I was playing around a bit with mass overseers in a game I was quite far head in. I was playing around with mass changelings and then something popped into my head... You can't move through changelings that are on hold command... This lead me to try a tactic that I hereby name ... Changefield !
*NEW* Changefield with Mutalisks ( with only 1 overseer )
Changefield with Ground army
Changefield with Nydus
Ever wished you had sentries for those awesome forcefields to ramps, trapping armies inside or outside a base while you spread havoc ? Well now you can ! Just get a few overseers and collect some energy, Then make a bunch, run up a ramp, make a line across it and press the " h " hold command key !
Voila ! Enemy can't get down his ramp because of the changelings, queue mass confusion !
Even if he notices they are changelings, if you have enough he still has to manually click every single one of them to finally be able to get out of his base, but will he be in time ? ^^
Bonus clips
How to stop mass protoss air as zerg.
Nydus mining.
Poll: Who will be the first zerg master to utilize this in a pro game ?
Dimaga (534)
63%
Cool (159)
19%
Idra (86)
10%
JulyZerg (37)
4%
Lalush (22)
3%
Losira (16)
2%
854 total votes
Your vote: Who will be the first zerg master to utilize this in a pro game ?
Or how you could use this in an actual game - drop 2 changelings and run them to his ramp on lets say blistering sands, while running your stuff in through his backdoor, he might be having his camera in his main base microing scvs etc so the changelings might delay him for a few seconds. If he has his army in his expo of course.
On October 12 2010 06:51 ZOMGCYN wrote: That was so obviously set up xD
Good creativity but not viable at all really since pros would kill the changelings as soon as they saw them.
Even if you kill all the changelings, with 5-6 overseers with full energy you have 20-24 changelings on your ramp and you need to click on every single one before you can get down :þ It takes a while !
Doing that in mass amounts probably wont ever happen, but imagine blocking a protoss opponent's ramp with 2 or 3 changelings while killing his natural, or blocking it while you plant a nydus inside. This definitely has potential. My brother plays zerg and in the beta he had a changeling block ZvT that worked pretty well. If bnet supports beta replays ill post it.
I saw some game on steppes of war, quite some time ago, it was maybe dimaga ... not sure, however, playing some terran and he blocked some terran units that should have gone down to defend the terrans natural with 1 changeling on the ramp, was brilliant, gg came soon afterwards
Edit: The thing is probably that you need the opponent to be macroing heavily and not paying attention to that place, so early game it won't work, and after it depends on who you are playing and how obvious you are doing it, with 1 it is harder to see what you did there, but anyaway i think this is a one trick pony, and ppl learn from their errors.
On October 12 2010 06:52 Draconicfire wrote: Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you were really far ahead, look at that mini map >_>
This seems pretty awesome actually, but I'm not exactly sure how effective it would be since any type of splash would destroy them all pretty fast.
Splash damage will not affect the changelings except a siege tank shell, which would mean he would have to siege up to shoot at them, quite a delay in itself .
On October 12 2010 06:48 theqat wrote: It will probably never get used, but I'm voting dimaga because he does the most ridiculous things out of anyone listed
think so too. imo idra is to conservative, he wouldn't use this in a game^^
but its a smart idea, the only deficit is, if the your opponent has a observer ready, it would break the changefield :D
On October 12 2010 06:48 theqat wrote: It will probably never get used, but I'm voting dimaga because he does the most ridiculous things out of anyone listed
think so too. imo idra is to conservative, he wouldn't use this in a game^^
but its a smart idea, the only deficit is, if the your opponent has a observer ready, it would break the changefield :D
Detection does nothing to changelings, you need to manually click each and every one.
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