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Hi guys,
I'm relatively new to SC2 - I just got promoted to Silver, and I've encountered this type of cheese three times now, and I'm at a loss to defend against it.
At perhaps the 90 second mark, I get rushed by all of the opponents drones. Regardless of my micro, I cannot seem to take them down, even with the extra two SCVs I've got on them.
Can someone explain how to defend - is it that my micro is that attrocious? Or is there something better I can do. I don't have enough minerals or time to get a barracks up, and there's no time to complete a wall on these rushes.
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As soon as you see his drones, pull ALL of your SCV's off the line. At this point, you have a choice, you can have 2 of your SCV's auto-repair and then a-move your other SCV's and win the game, or you can run around in a circle until you exhaust your gathered minerals on fresh SCV's, and then attack.
Hell, you could even load your SCV's into your CC, fly off to an island expo, and banshee rush him. It's pretty easy to win vs a worker rush.
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If you're not terran, having all your Probes/Drones mine the same node at the same time to stack them and then attack the drones one at a time will give you a nice edge.
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I usually pull 6 of my 8 SCVs off and set them to auto repair. Usually the other player is stupid enough to go after the two that remain harvesting, giving you time to surround their peon.
Be sure and repair hurt SCVs (auto repair helps with this) and you'll win every time.
Good Luck!
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On September 28 2010 02:58 LOLtex wrote:
As soon as you see his drones, pull ALL of your SCV's off the line. At this point, you have a choice, you can have 2 of your SCV's auto-repair and then a-move your other SCV's and win the game, or you can run around in a circle until you exhaust your gathered minerals on fresh SCV's, and then attack.
Hell, you could even load your SCV's into your CC, fly off to an island expo, and banshee rush him. It's pretty easy to win vs a worker rush.
If there was an island, I would have done this.
I'm curious to try the autorepair as I didn't think of it. How is this accomplished? Highlight two guys and get them to repair the one who's taking the hits?
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Normally, you have to tell the SCV what to repair. But if you select 2 SCV's, then right click the repair icon, it will start to flash. This means auto-repair has been turned on. Once activated, they will automatically repair anything close to them. But you need to also have them follow your other scv's, so they are within range to repair them.
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Hi. 
Though I am neither Terran or Zerg I can tell you that the deffender always has the advantage. You can either wall off your ramp somehow, or continue to build and kite scv's as they can repair each other and you will have more scv's then he has drones. As for the micro part, that takes practice.
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I'm a bit confused...
SCVs are stronger than drones, and you have more than he does.
Why can't you just A move your scvs and win?
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On September 28 2010 03:29 SpicyCrab wrote:
I'm a bit confused...
SCVs are stronger than drones, and you have more than he does.
Why can't you just A move your scvs and win?
This puzzles me aswell.
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Put 1-2 or SVCs on auto-repair, a-move, should give you enough edge to win. Imagine repair being like a medivac.
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I just run circles until I have used all my minerals/larave on additional workers, then A-move and type something cute about their mother or sexual orientation.
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A replay would help, as always. I want to see the replay if only for the entertainment factor. Auto repair + attack move should beat it. Actually, attack move alone should beat it as long as you didn't cut any SCVs. By the time he shows up with his 6-9 drones, you should have 8-12 SCVs. gg?
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On September 28 2010 03:32 Endorsed wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2010 03:29 SpicyCrab wrote:
I'm a bit confused...
SCVs are stronger than drones, and you have more than he does.
Why can't you just A move your scvs and win? This puzzles me aswell.
Most likely because the zerg did a better job microing the lower HP drones back.
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On September 28 2010 03:29 SpicyCrab wrote:
I'm a bit confused...
SCVs are stronger than drones, and you have more than he does.
Why can't you just A move your scvs and win?
It seemed that they were actually more powerful. I'm sure that my micro was just poor and I wasn't sure of the appropriate reaction to a drone rush.
1-2 autorepair and better micro seems to be the consensus. Thanks all.
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On September 28 2010 03:19 KirbyToss wrote:Hi. Though I am neither Terran or Zerg I can tell you that the deffender always has the advantage. You can either wall off your ramp somehow, or continue to build and kite scv's as they can repair each other and you will have more scv's then he has drones. As for the micro part, that takes practice.
As stated, there's no time to wall. We're talking at most 90 seconds in, and more realistically, probably 45 seconds in.
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I'm amazed at all of the serious responses to this.
The fact that it happened to the OP 3 times is even more shocking. Luckily, people can't stack in this game. :p
Just a-move your SCVs, they are stronger and pull back the ones that are hurt.
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On September 28 2010 03:51 Klamity wrote:
I'm amazed at all of the serious responses to this.
The fact that it happened to the OP 3 times is even more shocking. Luckily, people can't stack in this game. :p
Just a-move your SCVs, they are stronger and pull back the ones that are hurt.
LOL yeah I don't get it either. It literally takes bronze-level micro to defend a drone rush against scvs.
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against zerg u can rax first. how many works does he bring in?
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duno if you figured it out already or not (saw you ask earlier), but auto repair is done by right clicking the repair icon in the command card
On September 28 2010 03:58 ahcho00 wrote:
a wall works too?
have fun getting a full wall done in 45 seconds
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not sure if serious.. wall off against zerg?
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