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**Apth** · Sun, 7th-Nov-2010, 6:03 PM

Do you have knowledge? Do you enjoy sharing? Then this is the thread for you!

If you've recently discovered some knowledge or... thing... that made you sit back and go "huh", post it here!

Never miss a larva inject again!
Previously I had all my Hatches on 5, and all my Queens on 6. After watching Day9's live coaching session with JP, I decided to try Hatches on 4 and Queens seperately on 5, 6 and 7 - this allows you to cycle through your Queens and check energy - as soon as it hits 25 (ish), you can doubletap the hotkey and inject larva. It's brilliant.

F1 Split vs Hellions
Tired of getting destroyed by Hellions? Try this.
Select all your harvesters. Hit stop. Press F1 to select an idle worker, and move him away from your mineral line. Spam F1/Rightclick in an arc around your base, and the Hellions now have to kill your harvesters one at a time. Hellions are now way less scary.

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**nirvAnA** · Sun, 7th-Nov-2010, 6:31 PM

Tendersteak didnt know u could chronoboost warpgates to reduce build cool down time, i think alot of pple didn't know this too

Also to storm flying units like mutas, you have to aim at the circles below the mutas, and not the actual moving mutas or u will miss. make sure ur settings under options i set to display the circles.

**Apth** · Mon, 8th-Nov-2010, 4:37 AM

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Originally Posted by nirvAnA

Also to storm flying units like mutas, you have to aim at the circles below the mutas, and not the actual moving mutas or u will miss. make sure ur settings under options i set to display the circles.

This is what I'm talking about. Now I know why I can never land fungals on Medivacs.

dennistoo · Mon, 8th-Nov-2010, 5:07 PM

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Originally Posted by nirvAnA

Tendersteak didnt know u could chronoboost warpgates to reduce build cool down time, i think alot of pple didn't know this too

Also to storm flying units like mutas, you have to aim at the circles below the mutas, and not the actual moving mutas or u will miss. make sure ur settings under options i set to display the circles.

Actually, i didn't know what by chronoboosting your warpgates you can actually reduce the cool down time too!

NvPinder · Sun, 7th-Nov-2010, 7:43 PM

Whenever you lose a game in under 15 minutes, regardless of the fashion you lost in, call the other person a cheesy idiot and assure yourself you're actually much better at the game than them.

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**Torniquet** · Sun, 7th-Nov-2010, 7:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JPMoney

Whenever you lose a game in under 15 minutes, regardless of the fashion you lost in, call the other person a cheesy idiot and assure yourself you're actually much better at the game than them.

And the person also needs to get a life an stop playing so much Starcraft even though you probably play more than them?

CasualPlayer · Mon, 8th-Nov-2010, 9:10 AM

I never try the split against hellion, seems do-able. lol

Hmm.. Let me think of some
"Health Bars"
By the option tab, you can choose to display health bars all the time instead of pressing on the "alt" key to display it. This should be a must for all players to keep them on.
Other option includes displaying the build grid and game timer.

"Alt + F"
Sometimes you didn't realize that a drop ship is flying straight into your base because your opponent chosen a color that's similar to the background color of the map(kinda camouflage itself)
Press Alt + F to view your color in Blue and opponent in RED. So much clearer.

"Backspace"
Use it to navigate through your core structures(Nexus, Hatch, CC)

**nirvAnA** · Mon, 8th-Nov-2010, 2:46 PM

Shift clicking rally points
Rally points can be qued up, helps alot to get your units in position. for example you're terran and u want ur marine to come out of your walled in rax inside ur base and then go straight to the cliff edge. all doable with waypoints by shift right click! Also bunkers have a rally point which chooses the exact direction the unit comes out when you unload the bunker.

dennistoo · Mon, 8th-Nov-2010, 5:13 PM

How about alt+G?

Ping the map. Good for 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4.

**Apth** · Mon, 8th-Nov-2010, 5:19 PM

On Lost Temple, there are two Zel'Naga watchtowers.
The northern one can hide a zergling under the top side of the cliff, and the southern one has a pile of bricks you can move a zergling under between the watchtower and the cliff.
You can't see zerglings in either position, even if you rotate the camera, and they remain undetected until your opponent attack-moves past them.

Cute · Mon, 8th-Nov-2010, 9:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Apth

On Lost Temple, there are two Zel'Naga watchtowers.
The northern one can hide a zergling under the top side of the cliff, and the southern one has a pile of bricks you can move a zergling under between the watchtower and the cliff.
You can't see zerglings in either position, even if you rotate the camera, and they remain undetected until your opponent attack-moves past them.

Wow, really? I'm so trying this next game!

**Apth** · Tue, 9th-Nov-2010, 2:10 PM

I've never quite figured out how to do proper Baneling drops. Good old AcTiVillain pointed me in the right direction.

Load up your Banelings
Move your Overlord toward what you want exploded
Click Unload all/Press D
Click on the Overlord itself
The Overlord will continue to move wherever you want it to, while unloading Banelings.

AcTiVillain says to click unload and click on the Overlord portrait, but I couldn't get that to work. That would be easier though.

Brultze · Fri, 12th-Nov-2010, 1:56 PM

When i tried to play zerg for a while i found out that you can inject larva using the mini map O_O. Oh and if you connect your patrol points(dont know what they really are called) your unit will just go in one direction instead of going back and forth

Maro · Wed, 15th-Dec-2010, 7:37 PM

Thought I'd share this: Unsieged tanks deal more DPS (25 dps, unsieged, compared to 20 dps, sieged) to armored units.

(Damage / + Bonus Damage / Range / Cooldown)
Siege Tanks: 60 / Splash / 13 / 3s
Unsieged Tanks: 15 / +10 (Armored) / 7 / 1s

user151 · Wed, 2nd-Feb-2011, 1:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Maro

Thought I'd share this: Unsieged tanks deal more DPS (25 dps, unsieged, compared to 20 dps, sieged) to armored units.

(Damage / + Bonus Damage / Range / Cooldown)
Siege Tanks: 60 / Splash / 13 / 3s
Unsieged Tanks: 15 / +10 (Armored) / 7 / 1s

Yeah tanks have amazing DPS even w/o seige. I sometimes bring them in my early pushes if my opponent goes zealot/sentry heavy. They melt the zealots like crazy.

Crankenstein · Tue, 15th-Feb-2011, 8:08 AM

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Originally Posted by user151

Yeah tanks have amazing DPS even w/o seige. I sometimes bring them in my early pushes if my opponent goes zealot/sentry heavy. They melt the zealots like crazy.

Until this crazy iechoic stuff came out I did a 2 unsieged tanks + marines timing push as my go-to for TvT (similar to the one Adebisi does but I think he waits for a medivac). Watching replays of terrans it amazes me how fast some of them rush for siege, often even before getting a tank to use it on... unsieged tanks are definitely underutilised.

As for Knowledge: You can place landed Vikings into a medivac. It might sounds worthless and silly but if you do some late game harass in a TvT you can take a medivac with some units in it and a few Vikings. land the Vikings and drop the units, the units die, pick up the vikings and retreat, maintain air superiority. It worked for TLO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZnx...mbedded#t=825s

**cure** · Mon, 20th-Dec-2010, 8:51 AM

Instead of drag-clicking all your workers at the start, you can press ctrl+f1. Also, you can hit ctrl+f1 to select all idle workers whenever you have to.

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