EPTOn July 10 2012 12:04 sagefreke wrote:
Another strat I like to do is burrow 2 banes as I'm pulling my army back. Regardless if the Terran sees it or not he will be forced to scan or risk running his marines into it. Although I'm low masters I seldom get off a good baneling mine against Terran since they will scan just about every chokepoint they are about to go over regardless if creep is present or not.
I think an added side effect of terrans constantly scanning is that they end up using orbitals as their 3rd and sometimes even 4th base which makes ling runbys much more effective.
Not a fan of burrow banelings against Toss. They always have an observer.
With the introduction of burrow moving banelings in HotS, baneling mines will be a lot more prevalent...
Another strat I like to do is burrow 2 banes as I'm pulling my army back. Regardless if the Terran sees it or not he will be forced to scan or risk running his marines into it. Although I'm low masters I seldom get off a good baneling mine against Terran since they will scan just about every chokepoint they are about to go over regardless if creep is present or not.
I think an added side effect of terrans constantly scanning is that they end up using orbitals as their 3rd and sometimes even 4th base which makes ling runbys much more effective.
Not a fan of burrow banelings against Toss. They always have an observer.
With the introduction of burrow moving banelings in HotS, baneling mines will be a lot more prevalent...
Yeah, burrowed banelings vs toss isn't great. with 2 burrowed banes you can't kill much, after which observers pretty much stop all burrowed threat. Using 4 or more requires an ambush set-up that doesn't happen very often. Thats why players like Dimaga uses baneling bombs vs protoss, they are much more effective dropping from the skies and exploding underfoot.
vs T, its great. Burrowed banelings in obvious drop locations, AI pathways, retreat your zerg armies and wait for T to fall into bomb traps. Just having one success killing 10 rines is a big psychological blow that will make T scan much more often.
There's rarely opportunity for burrowed banes in ZvZ, its hard to get a chance to detonate over speedlings, or hydras, the occasional bane bombs on mineral lines while having roach armies stand off is more plausible.
