The HotS Zerg Help Me Thread - Page 105

After scouting his early CC build you reacted very nicely with 3 Hatch into pool. And in general, although I'm giving my advice and some criticism I feel you definitely outplayed your opponent up till just around the 9:00 mark ^^. My thoughts.........

I'd like to see you make more than 3 Queens for starters. With 3 Hatch before pool you could quite easily have powered your way to 5 Queens! Imo this is much better for a few reasons. 1st, better creep -> faster movement -> better scouting via more vision -> and of course -> nice defense vs Hellions. Also, going more Queens lets you skip RW and roaches (at least early, or forever) and use your gas more efficiently. I say efficiently because grabbing those Roaches delayed your Lair timing by 30s, which in turn slows down your Bling speed by as much too.

You could use some better scouting man. You never sacrificed an Overlord to see his main base and your overall overlord placement was, at least imo, pretty bad. And to make things a bit worse, with no vision from Ovies you didn't have a few Lings in more key places. Basically, if you have better creep/scouting/vision you'd be ready for his 11:00 attack that killed your 3rd base -> which is the reason why you lost the game.

You missed an inject for over 30s around the 7:41 - 8:11 mark in your main. To reiterate, getting RW and roaches slowed down your gas timings, at least with the build you used. Use extra Queens/Queen to defend and abuse creep. Um, the first Hellion attack at your 3rd lost 7 drones. Not game ending by any means (you got his Hellions ^^) but you had your Queen and 2 Roaches positioned in a blocking area and your ran your Drones "away" from the block into the open, all by them selves ^^. You could have probably saved 5-6 drone if you moved them towards your Roaches, or -> SE, not West.

Around 9:45s you had almost 800 minerals, which I would have liked to see invested in 2 more macro Hatches, which would have worked nicely had you grabbed 2 additional Queens early. For me, if you're going to open 2x gas at 5:25s -> speed -> 2 evos 1/1 -> Lair build and you follow it up with 3rd/4th gas at 8:45 then you should be opting for a macro oriented approach with much more Ling/Bling flooding with delayed Muta tech (13-14m mark). Otherwise what's the point of delaying the 3rd/4th gas for so long? You get less gas and many more minerals yea? Might as well put those minerals to use.

Right around the 9:50ish mark you were supply blocked and made 6 ovies. Now take that earlier 30s missed inject, and the few extra drones you had to remake and you could realistically have had something that looked like 6 more larvae from the inject (+4 inject +2 from 1 larvae every 15s), 4 more larvae from being supply blocked (gotta use 2 for the ovies ya), and 4-6 more from the remake of drones = 14 or 16 more Larvae that could have been used by the 10:00 mark.

Which leads me to my last point: Imo you should really halt drone production and concentrate on non stop units sometime in the 9:15 - 9:35 mark.

But still, at least IMO, you still easily outplayed your opponent during most of the time which led to you losing your 3rd. That Terran had much lower SCV count at around 9:45 than he should, and all his buildings/add-ons were delayed too. His initial macro was quite poor and he simply capitalized on your lack of scouting.