We've all seen all forms of "blocks". The most common is of course supply depot and barracks wall.. the most basic maneuvers terran users use. Then we start to see some Pylon walls, first introduced in Pimpest Plays, and now fairly common. But ever heard of larva block?
In this video, YellOw builds his hatchery near the mouth of his base, and positions it so that a larva moves in the small opening left. When the opponent moves in, he morphs it so it closes the opening, effectively buying him plenty of time to defend. Planned, or lucky?
Interview with FighterForum: -(홍진호에게)본진에서 2개의 개스를 모두 캤다. ▶홍진호=방어용 전략이었다. 병민이도 팩토리를 빨리 올려서 골리앗을 생산하고, 나는 뮤탈리스크를 한 번에 생산하는 것이 컨셉트였다. 초반에 조심해야 한다는 과제는 입구 해처리로 제거했다. 최가람의 저글링이 들어오려고 했을 때 라바를 일부러 드론으로 만들어 들어오지 못하게 한 것이다. 연습 때 무심결에 라바에서 생산했는데 내 저글링이 나가지 못하는 것을 보고 착안한 전략이다.
-(To YellOw)You mined both of your gas from your base. *Vampire has 2 gases next to ur Hatch YellOw - It was a defensive strategy. GooDFriend was to wall and tech to goliaths, and I was to go straight into Mutalisks. The weakness of that strat is that the zerg can get dangerous at the beginning, so I solved it with a hatchery at the front. If ShinHwa was going to attack with zerglings I was to block it by morphing a larva. During practice I accidentally blocked my entrance with a larva and my zerglings weren't able to get out. I use that to my advantage.
Seriously, the pylon walls were introduced in pimpest plays? Or you mean to the general public?
And although this larva block seems like another variation of the lurker morph, its pretty crafty to position the hatchery so that the larvae wiggles around that little opening
Haha yeah when I was livereporting I totally spazzed when I saw this. I remember when people still hailed YellOw as the smartest player to grace broodwar.
I still believe in him --;;
Wow, he loses a total of two drones during that whole thing... pretty kickass. I thought it was 3 or 4.
On November 28 2006 19:44 Newbistic wrote: Omg... he did it not once but twice when he trapped the lings between his gas drones and those eggs... god damn prodigy....
? I think the ling just stopped and turned around to attack the gas drone just as Yellow morphed those main hatch eggs