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virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3598 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-05 11:04:21
December 05 2012 10:59 GMT
#41
Diamond zerg (wol) here, I'd like to add some of my experiences with the mine. Yesterday I played vs. a meching terran, who was slightly better than me. He used the mines very nicely and punished my aggressive expansion style with constant widow mine drops. I had to shut down the drops by placing spores and spines or by leaving behind overseers. Basically, mine drops are pretty good against super greedy zergs, who aren't defending their expansions properly. Mines can also be placed preemptively at expansion spots. (just like spider mines in bw or dts) As they take up supply, this obviously can't be done throughout the whole game, because it weakens you main army too much, if you spread mines all over the place.

He also used mines "broodwar-esque" on the battlefield. As others have already stated, mines are very suitable to expand safely, as the provide good space control and push back early zerg pressure handily. In the later stages of the game, they're also kinda viable, because they both can be used to slow push with a mech ball, and to defend expansions against runbys / backstabs / mutas. (IdrA had to deal with such plays on his stream yesterday.) They don't seem to be good in the super late stages of a game, though.

Overall, the widow mine seems to be a good addition, even though the fact that the little sucker can hit both ground and air, while dealing tons of splash damage, gives me headaches. It's not imba, but you certainly have to play very cautiously as zerg now. Maybe a little less splash damage would be a fair change.
first we make expand, then we defense it.
Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
December 05 2012 11:07 GMT
#42
On November 27 2012 08:31 ZjiublingZ wrote:
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On November 27 2012 08:17 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
On November 27 2012 07:40 SC2John wrote:
Any other thoughts or ideas?

You didn't mention this in your post but widow mine drops are VERY effective. If a zerg isn't paying attention, widow mine drops can clear out entire mineral lines in seconds.


You gotta be careful doing this though as a Mech player. Once you start trying to trade Gas for Drones, you really need to do damage to make it worth it. Especially when you start comparing how much damage you could have done with the same drop, but with Hellions.


How about a 3 hellion drop with one widow mine? use the hellions at first then leave a widow mine burrowed for when they come to deal with the hellions?
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Killmouse
Profile Joined August 2010
Austria5700 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-05 12:42:20
December 05 2012 12:42 GMT
#43
widow mines will attack even though u dont have vision, if the unit is in range its gonna trigger automaticly, i just realized it LOL thats so good vs overlords on some imba vision spots, u can deny their vision easy pretty early without getting viking or medivac, like in cloud kingdom
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ProTech
Profile Joined November 2010
United States434 Posts
January 10 2013 05:57 GMT
#44
Widow mine is broken in every aspect of the game.
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