Just wanna share with everyone a strat I invented myself to fight against zerg who always love to early expand and pump zerglings bannelings mutalisk to overwhelm the terran race. The key concept of this strat is fool the zerg players into thinking wrongly of what units I am getting. Psychological game. Hit them unprepared. This strategy is especially good for smaller maps.
I’m going to demonstrate my idea with a game I had on ladder games, on the map Shattered Temple. Firstly, i will try to delay the zerg from expanding, or forcing him to expand somewhere else that is harder to be defended, by building up an early engineering bay at his natural expansion. Usually i send out scv about 9/11 food to reach the natural in optimum time. Just remember not to finish the engineering bay and cancel it when the zerglings are almost done killing it to delay expansion as long as possible.
We know that terran players nowadays love to go for reactor barracks factory swap for fast hellions and early map control. Using the same concept. I’ll display the structures at front door as usual for zerg to see it… prompting him to think that i’m going for the usual build. Of course, get out some hellions as well to repel any zerglings away and take map control at xel naga tower. Just don’t over commit into hellions and spend more minerals on marines later on.
What is unusual behind this usual front strategy is this… DOUBLE starport with tech lab and of course.. remember to grab that dual gas early. Get few additional barracks after that and continue pumping marines with extra minerals… Priority given to producing banshees two at a time and researching the cloak ability. and remember to add supply depots one at a time… and… control your hellions to do active scouting and map control…
Next… Push out when you have 4 banshees with cloak. This will throw the zerg off guard… and go crazy with anti air… remember to keep pumping marines during all that banshee harassment. target key structures like banneling nest, spawning pool, and mutalisk den, killing as many drones as possible, prioritize killing queens before anything…. and reduce enemy’s ground army and defense as much as possible..
If lucky, the game will be ended by then. But usually, it requires one final push with all ur marines and hellions. bring along some scv to repair ur already damaged banshees. oh and remember to build two mediavacs admist the banshees when you are about to push out. Then together, marines scv mediavacs banshee hellions all in! GG. :)
Remember to snipe any bannelings with banshees with far range and high ground vision… This strat is usually successfully when the zerg player spend most of his resources on defending the banshee attack by having queens and spores… Instead, the final unit that is going to be massed and kill the zerg is mass MARINES. which is good against mutalisk, hydralisk… all that anti air units…
That’s all for neurorush~ :)
