[G]Marauder/Hellion All-in TvZ

To the zerg player, you will be doing a standard reactor hellion expand. The typical response is to get a spine or two up, an extra queen in the natural, and drone pretty hard. Hopefully you've been denying scouting and they do not know that you haven't expanded and are making constant marauders and hellions. Ideally, they should not know until you're at their natural with rockets, flamethrowers and whatever those drill things the scvs have. You should have the tools in your arsenal to deal with any composition the zerg has at this point. Good micro is greatly rewarded with this build. If you want an easy to execute, but micro intensive all-in, this should fit you.

10 depot
12 rax
13 ref
16 marine/oc
16 barracks
16/17 supply depot
17 scv
18 marine
19 scv
19 factory
19 reactor on rax
pull one scv out of gas
19/20 tech lab(on 16 rax)
20 scv
20 supply
22 marauder
23,24 scv
26 marauder
28- first two hellions
30 - supply depot, tech lab on rax
31 scv
33- two hellions
---pull another scv out of gas
37-marauder
39-marauder
40 - last scv
42, two hellions and SUPPLY DROP
46 - two marauders/ supply depot
From here out, just constant marauder/hellion production rallied to your units.

When your first hellions are out, play it like a standard reactored hellion expand. First check your natural for lings, tag the relevant Xel'Naga tower, and proceed to the natural. With your second pair of hellions, check some likely spots for the opposing player to hide a zergling, then proceed to the natural. Four hellions at the natural, one at the Xel'Naga watch tower, one racing around aimlessly(i.e.denying scouting) and the rest rallied to the center of your base.
Again, deny deny deny scouting. If your hellions see an overlord out on the map, consider sending one of your marines to bully it away. Do not show more than four hellions unless you have to.


"It's go time"
Hellions on one hotkey, marauders on the other.

Push out of your base around 7:10 with about 8 hellions, 6-7 marauders, two marines, and 12 scvs. Start concussive shells shortly before you move out (preferably by ~6:40). It helps a little, but is not really anything too significant, I often don't use it. Rally your two barracks and factory to their natural or your marauders.
Put your scvs on autorepair, have them alternating between attacking, sitting in front repairing each other, and repairing your hellions. If you want to, shift follow them on your hellions with autorepair enabled. You want to take down the spines with your marauders.

Basically your micro is

a) have scvs on autorepair
b) a move
c) pull back your hellions behind your marauders when they engage, kite with marauders OR just stand there and be beefy.
d) After you kill all of the UNITS in the natural, move straight to the main. I don't mind leaving that hatchery alive. as long as the queen down there is dead, they can only produce a few lings out of it anyways. Again, you're on the clock, so get to roasting.
c) if they decide to attack you on their ramp with mass speedlings, you can collect an easy win. again, pull your hellions behind your marauders OR you can kind of have the hellions and scvs tank with autorepair if they are clumped together well.

Be sure to not attack lings with just SCVS while your hellions are roasting drones and marauders are aimlessly shooting things.

Target Priority:

First take down the spines, unless speedlings run past the spine. In that case, roast them. Then move onto queens. You don't want them to get off another inject on their natural.
However, if speedlings are threatening a surround, don't blindly charge at the queen, exposing your hellions.
Also, drone roasting is very good. Drones will not scratch you, unless you somehow let them surround you with lings, so enjoy the barbecue.


Remember, you REALLY do not want to get your hellions surrounded by speedlings without SCV's and Marauders clumped with them. Speedlings are really good against hellions if they have a proper surround.

If they are going for a roach/ling all in a la tang, they will have an easier time defending. If you catch the roaches out on the map, surround them with your scvs and kite forward with your marauders, focus firing them. Swing the hellions around to maximize splash on the roaches. Pull them away if speedlings are going to surround them.

Mass ling/spine: This is more difficult in my opinion. You have to push the spines to take them down because you're on the clock, but you don't want your army to be in an unfavorable position for a surround. Follow the micro tips listed before and you can be okay, as long is there isnt an insane amount of speedlings.

Banelings: Try to kite them with hellions. If you have to take hits, throw a couple marauders at them, do NOT be clumped up.

Super fast muta is not a viable counter, the game will be over in one way or another before then.

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That's it!
This is an effective all-in at all levels of play. Good micro is rewarded, poor micro is punished.