY GOOD decent terran will make around 3-4-5 turrets in his mineral line, and if he sees more mutas, he will add a bunker, that way, he will start slow pushing you and GG...


ps: if you go fast lurk, = dead, if you go 2 hatch lurk, maybe you can finish him, (depends on the game) if you go 3 hatch ling+ lurk, you're dead,,, if you 3 hatch mass lings, you 90% finish him...

I HAVE LIKE 3 REPLAYS, of each case im telling you about..

i also have a replay with a nice move, 27-30 lings burrowed, when the terran came to build me bunkers.. i just unburrow and killed everything... he couldn't even kill me 10 lings..

gl hf~



1. If the Terran scouts your bases and sees slow gas/slow lair, the Terran will add FIrebats every time as he should assume large amounts of Zerglings.

2. A control group MM and SCV/Bunker > 2 control group lings.

3. Mutalisk is the solution. That or slow drop him which almost never works. Just focus the Turrets. 12 Mutalisks would have to be stopped by an obscene amount of turrets. Take exalted's advice.
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loloko2
Profile Joined January 2005
Mexico433 Posts
April 08 2005 10:41 GMT
#10
exalted i already told you im not f$cking playing with you never, you keep being BM to me and critize any job, TRY PLAYING VS A GOOD TERRAN being ZERG and you will REALIZE its not as SIMPLE as you THINK ok?, ask 8882 he has a good idea of what im saying....
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16981 Posts
April 08 2005 10:45 GMT
#11
You can say fucking without the KGB being on your tail

And loloko2, Mutalisks are the way to go. Even if he did put up 6 Turrets, you still accomplished your initial task of slowing down his eco. Mutalisks also pick koff reinforcements to the contain and can be used to both scout and harass. In the mean time, you should be building more and more Zerglings to eventually finish off the contain or go for Greater Spire tech. I prefer the former.

And loloko2, you're more defensive than I
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loloko2
Profile Joined January 2005
Mexico433 Posts
April 08 2005 11:05 GMT
#12
Yea i know, and its ok if you purpose any other strats, and tell me why is not gonna work, i accept it, i am a human i make mistakes, but that is VERY different than come and tell your work is shit and will never have a use like exalted did with my thread.

ps: when you get 12 mutas i already took your natural, not joking.. then i go everything for everything, so we'll see who kills the other first, you with your 12 mutas, with my buildings flying away... or me with 1-2 tank and 12 marine + 3 medic and 2 fb....

IT DEPENDS ON THE GAME, doing that strat with TERRAN will NOT work always as any strat.... and sometimes zerg will be able to kill TERRAN containment easily, depends on alot of factors, like speed, in wut you spent your eco.. positions in map, luck, micro...
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Smorrie
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands2922 Posts
April 08 2005 11:23 GMT
#13
On April 08 2005 20:05 loloko2 wrote:
Yea i know, and its ok if you purpose any other strats, and tell me why is not gonna work, i accept it, i am a human i make mistakes, but that is VERY different than come and tell your work is shit and will never have a use like exalted did with my thread.

ps: when you get 12 mutas i already took your natural, not joking.. then i go everything for everything, so we'll see who kills the other first, you with your 12 mutas, with my buildings flying away... or me with 1-2 tank and 12 marine + 3 medic and 2 fb....

IT DEPENDS ON THE GAME, doing that strat with TERRAN will NOT work always as any strat.... and sometimes zerg will be able to kill TERRAN containment easily, depends on alot of factors, like speed, in wut you spent your eco.. positions in map, luck, micro...


so according to you the only really good way to counter that strat is a 3hatch ling (bad eco+late tech)... meaning that if he took fast gas for anything else (drop/fast upgrades/fast vessel/wraiths/or whatever ya need gas for) you'll always die -_-. Or if he scans your shit/scouts it with an scv, he'll just make sure he takes some extra bats with him.. then you're dead meat too.
It has a strong technique, but it lacks oo.
Cloud
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
April 08 2005 11:53 GMT
#14
July uses 3 hatch quite frecuently you should look for a rep pack of him.
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Aca
Profile Joined April 2003
United States165 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-04-08 12:20:54
April 08 2005 12:10 GMT
#15
I used to have problems when opening with 3 hatch vs terrans who open with tank rush until I saw what yellow does when he 3 hatches. When using a 2 hatch lair build, you lair at about 18 control which allows you to kill a tank rush. Unless you are positive that the Terran is opening with fast CC, you must lair at about the same time with a 3 hatch build as you would with a 2 hatch build, even though it means playing with a slight supply deficit due to unused larva. If you don't, a quick, well-executed tank rush should kill you every time unless you use some kind of risky ling build.

If you are positive that he's fast CCing, you need not worry about tank rush and can make the extra drones before lair to give you a little extra material. So unless you spawn at 12, went pool before hatch, or just know he will fast CC, don't go 3 hatch because it will end up being less efficient than 2 hatch when facing a build that involves gas and lets Terran tech.

I swear to god this is the best answer to your question, if some strategy forum regular comes along and tells you to do otherwise, don't listen to them! Take the advice that I ripped off from Hong Jin Ho!
[GiTM]-Ace
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4935 Posts
April 08 2005 12:46 GMT
#16
can some other ppl answer thins question cause it just seems more like opinion right now. although aca does sound like he knows what hes talking about
I may not be the best player right now but I think I can beat any 'best' players. I'll beat all the best players and become the best player. Watch me. - Jju
Attacke
Profile Joined January 2005
96 Posts
April 08 2005 22:00 GMT
#17
8882 are teh noob!
KHC831
Profile Joined March 2005
United States33 Posts
April 09 2005 04:14 GMT
#18
u guys should put up some replays to prove ur points...
I think I am in Love~
idontknownick
Profile Joined March 2005
United Kingdom98 Posts
April 09 2005 04:40 GMT
#19
8882 i could give u some replays that i made this cheese strat in some games with the double dropping lurks. just pm me your email
I cant stand the smell of Orcs.
CorvuS
Profile Joined August 2004
Germany6 Posts
April 09 2005 07:10 GMT
#20
when spire is morphing make speed up for lings and 12-15 ling and put them outside ur main...

when he contains u use about 10 muta + ~20 lings from 2 sides that will crush the t... also u can stop reinforcements with this ling until u have muta an try to get in his main when he leaves first time and slow down his containment...

imo most sucky thing when u go 3 hatch is fast wraith+cliffdrop :/
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