EPTOn March 01 2011 14:00 milfhunter wrote:
Yes I actually did see that on his game, thats why I wanted to ask. it just feels like at the low master level, 3 gate expo will make you so behind because its so easy for the Z to take a 3rd, and your sentry zealots certainlly isn't going to be able to put ANY sort of pressure on the Z at all without risking loosing everything you got.
Even with perfect forcefields, mid map its just so suicidal when there is speedlings running around.
IChau what do you like opening with? Do you guys reckon a 15 nexus will be able to hold off 3roach speedlings?
Yes I actually did see that on his game, thats why I wanted to ask. it just feels like at the low master level, 3 gate expo will make you so behind because its so easy for the Z to take a 3rd, and your sentry zealots certainlly isn't going to be able to put ANY sort of pressure on the Z at all without risking loosing everything you got.
Even with perfect forcefields, mid map its just so suicidal when there is speedlings running around.
IChau what do you like opening with? Do you guys reckon a 15 nexus will be able to hold off 3roach speedlings?
When you 3 gate expand, then zerg has to match your army, and as a result, zerg will be cutting his econ to do so
Obviously, you have to actually force him to match your army by applying SOME kind of pressure, because if he say, makes an entire round of drones with zero zerglings, and you turn up at his nat right after, he loses the game
If he has actually make those zerglings, then youre in a good position, mostly because zerglings are very larvae expensive.
Not only that, the key is to attack really early, (and i mean REALLY early) - hence why whenever i 3g expand ill spend all my chrono on gates so that i can do an early a push as possible with my 3g. The reason is the earlier you pressure zerg, the less econ he has and the more he has to invest in army, which again, makes it EVEN MORE difficult to come back.
Most low-mid(even high) masters tosses push out way too late and zerg has already saturated his main and natural, and THEN makes the big wad of zerglings
Lastly, for your "early push" timing you have to actually scout the zergs army count.. somehow
One way of doing this is using hallucinate (which you have to invest in asap when your warpgate finishes) - which is too slow if oyur opponent didnt do a gas/pool build, in which case his speed lings are late so you need to push out with your first stalker/zealot to scout and force some lings
If you 3g expand, even if zerg matches your initial army, but then he greeds like crazy then you are going to be behind because you let him greed like crazy, so constant pressure is really important
