Can You Beat StarCraft With Only Zerglings?
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Thumbnail Background was made by Gasone, augmented with CarbotAnimations zerglings.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro and Among the Ruins
1:18 - Egression
2:05 - The New Dominion
4:42 - Secret Agent of the Swarm
5:59 - The Amerigo
6:32 - The Dank Templar
8:02 - The Culling of Stratholme
10:36 - Eye for an Eye
10:57 - The Invasion of Aiur
12:09 - π r^2
13:06 - Vile Disruption
14:08 - Reign of Chaos
15:28 - Kel'Morian Combine
18:06 - The Liberation of Korhal
19:08 - True Colors
22:04 - Furry of the Swarm
23:08 - Drawing of the Web
24:06 - To Slay the Beast
29:29- The Reckoning, but not the one at the end of Heart of the Swarm. This is a different reckoning that also happens to be about Kerrigan at the end of a campaign. Frankly it's a little weird that they couldn't even come up with another mission name. Doesn't it sort of ruin the drama of what Kerrigan forces Zeratul to do when they rip this mission name out and give it to the HotS climax instead as if they couldn't just whip out a thesaurus to come up with an alternative name? It's silly I tell ya'
31:07 - Omega 
Игры
That one siege tank on Slay The Beast is a legend. It charged your zerg base, got out without dying, then got dropped behind the mineral lines specifically to foil your absurd plan. What an absolutely ridiculous annoying hero!
Truly an icon
And that siege tanks name, Sgt. Hammer.
Е🆆🆆🆆🆆 В🆁ОΝІЕ!! 🅶🆄-🆁ОЅЅ! 🅶О ВАСΚ ТО 🅳Е🆅ІАΝТА🆁Т ΥО🆄 🅵А🅶🅶ОТ!!! ЅТА🆁С🆁А🅵Т ІЅ А 🅶АМЕ 🅵О🆁 РЕОР🅻Е 🆆НО А🆁ЕΝ'Т НОМОЅЕХ🆄А🅻Ѕ 🆆НО 🅻ІΚЕ ТО 🆆АТСН Т🆅 ЅНО🆆Ѕ АІМЕ🅳 АТ 🅻ІТТ🅻Е 🅶І🆁🅻Ѕ!!!!
Clearly it was the ghost of Duke in is Siege Tank - he'd obviously studied tactics.
And that siege tank's name is: Sun Tzu
33:15 Fitting for Mengsk to sit back, hunker down, and let others die for him. The AI is quite in character.
Don't forget he lost a lot of units when ued attacked him
The 3 factions didn't really work together, Mengsk had a bunch of tanks but lack anti air, DuGalle had a bunch of anti air but ground attack is lackluster, Artanis sucks at defending unlike the other two
@@stankobarabata2406 at least Tassadar and conclave Protoss know how to build reavers
@@stankobarabata2406 I think you are right, remastered Protoss feels very weak in Zerg missions. In the final mission he's pretty much irrelevant, DuGalle has Valkyries and BCs so I usually go for him first. Mengsk defense is incredible unless you use air units, Artanis on the other hand is irrelevant, like he's bad at offense and even worse at defense
Artanis is canonically trying to fill boots way bigger than his, in character I guess
"It doesn't matter how many die so long as I can make progress"
Spoken like a true Zerg.
I will kill as many of my people as I have to so long as I am victorious!
"Thousands will die."
"Millions. It doesn't matter. We are the swarm"
*Soviet union anthem beginnings playing* spoken like a true Soviet
Spoken like a true imperial! For the Emperor!
@ADITYA SIDHIQ PRATAMA I feel like ww1 is more appropriate here
This channel keeps making me want to play Starcraft even though I'm terrible at it.
Same
Everyone is terrible at that game dont worry
There's an sc2 custom version of sc1 so you can decide to play sc1 with sc2 pathing
Who said you have to be good, as long as you're having fun it's all good.
I've been playing SC since I was 4 years old and I still suck. Love the game so much XD
I'm waiting for zealots only. Sure it is going to be pure madness
I wonder if that's going to go (start) as badly as SC2 did
'Is it possible to beat Legacy of the Void with Zealots only?'
'Spoilers: It's not.'
Hes already finished zealots only. He just has to get around to 18 hours of footage
Mmmmm Carriers
@@xray5006 he did? Why didn't he post it on the archive channel?
@@1q34w He'll release them before he uploads a video on this channel.
Zergling only is like sending a swarm of 2 pound rats against your mortal enemies, its both the most terrifying and impressive thing they'll see before death and I'm enjoying every second of it
weirdly enough zerglings are around one meter tall equivalent in size to a large dog
except the 2 pound rat can solo a dude with a rifle
Except Zerglings are portrayed as Marine-sized in cutscenes, which makes them significantly bigger than the average man. If they have the same mass as humans + metal suits, they're probably somewhere around 150 pounds. That's even more terrifying.
I don't think yall realize how MASSIVE a 2 pound rat is, remember that fat weighs a lot less than muscle, so a single 2 pound rat is roughly twice the size of your foot.
@@skittlesmoo5881 and it's still only half the size of a zergling
Micromanaging zerglings in control groups of 12 sounds painful…
+ starcraft 1 pathing = agony
i'm pretty sure it's macromanaging at this point.
less micromanaging and moer macromanaging
I was there Wormsblink, I was there 3000 years ago, I was there when the strength of Blizzard failed
"You see, Broodwars had a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own zerglings at them until they reached their limit and shut down. Ace!, show them the medal I won." -Grant Brannigan
She's built like an Ultralisk, but handles like a Mutalisk.
*Kerrigan:* "Alright Cerebrate, we need to-"
*Cerebrate:* "A-MOVE ZERGLINGS INTO THE SIEGE TANKS! WHOOOO!"
*Kerrigan:* "Okay. You clearly lack Vision; let me get your neural tissue increased a bi-"
*Cerebrate:* "BASE DEAD, MOVIN' ON, WHOOOO!"
*Kerrigan:* "..after I kill you, I'm going to go ahead and pretend this never happened."
*Cerebrate:* "WHOOOO!"
The real reason why we never see a cerebrate in sc2
@@runtergerutscht4401 Oh how I wish Heart of the Swarm followed a new Overmind, or even infested Stukov or a new character, and not boring ass Kerrigan-Sue and the Real houseflies of Koprulu in a braindead story that completely undermines and renders all of Wings of Liberty pointless...
The Zerg campaign in Starcraft 1 was awesome, the Zerg were mysterious, monstrous and alien. Heart of the Swarm simplified and declawed them so much that even if the story weren't dumb, I'd still be disappointed.
@@planescaped Absolutely this. I've thought exactly that there could've or should've been some kind of new Overmind that was born ( possibly from the player cerebrate in SC1 ) and perhaps even reviving the dead one in Aiur? Maybe not, but still, the Zerg after Wings of Liberty feel like nothing more than cuddly pets that were forgiven for everything, because Kerrigan 🤷♂
well now I just feel attacked
@@planescaped Adjectives aren't arguments my dude. Chill out.
Tassadar: Kerrigan I challenged you to a duel to the death
Kerrigan: Alright
Overlord: Proceeds to drop Kerrigan and immediately pick her up and drop zerglings
Tassadar: Wait. That's illegal.
Tassadar remembering he came to this fight as an illusion: Y'know what, that's fair
You know these maps kinda show that Mengsk is a pretty good strategist. GGG's comment of "good boy Mengsk" was kinda foreshadowing
Him fortifying up while watching the UED and Protoss get mulched was very fittingly Mengsk-esque.
@@RoyalFusilier him abandoning those fortifications just to try to save a small outpost tho... maybe Jim had an advisory role?
Yeah, he's a real threat if you deliberately cripple your forces and tactics.
@@timemonkey either way he probably would typically be the hardest base for most players, since he uses tanks to make the typical mass hydra strategy more difficult.
@@plasmaoctopus1728 That's why you use Guardians and destroy him easily.
the strategy on "the Culling" was very fun, undermining the enemy from the shadows is something i didnt think would be possible
Almost as fun as the Wrath of the Lich King reference it makes. :D
@@dosbilliam ...you mean the Warcraft 3 reference?
@@VeryPeeved It was also a dungeon in Wrath.
@@dosbilliam yes, clearly it was a reference to the dungeon in Wrath, not a reference to what is easily one of the most iconic missions in RTS history.
@@VeryPeeved Which, having never actually *played* WC3, I wouldn't know that.
as usual, the greatest enemy in starcraft 1 is not the enemy AI but the pathfinding
well, with maybe the exception of that random tank that blocked him from building a nydus, lol, then again, that might just be due to the pathfinding as well!
Control groups, too
I love how whilst SC2's story made Mengsk look like a buffoon, these runs make him look like a badass and a credible threat, I like this lore better.
Mengsk was just one of the many things SC2 completely ruined in terms of lore.
Mengsk, in lore, is an absolutely brilliant tactician and probably one of the most intelligent characters in the Starcraft universe, easily standing at equal with beings who are canonically hundreds or thousands of years old. He's an absolute beast to fight against in any mission where he's the player's enemy, putting up the best defense a Terran AI can do. (pretty sure Duke is your opponent in True Colors.)
SC2 Mengsk didn't happen. He never happened. Mengsk never changed from a cold intimidating badass into a deranged Colonel Sanders.
If we stop and think about he doesn't really interact with the characters much. One cutscreen in WoL and the three final levels in HoTS that's it. He doesn't get much screen time with the other characters.
@@GeneralFatman27
I like to think that Mengsk just got some random shmuck to get plastic surgery to become a body double and he just peaced out to some secret luxury condo where he laughs at the tactical ineptitude of his body double while sipping cognacs.
@@GeneralFatman27 He did happen, though, sorry.
What really stuck out to me in this video is the statement "I even got bold and managed to squeeze out a couple drones getting up to five" and that's basically how real zvz goes on ladder. Quality content indeed.
I thought tvp in starcraft 1 was always terrible (basically terran loses if they are slightly out of postion, yes I know pro terrans can beat protoss, but I'd bet most people can't do that consitently on ladder ) But since I hardly play zerg, It never came to mind what a shitshow zvz must be.
@@plasmaoctopus1728 oh dude, it's insane. games that last past the 15-20 minute mark are uncharted territory for most players
it is instantaneous, non-stop aggression with zerglings, transitioning into instantaneous, non-stop aggression with mutalisks. whoever can get a numbers advantage, or whoever can get scourge connections on the other guy's ball of bees, wins the game within like a minute.
@@plasmaoctopus1728 PvT is so hard for me that I never played much of it in SC1. You either rush the Terran and win or you lose against slow push as Protoss. The only good unit you have is Carrier and teching to that get you punished instantly.
ZvZ is insane and also boring because you use only 2 unit and only 1strategy.
@@purpleisthesneakiest Wait am I bad? My friend and I don't play ladder for SC1, but we're both low-diamond in SC2 and when we 1v1 in SC1 zergling muta didn't seem effective because once you get out just 1 lurker, then zerglings become almost worthless and hydra are more cost effective than mutas...? What am I doing wrong?
Defeating all 5 enemies on the Kel Morian Combine also results in victory. You don't have to wait and mine if you don't want to, you could just clear the map instead. I find the mission to be more enjoyable that way anyway.
Yeah, that's a nice way to finish the mission once your zerglings learn to fly and chew those 3/3 battlecruisers to pieces.
Yup and you can infest all their CCs to carry over to the next mission. Although I guess that's irrelevant for this challenge run. Could use them as HP soaks in a pinch I guess.
@@Draeckon He cant get the ccs anyways. He wasnt allowed to tech to queens.
@@Krakacain123 He could, as long as they don't use spawn broodling it would be within the rules. There's just no point since the rules prevent him from making use of those infested command centers.
@@timemonkey He can justify building a queen's nest to tech to hive for upgrades. However queens themselves are unnecessary for a zergling-only run, as proven in this video. There's no way to justify using them here at all, since they aren't transports like overlords nor are they necessary for economy like drones. No queen => no way to infest command centers in the first place.
The last time I was early, Archimonde was found grizzled in the middle of the forest near a big tree
Keep in mind that in a parallel universe where Grant is the Cerebrate of the Swarm, a single Zealot prevented a galactic-wide Zerg infestation/Invasion, prevented Kerrigan doing mass murder things, and probably even scaring Amon himself of returning...... Multiple Times.
I love your channel man.
30:00 - If I head to guess, the timer thing is no weirdness but the result of the bottom timer being a realtime match timer, while the top one is a "gameplay timer" (lacking a better name) connected to the game speed. And as you are playing on the "fast" side of the game speed option, I guess this answers the time discrepancy. If correct, playing on the slowest speed should result in the reverse: Countdown has more than 20 minutes left after 10 minutes of real time.
It does, because I always played on the slowest speed, making the SC1 Terran mission where you need to survive 30min take more time than that.
@@isaachepworth7860 That sounds like pain and torture.
@@vienalicaway2585 It also gives you more time to respond to things, and I prefer it that way.
@@isaachepworth7860 Not for most missions, I meant for holdout missions in particular.
@@vienalicaway2585 So did I.
This honestly doesn't look too different from how most people play Zerg in Starcraft.
Well, most people mass lings and hydras, with maybe ultras as well.
The solution to every problem is more zerglings. If zerglings aren't working that just means you didn't send enough of them.
@@sindrisuncatcher653 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a.....
@@sindrisuncatcher653 What if they decided to float some of their buildings and had air units?
@@semajniomet981 more zerglings
The mission where you had to proxy base was a blast to watch on the archives, thanks for uploading the full run there!
"Abathur's cocoon doesn't exist, it can't hurt you"
Abathur's cocoon: 2:50
If not for the overlord drop rule, you could've just stuck Fenix into an overlord and left his inside of it somewhere.
He doesn't need to complete an objective, right? So it's fine. It's a no-drop rule, not a no-succ rule.
When all you have is the endless swarm of the Zerg...
Stealth mine the enemy's mineral field.
Kerrigan: I am the swarm
GGG zerglings: Press X to doubt
I love that "the Amerigo" mission was possible in this run!
Imagine this run, but with Stracrafts Cartooned texture map
i would love to see that
Zerglings will be cute af
It's called Starcrafts, not Stracraft Cartooned. If not Starcrafts, than Carbot's version :p
@@FenekkuKitsune but starcrafts is literaly a cartooned version of starcraft
I mean, if you want to see that for free just play Cute Defense on the SC2 arcade, its almost the same
HELL ITS ABOUT TIME
Grant: I’m not a magician.
Also Grant: *slows the passage of time itself*
if you were wondering what The Reckoning's mission chapter says, here it is: The Reckoning, but not the one at the end of Heart of the Swarm. This is a different reckoning that also happens to be about Kerrigan at the end of a campaign. Frankly it's a little weird that they couldn't even come up with another mission name. Doesn't it sort of ruin the drama of what Kerrigan forces Zeratul to do when they rip this mission name out and give it to the HotS climax instead as if they couldn't just whip out a thesaurus to come up with an alternative name? It's silly I tell ya'
The little easter egg jokes from previous challenges are such a nice touch like the lings not being able to jump up and chew on their starship or the mengsk is bronze league
The jumping and chewing on starship is a reference to Alarak's line in the LOTV campaign
@@drarenthiralas1683 rly, I didnt know that, it makes it even cooler
Oh yes, now I remembered
The "Full Circle" mission segment is called πr^2, and I'm on the ground laughing right now.
This! ...but! ..in my head going 'full circle' is to 'come all the way around to the beginning' - and my brain just feels like 'going full circle' would better represented by the circles circumference... since it goes around... the circle..? Anyways, my brain just want it to be πr2 instead.
this kinda sounded more convincing, even to me, before I wrote it down xD
This run in a nutshell:
_"First you get the money. Then you get the zerglings."_
That split second Abathur really messed me up xD
Memories of that final Zerg mission came flooding back to me upon seeing it. I can recall coming home from middle school excited to continue the campaigns, and the feeling of hopelessness upon seeing that map.
IIRC I cheated to beat it without even trying to do it legit. XD
2:45 THE WAVING ABATHUR KILLED ME. I love you grant
7:08 I never knew that Reavers had anti-zergling force fields until now.
Probably because I’ve never liked producing them, or that I’ve never used zerglings against them.
I think he was joking about their AoE attack times 3, so the constant stream just denies the enemy the area in melee range
I'm also quite sure the reaver's anti-ling force field is just a metaphor for them genociding lings faster than they can approach
I couldn't wait to see him using zealots only, how he's gonna counter reavers, carriers and arbiters XD
By throwing more zealots at it!
Grant's channel is the only reason I ever decided to actually beat SC:R and SC2.
Now I'm quite deep into the SC:MR and the UED: First Light mods, not even speaking about the coop component of SC2. I never realized how much non-pvp content does Starcraft have.
Thank you, Grant, for being the person who introduced me to this wonderful universe.
If you enjoy the universe.... there are also comics and novels.
I like how the time stamp for the "Rain of Fire" mission is called "Rain of Chaos" great reference.
me after watching an entire series of this: didn't he do this already-- oh, it's a supercut
All Hydralisk eggs were dumped to Azeroth
The Culling of Stratholm Zerglings only is just the best xD I love watching people beat games through completely unintended strategies for the sake of challenges never conceived by the devs.
18:48 evil GiantGrantGames be like
seriously though as someone who only came to know of your channel due to your deathless runs, this was hillarious to hear
16:17 Love the dialogue you put on top of Fenix. xD
I think using overlords would been fine and even more interesting as it would allow for more diverse strategy plays, and I find it hard to draw a line that justifies why using overlord for transport breaks the zergling only rule but using drones to build and mine with does not.
In each of these challenge missions there is generally one moment that sticks with me some time afterwards.
SC1 Marines was sending a fleet of barracks to Mengsk's island base prepared for a tough fight to be greeted by a single missile turret.
Here it's "is that a half-HP Seige Tank with 2 kills?"
The mission names in the time stamps is legitimately the best part of this video.
Grant, you missed a mission: In (IIRC) the Brood War Protoss campaign, there's a mission where you get control of a Zerg base as well as your Protos one. You almost certainly could beat that one 'ling only. (Similarly, there's a Protoss mission in the original campaign where you get a Terran base. That one would be a lot harder to beat marines-only, though, since the two bases are far apart and the 'Toss base has units you can't lose.)
He did both of those with Zealots only
Fenix's captions are gold.
With the timer, i'm pretty sure the game was initially made on 'normal' so if you're playing max/faster. that is included in the timer's rate too
Again, definitely worth a watch even after watching the VoDs for every mission. Now I hope the secret Zerg mission where you play as Protoss will be in Zealots only!
1:54 The amount of challenge attempts I've done that died to a ramp is incalculable and extremely upsetting. On the other hand mastering the art of the ramp makes you a certified micro god according to even the gods above I'm pretty sure
I'll never forget the intro of SC2 Zerglings Only, where you had Stukov describe Zerglings as "They are the ultimate weapon of the final war." I think about that a lot.
Also, You needed that beacon from the Helms Deep UMS maps that would just send all your military units into the enemy at once, which was the primitive version of the almighty F2. Even without it, excellent job on this run. While there were a few rough patches caused by your own rules, that's a big part of the charm, and it honestly didn't seem like this was any more taxing on you than marines-only. It shows how the two starting units are at least more equivalent in Brood War. Zealots-only, from what little I saw, uh, let's just say I'm looking forward to that one.
33:15 what a surprise, even the mengsk AI is a coward...
Yes new video!
This was the first run i watched from vods and i have to say the Culling was a thing to behold. Gj with the run!
I love these videos. The humor is spot on. Great work as always.
I miss the times I was called a celebrate and was like "yea, I celebrate every day with my zergling boy & girls."
Such a cheerful title!
(A part of my brain knows the error but that party pooper shall shut up)
with enough cuddles, cookies and cubes, anything is possible.
the best thing about destroying the enemy from within is that Garm brood was specialized in that kind of backdoor fighting
I've always found these really interesting, but lately they've also been really fucking funny. Great writing and great visual gags GGG, keep it coming.
love those challenge runs
One really funny bit from the stream that didn't make it into the video: "This is the Noah's Ark strategy for dealing with Reavers - send in Zerglings two at a time so they don't all die at once."
I hope we'll see WarCraft 3 with footman/grunts/ghouls/archers only =)
In SC1 you if you put any of your units on move command on another friendly unit they wont be able to attack. Could have saved you a lot of resets with Fenix and the other heroes and units that you dont want to attack with.
From watching all the vods, i knew this would be a fun main video
3:11 there's a trick. Burrow all the Zerglings. When you double click on a burrowed unit, it will select ONLY burrowed units of that type. So you double click, unburrow, attack move, rinse and repeat, and you can have all your zerglings on the move fast.
I love this challenges on SC1!!!
Dude the little lines you quote over the characters as they run around on screen for flavor are killing me. They are so damn good I love them all.
can you beat WC3 ROC,FT with only basic infantry unit such Footman,Ghoul,Grunt,Archer? (not sure about Naga)
I love how your rules for these challenges bring up all new strats that are so fun to watch you succeed with! WP GGG
I see that Mensk studied tactics with Duke.
Also i love your videos grant keep them up
That Kel Morian Combine mission is actually one of my favorites. It allows me to play the game in my favorite way.
Everything...f@cking...DIES...
You kill everyone and everything on that map, and the game just gives you the 10k minerals. Yeah, it takes longer to kill everything than it does to mine. But, come on, are the Zerg really the type to not eat everything in sight?
Found you few days ago and im hooked, your content is amazing and ur voice is great for background sound while i play or do stuff
Watched the videos as they came out on archive, great series!
That tassadar moment is hilarious. Also those time stamps
These challenges are so satisfying to watch.
this was nice. i liked this, good change of pace very nice
Hey thanks for that no death run on wings of liberty on starcraft2, I used your strat to beat the final mission.
Perfekt ending!!! huh XD i loved every minute of this!❤
About the last mission.
You can find a safe path to UED, and send a droplord with a drone to sneak into enemy base without noticed
Build a hatchery,
then a nydus canal,
then you can attack UED without efficient counterattack because most UED BCs are at frontline.
Doesn't count since this already involves building a drop overlord
Great video Grant! Such an impressive challenge
Another brilliant challenge and brilliant video - thanks GGG!
You do your job very well and are on the top end of professionalism in your trade, and I am happy to experience that in such niche categories such as StarCraft. Thanks a ton!
17:45 In "The Kel-Morian Combine " you should have tried to kill all Terran. That makes the mission way more fun (and with all command centers destroyed you automatically win). This would be way cooler and more challenging.
Your challenges are sick really, inspired me to go through all Starcraft games once more. Alongside Mass Recall mode for original
Those shenanigans on "The Culling"! Of all the wonky strategies I've seen on your channel, that shit might be my favorite... And that's saying a lot, considering all the crazy challenge runs you've done so far. Lovely stuff, man!
I love theese challenges grant !!
Please do more !
I feel like ordering the zerglins in the back to move forward before the ones in the front would let them blob up a bit more, to prevent the death line problem.
Units try to take the shortest route available, causing them to run into and block each other constantly. Once they reach a corner, choke point or obstacle, it's back to the conga line.
I watched the archives and he definitely tried to do this. Unfortunately it only helped a little. Any corners and ramps along the path would thin them back out.
This was an amazing series. And made me install mass recall.
Mengsk on Omega really went for the Artosis strategy of turtling until 200 supply xD
6:19 I love making mass mineral lines! They're so good!
45 seconds in, and I guarantee that the OG bone trench from Zerg 3 is going to be a nightmare. That AI was killer with siege tanks, and I remember actually maxing out on hydra/ling to march across once and only having about 18 units left when I hit the bunkers on the high ground
This was sooo satisfying to watch.
Once again you nailed the thumbnail GGG
This is gold :D. This troll tank was THE BEST
Bless your soul you absolute madlad.
Great time watching as always!
this was so much fun to watch on the archives