Zerg Advanced
Most of the players rush using a great
deal of units in the middle stage of the game. Rushes are mainly consisted
either of hydralisks or mutalisks. Zerglings usually tends to be abused
(even though they are a very powerful swarming units). Also, spells are
rarely used. Here are some of the build orders for making good early/mid
game rushes and some advises for using spells.
Hydralisk Rush
This build order rally on the zerg build-up
written in the zerg early game strat section, this is just a conclusion.
1. After you have
started building your 4th creep colony, hatch another drone and build a
hydralisk den and 6 more zerglings (3 eggs),
2. After the den
has finished morphing, build 3 hydralisks and an overlord,
3. After that, keep
pumping hydras until you got 12, then build an evolution chamber and expand,
4. If you happen
to be rushed, keep your hydras behind the sunken colonies, and shoot, while
sunkens are taking damage,
5. After you have
destroyed the rush, expand and attack at the same time,
6. You will either
severely cripple your opponent or completely kill him. Note that when you
expand, build 4th hatchery as well.
A very useful upgrade for a hydralisk is
their speed, with it they can easily evade psi-storm, get to tanks, guardians
or reavers and dispatch them quickly. Don't forget to upgrade their range
as well.
Mutalisk Rush
Even though you pay much more for an mutalisk
than a hydra, mutalisks have distinct advantage of being flying units and
can very easily do hit & run attacks on workers or no-anti-air units.
1. In the initial
build order...
2. ... after you
started building your 4th creep colony, hatch another drone,
3. Don't morph 3rd
and 4th creep to sunken colonies as yet, first build a spire,
4. Morph the rest
2 sunkens as you get minerals,
5. Build 2 more
overlords as you get enough resources,
6. Wait for spire
to finish and build 6 mutalisks.
When the mutas finish you'll probably be
rushed, what shouldn't pose any problem now. Keep cranking mutas until
you have 12 of them, and then attack (note that you'll need additional
overlords).
Queen Spells
Queen has a powerful spells, but most
of the people doesn't use them at all. I mentioned use of parasites earlier
in gameplay section, but don't get carried on using it, because it takes
far too much energy - 75. Second queen spell is ensnare is a very useful
spell that works like stim-pack but opposite. Affected units won't just
be slower moving, but they'll have slower fire rate what is good if casted
over tight group of hydralisks, mutalisks, zealots, dragoons, marines,...
Ensnare also reveals cloaked units what makes it even more useful. Third
queen spell is spawn broodling, although sometimes useful it just takes
too much energy to be used constantly (most of the time, two casts of ensnare
will be much more useful than broodling). The best use is surely against
ultralisks, then templars and siege tanks. The last, fourth spell is infest
command centre which takes no energy. The terran command centre that you
wish to infect must have it's hit points red. After that you'll get a new
building, and a new unit to produce - infested terran (more about it later).
Use this spell whenever you have chance, not because it's free, but because
it gives you opportunity to build infested terrans which are no doubt one
very useful ground unit.
