3 Queens 2 Bases

I have seen some really really cool play by zerg pros where they will get 3 queens off 2 bases and use the extra queen to just spam creep tumors. This is great on a map like meta when you are not cross positional from terran and you can actually deny their expansion with creep. It also makes hydras viable for once! And a "creep" contain with speedlings on creep, fast roaches and hydras is really hard for terran to deal with. It also has the added benefit of vision and works well against early game harassment by ground or air. The third queen can also transfuse spine crawlers and provides a really key position in defense as 2 queens can block a choke while 1 still spawns larvae etc. Anyway will you be trying a 3 queen build when beta comes back?

I have been doing this a long time. I actually go 4 queens.

Creep tumors are great. They also provide vision. Overlords provide vision too, but losing them is expansive.

And I have always massed queens for anti-air. They move and heal, and don're require the evo-chamber, and have a half-decent anti-ground attack, making them better than Spore Crawlers in many situations.

haha watching TLO thru HD's youtube much?

Seeing 3 queens I believe will be somewhat standard now. Pushing creep is huge, especially vs terran, because they'll have to use that precious 50 energy for scan to take it out as oppose to a mule or a scout scan.

TLO has sick queen use.

Hell, everything he does is just mind-blowing.

@ REF

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haha watching TLO thru HD's youtube much?

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Yes.

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I have seen some really really cool play by zerg pros where they will get 3 queens off 2 bases and use the extra queen to just spam creep tumors

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I have not been able to test out 3 queens, but I can see how good it is prior to your Lair, no air cheese can kill you during that phase of the game plus its great against early attacks, the best thing about the queen is that she is not armored or light, thus no unit deals bonus damage to her.

Creep is awesome, and a queen dedicated to that can help a lot, I see to many Z players not creep up, creep + movement spd upgrade makes the Z army so mobile that its insane! probably why they all move so slow off creep to balance it out. OL creep highways are great as well.

When the beta is up again, I will be trying a 3 queen build :)

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Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid

TLO has sick queen use.

Hell, everything he does is just mind-blowing.

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Ditto.

I loved one of Day9's recent casts where we see Jinro scanning to kill the tumors... this is a whole new TvZ we're seeing.
If the metagame keeps on evolving like this, I can barely imagine the depth of the decision making within a year or so.

It is quite interesting that Terran have to tech so deep to get movable detectors. I don't think we have seen zerg exploit this enough if you expand creep with a 150 mineral queen and you force a scan because of it you have lost the terran player 400 minerals so you are already in the clear when it comes to economy. And if you can then use it as a highway for unit movement and as a defensive / offensive tactic all the better.

Yeah, that tactic has really caught on. I always make it a point to get at least 1 more Queen than the number of Hatcheries I have.

Then again, that's just because I hate void ray rushes.