Hydralisk Drop
This is one of the most effective way to defeat your enemy. The idea is to gather a force of hydralisks and load them into overlords to attack the enemy's unguarded base. This usually is needed since many maps have a choke point making it very hard to break through, and cause enough damage. It also becomes very obvious of where you plan to attack so most your opponents forces and defensive structures will be there.
To perform a quick hydra drop, you need to sacrfice all upgrades for you hydralisks. Good maps for this would be any map with an obvious choke point, making it hard for you to enter. It's also a very good strategy on island maps as compared to using mutalisks.
- Build a drone #5.
- Move the 4 drones to different mineral patches.
- Use the overlord to scout.
- Build up to 9 drones.
- Build a hatchery. Try to build it at your choke
- point if you can do it fast enough.
- Build another drone.
- Build a spawning pool.
- Build another drone.
- Build an overlord.
- Build more drones, and start constructing a few sunken colonies. If it's an island map, you want to construct an earlier extractor and then a hydralisk den instead of a second hatchery.
- Build an extractor.
- Gather gas, and build more drones and overlords.
- Make sure you can defend with the zerglings and sunkens you have now.
- When you have enough gas, upgrade to a lair.
- Upgrade the second hatchery to a lair when possible.
- Upgrade the transport ability at the first lair,and the speed upgrade at the second. This should ensure that both upgrades finish as fast as possible.
Build a hydralisk den.
- Produce as many hydras during the wait for the upgrades. Use any left over minerals on zerglings.
- When almost ready, move the hydras into position by walking or using the overlords to save time if the path is very long. Try to bring a drone or two along to drop them at an island to start your next expansion.
- Drop at least 12-20 hydralisks at his weakest point, if possibe drop them right on top of his workers. This should destroy enough to put him on the defensive, or at least force him to reconstruct any lost strucutres.
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