This might be applicable in ZvZ when banelings get in the mineral line and the chase begins. Holding down F1 should not be too difficult after a stop command and at least you can save some drones.

Raymund

Swaziland14 Posts

November 28 2010 00:34 GMT

#142

thats pretty nice

imPERSONater

United States1324 Posts

November 28 2010 00:49 GMT

#143

Sweet! I now have a new technique to practice

Innovative thinking OP, good work!

klauz619

453 Posts

November 28 2010 01:09 GMT

#144

Against hellions its best to just NOT move your workers at all, that way they only hit 2-3 workers at a time.

Longitude57

United States26 Posts

November 28 2010 01:24 GMT

#145

this sounds really good but i feel like i wouldnt be able to both kill the hellions and split my workers

redFF

United States3910 Posts

November 28 2010 01:32 GMT

#146

lol this is so great, and doesnt take much apm at all

Bear4188

United States1797 Posts

November 28 2010 01:57 GMT

#147

Ooh, creative use of the idle worker function :>

Who said there would be no micro in SC2?

Wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a standard skill for dealing with baneling/hellion harass.

Phats

Australia534 Posts

November 28 2010 02:22 GMT

#148

This would be a much prefered method to sim city. If you sim city vs a T and he does like an 8-16 marine drop they can use ur buildings for cover vs melee units like lings/zealots and kill 100 supply of them without losing their drop and then continue killing workers.

Sanguinarius

United States3427 Posts

November 28 2010 02:53 GMT

#149

Thats very interesting, might have to try that sometime.

kineSiS-

Korea (South)1068 Posts

November 28 2010 02:57 GMT

#150

This is a high impractical method; however, it's very intriguing and I hope that someone else develops this and optimizes it in order to reduce time needed to utilize it.

Artifice

United States523 Posts

November 28 2010 03:00 GMT

#151

I'm not really following how people think this is impractical or takes some wild amount of apm. You ctrl+click a probe, hit S, hold F1, and rightclick in a circle. That takes like a second.

Bluetea

United States185 Posts

November 28 2010 03:01 GMT

#152

This seems like a really good idea. I might practice it in a custom game versus a computer. But then there's the problem of remembering to do it when it actually happens in a game. I'll probably panic and forget.

xlep

Germany274 Posts

November 28 2010 03:06 GMT

#153

nice idea, till now I thought the best thing against hellion harass was to leave your workers where they are but this might just do the trick

cHaNg-sTa

United States1058 Posts

November 28 2010 03:17 GMT

#154

This is genius. *thumbs up*

EDIT: This is incredibly easy to do. Just open a game against a computer and try it with your initial 6 workers. It's very quick and simple.

vol_

Australia1608 Posts

November 28 2010 03:18 GMT

#155

You bloody hero!

darklordjac

Canada2231 Posts

November 28 2010 03:19 GMT

#156

Well I for sure will be using this.

dtz

5834 Posts

November 28 2010 04:13 GMT

#157

already helped me a lot today! thanks op!

HollowLord

United States3862 Posts

November 28 2010 05:16 GMT

#158

Huh... good idea. Can't wait to try this out.

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

November 28 2010 05:20 GMT

#159

I was playing around with this earlier today. I found it easier to just use the minimap to spread them. The jumping around of the screen really started to irritate me, and I found it a lot harder to make a good circle.

canikizu

4860 Posts

November 28 2010 05:21 GMT

#160

On November 28 2010 12:17 cHaNg-sTa wrote:
This is genius. *thumbs up*

EDIT: This is incredibly easy to do. Just open a game against a computer and try it with your initial 6 workers. It's very quick and simple.

Actually it's one of the trick to split your workers to the mineral, some Korean pros used it before.