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A little trick when you pull workers

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winthrop
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Hong Kong956 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-11 08:33:35
May 11 2012 07:54 GMT
#1
Original trick composer: yichen123
I added some different words though


All the workers can do it, just stack the workers then use gather commands towards opponent base's mineral lines.
But majorly for terran, as terran doesn't has warp gate or speed zerglings, in other words the reinforcement is slow.


Next is the list of steps,
1.Wall your base, then group scvs and click a mineral patch outside your base.
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This skill is usually seen in a zerg's game when double bunker or triple pylon takes place.

2.Depot down, can you count the scv number? (not by the control group display)
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3.Click the opponent's base 's mineral patch, when time is right, command your workers to do their holy works.



Purpose of this trick, anti scouting and more mindsets.+ Show Spoiler +
(There can be observers over your head, overlord hide in somewhere but you can't hit them, stalker, worker, zergling control the towers. You can hide your scv numbers by stack them and fool opponent as this is ONE scouting scv)


more images.
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Cortza
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
South Africa328 Posts
May 11 2012 07:59 GMT
#2
This is quite funny
Rimak
Profile Joined January 2012
Denmark434 Posts
May 11 2012 08:10 GMT
#3
should be in 1000 tips topic.
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chestnutcc
Profile Joined July 2011
India429 Posts
May 11 2012 08:12 GMT
#4
I didn't understand the trick. How do you get those scvs to move stacked up like that
Zeon0
Profile Joined September 2010
Austria2995 Posts
May 11 2012 08:14 GMT
#5
u just click on a mineral patch in your opponents base
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Rannasha
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Netherlands2398 Posts
May 11 2012 08:17 GMT
#6
On May 11 2012 17:12 chestnutcc wrote:
I didn't understand the trick. How do you get those scvs to move stacked up like that


You first have to make something of a wall-in so that your workers can't leave the base. Then click on a mineral patch outside your base (any, the natural will do). The workers will attempt to go there but will get stuck because of the wall. Since the workers have a gather command they can stack up on eachother, which means you get the tight stack you see in the pictures. Then lower a depot in the wall and command your workers around.
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Hiea
Profile Joined March 2012
Denmark1538 Posts
May 11 2012 08:18 GMT
#7
You can also spam click your own mineral patches till they all stack up on one of them, just be fast enough to click your opponents minerals before they spread out.
Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
May 11 2012 08:20 GMT
#8
What does this part mean?

"(Observers over your head, overlord hide in somewhere but you can't hit them, stalker, worker, zergling control the towers.)"

How does this help against observers over your head? Of course you can't hit overlords, SCVs don't hit air. Stalker.... what? Worker... what? What does towers have to do with all SVCs moving as one?

Honestly, I have no idea what you mean, I feel like I'm being trolled.
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4003 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-11 08:27:08
May 11 2012 08:26 GMT
#9
Is this not just the same old mineral walk we've been using for like... a decade?
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Shartugal
Profile Joined September 2011
Denmark134 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-11 08:28:12
May 11 2012 08:27 GMT
#10
This means that your opponent can't see that you're pulling all your workers to go all-in, thus making it harder to scout the all-in coming.
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Nachtwind
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany1130 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-11 08:30:08
May 11 2012 08:29 GMT
#11
On May 11 2012 17:20 Tobberoth wrote:
What does this part mean?

"(Observers over your head, overlord hide in somewhere but you can't hit them, stalker, worker, zergling control the towers.)"

How does this help against observers over your head? Of course you can't hit overlords, SCVs don't hit air. Stalker.... what? Worker... what? What does towers have to do with all SVCs moving as one?

Honestly, I have no idea what you mean, I feel like I'm being trolled.


I think he meaned that when you bring workers to a new base the enemy can´t count your workers so it look like you only have sent one so the enemy will be more likly to not attack your new base.

On May 11 2012 17:27 Shartugal wrote:
This means that your opponent can't see that you're pulling all your workers to go all-in, thus making it harder to scout the all-in coming.


Or this would be more likly ^^
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nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
May 11 2012 08:29 GMT
#12
On May 11 2012 17:20 Tobberoth wrote:
What does this part mean?

"(Observers over your head, overlord hide in somewhere but you can't hit them, stalker, worker, zergling control the towers.)"

How does this help against observers over your head? Of course you can't hit overlords, SCVs don't hit air. Stalker.... what? Worker... what? What does towers have to do with all SVCs moving as one?

Honestly, I have no idea what you mean, I feel like I'm being trolled.

it's for when you wanna bitbybit someone but don't wanna show your scv train
leo23
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States3075 Posts
May 11 2012 08:34 GMT
#13
On May 11 2012 17:26 SirJolt wrote:
Is this not just the same old mineral walk we've been using for like... a decade?


no this is stacking workers using mineral walk

then you attack

there was a cool video let me see if i find it



this is a tutorial but there was another cool vid but i cant find it
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winthrop
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Hong Kong956 Posts
May 11 2012 08:34 GMT
#14
On May 11 2012 17:29 nttea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2012 17:20 Tobberoth wrote:
What does this part mean?

"(Observers over your head, overlord hide in somewhere but you can't hit them, stalker, worker, zergling control the towers.)"

How does this help against observers over your head? Of course you can't hit overlords, SCVs don't hit air. Stalker.... what? Worker... what? What does towers have to do with all SVCs moving as one?

Honestly, I have no idea what you mean, I feel like I'm being trolled.

it's for when you wanna bitbybit someone but don't wanna show your scv train

yup

not essential bbb but it helps.
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Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10338 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-11 08:37:44
May 11 2012 08:36 GMT
#15
Hm question, how does zerg and protoss do it? I remember this video/thread (with i think naruto music in background, cus of naruto's ability to clone or something...) where this zerg did this drone drill with the drones stacked up all neatly. But obviously they don't have something like depots to do this. Do they just right click gas geysers?

(Unlike the video above, the drones looked almost exactly like 1 drone. Maybe even more so than the SCVs shown above unless I'm remembering wrong.)
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Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25551 Posts
May 11 2012 10:03 GMT
#16
On May 11 2012 17:36 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
Hm question, how does zerg and protoss do it? I remember this video/thread (with i think naruto music in background, cus of naruto's ability to clone or something...) where this zerg did this drone drill with the drones stacked up all neatly. But obviously they don't have something like depots to do this. Do they just right click gas geysers?

(Unlike the video above, the drones looked almost exactly like 1 drone. Maybe even more so than the SCVs shown above unless I'm remembering wrong.)



Yeah, that was a 7RR with a drone stack leading the way fighting a DT rushing player. You can view the video here:

+ Show Spoiler +


I think the way the zerg did it was he put all his workers on a vespene geyser, then attacked with them using mineral walk.
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cocopup96
Profile Joined August 2010
11 Posts
May 11 2012 21:09 GMT
#17
I use a assimilator to stack 2 probes. Then I go to the opponent base and split in the fog of war in their base. Then I can plant pylons for a cannon rush while scouting with the other probe. It makes them feel safe while I get the building locations.

It is not fool proof but it provides a much more reliable way to place cannons.
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