Just wanted to say thanks to the OP for this brilliant cheese. In custom games so far I've won 12 times and lost 1. Sure many were copper/bronze/silver but about 4 were gold and 2 plat (one of them actually #1 plat, although in a relatively new divsion with 1300 points.)

chinaski.chinaski

Russian Federation81 Posts

April 11 2010 19:47 GMT

#42

this brilliant tactic works agaisnt any divison if they hvnt spotted your hatch untill it spawns.
also very good as some1 stated to bring out another 10th drone to "scout" and harass him so he willnt bother abotu checking other locations.

hovewer i must say that while using i lost several times vs other really wierd tatics

-vs 1gate dumb zeal rush (he puttd gateway under ramp on lt but i actually hvnt checked buliding = thought he were obv fast expand but he hyperboosted his zeals and went stright for m ybase with 2 zeals. i didnt know that, and he actually didnt knew he had my hatch on his main, but i was lack of minerals to surive that (1 cannon)
-vs wierd bunker+reaper rush to my main. i managed to surive, but due of lack of resources and reapers at his base (he didnt proxied)) he killed my other hatch/building canons and got crushed my main with banshees.

all these tactics very not common and they actually didnt noticed my rush so its just "unlucky" ones.

the main thing is not only pump drones/queen/zerlings from your secodn hatch, but also constantly pump lings from your main so he have to deal with 2 defending points (lings to mienrals + lings near entarance) AND sunkens.

ShadowReaver

Canada563 Posts

April 12 2010 16:07 GMT

#43

oh man, looks like fun, gotta try it tonight.

sLiniss

United States849 Posts

April 12 2010 16:20 GMT

#44

Since I have gone from 27-20 to 29-40 in a week... I'm up for trying anything haha.

I'll post up what I think about it... hopefully later tonight!

Darkn3ss

United States717 Posts

April 12 2010 16:59 GMT

#45

Lol I used to do that in BW for lulz... Surprisingly, even ~C level opponents fell for that... (Not as often as D+ and below tho)

Anywhooo, I've been thinking about doing that too but always forgot! xD Maybe you and I should 2v2 and proxy hatch every game! rofl

I do believe it's pretty hard to beat if u didn't scout it in time... Spine Crawlers can relocate as creep expands, so zerg wastes less resources and can actually have ALL of them doing damage where it matters rather than having 1-2 defending the hatch and then 2 more attacking... leapfrog their ass and lolol at your opponent! If terran decides to fly away to an expo, you can just stalk him! Creep Tumors are your friends! ^^

p1ng

Germany53 Posts

April 12 2010 21:00 GMT

#46

http://www.sc2rc.com/index.php/replay/show/1195

:D

AncienTs

Japan227 Posts

April 12 2010 21:15 GMT

#47

this thread made my day.. rofl

mindZ

United States31 Posts

April 13 2010 02:23 GMT

#48

KHB did this back in the first week of beta. I've been doing different variations of it since. It works great on Blistering Sands/Desert Oasis(Behind the mineral line, use a ovy for version and let your spine crawlers rape the min line). I've done it on scrap station as well.

It works good vs terran wall in and toss 1 gate cyber core, as they are pretty screwed when they lose their 1 gate way at the choke.

l10f

United States3241 Posts

April 13 2010 02:42 GMT

#49

Roffles did this vs me and got owned

zak

Korea (South)1009 Posts

April 13 2010 05:51 GMT

#50

i really dont understand how this will work unless the enemy was a complete nub

ooni

Australia1498 Posts

April 13 2010 07:43 GMT

#51

So lifting off CC to your natural is never an option ha?

cHaNg-sTa

United States1058 Posts

April 13 2010 07:50 GMT

#52

On April 13 2010 16:43 ooni wrote:
So lifting off CC to your natural is never an option ha?

They can also make.. zerglings lol

mOnion

United States5657 Posts

April 13 2010 07:51 GMT

#53

I wish I could play in leagues where no one scouted main so I could have as much fun as everyone else in this thread

Ftrunkz

Australia2474 Posts

April 13 2010 07:56 GMT

#54

hahahaha, remember when u tried this on me and ran your drone straight past my probe ;P

Disastorm

United States922 Posts

April 13 2010 08:09 GMT

#55

interesting i havnt tried this yet in SC2. I used to do it in SC1 every now and then and have people rage quit against me (assuming they didn't stop it). In SC1 I would do 2 hatch fast lurker except the 2nd hatch was an in-base proxy and of course most of their static defense was usually at their natural so i come out with lurkers and if they have no detection, I would usually win.

Joseki

United States200 Posts

April 13 2010 09:28 GMT

#56

Some guy did a build like this against me but he just put a hatch at my nat O_O Was really tought to beat I had to fast tech tanks or I would have had basically no chance against creep + spine crawlers.

wintergt

Belgium1335 Posts

April 13 2010 11:16 GMT

#57

those screenshots look incredibly zergy I love it :D

QueueQueue

Canada1000 Posts

April 13 2010 16:31 GMT

#58

Boggling as to how that would work... However, I guess people really don't expect it, and therefore will never scout for Zerg proxies...

SuperJongMan

Jamaica11586 Posts

April 13 2010 16:54 GMT

#59

I like bringing drones when I nydus work to sunken push too...
And can we call spine crawlers sunkens??? I mean, they aren't even a spine?
They look like pointy earthworms.

ROOTCatZ

Peru1226 Posts

April 14 2010 12:48 GMT

#60

XD lol new cheese, been doing this since broodwar! XD hahaha

I still do it situationally, and in many cases i can take games from top platinum players, but it is ONLY a situational build, as it is easily scouted by almost anything other than proxy buildings or fast exp P