I was doing a comparison of units who are in the same tier and same amount of resources. without taking consider of player skill and tactics.

In equal tier and resources, zerglings with speed upgrade are actually very scary.

20 zerglings + 1 roach, which cost 575min 25gas

8 marines + 1 marauder, which cost 600min 25gas

4 zealots + 1 stalker, which cost 525min 50gas

if you just put them together and fight (assume in an open space), who will win? from my experience, Zerg most of the time will win. terran 2nd because of the range advantage.

speedling is just too scary and dominating in early game.

but real life players aren't stupid either, they will wall in and be defensive to avoid early game with Zerg.

So a smart Zerg player actually have to think of ways to utilize the early advantage of Zerg to cripple the opponent. They try to break the opponent defense (probably that's why baneling was there?), or try to expand fast when opponent become turtled ...

But I have to admit that baneling is hard to use for me ... every time I saw they only did a pity 20 damage and there's goes my 50min 25gas ... I felt like waste a lot ...

Ash second base was oversaturated could've transfer some to the third base. I also notice you researched neural parasite but you didn't use it on battle cruisers.

watch your replay, kind of funny seeing those drones running from banelings, maybe you kill lesser if they just ignore you, kind of a bit expensive using those banelings, cost like 50/50 each and you need 2 of these to make kill, so its 100/100 for each batch of kill, you need to at least kill like 5 of them(to me gas is a bit more expensive) to make 2 of your banelings worth, not mentioning those sacrificed on those zerglings and being killed by the spine. But anyway you slow their economy alot, and the queen will have to work harder =). learned something from your replay, didnt know that hiding an overlord right behind enemy mineral line and they cant noticed it. wondering why so many zerg likes to put their buildings ie pool spire etc behind those mineral line ?

got a question, if a protoss put a pylon in your base, ie you are zerg, should you just ignore it and rush out zerglings ? if you are doing a 14 pool, and the process of making the pool is only 50%, then the protoss put a pylon, what is the chance your zerglings can handle the job instead of grabbing your dones onto the pylon ?

a pylon, anything is possible, you wont know its a cannon rush or proxy gateway until the pylon is complete and the probe drop another building or some zealots or stalkers jumping in. The question is pretty simple, you making a pool at 14, and a probe didnt knock your door, drop a pylon or 2 in your base b4 you even have your 1st ling or queen, what is your response ?

i was in kinda big problem if the probe just drop pylons, if i send drones attack the pylon, he drop another and when i was about to destroy the 1st 1, he cancelled it so he only lose 25 mineral for cancelling, but i send out drones where they cant mine for quite long period of time. and for spine crawler, i dont know where should i put them, imagine there is a pylon north of your base, 1 west, 1 east, and 1 south, his troops can come from anywhere =P and if i put right next to hatchery, then he stop sending in zealots but stalkers and attack drone from distance. lose a game cause of unable to survive the unpredictable rush and i was dumb spending drones on pylons.

yeah I agree with Evo.. if I see a probe I'll put a few drones on it to make it leave.. and if he does leave put a drone to tail him to make sure he leaves.. and not fake it and come back to proxy pylon u again unnoticed (like happened to me one time )

so the best method is ignore it and wait until your lings are out and mass ling then overpower them and then only destroy all of those pylons and gateways(if there are any) ?

since when stalkers outrange spines? lol