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Zips
United States146 Posts
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gmorf33
25 Posts
Sometimes, if I've made a spore but no threat of air attack exists at the moment, moving them to a key spot w/ a spine crawler if you suspect DT or Ghost shennanigans can be nice. Burying them in a pile of puking overlords helps to hide them, and i've actually managed to passively kill a cloaked ghost w/ that trick before  I'm just a gold newbie tho, so maybe these tactics don't work in upper levels of play *shrug* | ||
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Antares777
United States1971 Posts
On September 10 2010 03:21 dimfish wrote: On a similar note, I tried to put spore and spine crawlers in my Nydus entrance... it didn't work. :o( That would be REALLY op. Imagine loading spines into an overlord and then dropping then in your opponents mineral line and dropping creep... LOL | ||
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Confuse
2238 Posts
On September 10 2010 08:43 Antares777 wrote: That would be REALLY op. Imagine loading spines into an overlord and then dropping then in your opponents mineral line and dropping creep... LOL How would that be overpowered? A spine colony is weaker then an ultralisk, which can be loaded into an overlord. If you just made it take up the amount of space of the overlord (1 - 1 ratio) it might be cool since it is a lot less resource wise... interesting : ) | ||
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HomicidaL
United States283 Posts
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HomicidaL
United States283 Posts
On September 10 2010 08:37 Zips wrote: Can spores detect when they'er unrooted? No, found out the hard way :/ | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
On September 10 2010 03:20 eth3n wrote: build an early spore per hatch once im past the first major push 4gate/MMM, earlier if i suspect some silly stealth cheese and i don't have lair/gas for OS, queens are far better for early AA as they arent stationary(moving spores isn't really practical on the fly)+transfuse+creep but its pretty cheap detection but man for some reason they really seem to wreck mutas...this may not really be the case but I see them used a LOT in zvz admittedly i dont face too many protoss that go mass phoenix. i built mass spore crawler because i know they are very effective against mutalisk, so i assumed they would be effective against weak ass phoenix. but next thing i know, all my overlords are dead. so yea, next time ill limit them and just go hydra. | ||
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Emmon
England21 Posts
If you treat them as a kind of shields for drones in that respect then it helps to smile if you see one bleedng or one pop... and think "phew, that could of been 8 drones". The other pluses are small such as dt detection, strategic placement to help stop ground units into your drone line. I have occasionally used them as a ramp extension with an evo chamber and one spine crawler behind it to again act as a melee shield against the crawler. The fact they can be repositioned is gold, one ocassionally shifted around the base is handy for stopping toss players observers haviing free reign. Oh one thing thats popped into my brian is potential battering rams for baneling plays.. scuttle them towards destination to attract fire away from your green kamikaze heroes. | ||
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