[March] Sc2 General Discussion - Page 4

I have a bit of an interesting idea to trick terrans late game into making vikings to counter Brood Lords when you arent making any(for ZvT only or a toss who has stargates maybe)
First
I have horrible apm and mechanics and Im only bronze league, I expect criticism and situational questions that I will not be able to answer. I also understand I am on a very low level of play.
Thats why I want to begin discussion on the subject.
I have a very good understanding of the game.
Im new to PC games in general and the RTS genre. Im not great with a keyboard and mouse,and as such and I'm still working on my micro,macro, control groups and timings.
Now that we know I'm a noob,

I was playing a custom 1v1 vs a buddy of mine on Crevasse. We play quite a bit as practice partners b/c I want to get back into 1v1's and he has trouble with zerg.
We are pretty evenly matched so we have some awesome games. Our matches regularly run long and recently something happened that I wanted to share and perhaps begin a discussion on.
Apologies if this is in the wrong place but I'm new to the site and I'm not sure how to start a topic. i searched the topic so I'm pretty sure Im the first to bring it up
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Now from what I have learned the usual thing is to transition from a muta ling bane composition to Brood Lords, then once Terran makes a bunch of vikings switch to Ultras.
This hasn't always been successful for me. But I am bad so..... to the heart of the matter.
We had both played a pretty standard game.
I had been using muta ling bane against his bio and seige tank army and the tanks got out of control. I got heavy on mutas but once the thors rolled out t I had to switch bc i was losing too many mutas.
I had in my mind, OK, get corrupters and a greater then get to broods asap. When he starts massing vikings switch to Ultras, simple enough, hope it works.
Right as my greater spire starts it gets scanned, and that sucks, I know at this point he has at least one reactored starport and another without/possibly with a reactor.
I was a bit frustrated b/c in the past he always gets enough vikings before I can really deal any major damage with my Broods when he scouts them, unless Im really far ahead.
Then I got a fantastic idea.
I went ahead and made 4 corrupters. I immediately started on ultras without making any broods. I left a few o lords with my corrupters and put them in between my 4th base and my natural with my building roach ling army and waited. I see a few stimmed marines running up my creep into my base and I immediately make overseers with the o lords in my corrupter group.
Im sorry, but unless you are really paying attention or are on ultra settings, you will not notice the difference between an overseer and brood morphing unless you click on it. They are very minute, Overseer has a glowing red bump on the top, broods have small tentacles poking out thier sides. not very noticeable at a glance
I kill off the scouting marines and cancel the overseers, at my skill level and this point in the game the gas/min loss was irrelevant.
What happens next was beautiful.
Next engagement he has 9-10 vikings with his bio tank and I have 7-8 ultras with more on the way pushing across the map with roach lings and banes. I rolled him in the next push as his vikings and 4 he had queued float around helplessly
Our conversation after the game.
Me: "why so many vikings at the end?lol"
Him:"The brood lords, where were they btw?
Me: lol I didnt make any brood lords
Him: ??? yes u did i saw them.
Once i explained to him what I did he admitted I completely fooled him.
He totally thought I was making broods when the entire time I was maxing out with ultras as he spammed vikings.
Do you think this could be used in high level play? Or am I just kidding myself thinking that was an awesome move?

I'm relatively new to SC2 and I have a Protoss hotkey question. Long story short, whenever I see high level P play, whether it be GSL or in replays, everyone puts all of their nexuses onto a single hotkey. Is this to make chrono-ing easier, and save on wasteful actions? I had been putting my nexuses on different hotkeys originally, because I thought it was important to be able to choose to make probes at a certain expansion (i.e. 3rd expansion) but not necessarily another, but this seems wrong based on everything I've seen. I guess I just wanted some confirmation/insight from veteran players who have a deep understanding of optimal hotkey setups/efficiency. Thanks.