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.

Twiggs

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

Oboeman

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

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

Germany549 Posts

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

Germany1017 Posts

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

Canada358 Posts

July 26 2011 13:23 GMT

#68

wow ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty

Semtext

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.

vectorix108

United States4633 Posts

July 26 2011 14:10 GMT

#70

Great writeup. very informative!

BobMcJohnson

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

Robje

Netherlands1044 Posts

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

Deleuze

United Kingdom2102 Posts

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.

turdburgler

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_

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

I)etox

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

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

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

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

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.