[Q] ForGG's opening vs Z - Page 5

On December 14 2011 01:47 SnePe wrote:
The way he plays is extremely technical and micro intensive. He never lets up the aggression, it is basically an agressive 4 hellion opening, into 2 banshee with cloak. Non stop harrassment, adding CC, more hellions, armory, 2fact, keeping up pressure with hellions. Add thor/banshee/tank depending on what opponent has.
You need to have amazing multitasking to pull it off and never miss a beat. Your banshees has to be active without dying, the hellions needs to be aggressive without dying cost-inefficently.
Something like this is usually how he plays, the exact build numbers is ripped from one of his games on metalopolis. They might not be exactly the same for all games but the timings were pretty fOrGG-like on this specific game...
Anyways from watching a bunch of his TvZs this is about the general way he tends to play:


10 Supply depot (Wall)
12 Barracks (Wall)
13 Refinery
16 Marine
17 Supply (Wall)
17 Orbital Command
17 Marine
18 Factory
18 Scout
20 Refinery
20 Reactor
22 Starport (Switch factory to reactor and build techlab with Barracks close to the starport)
22 Supply depot
23 Hellion x2 (When these are done, take watch towers and make 2 more. Start harrass with 4 - VERY AGGRESSIVLY)
32 Switch Starport to techlab and start Cloak resarch
** Cut hellion after the 3rd and 4th Hellion and SCV prodction for a short time to afford supply, cloak and banshee
32 Supply depot
32 Banshee
** Resume SCV production
36 Command Center (OC when done)
36 Techlab on Barracks
38 Banshee
** fOrGG lost hellions, will not continue with supply numbers but ingame time instead
** After 2nd Banshee, start producing Hellions again, dont forget supply depots/scvs etc!
** 9:20 - Fly Orbital Command to natural (Should have 2 banshees and 8 hellions if your first four died during the harrass the 8 hellions should be able to clear out your natural of any lings trying to deny it)
** 9:40 - Build armory
** Lift Starport&Barracks, build 2 more factories on the now two free techlabs
** Keep repairing banshees if they get hurt, they should never die.
** Be agressive with your hellions and just keep producing them.
** 10:25 - One medivac for Hellion drops!
** 10:40 - Two refineries
** When factories are done, get Blue flame upgrade and produce Hellions out of all three!
-- It should be timed out that your 2 reactored hellions + your other two hellions from you techlabed factories and your medivac is done at approximatley the same time. Go hellion drop him!

** Get 2 Thors!
** Against mutaling (handful of mutas to harrass and a lot of lings), fOrGG seems to add a viking and more hellions before more thors.
** Against roaches, fOrGG sometimes adds a couple of tanks+siege mode+banshees. I've also seen him not do this and just getting more thors.
** Against heavy muta, more thors.
** Against heavy ling more hellions.
** Eventually he will always build more thors and push when he has 3-4 and then he keeps producing them and reinforces!
** He also tends to add more banshees if Z switches to roach!

The more you watch him play this, the more it seems to develop, it's pretty cool I think.