Starcraft help.

[Squeak2]

So I wanna play starcraft (picked it up not too long ago for like $5) and I wanna play zerg. My friend keeps on killing me, so can anyone help me with strategies or something?

btw I have the expansion.

[chris183]

umm all you can really do is look up build orders on the internet and figure out what each building and unit is good for, and practice alot

i will say that defilers are extremely good support for a ground army because of dark swarm if you put units under it they take little damage, also plague owns

and you can learn consume and eat some zerglings to give your defilers more energy to do more stuff

[Krunkmasta Flex]

a tactic i use with my friend is like this
6-8 drones mining make 9th drone and mine until you get 200 money, build a spawning pool with the 9th drone
save up 100 and build an overlord.
build some zerglings for base defense then build a drone and make an extractor, put 4 drones in it, build a hydralisk den
while that builds upgrade the hatchery
when you get both research lurker aspect, they make a good base defense early in.
from there go air and make mutilisks and guardians(requires greater spire) but don't make all the muts into guardians since they can only attack land units.
make a ultralisk den and upgrade the shit out of the units.

[Squeak2]

I'll try that, do you recommend making several hatcheries for more unit spawns? It seems to be popular with the zerg's but I am not sure if it's needed.

[Soren]

definitely more hacteries are better. I suggest around 3 hacteries by 10 minutes in the game. Scouting with a drone IS VERY IMPORTANT in deciding how many hacteries to make. Overlords help too in scouting.

[Krunkmasta Flex]

i was just giving a rough layout of what i do to get ready.
i usually start making more hatcheries around the time i make the spire.