The IdrA Fan Club - Page 63

On October 18 2010 14:35 bumatlarge wrote:

Truth

9 Overlord
14 Hatch (send 14th drone to nat)
14 Pool
16 Gas (scout! He ends up scouting terran going factory)
16 Overlord
Just before pool finishes, he maynards 3 drones to natural
17 (Overlord pops) Queen
19 2 zerglings
20 Next queen
25 Zergling speed
*First queen pops and uses creep tumor at main + builds overlord*
27 *Second queen pops and uses creep tumor at expo*
(this extra creep tumor he uses to cover the ledge on LT, later on he has a overlord spew on the ledge and makes another tumor up there, very clever)
28 spine crawler
29 Lair
32 2x gas + 2x spine crawlers
(The extra crawlers are because he scouts the fac+reactor upgrading, fearing tank drop, these spines will delay until he gets mutas)
37 Lair comes up - spire goes down

What is really interesting to note is how many terran builds this safely responds to after scouting factory/reactor. If those banshees beelined for idras main, and were even out a little earlier, idra's mutas would be out after the queen skirmishes with the first banshee for a second. (if it had been a cloak variant, I think the timing would have been different, and idra's response would have been different, but he morphed an overseer regardless) If that was siege upgrading, I think that medivac + 2 tanks on the ledge would not have been able to kill the spine in time to do real damage before mutas popped. Hellion breaks take alot of damage from that spine placement, and that one spine to the side prevents them from bunkering behind the nat. And imagine a terran not putting pressure on that by going straight up into 2 base mech. Idra was already ploppin a third by 11:00, after all the pressure avilo applied. Terran seems likes its going to have to play really smart if they want to go fast fac/reactor vs idra.