There's always a weak point, a place where you can attack and be in range of only one or two turrets . You can get a group of mutas to focus fire these turrets and then make your move and drop your forces. If he's been investing so heavily in static defense your troops should rampage through his base.

Nydus Worms have only 200 HP, take a whopping 20 seconds to build, and scream when they start building.  Connecting your own bases with Nydus Worms so you can Maynard drones or expand faster is great.  Putting a Nydus Worm in an enemy expansion with no defense nearby is also great.  Putting a Nydus Worm in a heavily defended main is not great and just an easy way to lose 100/100.

Mass Overlords may or may not be viable.  Really depends on the opponent's defense and the presence of Thors.

Really though, if your T opponent is on 1 base and you're on 7 then just stockpile larva and throw money at the problem.

At lower levels, you can't count on your opponent to play it out and win when they have a significant advantage.  In fact, a lot of newer players will throw their advantage away soon after getting it.  The result is that lot of matches keep going for quite a while because the possibility that your opponent will screw up is out there.

At higher level play where you can't count on so many screw-ups, you'll see gg's a lot sooner.  In the meantime, just hang in there.

I agree that Nydus Worms don't apply all the time but in a map like Metalopolis if your opponent forgets to put a spotter in the air vent section you can cause quite a surprise.

i dont think i have the skill to even reach silver :P. i always change my race which doesnt help, and i dont like practicing against bots, i didnt even finish the campaign( i did 7 missions), also i have terrible micro. bronze isnt that bad, its just annoying when people dont give up and try to rebuild a new base when you have tier 3 units.

Sometimes I feel like quitting when I realize I'm lost, some other times I'm in the mood to just keep playing until the end or almost the end.

I try to keep that in mind when I'm starting to get annoyed at people who don't leave when I'm beating them :P

That reminds me of a game I played on the original Starcraft where an early Protoss attack had hit me quite hard and I knew I couldn't possibly win but I just kept on making vultures and kept laying mines in my base. It took forever for the guy to make it to my command center.

I had so much fun!

The way most of us use spawn larva is we put a queen and a hatchey on numbers 5-9 or 6-0 (I personally use 6-0). So to use spawn larva, I hit 66v and click the center. Each spawn larva use is 4 actions, and I do it in about 1 second. I don't remember the exact cooldown (30ish seconds?) and so essentially twice per minute per hatch.

I also have to check to make sure I catch it right on time, so even during a micro heavy fight, I'm changing back and forth between my hatchs and the fighting control groups. If larva were autocast, it would be a LOT more fun to play zerg, but it usually feels like a chore to spawn larva.

Zerg's higher APM requirement comes specifically from spawn larva and from needing heavy micro during fights. I play random, so when I roll Terran, I can just attack move a base and go pay attention to something else (expos). It's pathetic. Zerg, you have to run past so you can surround (with lings of course), or you have to set a very very specific path for your mutas, or if there's a thor, you have to specifically magic box and stop right over the thor if you plan to take it out with ur mutas.

Ughhhh I typed a HUGE amount to everything here then clicked outside the quote and lost everything -.- still not liking these new forums.

Anyways, I'll give a summary.

1. Hydras own tier 1 toss and all light air. They may be slow off creep, but they are still pretty good. One note, NEVER use hydras against Terran. Never.

2. Infestors are great, well placed infested terrans and fungal growths can literally win you the game. They have a high gas cost for a reason, they are very powerful.

3. Terrans do tech quickly, but if you baneling bust ling rush a teching/turtling Terran, you can cause some serious damage, scouting is key.

4. Wait until you play multiplayer and you see even more awesomeness of the sentry. Place a forcefield on a friendly tank and melee units cannot hit the tank (it doesn't displace the tank). And hallucinations, I've won games with hallucinations. Most hallus take extra damage, but immortal hallus still only take 10 while shields are up. And if you have like 5 real voids and 20 fakes, you can usually charge up those 5 very very easily and scare off most armies.

5. Upgrading the hatch isn't a big deal, the problem is how long it takes. Zerg takes longer than any other race to tech by far. But in terms of late game units, Terran is the most underwhelming. Yes, thors decimate Zerg (and kind of Protoss) but BCs are just, meh. Corrupters and stalkers both just decimate BCs. And btw, broodlords are AMAZING. When I first started, I felt they were very meh, but when you see MMM thors tanks, broodlords are your go-to units. I mean, you still need lings and banelings and infestors and mutas, but the broodlords will be some of the only units that survive and roll into the enemy base after.

And I am diamond so my opinion does matter kind of =) Honestly, you don't have to be high ranked to understand and discuss strategy, but there will be some things you just don't understand until you play more and get better, like I used to think broodlords were awful. And even though I'm diamond, that doesn't mean much, there is still much for me to learn.

Final note, poor ultras =( nerfed to near oblivion.

Partially disagree with that last statement. My friend and I have a very successful strategy in 2v2 that essentially relies on mistakes. And trust me, even rank 1 diamond teams make the mistakes we look for, it's great. I think our record is 29-10 right now, and out of our 10 loses, 6 of them were due to play mistakes on our part (mostly mine, since it's my friend's strat that I've been adopting and reworking). Only 4 times out of almost 40 games did we lose due to a superior strat, or better put, it's the only thing that can truly counter our strat. Our last 20 or so games were all versus diamonds as well, so saying our opponents sucked doesn't totally apply.

I would say that anyone who knows even a little bit about Chess or Go will understand the effects pressure has on the mind and how people perform and play. This doesn't change even for pros. It's all about taking flow and forcing your pace at your opponent.