making mutas is like hitting a switch named "i want to micro for once"

This is pretty much the answer. Playing against a player going 24 mutas can be very difficult to deal with because the Zerg is being aggressive instead of passive. The purpose of mutas is to delay the Terran from pushing out and using drops. However if the Zerg does go this way he is going to be very late on his hive tech, but he should be expanding a bunch to compensate for it. As Terran just make your marines and some turrets at each base. If you can sneak a drop into the zeros base that is a great opportunity to expand or push because his mutas will have to go all the way back to his base. Thors are a huge investment just to hold of the muta harass. I think it comes down to apm and using your marines wisely to deal with the harass. If you manage to kill off all of his mutas he will be so far behind in tech that you could just push and probably see no hive units at all and just kill him.

#1 ... you will never kill all of his mutas. If you're lucky you'll get 1 or 2 with a marine stim

#2 ... throwing drops out on the map when he has mutas is probably not too smart unless you're pushing at the same time

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#3: A thor left at base without marine support is a big joke


At the end of the day you have to accept the fact that when you push you could get a bunch of scvs raped ... just push quickly and decisively so he gets less time to destroy your base. Also, lair is only required for 2-2 and baneling speed

This post was edited by eyewuvd2 on Oct 31 2012 02:02pm

Your right, it is a pretty stupid style of play because then it just ends up in base trading.

Autocorrect is a bitch

He pretty much corrected you on every point you made, lol...

says the bad terrans

Terran OP

turrets are just to buy time really, if they're going mass muta then you know for a fact they won't have broods/infestors/ultras and they most likely won't even get 3-3, just keep some marines in your base, get a sensor tower if you really want and you can put up bunches of turrets (2-3 per spot then you have 16 or so marines ready to help) then you can go for a 2-2 or maybe even a 3-3 timing and just shit on him cause he won't have good upgrades with MASS muta, you can also usually just go do an early timing push cause mutas are only good at keeping you in your base, they won't have many banes so pre split and don't let him pick off your tanks with mutas

and yes thors are good but don't over do it, you need tanks to kill banes

It is very difficult to defend against muta harass when its catches you off guard. If you dont scout the spire before getting hit by mutas I hope you have a good supply of rines with thors on the way or its geegee prob.