Zerg Strategies





                                                                              Units
                                                                                                 
     Larva                                                                                   Drone
From these morph the                                                                            These along with harvesting
other units in the Zerg                                                                              gas and mining minerals
arsenal.                                                                                                morph into the many zerg structures.

                                                                                                    
    Overlord                                                                              Zergling
These troops will                                                                                    These units are the first
serve as not only the                                                                                of the zerg ground to be
transport for your troops                                                                        made and with there speed
but they will also provide                                                                        and rapid attack make them
supply points so you can                                                                        useful even late-mid game.
build more units.

                                                                                                         
 Hydraliskd                                                                               Mutalisk
With there effective cost                                                                            The mutalisk is the main force
and ability to hit ground                                                                             of Zerg air and the splash damage
and air the Zerg hydralisk is                                                                       in conjunction with their speed makes
the backbone of Zerg ground                                                                    the zerg mutalisk a powerful unit.
and a key support unit.

                                                                                                             
  Scourge                                                                                    Zerg Queen
The scourge powerful                                                                                        One of the zerg spellcasters
suicide assault deals 110 damage                                                                        her powerful spells can tip
and 2 is enough to cripple                                                                                    a battle in favor of the Zerg.
or even destroy most air units.

                                                                                                               
    Defiler                                                                                        Ultralisk
The second of the Zerg                                                                                        This lumbering hulk with
Spell casters these powerful spellls                                                                        its huge Kaiser blades
such as plague and dark swarm can                                                                    and large amount of hp is
devestate an oppenent.                                                                                        the perfect thing to break
                                                                                                                        through heavily fortified defenses.

                                                                Build Orders

Mutalisk rush-  This strategy I would advice mostly on island maps but only in zerg on zerg or zerg on terran combat as a protoss player can easily stop this through use of high templars and make your early air a nightmare for you.
1.  Send all four drones harvesting to different mineral patches.
2.  Build drones up to 7.
3.  Build overlord.
4.  Build drones up to 9.
5.  Build extractor, rebuild drone 9.
6.  Build spawning pool and have 4 drones on gas.
7.  Continue building drones and as soon as you can, upgrade to a lair.
8.  while layer finishes build drones up to 16 then a hatchery then another overlord then more drones.
9.  When layer finishes build spire and overlord.
10.As soon as spire morphs you should have 6 larva ready and enough minerals and gas to morph 6 mutalisks.

Hydralisk Rush(Very fast semi risky)
1.  Send all 4 drones to harvest at different patches.
2.  Build drones up to 9.
3.  Build extractor then build a drone then cancel extractor leaving you wtih 10/9 supply.
4.  As soon as you can build a second hatchery either at expansion spot or at main.
5.  Keep building drones and while hatch is building build a spawning pool and another overlord.
6.  Build an extractor and evolution chamber.
7.  put 3 drones on gas and as soon as you can build a hydralisk den,
8.  While hydralisk den is building upgrade missle attacks.
9.  Upgrade hydro speed and start cranking out the hydros once hydro den finishes.
This tactic should produce 24 upgraded missle attack hydrolisks in about 9 minutes.
Early expand sunken zergling to mutalisks-This is the build order I mostly use on land maps and I find its very successful as zerglings and mutalisks complement eachother perfectly and most people can't handle a large air attack early on.
1.  Send all drones to harvest at different patches.
2.  Build up to 9 drones then use extractor trick mentioned above to put you at 10/9 supply.
3.  Save up and build hatchery at nearest expansion.
4.  While hatchery builds save up for a spawning pool build it then build drone to replace it and then an overlord.
5.  Once overlord finishes morph 3 drones.
6.  If done correctly the spawning pool the 3 drones and the hatchery should all morph at the same time and once you can send the 3 drones to the expansion and have them build sunkens.
7.  Now crank out drones and build 2 more sunkens and get your expansion up and running as fast as possible.
8.  Build extractor at expansion and main.
9.  Upgrade to lair and while upgrading to lair build lings till you reach about 34 supply with them.
10.Upgrade ling speed also as lair morphs and now you have a choice of attacking with the lings or leaving them around for defense.
11.Once lair finishes build spire and the rest is up to you.