[G] Marine Splitting Trick - Page 2
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bigbeau
368 Posts
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Genome852
United States979 Posts
On March 29 2011 10:19 bigbeau wrote: you cant micro banelings vs marines. if you split your banelings, they are still cost inefficient If you select all your banelings and click on individual marines, a lot of travel time is wasted (not to mention more banes will die to marine attacks). Splitting is surely better but probably not by much. | ||
ppjjmm
United States39 Posts
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lilky
United States131 Posts
I love playing terran but ive been deterred lately from it because of how effective banelings are against the "standard" marine-tank composition this, however, has given me the spark to start playing as terran again (ive had to main as protoss for months now). ive tried it out in custom games and it works beautifully! zerg players even ask me how i split my marines like a pro to all of those saying that speedlings will destroy separated marines: yes, but if he wasted all those banelings, you've already been EXTREMELY cost effective, and marines with medivacs die very slowly to lings :D banelings are the true danger, and this hard counters them | ||
TheWarbler
United States1659 Posts
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Genome852
United States979 Posts
On March 29 2011 10:40 lilky wrote: to all of those saying that speedlings will destroy separated marines: yes, but if he wasted all those banelings, you've already been EXTREMELY cost effective, and marines with medivacs die very slowly to lings :D banelings are the true danger, and this hard counters them It's not the speedlings killing the marines... it's the fact that patrol means the marines will attack the nearest unit in range. As in, the zerg runs a bunch of speedlings in, you try to do the patrol trick, but all your marines just stand there in a ball shooting at lings, and then get wiped out by banes. This doesn't happen using the normal method. This just seems really high risk / reward. If it goes perfectly, your split will be much more effective than slicing manually. If it doesn't, you might lose everything. | ||
Moja
United States313 Posts
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CaptainHaz
United States240 Posts
♥ This seems like a really clean way to split marines, will try this with stalkers, in the event I deal with ling/bling again. | ||
Ftwpker
United States165 Posts
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angra86
United States56 Posts
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spybreak
United States684 Posts
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Griffith`
714 Posts
On March 29 2011 13:20 angra86 wrote: Any suggestions for a better patrol hotkey? Stretching all the way over P just doesn't work well for me. I use spacebar | ||
XXXSmOke
United States1333 Posts
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XDJuicebox
United States593 Posts
Either they don't mess with each other, or I'm just not fast enough to make them do that lol. It's pretty fast though. I like this patrol trick though, I'll try it. P is just sooooo far on my keyboard... -___- | ||
XXXSmOke
United States1333 Posts
On March 29 2011 14:09 XDJuicebox wrote: I shift hold-position as I'm selecting the next group. Either they don't mess with each other, or I'm just not fast enough to make them do that lol. It's pretty fast though. I like this patrol trick though, I'll try it. P is just sooooo far on my keyboard... -___- Rehotkey ftw, I think im going to put it on Z. | ||
KentHenry
United States260 Posts
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Encrypto
United States442 Posts
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KawaiiRice
United States2914 Posts
now i just need a zerg that fights me with 2:1 marine vs baneling ratio with 0 speedlings instead of the 120 they always have so it actually works | ||
Geniuszerg
Canada454 Posts
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XDJuicebox
United States593 Posts
On March 29 2011 14:11 XXXSmOke wrote: Rehotkey ftw, I think im going to put it on Z. Z is liftoff for me lol. Don't wanna get those 2 mixed up now. | ||
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