On May 10 2012 23:00 chlindell wrote: Nice vid, the commentary felt more natural than in the first one.
What would you have done if you hadn't held off his first push so easily? Like you losing most of your army but saving your third, him retreating with his core army before your reinforcements hatch. Do you still try to put on heavy pressure to desperately try to keep him on 2 base and keep his army size down or do you go to plan B?
I find that happening sometimes in my games. If I hold the gw attack easily then countering with a bunch of roach/ling usually works just fine to either kill him or put me well ahead while delaying his third, which is why they call it an all-in I guess. However, if I take heavy losses without wiping out most of his army I'm scared of committing to an all out roach/ling counter since toss can be so incredibly cost efficient while defending unless I have a much bigger army.
Should I try to trade no matter what or should I do something else instead? Is there some rule of thumb I could use for deciding what to after he backs off depending on how the battle went? I know this depends on a lot of things so I guess I'll put that type of video my wishlist for another week if there's no easy answer
Thanks!
If I had lost most of my army but was able to kill his whole army I would be in a better position then what happened in that game. Had I killed those sentries also as I said in that game I believe I would have won a lot faster, but since I messed up a little and he was able to save them he was fine since he only lost a few zealots.
Now if I lost most of my army and he lost very little of his then I am in a bad position if for some reason he killed most of my army but retreated I would probably lose .
Lately in zvp I have been messing around with something, infestors vs twilight play, mutalisks vs robo play (I can't remember if I mentioned that in this video). I plan on showcasing that in future zvp videos ^^.
So pretty much the answer to your question for if you should put pressure, if you kill most of his army yes you should be able to prevent the third all game long as long as you can kill most of his army even if you lose most of yours. If you kill say half and you lost most of yours it's very dependent on how many sentries he has and all that. Hope I was able to answer your question ^^.
Ok, so it's more dependent on how much army (gas units a least) HE lost rather than how much I did then. Usually if I lose much I'll be scared to push regardless of how much it cost him to do that which I guess is wrong but this "rule" should be simple enough to remember in game. Haven't really thought about it like that before so yeah that's a good answer, thanks.
Hey guys thanks again for the nice comments and everything. I have now uploaded my zvz muta guide today and hope you guys enjoy it! I will be doing many strategies with all the races so if you aren't interested don't worry there will be more!
The next one will be zvt vs mech as I think that is one a lot of people want to know how to fight. Unless I am told in this thread what they want to see that is my plan for now. This one should be all right and hopefully you guys enjoy it!
Thanks guys just remember for future ideas please feel free to ask in this thread what you would like to see, if I see none I will just pick something ^^. Next one is planned zvt vs mech and then after that will be either zvz/zvp!
Hello guys I have uploaded my next video which will feature me vs quanticHashe in a zerg vs terran on ohana where he goes mech. I have 2 replays vs him where he goes mech and will be doing the other game some time this week. So this will be a week of 2 video's and not just one!
I haven't faced to much mech in awhile on korea in like a month, so I decided to pick these 2 as they are very current (within the past 7 days) and both have me beating it differently. So without further ado here it is!
Description: How I deal with mech and locating weaknesses, how I decide when to be aggressive, when to transition, how to engage the army, etc.
On May 22 2012 12:42 blade55555 wrote: Description: How I deal with mech and locating weaknesses, how I decide when to be aggressive, when to transition, how to engage the army, etc.
Regarding mech with banshees, is your roach/ling/bling attack on a quick third a viable option considering banshees significantly delay tank production and, subsequently, siege tech?
On May 22 2012 12:42 blade55555 wrote: Description: How I deal with mech and locating weaknesses, how I decide when to be aggressive, when to transition, how to engage the army, etc.
Regarding mech with banshees, is your roach/ling/bling attack on a quick third a viable option considering banshees significantly delay tank production and, subsequently, siege tech?
It is if he doesn't have tanks. That game I was able to attack because I scouted low amount of tanks or units in general that can kill roaches and attacked. If he hadn't played so greedy and gotten tanks faster and more of them you couldn't attack the fast third most likely.
Nice! I remember reading a lot of your guides and watching a lot of your replays and taking a lot away from them. I will definitely check these out, Go go, blade!
Hey blade, REaaLLLLYYYYyyyyyYY Learning a LOT from your videos! thanks a lot!
I have one Doubt, would u recommend the Ling infestor Ultra zvz style to players below diamond league? coz it seems like it involves a lot of key decisions that bronze - plat players are incapable of making ?
On June 25 2012 06:57 daffy07 wrote: Hey blade, REaaLLLLYYYYyyyyyYY Learning a LOT from your videos! thanks a lot!
I have one Doubt, would u recommend the Ling infestor Ultra zvz style to players below diamond league? coz it seems like it involves a lot of key decisions that bronze - plat players are incapable of making ?
Hm I am not really sure, probably not because it takes good injects/macro as you need a ton of lings and missing injects will hurt more then if you were going roaches since lings are very larva inneffecient. It might be fine, not sure I would try it and if you don't think you can do it just don't. Won't hurt anyway to try it if you are interested in it
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