[G] BGH Megathread! - Page 2

1.) If you are a Terran going MM for the love of god get FIREBATS. Pure MM has no chance for Zealots and lings even in tight spots early game and the worst Zeal micro. None. In the open it's just over. Late game you can get by without bats as upgraded marines in large numbers going to destroy lings, and vs Zeals you'll probably have tank support.

2.) If you are Terran going MM and know an enemy Terran is going Vultures - don't panic. The reason MM sucks vs Mech is the fact that ramps will kill you, and mines will make you stay home. BGH has no ramps so that's problem 1 out the way. So that leaves mine contains and the eventual tanks. However, you'll have stim+scan and possibly range before he has mines AND speed which he needs to be effective vs MM. Obviously once he gets tanks its over, but don't be scared to pressure his wall. Once he loses the depot its over if your allies are doing their jobs. If you don't think you can take his wall, you can sit on his choke if you're allies are covering everyone else. Vults can't blast through MM in a tight space unless there are a lot of them.

3.) As Zerg, if you open 9 pool speed don't be afraid to retreat your lings and attack a few seconds later with reinforcements. Rallying lings in 2 by 2 is bad because they die so fast.

4.) As Zerg, lurkers are brutal. While mutas are popular, lurkers are just as bad because even with detection when they have lots of support they will help control the middle easily. Tanks/hydra/lurk/marines are very hard to break out of without storm. Knowing this don't recklessly send all your units to break contains without the right support.

5.) Some principles and the same common sense applies from regular games. If a Protoss enemy starts pumping corsairs to harass your Zerg allies, usually he has only zealots/cannons and very few gas units. If you triple team one of his allies, the amount of help he can offer isn't going to be that much as he has used a lot of time and resources on pumping corsairs. He might not even have legs for his Zeals.

6.)If you are scared of getting dropped on in your main, but you need your army to cover another player's army just make 1 or 2 static D structures. Unless you scout an epic drop of massive proportions coming, that'll be enough to buy time for your main army to arrive back at base. Thats exactly why you build those structures. 10 cannons isn't going to stop a mech drop, and neither will 10 sunkens. 2 will do fine so all your drones won't get massacred instantly as they'll have to kill sunks for vultures to run around.