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Neshapotamus
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States163 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-12 18:39:52
August 12 2010 18:39 GMT
#21
Anything more than 75 workers will start to hurt you, try to stay around 65-75 workers. Take as many bases as you can. Once you have too many workers, your army will be too small. Start putting up static defense as a way of getting rid of workers and fortifying your base. Its better to let your opponent work for a base than giving it to them for free. spread out your workers, you don't always have to fully saturate every base.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-12 18:47:25
August 12 2010 18:46 GMT
#22
If you are in the position to safely expand, do it. Don't be afraid of having too many bases, just don't go overboard trying to saturate everything. It gives you vision and deprives the other player of that potential expo.

If you lose it later, it should let you get your army in a solid position to flank him or to counter-attack and should ultimately be of minimal economic loss, given the low drone count and likely excess of resources.
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shawty
Profile Joined June 2010
United Kingdom294 Posts
August 12 2010 18:48 GMT
#23
I find that as zerg I sometimes just spam drones when my opponent is clearly in a bad position and is turtling, so I end up seeing after the game that I have made 120 drones :S
nam nam
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden4672 Posts
August 12 2010 18:59 GMT
#24
Since your opponent usually are trying to destroy your expos you can certainly have more than 3-4 bases. As other have suggested though you should have a cap for how many drones you have on the map at the same time.
FindingPride
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1001 Posts
August 12 2010 19:08 GMT
#25
no more then 60 scv
monkh
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom568 Posts
August 12 2010 19:08 GMT
#26
On August 13 2010 03:39 Neshapotamus wrote:
Anything more than 75 workers will start to hurt you, try to stay around 65-75 workers. Take as many bases as you can. Once you have too many workers, your army will be too small. Start putting up static defense as a way of getting rid of workers and fortifying your base. Its better to let your opponent work for a base than giving it to them for free. spread out your workers, you don't always have to fully saturate every base.



Yes this is what I usually aim for 65-75 works but always look back at replays and only have about 50 workers less even sometimes, how do you gauge how many works you have?
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