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Dromar
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States2145 Posts
September 30 2010 04:37 GMT
#21
I'm gonna call it "hold surround."

Sounds like a useful tool.
ThE.SparkZ
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States381 Posts
September 30 2010 04:42 GMT
#22
personally, like someone said on the original post, noose or noosing seems quite appropriate.
A battle between gods is just so damn beautiful
monterto
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada103 Posts
September 30 2010 04:53 GMT
#23
man this is great
I'm pretty much Hyuk but white...
claricorp
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada142 Posts
September 30 2010 06:16 GMT
#24
smart way to do it, i love it, imagine how much better it would be with like 4 or 5 roaches dpsing down the thor!
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
September 30 2010 06:20 GMT
#25
This isn't new, there have been threads about countering thor repair with hold position for weeks at the very least.
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voss
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia146 Posts
September 30 2010 06:27 GMT
#26
On September 30 2010 13:11 Shikyo wrote:
Well 40 Zerglings for a Thor is a bit much <_> What do you need vs say... 5 Thors? 200 Zerglings?


Yeah 40 lings for this is a bit much, but I think the vid was designed to show an equal amount of resources. He actually has quite a few lings left over after the thor goes down.

My concern is if the scvs were repairing each other or not, just following the thor might've made them not repair each other?

It seems like they would if they were on auto repair, but I'd like to confirm this.
Randomaccount#77123
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States5003 Posts
September 30 2010 06:51 GMT
#27
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InfiniteIce
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States794 Posts
September 30 2010 07:19 GMT
#28
Awesome, thx for bringing this to our attn as i never use the BNet forums...

Thorn ftw!
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TSM
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Great Britain584 Posts
September 30 2010 07:35 GMT
#29
the thor really is having a hard time.
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ezdez
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia28 Posts
September 30 2010 07:37 GMT
#30
people are finding it difficult to defeat SCVs around thors..
pure theorycraft - roach meatshield to take initial hit then bling grind against thors?
(where you move them in back and forth around the thor so the blings roll around the thor and splash the scvs?)
chumpchous
Profile Joined September 2010
68 Posts
September 30 2010 07:55 GMT
#31
I've been testing this in the unit tester and it's pretty awesome. I'm not that excited about it for taking down thors, simply because this wont be effective against large numbers of thors.

However, it's huuuge against PFs. Basically, any unit on hold position targets the units closest to it. So, if you run your slings back to where the scvs are repairing and put them on hold position, they will target the SCVs. Or, if you are attacking a mineral line and dont want your lings to get distracted by a single stalker shooting at them, hold position and they will focus the workers who run by (until, of course, your opponent runs them away).
hEndO
Profile Joined June 2010
United States124 Posts
September 30 2010 12:34 GMT
#32
this is a great contribution! all threads should be this helpful. Thanks for the tip. A nice simple way of dealing with a very frustrating and powerful tactic. thanks!
kaleidoscope
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Singapore2887 Posts
September 30 2010 13:39 GMT
#33
nice, could try this out..

but i find it quite a hassle since during engagements, zerg will need to micro so much, and now with this..
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Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
September 30 2010 13:46 GMT
#34
Interesting technique
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STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
September 30 2010 13:52 GMT
#35
Can work to break PFs as well with splings and charge-lots
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hazz
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom570 Posts
September 30 2010 13:57 GMT
#36
i wish people would stop giving "new" micro tricks special names.. its getting ridiculous
Lobo2me
Profile Joined May 2010
Norway1213 Posts
September 30 2010 14:01 GMT
#37
On September 30 2010 22:57 hazz wrote:
i wish people would stop giving "new" micro tricks special names.. its getting ridiculous

I can't wait to show of my skill at hazzing in a few weeks.
Bad manners are better than no manners at all.
Sixes
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada1123 Posts
September 30 2010 14:07 GMT
#38
On September 30 2010 13:00 ThE.SparkZ wrote:
Excellent, this will surely help early TvZ. My only fear is blizzard will see this as a bug and nerf it D: Great find though in seriousness, hope this gets spotlighted.


This is in no way a bug, it just relies on the hold position making the lings attack the adjacent scvs. It is similar to hold position in a mineral line (otherwise the lings ignore mining scvs and run back out to attack the enemy army).
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
September 30 2010 14:11 GMT
#39
What a garbage name. People need to stop trying to name everything.

Wasn't this already common knowledge, though?
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Ab0miNaTioN_BoB
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States102 Posts
September 30 2010 14:11 GMT
#40
Never actually thoughta that. Awesome I'm definitely going to do this when I encounter it
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