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[TEXTGUIDE] v4.0 Zerg Transfuse into Armor 5
By: RickSanchez Date: November 22, 2020, 7:38 am
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Since the Patch Version 4.0 removed the Chemical Plant, I made
very good results with this buildorder against good-avarage
Terrans.
Key to Victory: Delay the Terrans as long as possible, while not
commiting in more pressure than absolutly needed. You will get
Armor 1 very early to begin to stack transfuses. It is crucial
that your transfuses are ready and are used on point, when the
real Terran aggression in term of trying to kill Bigspines
starts. The less aggression you face the earlier you have an
infestor with 1k energy. Until that point you play simcity eco
and try to come away with as few Slowlings as possible, until
you have maxed out your Strikelings
Openers:
-> Greedy: You are facing 3 lesser Terrans. One Minute in you
count less than 5 Refineries taken. 1 Spire, 4 Strikelings
-> Average: All terrans try to take 3 gas. 6 Slowlings, 1
Strikeling
-> Premade Partner vs Top of the line Terrans: 9 Strikelings to
activly deny gasses. Requires micro.
Ecoplan:
If your Terrans are not too good you can almost exclusivly build
Extractor/Strikes in 1,10/2,5 order to balance the ratio while
getting optimal income. The better the Terrans are you might
want to do a conservative split like 1 extractor, 6 lings, 2
strikes or 2,3,1 if the ratio tells you to build more
extractors.
Defense: In the early stages after your Terrans got
shocktroopers you will have a hard time to do any damage with
your strikelingharass. You split them now over the outer
extragasses, to gain mapcontrol and vision. You cannot really
deny your Terrans 3 gas after a while but allowing them extragas
is a big nono so take care of that.
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Build the Strikelingspawners around the bigspines to fortify
them.
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Early Tech into Armor 1 around 8-12th minute depening on terrans
strength and get more and more infestors from now.
Keep them in a healthy distance but near the spines to protect
them. Also do not overbuild in that area. Your infestors need to
be able to move quickly between the spines to deal with
multiangle agression
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The good thing: Enough transfuses can deny any amount of pushing
marines.
The bad thing: You are almost instantly dead if you manage to
lose a bigspine.
From that point Phase 1 Simcity is over and you need to tech
into what your eco currently allows you. Depending on how long
you defended, you end up with Primals or Ultras, to keep you
alive until you have 4k-6k Eco and Armor 5 Upgrade.
Phase 2 is basically a more conservative version of Phase 1 with
big units. You still try to keep the ratio, to eco Armor 5 as
fast as possible, with the difference that you absolutly cannot
be sloppy again. If you lose more than 2 Bigspines on the
lowground it can be lights out at any point. You need to take
care of your weak angle by spawnerrallies and regrowth of creep.
After you got Armor 5, you instantly place your Torra and hope
to survive until it spawns.
Don't worry about some more infestors maybe delay your eco,
because you dont have to fear a great lategame eco of terrans
and Torras break any bunker. You win now. :)
#Post#: 707--------------------------------------------------
Re: [TEXTGUIDE] v4.0 Zerg Transfuse into Armor 5
By: Speed Date: November 22, 2020, 8:14 am
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Funny, this is how I played pre-patch with brutalisks at
20minutes with 4.5k+ income.
Yep, can definetely work in this patch, too, though I personally
feel like the more terrans adjust and play aggressive, the more
the game is decided on armor2 vs T2, which is fine for me
(nerfed roaches vs. buffed veterans work out quite nicely,
though small adjustments may be needed once it is more figured
out).
You told me you are waiting for my zerg guide... but now you
essentially made a guide about my zerg strategy yourself :D
(with small differences, but still).
Good guide, people should definetively try this.
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Re: [TEXTGUIDE] v4.0 Zerg Transfuse into Armor 5
By: ZergTriumph Date: November 22, 2020, 2:33 pm
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One modification of this build is to mass infused roaches
instead of going straight into Armor 5. I like to get a pool of
4-5 infused roaches in reserve and use them to attack the terran
armies as they come after my spines.
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Re: [TEXTGUIDE] v4.0 Zerg Transfuse into Armor 5
By: RickSanchez Date: November 23, 2020, 10:40 am
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[quote author=ZergTriumph link=topic=84.msg746#msg746
date=1606077222]
One modification of this build is to mass infused roaches
instead of going straight into Armor 5. I like to get a pool of
4-5 infused roaches in reserve and use them to attack the terran
armies as they come after my spines.
[/quote]
That is true. It is also a great option, if you already lost a
bigspine and are forces into an Armor 3 game to prevent further
losses. Even tho Primals and Infused not pair well combowise it
is overall still an strong anti-push. On the other hand it can
be a commitment that fires back in form of Elite Marines. So you
should look closely who you are up against. Against top of the
line Terrans you want Brutas asap to deny any non-mass-elite
push.
You could also try mass banes now. It is kinda cheesy, but with
your gazillion infestors you can easy effort it now and breaks
italis bunker formidable.
In that regard i dont miss old yard+chem uberwalls. they made
banelings obsolete. now they are pretty cool.
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Re: [TEXTGUIDE] v4.0 Zerg Transfuse into Armor 5
By: RickSanchez Date: November 23, 2020, 11:12 am
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Re: [TEXTGUIDE] v4.0 Zerg Transfuse into Armor 5
By: ZergTriumph Date: November 23, 2020, 5:43 pm
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That's true. Infused are virtually useless against elites.
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Re: [TEXTGUIDE] v4.0 Zerg Transfuse into Armor 5
By: Speed Date: November 24, 2020, 3:01 am
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Depends on numbers, but yes, they are designed to shine in
different scenarios^^ (and I think it's fair for armor3 unit to
not be great vs T3, it's not useless either). Torralisks could
do a bit better, I proposed something in a thread about veterans
and elites pre patch 4.0, but it was flooded with comments about
walls sadly.
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