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bigbeau
Profile Joined October 2010
368 Posts
March 29 2011 01:19 GMT
#21
you cant micro banelings vs marines. if you split your banelings, they are still cost inefficient
Genome852
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States979 Posts
March 29 2011 01:31 GMT
#22
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
Profile Joined December 2010
United States39 Posts
March 29 2011 01:34 GMT
#23
This don't seem like it would work as well as slicing though
be extremly subtle, even to the point of formlessness. be exremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness and you will be the director of your opponents fate
lilky
Profile Joined January 2011
United States131 Posts
March 29 2011 01:40 GMT
#24
OMG OP thank you so much for this find!!!!!!
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
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1659 Posts
March 29 2011 01:41 GMT
#25
err got to lvl 12 i put on stim at lvl 5
if you can believe you can concieve
Genome852
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States979 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-29 01:45:43
March 29 2011 01:42 GMT
#26
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
Profile Joined July 2010
United States313 Posts
March 29 2011 02:47 GMT
#27
Obviously this is only optimal for certain situations. Surrounds nullify this technique, for instance. Still I encourage everyone to try the map with and without this trick. It's always good to have something like this in your repertoire imo.
CaptainHaz
Profile Joined December 2010
United States240 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-29 03:02:44
March 29 2011 03:01 GMT
#28
I play protoss, this is superb, I approve.

♥

This seems like a really clean way to split marines, will try this with stalkers, in the event I deal with ling/bling again.
All of us warned you of the big white face.
Ftwpker
Profile Joined January 2011
United States165 Posts
March 29 2011 03:02 GMT
#29
This is brilliant. Gonna test out tomorrow. Is there a way to slow down the speed on that marine split map? Also how long did it take you before you got somewhat good at splitting?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
angra86
Profile Joined October 2010
United States56 Posts
March 29 2011 04:20 GMT
#30
Any suggestions for a better patrol hotkey? Stretching all the way over P just doesn't work well for me.
spybreak
Profile Joined October 2010
United States684 Posts
March 29 2011 04:22 GMT
#31
Ty, I've resorted to mech lately as I couldn't split my marine well enough to make marine/tank work.
Griffith`
Profile Joined September 2010
714 Posts
March 29 2011 04:23 GMT
#32
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
griffith.583 (NA)
XXXSmOke
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1333 Posts
March 29 2011 04:43 GMT
#33
Wow man, this is pretty epic. Watching that video made me think of MKP himself. Definately will try this. Id laugh if he posted on here "Silly NA's ive been doing this all along.
Emperor? Boxer disapproves. He's building bunkers at your mom's house even as you're reading this.
XDJuicebox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States593 Posts
March 29 2011 05:09 GMT
#34
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... -___-
And then you know what happened all of a sudden?
XXXSmOke
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1333 Posts
March 29 2011 05:11 GMT
#35
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.
Emperor? Boxer disapproves. He's building bunkers at your mom's house even as you're reading this.
KentHenry
Profile Joined August 2010
United States260 Posts
March 29 2011 05:18 GMT
#36
Holy shit, awesome!!! I love you ^^
Encrypto
Profile Joined August 2010
United States442 Posts
March 29 2011 05:21 GMT
#37
Wow. this is really amazing. I play Zerg and I'm still impressed.
KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
March 29 2011 05:29 GMT
#38
this is cool
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
@KawaiiRiceLighT
Geniuszerg
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada454 Posts
March 29 2011 05:33 GMT
#39
this method looks easy/effective, but honestly its flaws (due to the patrol mechanic and timing) out weigh the benefits. i preferable like the regular box method for marine splitting, altho a lil more apm intensive, its better if you have fast hands
XDJuicebox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States593 Posts
March 29 2011 05:55 GMT
#40
On March 29 2011 14:11 XXXSmOke wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


Z is liftoff for me lol. Don't wanna get those 2 mixed up now.
And then you know what happened all of a sudden?
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