Scouting

[Sovereign]

When do you people start scouting for your opponent. Mine is usually after i start warping in my second gateway. I find that this is the best time to scout. What do the rest of you think? Im sure that peoples scout times are different. Post them here!

[EX-Mania]

I scout as or after im building my first supply depot, this means when i get into their base i can tell which tech tree they are going to build and what I have to do to counter them. I hotkey my scout as number 2 and CC as 1 so i can easily go to scout and back to base very fast.

When i scout i usually stay on my scout and go to my base for a second or 2 to build and go right back until it`s dead or until i don't need it anymore.

[Thanatos]

I let my partners scout for me; I'm lazy. Oh, and I don't play 1v1 so it's not that bad.

[Pekson]

I scout after i build my first gateway and start annoying the hell outta my opponent.

[BlueCube]

Eh, Barracks = Scout time. I figure that at that point, I'll know whether they're farther along than I am... say, they're building zerglings already or something.

[Demosthenes]

If I'm playing on a team I usually play protoss and start scouting after I have a couple of zealots, or I let my teammates scout for me. On the other hand if I play 1v1 I usually go zerg and send an overlord to their base as soon as I can and just linger over them until they kill it off.

[Thanatos]

Don't waste an ovie! They're adorable!

[Boo~Hoo]

on temple i scout nearest position with ovie, if its 6 and 9, i expo, but if its 12 and 3 i dont. I usually scout after 1st ovie, and take there gas or something, just annoy the fuck outta them :)

[Pekson]

Annoying the hell outta the opponent is great fun but if its done to you it gets me pissed off hehe.

[Boo~Hoo]

yea.. zvz is fucking annoying. -.-

[Valmar]

If im zerg i usually scout with about 5 drones after i make my creep colony, if i find a zerg i make 5 sunken colonys on thier base and usually they are completed before the enemy has a chance to do anything about, while hes fending off the colonys ill be pumpin out a few lings to finish the job. Thats if im rusing the oponent though...

[Boo~Hoo]

er.. i wanna try that keke

[Pekson]

Thats happened to me many times and is very annoying. I manage to fend it off but it makes me slow in the game less minerals etc.

[Boo~Hoo]

still, they have less aswell, because 4 colonies alone are 300 minerals, so its usually either that or second hatch, and to morph its 200 minerals, so lair and extractor come late.

[Pekson]

but the guy who did that in the first place is better off, not the guy fending it off. Im left with almost crap all drones -.-.

[Boo~Hoo]

meh maybe

[Thanatos]

He's right..

[Boo~Hoo]

yea, but is a super risky move, prolly he'll have lings by then unless its 12v3 or vice versa.