Dealing with early Immortals as Zerg - Page 2

On March 07 2010 08:46 TadH wrote:
Well as a Zerg player I find it extremely frustrating to have my army mid-game raped by 2 immortals with a few other units mixed in. Usually vs P I`ll try a timing push with lingséroaches, because usually if they over extend and expand you can just win, but it seems to me that roaches having +2 armor really don`t stand a chance (I hear immortals are a `hard`counter to roaches) So anyway, once my attack fails, they usually just counter with the 2|3 immortals they have and rape me with zeals etc, I know people say omg mutas pwn immortals, but realistically, mutalisks take a lot more time to mass and become effective, I mean if I save gas I might have 5-6 mutalisks, and he can just outmass sentrys and stalkers etc to counter that, and I`ll also be sacraficing roaches or hydras to save on gas.

Basically,what I would like advice on is this; how do you balance the early units to save for gas to be prepared for immortals or colossus should they tech to it?
(I'm ranked 1 in silver division 5)