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Yeah I do know I need to work on my larvae spawning quite a bit which is what ties into my resource surplus problems, I'm not producing enough units to drain my considerably large income, and although you say I have too many resources, I'm somehow not making enough workers? Not sure if that makes sense, but yes there is a period of time when I lost a bunch of drones, and opted to build surplus zerglings instead, which was probably not a great choice. But I was expecting another push very soon, and needed something to deal with it, a better choice would have been to continue producing drones, an extra queen and throw down a roach warren, or even close in my worker line with evo chambers to soak up baneling damage rather than waste so much on zerglings which would ultimately just get melted by banelings anyways.

Yes, mutaling is my build, it's actually very close to Idra's current build style, difference being he'll usually 14 hatch before his pool but that's because he's Idra and skilled enough to do things like that without putting himself in a weak position. Occasionally I throw in a splash of other units, against the protoss player it seemed pointless to change to anything else when muta-ling was working so well, so I'll leave that one be. The zerg player on the other hand was going baneling, well it doesn't make much sense to go baneling v banelings, it would require the same level of micro as a zergling v baneling just end up costing me more, plus I already know I don't have that level of micro needed to win a baneling v baneling or zergling v baneling assault. It requires splitting up your forces, quickly and precisely, dodging the banelings and sacrificing single units to in an attempt to waste baneling splash.

I prefer to spread out my overlords, you already mentioned how I over supply myself, well that's in part 1) because I hate being supply blocked at any given moment and 2) I consider the overlords to be more than just supply units, spreading them out gives me a wide field of vision and tells me what is coming when it's coming, and since I have so many, if I lose a few to scouting parties or roaming air units, it's not a big deal. I realize my control with them is poor, however, normally I try to spread them out the best I can get as much intel out of them and see units moving on the map, which is normally how things start off, but as the game progresses and my attention focused upon muta harass, macro, and tech my scouting always seems to slip, and it's awfully disappointing because I know I have enough apm to do it, I just need to fit it somewhere into my rhythm.

In the ZvZ match I would say my unit placement with zerglings was in fact poor, but there was some method to the madness, rather the execution of it was where it slipped. I already said how my unit control was poor against banelings, and all game I know banelings are a threat and possibility for him to throw at me, so I wanted to put as much distance from me and the banelings as possible, giving me additional time to react to them, and hopefully make up in part for my control. Rather than having them up at the front, not reacting quickly enough and have banelings wipe out my whole ling force without problems.

Creep spread is another thing I'm working on, I understand it's detrimental for most zerg, but as QUITE as much for my build, as my units are so fast, on or off of the creep. I do need to work on it more however, sometimes I have excellent creep spreading, other times I'll drop one tumour and forget about it and it's terrible.

I dunno though, after seeing the post game score board, it came a lot closer than you might think, I know there was almost no chance of me winning after that baneling assault without a slip up from him, but it didn't hurt to hope. At one point, you'll actually notice I pull ahead in units and map control for a short time, and that's when my expo goes down, and I then crush a rather menacing hydra force with few real casualties. What really ended it for me, was part exhausting (I was getting a throbbing head ache near the end) and he had a gold expo up, defending it quite decently, and then a foolish push where I kind of just wanted to end it. Lost all my zerglings, and such a massive chunk of mutalisks that it just didn't matter anymore.

I'm definitely going on focus a lot more (especially in my practice) into larvae puking and try to increase my creep spread the best I can in future games.