Starcraft Mayhem

[Rhox]

i am having a hard time w/ early zergling rushes.

i get 2 gates, cyb core, and forge.  4 zealots weren't enough to withstand the initial surge.  then he keeps sending more zerglings.  whats a good strat vs early zergling rush? ramp block and cannons or just 1 gate and forge for weapon 1 upgrade?

[Kevorkian]

Are you building your gates in such a way that your ramp can be blocked with 1 zealot? No amount of zergling should break through that if you just hold position with a couple zealots and have stalkers backing them up. It's like 300 spartans vs. 100,000 persians.

He has to go to baneling or roach.

[Rhox]

i think thats where my problem lies.. i do place them down at the ramp but not tight enough for a choke point where its just 1 or 2 zealots wide.  i should be less sloppy about my gate placement.

[weeble]

Sometimes I build forge first and put a cannon near my probes (using the forge, pylon, and nexus as walls protecting 3 sides of the cannon) if I think the zerg may go for a fast rush (short map, early scouting by me).

[Rhox]

wow I had my 1st Ling rush defended.got out 3 zealots and a sentry. blocked the passage enough w/ a sentry c-block, kept making sentrys and stalkers.

trained Hallu and faked in a void ray to scope out his area. then went robo build w/ colossus.  sure enough, he went hydras and roaches.

oh and my 2's /carriedbyUno thank you~ haha

Uno, you're good kid.  i learned a few things from your playing style.

[Luhn]

He can't be good, this game doesn't have any dwarves!

[Rhox]

he plays Toss and uses Sentries really well..it all makese sense now..

[Udog]

on a side note, warp rays are so OP...

ask Kem about my 4 warp rays in our game last night...

[Rhox]

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Udog wrote:

on a side note, warp rays are so OP...

ask Kem about my 4 warp rays in our game last night...

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ooo can you post that vid please?  and you mean warp prisms, or void rays?  unless i'm playing the wrong game....

[Udog]

void rays...

I just call them rays...

Let me just figure out how to post a replay and  I'll put it up...

[wtghaha]

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Udog wrote:

on a side note, warp rays are so OP...

ask Kem about my 4 warp rays in our game last night...

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sorry kem i was practicing my 8pool cheese last night

[Rhox]

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Udog wrote:

void rays...

I just call them rays...

Let me just figure out how to post a replay and  I'll put it up...

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they are under this folder:

C:\Users\John\Documents\StarCraft II Beta\Replays\Recent\

for Vista (for me anyways).  just upload the file.  it should be very small like 500kb at the most

[Udog]

let's see if this works

[Rhox]

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Udog wrote:

let's see if this works

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heh nice.. i just did that in a 2's match... quite effective.  retarded T sent banshee and Hellions after the void rays..

[Luhn]

Wtf when did they let void rays shoot while moving?

[Rhox]

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Luhn wrote:

Wtf when did they let void rays shoot while moving?

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they decreased the dmg done by them a bit BUT.. the continual shooting while moving is huge esp if you teched up and trained faster VR. 

• hit gatherers
• switch to the base when they pull away
• run out when they bring in air defense.
• repeat = much down time on resource gathering.

LOL at the nubb T player who brought in his banshee and hellions vs my VRs..

[Kem]

VRs actually don't shoot while moving but they drift quite a bit when you tell them to stop so you can micro them to keep the beam active.

If I remember that game correctly my partner wasn't that great and you hit just before I was ready for air.

I've been trying to get the 25 of each race win achievement lately. I'm playing through Zerg right now, which imo is probably my weakest race.

[Kem]

Also I play 2v2 random partners b/c it's hard to coordinate w/ ppl due to me playing at random times hehe.

I saw your early spawning pool and I walled off my base well before your lings attacked. Unfortunately my partner was stupid

[Luhn]

Pretty sure they shoot while moving since they were beaming units while I had them on the move command.

[brandonuno]

they pretty much do that after you have the upgrade, but only to targets in front of them