Soldato
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Okay, I finally managed to win vs medium AI
Can anybody point out my main flaws and what to work on? (Yes, I know my economy crapped up) And how to improve?
Also, what did i do..well..if anything? So I know what to keep doing.
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/160201-1v1-terran-zerg-agria-valley#rd:dna
Bare in mind, I got the game about 3 days ago and am a SC virgin. Or was.
Some things i noticed in the replay:
You got gas first, but then didn't use any until 8:30, you want to get zergling speed (Metabolic Boost, from the spawning pool) as soon as you hit 100 gas normally when you go gas first.
When you're making expansions you're sending lots of drones instead of just one to build it.
You need to try and react to attacks better, your army was just idling for ages while the ai took out your hatchery, and you only sent slow banelings to attack them, instead of your zerglings and roaches aswell.
I liked that you had a queen getting to your 1st expansion ready for it completing.
Do you know that queens can drop creep tumors which spread creep for you? I noticed that you were using overlords to drop some, which can be useful sometimes, but obviously if you're doing it out on the map then anti air units are able to pick off overlords for free. Whereas creep tumors can't be killed without detection (observer/raven scan etc) and also give vision on the map like the overlords would.
Try and scout abit more (probably not needed against AI since they'll probably do exactly the same every game), even something as little as having a zergling on watch towers gives you extra time to make attacking units when the enemy decides it's time to attack you. Against people you'll also have to face drops/pylons in your base and stuff, spreading your overlords around your bases instead of having them clumped up can save you at times.
You want a more even distribution of drones, you want about 16 drones on minerals per base (or 2 per node for bases that have less than 8 minerals), you only had 8 drones mining minerals in your main base, and 6 mining the minerals at the gold.
Also on the drones, because you wern't really scouting you were having to blindly build zerglings, as I'm guessing you have died to early pressure from the AI so wanted to defend it. As zerg you want to build drones as much as possible, building only the bare minimum of attacking units to survive the enemies attacks until you have a good enough economy to be able to easily out produce them (unless you're going for some all in or something).
Also, again related to drones, once you fend off an enemy attack, that's usually a good time to spend all your larva on drones, since you know that the enemy won't be attacking you for a while, the more you play and the more you scout the better you'll get at judging when you have enough units to kill the opponents army and any reinforcement so you can start building drones again.
If you're finding that your minerals are getting too high because you're missing injects (which will happen a lot, especially when you're in combat, until it just becomes natural to inject every 25 seconds or whatever it is, and even pros don't have perfect injects) feel free to build an extra hatchery in your main so you can spend your money better, it's much better to have your money invested in drones or attacking units than it is to having it sit mounting up.
You can keybind all your hatcheries one one hotkey if you didn't know that? (I noticed you had 2 hatcheries hotkeyed, on seperate hotkeys) That way you can build units from all of your hatcheries at once, instead of having to go through each hatchery individually.
Well, there's some stuff I noticed, as you get more used to playing as zerg it will become easier to do everything
.Edit - Yeah, I love banelings too
, I normaly go zergling/baneling/muta against terrans, mutas for harrassing and scouting, and ling/baneling to take everything on the ground out.Edit again - Forgot to add when i said about your second queen, before you send it to your first expansion, drop a creep tumor at the edge of your creep, you should have enough energy for inject again by the time it gets to your expansion, and you can then use that creep tumor to start making more creep tumors, eventually covering the whole map in creep
(you can also get an extra queen, solely for spreading creep).
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We had several little skirmishes and neither one of us massed any particular unit.
