absalom86 Profile Joined April 2010 Iceland 1770 Posts Last Edited: 2011-02-14 05:19:33 #1

You can't move through changelings that are on hold command... This lead me to try a tactic that I hereby name ... Changefield !





*NEW* Changefield with Mutalisks ( with only 1 overseer )



I was playing around a bit with mass overseers in a game I was quite far head in. I was playing around with mass changelings and then something popped into my head...You can't move through changelings that are on hold command... This lead me to try a tactic that I hereby name ...*NEW* Changefield with Mutalisks ( with only 1 overseer )



Changefield with Ground army



Changefield with Ground army



Changefield with Nydus



Changefield with Nydus



Ever wished you had sentries for those awesome forcefields to ramps, trapping armies inside or outside a base while you spread havoc ? Well now you can ! Just get a few overseers and collect some energy, Then make a bunch, run up a ramp, make a line across it and press the " h " hold command key !



Voila ! Enemy can't get down his ramp because of the changelings, queue mass confusion !



Even if he notices they are changelings, if you have enough he still has to manually click every single one of them to finally be able to get out of his base, but will he be in time ? ^^



Bonus clips



How to stop mass protoss air as zerg.



Ever wished you had sentries for those awesome forcefields to ramps, trapping armies inside or outside a base while you spread havoc ? Well now you can ! Just get a few overseers and collect some energy, Then make a bunch, run up a ramp, make a line across it and press the " h " hold command key !Voila ! Enemy can't get down his ramp because of the changelings, queue mass confusion !Even if he notices they are changelings, if you have enough he still has to manually click every single one of them to finally be able to get out of his base, but will he be in time ? ^^



Nydus mining.







Poll: Who will be the first zerg master to utilize this in a pro game ?



Dimaga (534)

63%



Cool (159)

19%



Idra (86)

10%



JulyZerg (37)

4%



Lalush (22)

3%



Losira (16)

2%



854 total votes (534)63%(159)19%(86)10%(37)4%(22)3%(16)2%854 total votes Your vote: Who will be the first zerg master to utilize this in a pro game ? (Vote): Idra

(Vote): Cool

(Vote): JulyZerg

(Vote): Lalush

(Vote): Dimaga

(Vote): Losira

Thief @ #teamliquid @ Quakenet

theqat Profile Blog Joined March 2008 United States 2213 Posts #2 It will probably never get used, but I'm voting dimaga because he does the most ridiculous things out of anyone listed

Zerglinguist Profile Joined October 2010 United States 55 Posts Last Edited: 2010-10-11 21:52:00 #3 That was so obviously set up xD



Good creativity but not viable at all really since pros would kill the changelings as soon as they saw them.



But yeah voted Dimaga for the same reason XD livestream.com/zerglinguist

Magulina Profile Joined May 2010 Sweden 151 Posts #4 Or how you could use this in an actual game - drop 2 changelings and run them to his ramp on lets say blistering sands, while running your stuff in through his backdoor, he might be having his camera in his main base microing scvs etc so the changelings might delay him for a few seconds. If he has his army in his expo of course.

Phanekim Profile Joined April 2003 United States 766 Posts #5 i only laughed cuz of the unexptected benny hill track. i like cheese

Draconicfire Profile Joined May 2010 Canada 2561 Posts #6 Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you were really far ahead, look at that mini map >_>



This seems pretty awesome actually, but I'm not exactly sure how effective it would be since any type of splash would destroy them all pretty fast. @Drayxs | Drayxs.221 | Drayxs#1802

absalom86 Profile Joined April 2010 Iceland 1770 Posts #7 On October 12 2010 06:51 ZOMGCYN wrote:

That was so obviously set up xD



Good creativity but not viable at all really since pros would kill the changelings as soon as they saw them.



Even if you kill all the changelings, with 5-6 overseers with full energy you have 20-24 changelings on your ramp and you need to click on every single one before you can get down :þ It takes a while ! Even if you kill all the changelings, with 5-6 overseers with full energy you have 20-24 changelings on your ramp and you need to click on every single one before you can get down :þ It takes a while ! Thief @ #teamliquid @ Quakenet

Akaisaac Profile Joined September 2010 United States 26 Posts Last Edited: 2010-10-11 21:54:22 #8 Doing that in mass amounts probably wont ever happen, but imagine blocking a protoss opponent's ramp with 2 or 3 changelings while killing his natural, or blocking it while you plant a nydus inside.

This definitely has potential. My brother plays zerg and in the beta he had a changeling block ZvT that worked pretty well. If bnet supports beta replays ill post it.

itsben Profile Joined July 2010 378 Posts #9 This is old and to be honest, not very viable. I don't see any reason to get that many overseers especially when zerg are always gas starved.

SpaceAnt Profile Joined August 2010 Spain 64 Posts Last Edited: 2010-10-11 21:58:08 #10



Edit: The thing is probably that you need the opponent to be macroing heavily and not paying attention to that place, so early game it won't work, and after it depends on who you are playing and how obvious you are doing it, with 1 it is harder to see what you did there, but anyaway i think this is a one trick pony, and ppl learn from their errors.



Or does 1 changeling alone not count ? I saw some game on steppes of war, quite some time ago, it was maybe dimaga ... not sure, however, playing some terran and he blocked some terran units that should have gone down to defend the terrans natural with 1 changeling on the ramp, was brilliant, gg came soon afterwardsEdit: The thing is probably that you need the opponent to be macroing heavily and not paying attention to that place, so early game it won't work, and after it depends on who you are playing and how obvious you are doing it, with 1 it is harder to see what you did there, but anyaway i think this is a one trick pony, and ppl learn from their errors.Or does 1 changeling alone not count ?

absalom86 Profile Joined April 2010 Iceland 1770 Posts #11 On October 12 2010 06:52 Draconicfire wrote:

Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you were really far ahead, look at that mini map >_>



This seems pretty awesome actually, but I'm not exactly sure how effective it would be since any type of splash would destroy them all pretty fast.



Splash damage will not affect the changelings except a siege tank shell, which would mean he would have to siege up to shoot at them, quite a delay in itself . Splash damage will not affect the changelings except a siege tank shell, which would mean he would have to siege up to shoot at them, quite a delay in itself Thief @ #teamliquid @ Quakenet

ngooo Profile Joined September 2010 Germany 100 Posts #12 On October 12 2010 06:48 theqat wrote:

It will probably never get used, but I'm voting dimaga because he does the most ridiculous things out of anyone listed

think so too. imo idra is to conservative, he wouldn't use this in a game^^



but its a smart idea, the only deficit is, if the your opponent has a observer ready, it would break the changefield :D think so too. imo idra is to conservative, he wouldn't use this in a game^^but its a smart idea, the only deficit is, if the your opponent has a observer ready, it would break the changefield :D

absalom86 Profile Joined April 2010 Iceland 1770 Posts #13 On October 12 2010 06:53 ngooo wrote:

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On October 12 2010 06:48 theqat wrote:

It will probably never get used, but I'm voting dimaga because he does the most ridiculous things out of anyone listed

think so too. imo idra is to conservative, he wouldn't use this in a game^^



but its a smart idea, the only deficit is, if the your opponent has a observer ready, it would break the changefield :D think so too. imo idra is to conservative, he wouldn't use this in a game^^but its a smart idea, the only deficit is, if the your opponent has a observer ready, it would break the changefield :D



Detection does nothing to changelings, you need to manually click each and every one. Detection does nothing to changelings, you need to manually click each and every one. Thief @ #teamliquid @ Quakenet

Ghin Profile Blog Joined January 2005 United States 2391 Posts #14 Awesome! I'll have to try this against my bad friends. Legalize drugs and murder.

Tabularasa Profile Joined July 2010 Germany 116 Posts #15 Changelings are to obvious and can easily be killed off - but blocking a ramp with dark templars in a similiar way as protoss is pretty cool. KeKeKeKeZergru..... forgot my Spawningpool :<

dave333 Profile Joined August 2010 United States 915 Posts #16 I didn't think this was a real game when I clicked play XD



damn you were farrrr ahead.

Wreacknell Profile Joined September 2010 Germany 14 Posts #17 This seems like a really advanced strategy.



Maybe your opponent will go ahead and just effing kill you.



Just maybe.

parkin Profile Blog Joined July 2007 881 Posts #18 Haha! Benny Hill makes anything funny! mostly harmless

absalom86 Profile Joined April 2010 Iceland 1770 Posts #19 On October 12 2010 06:59 Wreacknell wrote:

This seems like a really advanced strategy.



Maybe your opponent will go ahead and just effing kill you.



Just maybe.



How would he kill you ? When you've blocked his army in his base and killed all his expansions you've got a big advantage ^^. How would he kill you ? When you've blocked his army in his base and killed all his expansions you've got a big advantage ^^. Thief @ #teamliquid @ Quakenet

throttled Profile Joined August 2010 United States 382 Posts #20 Yeah, they can be killed off.... one by one. Manually clicking 25 changelings can be a huge amount of time delay.



Don't see how this wouldn't be viable endgame. "Look to the river rushing. Unparalleled in its power. It carves away at the land, eroding the banks, consuming the sands and washes away to her majesty."

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