Little trick for your Medivac drops - Page 3

On April 11 2011 08:50 Noli wrote:
Does this work with Overlords? This would help me hugely with Baneling bombers.

On April 11 2011 05:16 Cooth wrote:
For the past several days I've been really focused on drop harrassment when I noticed something about the healing/dropping.

While Medivacs unload units, It can't heal and drop units at the same time. Your units are getting picked off while they unload, and you lose a few units until the healing kicks in, and you just don't have that extra firepower to snipe a building or take out a few extra workers.

Here's the trick, when dropping units, DON'T just click a spot and do a basic unload, issue a move command to the area, followed by a shift-click drop command on the Medivac itself.

It's just like issuing the drop command on the medivac causing it to drop units while on the move, however, while the medivac isn't moving, AND you've issued the drop command on the medivac, it ends up healing at the same time its dropping units.

Works great for unloading marines in a mineral line with a Spine crawler, once the first marine drops and starts taking hits, the Medivac is already healing before the rest of the marines have even finished unloading.

On April 11 2011 23:17 Damaskinos wrote:


I am really ashamed, but I don't understand how exactly this is getting executed. Guess I don't understand the bolded part. Could you give some more newbie-friendly explanation? (Yes, I know, I should work on my macro! )

I seted up an scenario with droping 8 marines over 2 sentries and up to now 1-2 marines are dying, which I guess shouldnt happen if I do it right.

Thanks in advance

On April 11 2011 23:17 Damaskinos wrote:


I am really ashamed, but I don't understand how exactly this is getting executed. Guess I don't understand the bolded part. Could you give some more newbie-friendly explanation? (Yes, I know, I should work on my macro! )

I seted up an scenario with droping 8 marines over 2 sentries and up to now 1-2 marines are dying, which I guess shouldnt happen if I do it right.

Thanks in advance

On April 11 2011 06:07 theBOOCH wrote:
This has been around since broodwar, basically (of course dropships can't heal).

User was warned for this post

On April 11 2011 22:46 michaelhasanalias wrote:
Thanks for posting this... but does anyone know if this is by design or a bug?

Also, are you sure this is even really applicable in any situation?

Any time you do a drop, wouldn't it be better to unload them as soon as possible, rather than wait for them to be in the middle of a mineral line?

As soon as the dropship can drop a marine in range of a worker, you should begin unloading, and if you do this, you will have an empty dropship before or at the time that your medivac would have started unloading the ship.

Against an aware player, I feel like this tactic would be more likely to result in the death of your marines via faster ground army movement or possibly the death of your partially loaded medivac. (more likely than unloading manually while en route to the final destination drop point...)

On April 12 2011 00:30 FoFo wrote:


What he ment is this

normally when you go do a drop you:
1. load up some rines
2. select the medivac and press 'd'.
3. click where you want to drop

the medivac now flies to the location you selected and starts droppin the marines, however he doesn't heal them at the same time.

with the OP's method here's what you do:
1. load up some rines.
2. select the medivac and give a move command to where you want to drop
3. now as it is flying to the location where you want to drop, hold shift, click 'd' so you queue the command (so that it doesn't execute it till after the medivac has flewn to the location) and click on top of the medivac as though you were just trying to select it.

and voila, the medivac will fly to the drop destination, start dropping and heal the units in the process.

someone mentioned that in this fashion it doesn't do the drop animation, does this make the drop quicker?