Hi Folks,
Last games I had some luck doing a spinecrawler rush. This one guy had an interesting way to defend. He build a tank and defended it with a wall of supply depots. There was creep were the wall normally is so he had to be creative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYuKhAox4gc
Do you guys think this rush can also be done against protoss? The four times I made it work this week were all against terran.
I think it’s possible, but if they go quick air you might need spore crawlers too.
um yeah go watch harstem and uthermal. even florencio has done a few on his as well. yes it can work against all races.
also dude, dont go attacking buildings like that man, you could of jumped right on that tank and killed that easy. even with the workers surrounding it, just click straight on the tank and when they surround it hit hold position and the lings with kill off the workers first, and still be out of the tanks fire range. You should of had that fight but you kept sending lings off to die attacking the dumb buildings instead of just attacking the tank directly.
I didn’t manage to controll the lings right and they attacked the barracks. Like I said it went all wrong.
you need to just control the lings better and click the tank directly in that situation, like i said you would of had that but you kept attacking pointless buildings instead of the tank itself.
I know. Youre right. It didn’t go like I want.
since your playing zerg, im gonna to share a neat little trick with you. Say you come across an oppenent whose mineral line is open ( i mean access to it) but theres d structures protecting it, and you have mass lings flooding in. Run into the mineral line with them ( inbetween minerals and basebuilding) and hit hold position. the lings( or any unit with a mele attack) will stand right there and attack anything that touches it. Workers themself while gather minerals will mineral walk (ie ignore the hit box and walk right through other units) and walk straight through the melee units and get attacked by them. You will ignore the d stuctors and other units on the field and kill off a workers as they pass through your troops. Now i wouldnt try this with like 10-20 lings more like 50 ish as you will definitly be losing units but youll still be killing off workers and trashing there eco. And most people dont really know what to do in this situation either as they try to run workers away they will either get stuck on your troops and get killed or mineral walk through your troops and still get killed. Works even better against an oppenent with ranged units, and not mele of his own.
The hold position trick also works just like in your situation with the tank being surrounded by workers, hit hold position with the melee units and they will attack the units that touches them (ie workers) and you will kill the workers surrounding the tank, same with defence structurs that get surrounded as well as planetaries when terrans suround repair planetaries.
hey if you want to learn zerg tricks i do stream on twitch if you want to check out my videos ( Twitch ) im not great by anymeans but im decent.
Thanks for the advice. I followed your twitch.