Article View: alt.games.starcraft
Article #292349Re: Newbie: Attacking as a Zerg
From: ihatespamandyoumustremov... MuuM...
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:36
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:36
58 lines
4090 bytes
4090 bytes
IN TEH PALECE KNOWEN AS alt.games.starcraft, TEH FAGGORTER General Fear <rich...@earthlink.net> DUMPED HIS GHEYE SHIET ON MY COMPUTAR SCREEN!!!!: > >My goal is to attack and maintain pressure on my opponent. My goal is >to send in wave after wave of units until the other guy's defenses >crack. Then send in the final wave to finish off my opponent. > >How do you all do this? What units do you use? Do you have a specific >build order in mine? > >Any help will be greatly appreciated. > Har, I had written a reply already, then noticed it read "attacking as" not "attacking vs" Zerg :P. Regardless, your question is way, way too general to give a good answer on - It's akin to asking "How do I win at the game when playing Zerg". The more specific question you have, the easier it is to give pinpointed advice. Build orders are something you do to get the game started _a certain way_ (hopefully to your liking) as optimally as possible. They're not 'recipies' for winning the game - Think of them like chess openings instead. They are also highly dependant on what your enemy does - Eg, if you see your enemy fast expanding, you'd probably want to double expand yourself insted of going basic 12-hatch 2base tech, for example. Anyway, you should probably look up at least the basic ones, but don't expect them to win you any games. They're just starting points. If you just want to win by just unit spam, there's only one way to do it: Out-macro your enemy (expand more than him, have better unit production infrastructure than him, produce more units than him). Good macro with Zerg is generally easier than with Toss or Terran, but is also pretty much a requirement to win games - generally, Equal base Zerg is a dead Zerg, so always keep ahead of your enemy. So, expand more, build more, flood enemy with units while expanding even more, win the game. The tricky part is how to do it. Zerg generally dominate early game and use that dominance to give them a headstart - well handled Lurker contain or Muta harass is pretty efficient at keeping the enemy at home as long as humanely possible, and will win you the game if you can keep going at it for long enough. But that's the tricky part - "long enough". The most critical time period usually comes in mid-game when Toss has gained sufficient tech (Obs/Templar/+1 speedlots) and Terran sufficient M&M mass to attempt to break out of your starving circle, and later starting to raze down all your newly set-up expansions. As for advice for this, there's not much else other than "do your best", for a solid answer would essentially be an answer to "How do I win in SC with Zerg all the time". Late mid-game is usually the weakest part in Zerg dominance, recouperated when hive tech starts rolling around (assuming you're alive with an economy to actually back said tech).
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<tq6g73lflf7gu6ig8ej9uoe850koimgs3u@4ax.com>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!feeder1.news.saunalahti.fi!reader1.news.saunalahti.fi!53ab2750!not-for-mailReferences:
<1182250253.734176.54710@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!feeder1.news.saunalahti.fi!reader1.news.saunalahti.fi!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: ihatespamandyoumustremov...@mbnet.fi (MuuMiMan) Newsgroups: alt.games.starcraft Subject: Re: Newbie: Attacking as a Zerg Keywords: w00tw00t X-Word: gh3y X-Number: 1337 X-Useless-header: Yes X-Home: alt.fan.adjective-army, alt.games.starcraft Sender: MuuMi Organization: MuuMiLaakso®© Message-ID: <tq6g73lflf7gu6ig8ej9uoe850koimgs3u@4ax.com> References: <1182250253.734176.54710@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.553 MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 59 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:36:40 +0300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.114.156.138 X-Complaints-To: newsm...@saunalahti.com X-Trace: reader1.news.saunalahti.fi 1182277944 88.114.156.138 (Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:32:24 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:32:24 EEST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit