TvZ Balance Suggestions - Page 51

Good players hide their tech buildings where you would not scan, but you know hes gotta be spending that gas somewhere if he only has speedlings and a lair which gives you the same information as seeing a spire almost.

For some reason I always think that many zerg players are doing it wrong, I'm not a zerg player but I figure that they should pretty much always build a couple of tech structures that are on separate paths early game. Speedlings shut down early harass from a Terran and hydras placed well pretty much shut down all harass altogether, because of the creep speed bonus it seems that it would be relatively simple to keep ahead in expansions with smaller first response forces directly at the xpos and a larger centralized force able to help reinforce any location if needed in the early game. So, you see the Terran going mech, the terran will be sitting in his base turtling, that means you should be just outside of the range of his tanks making him slow walk his tanks all the way to your natural or one of your expansions when he decides to push. To often a zerg player will just let me walk right up to their nat and siege uncontested. With the time you bought and your economic advantage (which you should have) you should be able to get ultras, broodlords, or infestors depending on the composition of his army. If he is hellion heavy you will want to trade your lings in for roaches, if he is tank heavy you will want to trade your hydras for mutas or lings and roaches if he is thor heavy less mutas. If he has a perfect balance you can try to skew his forces by killing off one type then countering whats left or try to stall for your heavy hitters. Say he has only a few hellions a lot of tanks and maybe 4 thors Ultra ling should roflstomp this composition as long as you hit him unsieged and let an ultra take the first tank hit for your lings to close in (if he is siege walking). This is assuming that you don't have to go through a choke to get to him and that you you get at least a decent flank.

What I'm trying to say is that I don't think zergs really take advantage of the fact that they can switch 100% of their production to producing one unit. It seems like they can hand tailor their army to counter whatever the terran is doing if they can just stall him long enough to let it build (1 min). And I also think that zerg should be harassing the Terrans economy when the Terran is pushing. I think what a lot of zerg players don't realize is that Terran players turtle up because they are scared, and Terrans wont get turrets if they don't think you are getting mutas they wont get units to counter units that you don't have in the midgame when harass loses viability. You can use this to skew his army one way then produce many of the units that counter the skew when he actually begins his push. I scout mass hydraling and I will be really tank heavy with hellions, I might only produce one thor, If I haven't seen a spire and I see evo chambers up i might not even produce one. Lets say you have been saving up until I pushed or saw that I would be ready to make a move, then bam it appears out of nowhere to me, but 15 mutas roflstomp my army just when i siege at your nat and at the same time 5 roflestomp my economy at my base, but this rarely happens in my games and I wonder why. I think zergs reveal their tech switches to soon. I always wonder why in huge econ games when the zerg is closed to max and has extra money lying around he doesn't produce every tech building because that makes so much sense to me. Like in Idras game vs Tester on scrap station (i realize its zvp but same concept), why the hell doesn't he have a spire? Is its cost really that high? Especially when he has the implied econ to max and be sitting on money for a long time (which is when you should start building every tech structure) Zerg seems like it can be so versatile because of this, especially if a Terran goes for heavy harassment that fails and sets his own economy behind. Almost every Terran tries to harass and i think it all can be defended against with minimal losses from the zerg.

Zergs always complain about how hard it is to scout, yet I never see them burrow a ling outside of my natural, or other places where they would want to keep an eye on, in fact i rarely see burrow at all (unless its for some all in roach cheese thats easy to counter), odd to me since it can be so useful. They complain so much about having to sac an overlord to scout, when its actually cheaper then a scan for the early and mid game. Hell, you can sac 3 overlords and still be almost even with what the Terran lost from a mule. Not to mention that terrans need mules just to be able to keep up with the zerg. One thing I would really like to see zergs do is harass mineral lines with fungal growth, this rarely ever happens though. Even if you let the terran walk all the way up to your nat and you went for mass hydraling and had no hidden mutas, you could still fight it off with minimal loses by doing ling drops on the sieged tanks, I have yet to see a zerg do this even in high level games that I have watched