I opened with super fast pool: 1x drone 200 pool 6x zerglings, queen, expand, run queen to expand, while doing new queen
The 6 zerglings actually came too late.. ? herp? Are you supposed to do even earlier pool? The cannon also blocks pathing to other expand, so you*re at 1 base. You can do spine crawlers and run them to your expand, but the expand falls before they finished the cannons (also taking long to burrow again).
So you can of course manage to break out without losses with ravager transition, but you are at 1 b-ase.
Comments on how to react when face it please.
p.s. I forgot you need to place the first overlord at your expansion, sorry offrace zerg. Anyways comments welcome.
On September 03 2019 05:14 ffFiend wrote: How do you deal with super early cannons?
I opened with super fast pool: 1x drone 200 pool 6x zerglings, queen, expand, run queen to expand, while doing new queen
The 6 zerglings actually came too late.. ? herp? Are you supposed to do even earlier pool? The cannon also blocks pathing to other expand, so you*re at 1 base. You can do spine crawlers and run them to your expand, but the expand falls before they finished the cannons (also taking long to burrow again).
So you can of course manage to break out without losses with ravager transition, but you are at 1 b-ase.
Comments on how to react when face it please.
p.s. I forgot you need to place the first overlord at your expansion, sorry offrace zerg. Anyways comments welcome.
I started writing a long essay, but instead realised that what I know I learned from Lowko. So here's a clip of him explaining in much better detail than I ever could:
The gist is: Scout it early, get your pool up, send workers to block off perfect cannon spots, send more workers to kill the cannons, build zerglings, easy win gg. It all hinges on whether you scout it early enough. If he gets cannons up before you can spot them, you're f'ed.
On September 03 2019 05:14 ffFiend wrote: How do you deal with super early cannons?
I opened with super fast pool: 1x drone 200 pool 6x zerglings, queen, expand, run queen to expand, while doing new queen
The 6 zerglings actually came too late.. ? herp? Are you supposed to do even earlier pool? The cannon also blocks pathing to other expand, so you*re at 1 base. You can do spine crawlers and run them to your expand, but the expand falls before they finished the cannons (also taking long to burrow again).
So you can of course manage to break out without losses with ravager transition, but you are at 1 b-ase.
Comments on how to react when face it please.
p.s. I forgot you need to place the first overlord at your expansion, sorry offrace zerg. Anyways comments welcome.
If you could upload and post a replay of a specific cannon rush game you lost, it could help us explain the specific areas that could be improved
On September 02 2019 07:02 JimmyJRaynor wrote: where did "Code S" being the #1 league level come from? and then after that "Code A" next best and "Code B" being a joke for players that are less than top tier?
This is an interesting link. Thanks a lot. I did some more digging based off of your link and some of my own research.
Code "S" is the toughest game mode in the Activision game "StarMaster". According to the manual that "S" that shows up on the screen as you toggle the difficulties stands for "Starmaster". The game came out in 1982. Activision Starmaster is one of the most complex Space/Action/Strategy titles for the Atari 2600.
So that's the best I can come up with... "S" stands for "Starmaster".
On September 03 2019 05:14 ffFiend wrote: How do you deal with super early cannons?
I opened with super fast pool: 1x drone 200 pool 6x zerglings, queen, expand, run queen to expand, while doing new queen
The 6 zerglings actually came too late.. ? herp? Are you supposed to do even earlier pool? The cannon also blocks pathing to other expand, so you*re at 1 base. You can do spine crawlers and run them to your expand, but the expand falls before they finished the cannons (also taking long to burrow again).
So you can of course manage to break out without losses with ravager transition, but you are at 1 b-ase.
Comments on how to react when face it please.
p.s. I forgot you need to place the first overlord at your expansion, sorry offrace zerg. Anyways comments welcome.
I started writing a long essay, but instead realised that what I know I learned from Lowko. So here's a clip of him explaining in much better detail than I ever could:
The gist is: Scout it early, get your pool up, send workers to block off perfect cannon spots, send more workers to kill the cannons, build zerglings, easy win gg. It all hinges on whether you scout it early enough. If he gets cannons up before you can spot them, you're f'ed.
Neural a worker from terran or protoss, and start again as another race.
Joke aside, it depends a lot on the matchups. Zergling hellion is known to be veeeeery strong against mostly anything not zergling helion. But appart from that, I don't really know. I personally usually try to support my mate (if he's not also Z), by keeping the enemies busy and using spellcasters for the fights. But that usually really work against not too good players (less than masters).
Haven't played LOTV since release but noticed lately that Siege tanks were changed to have 70 damage vs armored. Are they still not good enough to be mech in TvP?
On September 11 2019 05:36 Wrath wrote: Haven't played LOTV since release but noticed lately that Siege tanks were changed to have 70 damage vs armored. Are they still not good enough to be mech in TvP?
tanks are somewhat playable with both bio and mech in tvp, but from everything i've seen tvp mech is more often played as cyclone hellion into air with maybe just a few tanks for zone control/support. double factory tank with mech or bio is more of a macro cheese build that relies on doing a lot of big surprise damage, kinda like double phoenix pvz. by the time mass tank gets strong protoss can usually just go air
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