From larva... to ultralisk? - Page 14

Hey Stefan,

first of all congratulations for your decission to try another race, particulary Zerg. I guess it's trivial to point out, that it will widen and improve your understanding of the game. Like Katsumoto says in "The last Samurai": "I want to know my enemy". From this point alone, it would be worth it, even if you return to Terran (an as a Terran myself I can only say: "We will need you to stay!" ). But boy, couldn't you have picked a less painful way to do so? Do a little more practicing against AI and watch a few more replays before starting? Anyways, it's nice to see you enjoying the game and don't bother with such materialistic details like ladderpoints or match histories. It speaks for you being a big fighter going for higher aims. This and your mature reactions are honoring you and let one sense the high human potential you have. Hats of Sire.

Though (hehe!)... I think that you feel like you have to atone for your "sin of playing that race".
You point out the difficult mechanics of Zerg. They comprise of what exactly? I guess it's Queen management (1) and spreading creep (2). Do I miss out on something? Yes: you have to select larva to produce an unit (3). But let's look to what you get for that.
0. When you build an Building you sacrifice an Drone. Thats it, no way-points back to gatering. And you don't have to build Supplydepots, Pylons, with your Drones.
1. With 3 Hatcheries and 3 Queens, 1 on each of them, you can build (provided you have the minerals and gas and that you do your Queenrotation every 40 seconds) what? 21 Units in 40 seconds out of three production buildings (OK, 3 of the have to be Overlords for quite some time)? No need to decide reactor or tech lab or exchange the addons tossing your facilities around no need to chronoboost (the productiontime for zergunits is already quite low). Lets not speak about the extra cost for building all those production facilities, it's out of the scope of the difficulty of the mechanics.
2. Creep is an nice thing, isn't it. Besides the Queen, which unit of the Zerg is realy so slow, that it's needs Creep in despair? Hydralisk, some would say. Which is as fast as an unstimed Marine, Zealot whatever... The point: could it be that creep all over the place is rather an nice bonus besides for the Queen, for her to be enabled to defend in the early game against harrashment? (The same way that always larva inject timely is maybe also necessery rather in the early game, but after, let's say 40 drones, when the economy is runing smoothly the constant larva production is rather an enormous bost in the ability of the Zerg to produce units, compared to the other races and what the have to do, manage and spent to keep up with Zerg?)
3. Having to select larva is weighted up by the other races having to tab from one sort of production facilities to the other Barracks TAB Factories TAB Starport for Terran for example.

That's it. Dont have to contribute much more at the moment, and the thread isn't about ZvT, ZvP metagame. Might be, that I am missing out on something, since I touched Zerg only a little in vs AI games to learn a bit about the race, how their buildings look, how their units are produced.
I am your fan man (as much as my personality allows me to be a fan!) and keep smashing, with whatever race you decide to play.