When you attack into siege tanks with zerglings, pull 4 or 5 zerglings out of your ball, put them on a line in front of your army with enough space between them so they dont get splashed, then amove your ball with a click on the minimap on a very far point. This will make the lings go straight and not converge, and it will waste one tank shoot per ling (2 shots with +1 armor lings and +0 attack tanks) and allow your ball of lings to reach the tanks before the 2nd tank shot.

Ineffability~

84 Posts

April 23 2011 14:45 GMT

#262

259 (P) You can morph an Archon from 1 HT and 1 DT

260 (P) It takes 21 Banelings to kill an 3/3/3 Archon

261 (Z) A 5/3 ultra kill 415 lings

262 (P) You can feedback burrowed infestors if you have detection

263 (P) You can strom burrowed/cloaked units even with no detection

264 (T) You can EMP burrowed infestors even with no detection

gejfsyd

Poland156 Posts

April 23 2011 15:18 GMT

#263

265 (Z) You can use inject larva on minimap. Just select a queen and click on a big green squere.

HuK

Canada1591 Posts

April 23 2011 15:26 GMT

#264

read first tip, didnt know it and its actually helpful - auto bookmark

Ineffability~

84 Posts

April 23 2011 15:28 GMT

#265

Oh noooo Now Huk's probe harass will actually win games

Carras

Argentina860 Posts

April 23 2011 16:00 GMT

#266

grab a zergling, send him behind minerals.. put him on hold.. now u know when your oponnent expands..usefull when your 1st overlord is somewhere else.. very usefull for natural.. for 3rds you should have other methods of scouting..
can also be done with scouting drone..

gr8ape

Canada302 Posts

April 23 2011 16:14 GMT

#267

Colossus attack animation does not do damage instantly. Keep in mind when microing colossus.

CheeseyJunk

Norway6 Posts

April 23 2011 16:18 GMT

#268

If you're having trouble, switch to Protoss

User was temp banned for this post.

r3tsa

Poland94 Posts

April 23 2011 16:41 GMT

#269

@UP

U did that already?

278. Two ranged units can kill themselves at the same time. However this is impossible for melee units.

Kornholi0

Canada634 Posts

April 24 2011 06:04 GMT

#270

Archons do extra damage towards biological, almost every single zerg unit in the game is biological, even their buildings are. Making Templar tech and archons a strong unit to have in your unit comp against zerg.

hobbidude

Canada171 Posts

April 24 2011 09:15 GMT

#271

(P) When doing drops with warp prism, shift command your prism to transform first, then drop units for faster execution. You can warp in units while the prism drops its own units at the same time.

Saves time rather than drop and wait for it to finish, transform, then warp (you can't transform while in the middle of dropping).

JaqMs

United States73 Posts

April 24 2011 09:22 GMT

#272

279: If you have infestors grouped with your main army and you a-move, issue the stop command when you engage to prevent the infestors from walking forward.

Kornholi0

Canada634 Posts

April 24 2011 11:03 GMT

#273

Putting special units or units of different type (melee, ranged, spellcaster etc) on different control groups can help give you the edge you need in a battle. Someone who can control their spellcasters and control their ranged units can almost always outmicro someone who controls everything in one control group.

Sporadic44

United States533 Posts

April 24 2011 11:25 GMT

#274

any information on your opponent is useful no matter how trivial, this is especially true in the early game. if you can see 4 sentries at the top of your enemies ramp, you can deduce that he is not teching so there is no need to invest in detection/aa for some time.

Countyjr

Canada4 Posts

April 24 2011 11:32 GMT

#275

cool, thanks for the contribution

graNite

Germany4434 Posts

April 24 2011 11:50 GMT

#276

(P) Point Defense Drones (PDD) can be feedbacked.

Thezzy

Netherlands2117 Posts

April 24 2011 12:27 GMT

#277

You can use Changelings to not only block a ramp, but you can also use them to block the mineral line, forcing workers to take a longer route until the opponent manually gets rid of the Changelings.

In ZvT, one well placed Changeling can allow Bio through the ramp, but causes Tanks and Thors to stay in the base, as if they can't get out.

Arn

Sweden118 Posts

April 24 2011 13:16 GMT

#278

Main post & Property forum post updated.

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Next tip is 277 (someone accidentally skipped 10 tips... hehe)

AveSharia

United States62 Posts

April 24 2011 14:23 GMT

#279

#277: RE: #266, instead of planting a drone/SCV/probe behind an enemy mineral line, put them in a close proximity patrol, so you don't accidentally grab them with your other idle workers.

You can save this worker, and catch the expansion earlier, if you put it in a 7-step patrol, with 6 of the steps along the back of the mineral line, and one of them slightly in front of the minerals. The effect is that the worker will poke his head into the expansion from time to time to check for a building nexus/CC/Hatchery, and revealing it on the minimap, before the opponent's workers get there.

#278: You can load units into a warp prism in phase mode from the bottom of a cliff, and unload them at the top of a cliff. This is not possible with Terran dropships, because the dropship will move on an unload command.

Retgery

Canada1229 Posts

April 24 2011 14:34 GMT

#280

279. If you "a-move" near a constructing Terran building with your scouting worker, it will auto-target the SCV building it.