Hidra/ling . You just attack the marauder ball with it and when he kills your lings just back of with the hidras until reinforcements zerglings arrive so that you don't risk losing your whole army unless you are clearly winning .

Tef

Sweden443 Posts

May 07 2010 20:30 GMT

#63

You just need to incorporate either hydra, muta or infestors with your speedlings and you will be good against pure marauder.

LostWraithSC

United States111 Posts

May 07 2010 20:56 GMT

#64

hydras are great against marauders, but add 2 tanks to the mix and a handful of marines to defend them against lings and u can watch ur hydras melt from the tanks. Well positioned tanks also neutralize infestors because 1) it outrages the NP by a lot and 2) if NP does go off the marauders have enough range to ff the infestors down to minimize the dmg. Either way, hydras are great against pure marauder but tanks mess up the equation. You'll need air to deal with this army and force them to make more marines and fewer marauders from his rax. Even then it's hard on the T to babysit tanks and marauders with marines all the time while moving across the map and ravens aren't very good against muta because mutas can outfly the HSM.

However as someone who loses to T almost every game I shouldn't be talking....but my counterfeit 2 pennies are here anyway.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

May 07 2010 20:59 GMT

#65

op is doing it wrong imho.
What I do in zvt is 15pool or hatch and then get up a few crawlers and a roach warren while using a few lings to scout. The moment I see him moving out with any early aggression. I just start spamming roaches.
But this is not my goal, my goal is to get mutas. While the mutas are doing their job- THEN I get speedlings and banelings, expand again, infestor pit, melee/carapace upgrade and hive for crack. This ground army can almost deal with anything, if he's not using bio then I switch it to roach/hydra.
Expand once or twice more and start making corruptors and broodlords.

xnub

Canada610 Posts

May 07 2010 21:26 GMT

#66

On May 08 2010 05:02 Chill wrote:
Hydralisks do great against marauders wtf is going on in this thread?

/shrug i have no idea and i ahve been following it lol

Vain

Netherlands1115 Posts

May 07 2010 21:55 GMT

#67

On May 08 2010 06:26 xnub wrote:

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/shrug i have no idea and i ahve been following it lol

then please tell me what is great against it.

morimacil

France921 Posts

May 07 2010 21:59 GMT

#68

Bling bust isn't early aggression. It puts you fairly all in.

Well if you get prepared for it, but dont actually go through with it because he fortified his wall/blocked his choke, then it isnt very all in, its just early zergling speed, a baneling nest, and a bunch of lings.
If you still have 18-20 drones, and an expo halfway done, it shouldnt be considered all-in imo, but if it is, then whatever, Im just trying to find a way to make it work as an actual opening, and not some sort of cheese/all-in.

That doesnt really help. If I wanted to ask what you do against terran, I would ask you for that.
Instead, I am trying to make something else work, and its really close, but not quite there yet, though it has potential, its fun, and it fits my playstyle.

xnub

Canada610 Posts

May 07 2010 23:17 GMT

#69

On May 08 2010 06:55 Vain wrote:

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then please tell me what is great against it.

We have / the post has allready

Speedlings/hydras/infestors/mutas all counter pure marauders

Bio ball of MMM

Speelings/banlings add on infestors in later game
Hydra/roachs add on infestors in later game
Muta/speedling or banling with good controll
hydra/speedlingz
Broodlords

guitarizt

United States1492 Posts

May 08 2010 05:19 GMT

#70

Hydras against stimmed mar with medivacs kind of suck but add in some lings to soak up the damage and you're good. I think it was the zotac8 cup on lost temple zpux against boys where boys tries to contain zpux at his nat and zpux breaks it with roaches hydras and lings. He did an excellent job of micro'ing everything. I started to make more lings to suck up the marauder fire after I saw that and it's working out well for me. Before I would try to make more roaches to soak damage. Then I tried more hydra and that didn't work. I read from someone on tl that lings were actually more cost effective than roaches as meat shields and I believe it.