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GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
July 26 2011 09:30 GMT
#61
Great guide!

I'm loving the pictures, keep this updated and you got a real keeper
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PopcornColonel
Profile Joined March 2011
United States769 Posts
July 26 2011 12:28 GMT
#62
What about burrowing them in potential expansions? Not where the CC will land, but where the SCVs will be? I saw Spanishiwa do this recently, and thought it was brilliant, though I'm not the biggest fan of spanishiwa.
Zerg delenda est.
Twiggs
Profile Joined January 2011
United States600 Posts
July 26 2011 12:45 GMT
#63
Wow. This. Is. Scary. That overlord trick will definitely get me. As Protoss I like to shark around mid game and specifically kill stray overlords. Looks like Im going to have to be much more careful. Banelings took the place of lurkers, this is why!! O.o
My life for Auir | FLASH . JD . BISU . HERO . Nony . Incontrol . FIGHTING
Oboeman
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3980 Posts
July 26 2011 12:47 GMT
#64
Do you recommend putting each set of landmines on their own control group for easy detonation, or is it all minimap and clicking?
Tsenister
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom112 Posts
July 26 2011 13:03 GMT
#65
I think you missed the point against T with no detection. The spare zerglings around the map should be made into banelings and placed into reinforcement lines from the Terran. Especially when they take a foothold somewhere in the middle of the map and scan for your first lot of mines. Terrans rarely scan somewhere they have scanned before.....
mathemagician1986
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany549 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-26 13:07:57
July 26 2011 13:07 GMT
#66
great guide! Another thing I use burrowed banelings for is, instead of blocking a terran's 3rd with 1 burrowed ling, I burrow 4 banelings in the mineral line, so I can kill all his transferring SCVs. I find the risk of losing the banelings is worth the potentional mugh higher damage you can cause, than just from delaying the expansion.

I think this should be spotlighted! <3
duckii
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany1017 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-26 13:21:23
July 26 2011 13:21 GMT
#67


This is an advanced technique popularized by Stephano where he borrows banelings during an attack. its pretty nice
BestZergOnEast
Profile Joined November 2006
Canada358 Posts
July 26 2011 13:23 GMT
#68
wow ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
Semtext
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany287 Posts
July 26 2011 13:30 GMT
#69
another reason to either always have ravens und ghosts in TvZ or simply switch to zerg...but damn, that writeup IS sexy. reminds me of a cracked.com article.
http://de.twitch.tv/semtext | FBH, Socke, WhiteRa, GoOdy, TLO
vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
July 26 2011 14:10 GMT
#70
Great writeup. very informative!
Aka XephyR/Shaneyesss
BobMcJohnson
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
France2916 Posts
July 26 2011 14:12 GMT
#71
Ahah, that was a really nice reading
Good to see a guilde that will actually be useful to some players. But man, as a Terran player i hate you with passion sir

Romanes eunt domus
Robje
Profile Joined October 2010
Netherlands1044 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-26 15:11:26
July 26 2011 14:27 GMT
#72
On July 26 2011 22:21 duckii wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPYs3JQ0BL8&t=11m44s

This is an advanced technique popularized by Stephano where he borrows banelings during an attack. its pretty nice

Nice
Holy shit ziek leger
Deleuze
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom2102 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-26 14:44:57
July 26 2011 14:44 GMT
#73
On July 26 2011 10:38 MonsieurGrimm wrote:
At this point I'm just throwing the detonations in because they're awesome



Awesome guide, look forward to what's coming next. Grants on 2000.
“An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.” ― Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
July 26 2011 14:45 GMT
#74
the most important thing about baneling mines, which i see numerous people fuck up, is dont put them on creep. if you are forcing the terran to scan to remove tumours anyway dont leave your banelings in the same place.
L3g3nd_
Profile Joined July 2010
New Zealand10461 Posts
July 26 2011 14:48 GMT
#75
while quite basic and obvious stuff, it should help lots of people, nice write up, can tell a lot of effort went into this
https://twitter.com/#!/IrisAnother
I)etox
Profile Joined April 2011
1240 Posts
July 26 2011 14:52 GMT
#76
Maybe guides like these will finally force ravens to become mandatory in TvZ, or at the very least more common.
Kitel
Profile Joined November 2010
United States4 Posts
July 26 2011 15:17 GMT
#77
On July 26 2011 21:28 PopcornColonel wrote:
What about burrowing them in potential expansions? Not where the CC will land, but where the SCVs will be? I saw Spanishiwa do this recently, and thought it was brilliant, though I'm not the biggest fan of spanishiwa.

I was just about to bring this up actually. It could be quite smart to do. It's something that a lot of pros have talked about or considered using more common too. Artosis has even brought it up to discuss before during a GSL cast.

4 banelings placed right in the mineral line would do wonders, and it's one of the last places a person would check for them too. Although a Protoss with early robo might get luck and just happen to notice it with an observer.
Zed03
Profile Joined July 2008
Canada112 Posts
July 26 2011 15:25 GMT
#78
On July 26 2011 12:21 rculb wrote:
Great guide. Nice work.

This guide could use more videos, and also some math re: number of banes, upgrades etc.

Here's one of my all-time favorite baneling traps, from Destiny's stream.





Haha this needs more love.. amazing!
sas01
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada303 Posts
July 26 2011 15:26 GMT
#79
Great write up!!
Borrow banelings should really be used more!! and force the terran to get those ravens or force scans constantly!
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
July 26 2011 15:40 GMT
#80
Burrowing banelings while retreating is also great! Especially since during the retreat, in a mass of banelings, the enemy can't spot the burrowing animation of only two banelings.
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