ZvT M&M Ball

[moosh]

How do you stop the M&M ball?? Should I play more defensively? I am usually really aggressive with zerg. I try to break into their base via nydus or something and take em down. But I usually get destroyed. Maybe I should wait for them to come to me and then counter?

[GRUNT]

My strategy is just to run into a corner and kiss my asteroids goodbye.

Actually, it really depends .

If the Terran walled-in in order to amass an army of Marines and Marauders, then doing a Nydus or a drop in his main is pointless because he'll have an army waiting for you .

It is indeed best to wait for him to come to you, but you might want to cap some watchtowers and keep a sacrificial Zergling near his ramp so that you know when he's going to push out, and can prepare accordingly.

[Gradius]

1) Man your watchtowers so you can see him coming and even set a trap for him by flanking him.
2) Spread creep everywhere and get all your speed upgrades asap so that your units can get the surround on the enemy as fast as possible. Creep tumors are great because they provide a speed bonus as well as vision.
3) Use Infestors' Fungal Growth combined with Banelings.

This reminds me, has anyone tried that one strategy of loading up banelings into overlords and using them as bombs? Man I gotta try that.

[whitefire]

The zerg is an army of generalist and strategy wise they are quite simple. I've seen fungal growth, banelings and +1 speed lings devistate M&M balls. going for the surround is good too. Always take out a medivac when you can. Burrow will also work to great affect because he is going to have to over extend himself to get ravens unless he has a rediculous amount of orbital commands. infested terrans will also work well against targets that have been fungal growthed. Dose anyone know if Infested terrans get bonuses to damage from the missle upgrade?

[moosh]

okay, so i went for zerglings and banelings this time, and this time they teched to banshees... it really sucks that when they turtle it's so hard to get any information

[GRUNT]

This reminds me, has anyone tried that one strategy of loading up banelings into overlords and using them as bombs? Man I gotta try that.

I've seen it done, but only in mineral lines. I've never actually seen anyone drop banelings into a Terran bio ball before .

I'm really curious to know whether it'd work or not, but I suspect that it'll be too difficult to pull off because even with their speed upgrade, Overlords aren't super-fast, and it'd require incredible timing to pull off.

[whitefire]

over lord speed is really cheap and overseers have the changling. its just a matter of finding a weak point in their defense and sneaking in a few changlings to scout. Unfortunatly its not that easy though. overseers are a great investment especially if they go for banshees. you should always get an evo chamber for upgrades and make a few spore cralwers just incase you cant defend against the build. Zerg have some of the greatest scouts next to the observer. lings are super fast and dirt cheap. mutas are also fast and highly mobile, overseers can detect and spawn changlings. I just though of something. if he keeps killing your changlings use a feint to keep him busy while you scout but that will take some mutli tasking.

[whitefire]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JekijY-pCbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7IeV...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATN_Z...eature=related.

Im not sure how relivant this build is but its pretty effective vs the bio ball and if you throw in some anit air support it should work fairly well. maybe you can experiment with it and tweek it to your likings.

[GnaReffotsirk]

Infestors?

[arthas]

Infestors?

YES ! That's the ultimate unit vs Terran infantry even marauders....Also i tend to use hydras with range upg that way they can destoroy those marauders very quickly and they won't be able to use that annoying attack and retreat...So last time i tried it it was hydra/ling/infestors vs M&M&M and turned out very good for me,BUT if that guy pulls up 4-5 tanks or techs to seekers,you will probably loose,if you don't do something yourself of course...