So I figured out my ZvP and ZvZ in HotS. My TvZ is decent again bio/mines, but I just cant hold hellbat drops. With 2 spines and spore in each base, one medivac with hellbats destroys my mineral line. Any suggestions ?
Posted Apr 17, 2013, 6:34 PM UTC
Get your drones out of there and run them around your hatch so the hell bats are getting nailed by the spines but your drones stay out of reach.
Have your queens focus down the medivacs and ignore the hb's. Always kill medivacs first when it's an option.
Also roaches. They can hang out next to hb's all day and not care. If they are suiciding their HB's for econ damage, don't let them kill more than 2 workers per HB and you'll be fine.
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Tip on splitting drones that may be usefull to some. Ctrl click drones + s to stop them and make them idle. Hold the idle worker button and move click randomly cross the screen.
Spines / Queens Couple spores for the Medivac
Also I generally have 2 queens per base for my first 3. They are awesome units and don't cost gas or larvae. And you can get your creep spread on. And banking energy for transfuses can help a lot when those oracles or any other harassment units start flying in.
One thing you can do late game is get overlord drop and have a fem overlords stationed at every base. If you are fast enough you can load upp all the drones and make him unable to attack them since hellbats cant shoot air.
Keep in mind that the drones will be stacking upp as you try to get them into the overlord so if you are too slow you will just stack them upp for a good volley.
Late its easy to hold, I have problem during mid game.When they sit on 2 base and drop all over the fuckin place with tanks securing main and natural. I try to stay on as few roaches as possible cause they are not so good vs bio later on.
This seems to be a european thing and i really dont want to face it seems so strong :/
Havent faced this once on NA or KR
Ok, today I tried roach/hydra/infestor/viper vs bio with hellbats. And I have to say that defending drops has never been easier. Fungal everything and 5 hydras finish rest in 3 seconds.
Use overlords to spot drops earlier. Use mutas or roaches to clean up drops. Evacuate your mineral line, and if he's good enough to chase you down with the medivac, you should be good enough to split your workers (any amount helps).
Sounds reasonable. I'll try this tonight.