[Q] 2v2 6 pool/fast reaper on AW how to stop?

amorpheus

Bulgaria2144 Posts

September 01 2010 08:00 GMT

Hi,

The problem my PZ team encountered was zerg 6 pooling + offensive sunken teamed with fast reaper (not proxied) from the T on Arid Wastes.
I do not see a way to survive through this.

The only thing I can think of is delay your elimination as much as you can and send all ur money to your ally (not sure if possible as the 5 minute mark may not yet have passed (was it really 5 minutes?)
After that i should hope that my protoss ally crushes probably first the zerg and then the terran.

Any ideas how to handle this?
Our team should be around 700 points in diam.

Nafaltar

Germany302 Posts

September 01 2010 12:32 GMT

There where some small hitches in your allies play that should be easy to fix and will help regardless of what you face: he qeued the 10th probe before making the pylon and did not spend his chronoboosts properly aswell as falling behind on macro when he sent you some units to try and help out.

As to what you did: you could see his spinecrawler going down and should have immediately attacked it with a couple drones before his lings arrived and put a crawler of your own down to try and delay. Once the enemies crawler went up you should have pulled back immediately and gone for a ling run by the moment you got speed: you where already dead, but they would have had a hard time surviving against speedlings+ a couple stalkers with slow lings and a dash of reapers. Which should have made the game go 1v1 with a better economy on your P ally than they had on the T.

amorpheus

Bulgaria2144 Posts

September 01 2010 12:40 GMT

On September 01 2010 21:32 Nafaltar wrote:
There where some small hitches in your allies play that should be easy to fix and will help regardless of what you face: he qeued the 10th probe before making the pylon and did not spend his chronoboosts properly aswell as falling behind on macro when he sent you some units to try and help out.

As to what you did: you could see his spinecrawler going down and should have immediately attacked it with a couple drones before his lings arrived and put a crawler of your own down to try and delay. Once the enemies crawler went up you should have pulled back immediately and gone for a ling run by the moment you got speed: you where already dead, but they would have had a hard time surviving against speedlings+ a couple stalkers with slow lings and a dash of reapers. Which should have made the game go 1v1 with a better economy on your P ally than they had on the T.

Well I was quite furious and surely didn't respond in the best way. My emphasis though is that I was pretty much dead; it's simply not defendable although we properly send a scout after pylon.
Otherwise I was going for some 9 over/10 gas/ 11 pool fast speedling build which makes a lot of sense on this map, if you're not brutally rushed like that.

Unfortunately ling speed didn't finish before my pool went down (hell I didn't even manage to cancel it) otherwise your point is correct.

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

September 01 2010 12:45 GMT

wow, how DO you beat this?

I'm talking about a proxied 9 rax reaper (or whatever the fastest reaper you can get is) with a 6 pool.

They can either take down your wallin with the reaper or just harass teh mineral line forcing you to pull units off the wallin, which the lings can then take down.

get your own reapers?

Nafaltar

Germany302 Posts

September 01 2010 12:49 GMT

True but with an earlier crawler it would have. Luckily you don't have to cancel anything aside from buildings themselves: you get a full cost refund if a researching building is destroyed.

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[Q] 2v2 6 pool/fast reaper on AW how to stop?

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