Can you beat Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm with Zerglings Only?
Take one down, pass it around, 51,684 Zerglings on the wall!
If you want to watch the full run, the playlist is here: • Heart of the Swarm: Ze...
Final Graph with all units lost totals: imgur.com/bZebzH5
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Skit
0:33 - Intro and Rules
1:11 - Lab Rat & Back in the Saddle
1:31 - Rendezvous
4:17 - Next Destination
4:53 - Domination
6:33 - Fire in the Sky
8:16 - Zergling Evolution
9:26 - Old Soldiers
11:40 - Waking the Ancient
13:47 - The Crucible
15:38 - Harvest of Screams
16:25 - Shoot the Messenger
17:04 - Enemy Within
18:15 - Is the Hyperion a Zergling?
18:33 - Infested
20:38 - Hand of Darkness
21:49 - Phantoms of the Void
23:40 - Planetfall
25:29 - Death from Above
29:21 - The Reckoning
"We're just zerglings, sir. We're meant to be expendable." Giant Grant Games: "Yep."
I was about to make this exact comment XD
YEP
A line from Clone Wars ey? ahaha
Just take like half a marine with you or something
wait! aren't you suppose to say no???
"It's commander GiantGrantGames! He never lets a unit die, we're saved!"
narrator to the zerglings "if you think this has a happy ending, you havnt been paying attention"
@@meganratliff8590 Narrator: "They were not saved."
This comment reminds me of the suicide squad game trailer when the giant shark dude is praising superman for saving a pilot from crashing, but superman turns out to be evil.
@@Boyscout533 watched the trailer, haven't found the moment
💀
"When you are about to lose, but you remember you have more Zerglings than the enemy has bullets"
Soviet tactics
@@leonardoparramelati6463 Yes!!!
@@leonardoparramelati6463 The soviets won because the germans did not rekon that they need enough man to control the territory, not because the Soviets had more man. It was inferior logistics, giant territory and stupid planing that cost the germans the win, not mass soldier tactics of the soviets. It is a racistic myth, because it would otherwise mean the slavs simply fought smater than the "superior" race, while loosing against mass would mean less. According to Meltjuchow 1941 the axis had 4.306.800 man in the east, while the red army had only 3.289.851 under arms.
There is a reason why the Soviets asked the US to send half a million trucks, logistic vehicles and 2000 trains while only asked for ~8000 Tanks.
Well, this is a new record on the "A meme/joke comment rapidly turning into politics" category Nice
Dehaka: "my job here is done " Kerrigan: "but you didn't do anything " Dehaka: *dramatically burrows away*
Lol anime Dehaka with a tux and a mask...
999th like. For the love somebody get it to 1k
@@bradnewsbear 1.9k now, you did your job.
@@zerglinglover2303 username checks out
wrgg
There's a dude on Bilibili translating your work, Chinese Starcraft players are stunned by the sheer effort you're putting into these
I hope it's accurate translations, though.
@@GerMorden Is it common for them to incorrectly mistranslate stuff? Maliciously or accidentally?
@@zerglinglover2303 I've ran into instances where "translation" had nothing in common with original script and events, and was just re-imagening.
@@GerMorden thanks
@@zerglinglover2303 it is
This is a pinnacle of human ingenuity and zergling sacrifice.
They will die, but the extraction process will complete before the enemy can kill the extractor
Triggered mengsk: *Z E R G T H R E A T*
Human tenacity and indignity have come together to forge the FINAL ANSWER TO THE *ZERG THREAT* Odin : dies due to cursed attack prior
It’s the Soviet Strategy: If we throw enough units at the bullets, eventually they run out of bullets.
@@theonethathungers5552 best WWI generals : that is the way
"Fortunately, the Dominion were programmed with an in-built kill limit. I simply sent wave after wave of my own zerg at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
"...you suck!"
Wait... are the co op kill bots a reference to Futurama?
@@Flamtepes He's Zap Brannigan
Damn planned obsolescence and DRMs
@@rozmarinideas5340 yes, yes they are
Abathur: ”Ultralisk reconstituted. Ultimate expression of swarm evolution.” GGG: ”Yeah, well. That’s just like, uhhh... Your opinion, man.”
Jim: How many zerglings did you make down there? Kerrigan: 51,685, I had them counted
Lord, woman!
"Yeah, I may have gone a little overboard."
Proceeds to kill the only Ultralisk she accidentally created.
Rip the drone companion that was abducted.
*casually makes an odd number of zerglings without swarmling strain
'There is absolutely no reason to point your drones to attack the enemy" ~ GiantGrantGames, after deathless and world record run and before no production run
Was literally just about to point the same thing out xD
@@thatprim3evil899 lol
thats the joke
You know you've made enough Zerglings when you can't see the floor, you can only see more lings.
And you’ve made enough when the zerglings move, you drop to 1 frame per 5 seconds.
You know, there is no "enough lings" Theres only the frame limit of your computer or the supply limit.
We gotta buy *MORE LINGS*
just imagine if the corpses would not despawn
Don't worry, Grant. Amon lost 1,5 billion zerg during the siege of Shakuras and still lost ;)
well technically Shakuras *was* destroyed so Amon sorta won that one.
@@hieunguyenminh5738 it wasnt his intent. the protoss won that one hard
@@hieunguyenminh5738 he meant to take over shakuras, not destroy it.
And those are not even zerglings..
Yeah, but Amon is a brainlet
16:35 "How did you ever lose Aiur to these animals? Did they jump up and chew on your ships?"
Lol nice exututor(srry cant spell) nral meme
@@thepnutofalltime it's a quote from Alarak but sure
@@thepnutofalltime Execututor Nral, of the Educator caste
@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 yes
And yet that Colossus at 16:41 learned that they can still jump up cliffs
Giant Grant Games : Lets play HotS Zerglings : So this is a no death run , right ? Giant Grant Games : ... Zerglings : So this is a no death run , right ?
Jesus, this is peak meme culture :D
😂😂
Zerglings watched its brethren being thrown into the grinder. GGG "Well, we can just make more." Zerglings "No. This is not well. This isn't how it supposed to be." GGG F2, A-move. Zerglings "No. Stop!"
It's a zerglin', Lester. Smaller type of zerg. Theydn't be out this far unless...**GiantGrantGames made another video...**
Based SC1 reference
Aww Sarge, you killed some poor feller’s dawg
I love ya, Sarge
Sweet rover!
"Hey Sarge, wy do i have a bad feeling about this?" "Naaah man, dont worry. After this well go home."
Total Zerging 51,656 And….. Crucible: about 29,500 No need to ask which is hardest mission…
Yeah it's probably the tutorial one, damn Eradicator is stronk
"Mengsk is bronze league" Lmao
Mengsk is 𝘉𝘙𝘖𝘕𝘡𝘌 𝘓𝘌𝘈𝘎𝘜𝘌
that made me laugh
He says it at 33:00
BRONZE LEAGUE HEROES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@k-leb4671 Mengsk: "Zerglings only? NOOB ALREAT"
That intro was well done, the effort expended to weave those voicelines together in which Zagara is punished for doubting the sanctity of the zergling is appreciated.
Yes
It had big energy of that comic where one person says something sensible in a boardroom and the next panel is them going out the window.
Death from Above's clear is one of the most big brain strats in any of your runs so far. Incredibly creative!
Another big brain strat in this run that Grant kind of brushed over was crowding uprooted spore crawlers (they can't root themselves in the pool of gamer primal bath water) around Kerrigan's coocoon to make it harder for enemy melee units to get close enough to damage it.
@@athath2010 and the overlord pulls and whatever else he tried, it’s been a while since I saw it.
@@athath2010 "pool of gamer primal bath water" I admit, you got me there.
I really enjoyed the reference about chewing the starships!
Lol Alarak highlord of the trolldarim
And with this, the Zerglings are indeed the Heart of the Swarm. Cause, they are literally the only unit in the swarm itself.
What about overlords and drones?
@@indominusrex1652 *Secondary peasants*
Don't you forget about our good old friends - vipers?
@@user-ds6jz5kd2l Yes, the four vipers in the entire swarm. Three from the evolution mission plus that one on Korhal. Truly they are the Heart of the Swarm.
@@user-ds6jz5kd2l they are mere peasants, not as peasanty as the drone and overlord, but still a peasant
"Unfortunately my Zerglings cant jump up and chew on their Starships" I fucking love how multi-layered this is joke is
The Alarak reference!
Spartans can do that in Halo Wars (＠＾０＾)
This is precisely what I needed at 5 AM in a depressed insomnia.
Same.
Ah yes, that will definitely fix my genetic issues, thanks so much for the generic advice
@@TheFillyosopher He means well and isn't wrong. Of course, his advice is of limited help, but basic needs play a certain role. Sleep, nutrition and exercise require a lot of effort in such a situation and can seem pointless, but they help the well-being.
same
you ok bud? :
Zergling reconstitution carried that last mission HARD, a full hour of refunding a ling every 3 seconds lol
Touche.
Did he use it? Last time we saw his ability set he did not have reconstitution. 23:30 , he had Automated Extractors instead. Granted he could have swapped back to 'ling rebuilder.
@@followeroftheprince at least he didnt have automated extractors. You can see a normal extractor in the beginning of the final mission
Right, we can see at 29:22 that Zergling reconstitution was used. The real question is, how many lings did it make? Well, I'm not going to keep track of it in the VOD, but let's just assume that the ability wasn't 100% efficient all the time. I'll just say an even 60 minutes of reconstitution for simplicities sake. At 10 Zerglings every 30 seconds, that's 20/min. Over the course of an hour, that means 1200 Zerglings were created. For reference, max supply army is only 400 Zerglings. An individual Ling is 25 minerals. This means that one ability saved GGG over 30,000 minerals in The Reckoning alone.
@@sqwal2983 God Zergling Reconstitution is a fun power to have.
The zerglings look so freaking cool, flooding over everything. They did a great job with their pathfinding and visuals.
This challenge really exemplifies Starcraft 2's strengths in presentation. You can _feel_ the Swarm!
It was a hell of a run, man. Crucible almost broke you, but you broke it instead.
Grant Giant Games: Can you beat Starcraft 2 with only Marines and Zerglings? Marines and Zerglings: dead Zealots: oh fuck
Hes doing stalkers
@@entertheunknown3554 The thing is...most of LOTV is done with almost exclusively stalkers anyways so that's not memey enough.
It’s already done, and it’s stalkers. It was also nearly impossible. Check out the Archives channel if you want a peek at the vods.
Your "Death from above" mission tactic with vipers pulling the drones is something incredible, well done, WELL DONE! ;D
The Crucible is just Stalingrad but with Lings
StaLINGrad?
Order 227 has been put in effect.
This is legitimately some of the best SC2 content Also, "Jim's braindead nature" lmao
Bloody brilliant editing in the intro
"How many zerglings do we need? " Giantgrandgame: "Yes"
51,685 give or take 50ish
Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, can't wait for Stalkers only to be finalised as a video as well
I'm sorry, you must have misspelled ZEALOTS
That would be funn, at least Edit: unfortunate spelling
@@runtergerutscht4401 Go to the archives channel and watch the stalkers only run, Salvation took about as long as the crucible. It wasn't easy because they're stalkers...
I'm right with you man. I'm glad that this finally made it out of the stream archive.
@@runtergerutscht4401 Zealots only is impossible in Legacy Of The Void because you have to kill air units to proceed in many of the missions.
The swarmling still seems useful since if you are mining out maps already free zerglings saves you minerals you actually need. So you can then build more armies for the same cost even if each army isn’t as strong as it would be if they were raptorlings
They're too slow. They won't deal almost any damage
zagara: who let the zerglings out? Me: kerrigan.
Oh my god what a suprising vid! Cheers from archive gang
Archive hype
Archive gang!
Archive gang!
Cheers!
gheers from live gang
If is ever a SC3, Grant is gonna be an NPC in it, i guarantee
Or a difficulty setting
General Grant
Just a casual mention in a map, where if you do something absurdly difficult for no apparent reason, a Dominion researcher asks if you'd like to contribute whatever-you-just-got to the development of Project: Giant. They just got a fairly large research Grant, and are willing to give you a cut.
I bet he'd be mentioned as a commander that managed to do something like taking down a protoss mothership with a squad of hellbats.
A mission advisor that briefs you with "The objective of this mission is super-unique..."
The unit cap is really cramping the fact that the Zerg swarm could easily overwhelm most of those defenses with just zerglings, with in lore numbers.
Understandable that he didn't continue The Frozen Throne no death playthrough straight away, doing the Warden campaign gives anyone burnout
He finished TFT deathless on stream a while ago. He’s just editing the videos
@@DragonWinter36 No way he actually did that :o Can't wait to see!
Personally, I've always liked the Night Elf campaign in TFT. Though part of that may be because I main NE with Warden.
watched some of the full VODs on the second channel and was wondering if it was going to be an edited video, easily had the potential. and on a day i can sleep i get blessed with this thank you grant! I cant wait to join you today for every campaign mission.
This, this is what I'm going to fall asleep too. Thank you Grant.
The opening skit was *chef's kiss*
14:44 "There are no words to describe the onslaught of the Primal Zerg" THE SWARM.
As always, the skit at the beginning is amazing.
love this so much and the marine only one now cant wait for bob the ragelot to gather his forces
Unfortunately its impossible to do with Zealots. The Protoss campaign features multiple missions with strong air attacks that just cant be beaten with just Static defense :D But he does Stalker only.
@@Y0G0FU weird way of spelling centuries only
The problem isn't attack waves. The problem is that there are a number of objectives that zealots just can't complete.
I love how unlike the deathless run the fight against the emperor was actually difficult keep up the amazing video man!
Poor AIs the zerglings are everywhere. At least they can shoot everywhere xD
The amount of planning that went into this run (and many others) amazes me, well done!
decided to scroll down comments randomly and here I am
@@eemesstee1686 Guess you have done wonderful job?
-> there is absolutely no reason to ever pull your drones to attack the enemy. me: flashbacks to the deathless Zerg run
I really miss how in the first 2 campaigns the waves sent to you actually come from the buildings. Whereas in LOTV the waves are spawned in. So even if you clear everything, you still get attacked.
Well done Grant; what an amazing run! Was a lot of fun to watch the vods for this run as they came out on the archives channel and I'm thrilled to see that you've made the official video for this run. ❤
16:37 I wish more 4k zergs knew about this incredible fact. Mass zergling ultralisk vs the golden armada is for some reason common.
Let me guess, you're thinking of that one Harstem IODIS video?
@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 no, personal experience.
@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 also, I MEAN MASS. Like, 100s of ligs, and tens of ultras. Literal monkeys
@@snowdrop9810 You'll enjoy this video, then lol: kzhead.info/sun/o7Gie5dtpWV6YKs/bejne.html
Well, win condition is destroying all buildings, not killing all units. So no, its not insanily stupid)
18:26 LMAO! nice unit captions. XD
Loved watching the full vod run on your archive channel, appreciate the content!
Loved watching the Vod of this! Super hyped
It's absolutely insane how much work Grant puts into his challenges
This was a great run. It's the first run I do see on stream, then the highlight on this channel and it makes me realise how much work one of your videos requires. While I would want more videos, I now see how much work you have to do for each and every one of them and I realise why it does takes so long. So please, just continue making those great highlights, they're just incredible. And GL for the 24h stream, I know I'll at least see part of it :)
this was a fun and dramatic run to watch in the archive, keep up the good work Grant :)
Kerrigan: "In one hour, either arcturus mengsk will be dead, or I will" Grant with 10,000 zerglings:
An incredible effort with "Death From Above" mission. Most challenge-youtubers would just say "well, I can't do anything here" and use Dehaka to clear those power link segments. GG WP for finding a way to use zerglings!
8:40 I mean the Swarmling still has the advantage of being out being out in the field quicker as well as the fact that you can make more Swarmling armies per mission
Look, using Vipers to get drones to a place to make a base to make zerglings was an INCREDIBLE stroke of genius! Good on ya for being so creative! You got nothin to feel bad about!
Your content is so satisfying to look, listen and learn. Please don't stop making those.
So does the fact that it's hot outside have something to do with the Heat of the Swarm?
Mmmm that's hot -Will Smith
14:33 The Soviet part of “The Fallen of World War II”, Heart of the Swarm edition.
Amazing run. It seems like this took more time than writing the thesis for my Master's degree. Your tenacity is beyond admirable.
I remember watching this on the second channel and gooooooood you are so good at turning these challenge runs into stories! Like even KNOWING EVERYTHING I was still on the edge of my seat to see how you'd pull it out! Heh
Keep in mind that on missions like Old Soldiers, Zergling Reconstitution replaces 1 zergling every 3 seconds pretty much constantly, meaning that over the 30 minutes the mission takes, GGG gets 600 zerglings for free. And it's still barely enough.
It's funny how I just finished watching the whole VOD on his second channel. (Grant if you're seeing this you need to add Part 14-17 to the Zergling only playlist)
27:30 OH thank God, I thought you were going to abduct lings one by one and I was about to lose it
Sir, you are sick! I loved it! Cant wait to see more of you, especially tft of course, may the force be with you
Best part of this run was watching science vessels just observing countless zergling go and die like in a documentary
Wow, a GGG video that is not 51685 days from the last one
He posts almost daily on the archive channel.
Raptor Zerglings have gotta be the most satisfying unit to use in Starcraft. Just watching them swarm, pounce, and tear through everything in their path does something for me.
oh shit the full videos out! nice one I just finished watching the archives last week
6:36 >Sread Creep Tumors Oh dear, a typo in a video. You'll never live this down Grant
LITERALLY unwatchable
reminds me of Ymfah a bit, he has a second channel where he releases a teaser for his next challenge video, and for his "Dark souls 2 Consumable Only" teaser he misspelled it as "consumabe" on the title card. he caught it for the actual vide oat least.
@@logion567a comment on typos W a typo in it 😂
Hell yeah Kawabunga ! Exactly what I needed !
That narrative with entirety of sacrifice that was put in this playthrough, is so satisfying i can't express it
A new challenge video from Grant on my birthday? this is amazing
Man these series that provide their own restrictions forcing you to be creative are really enjoyable to watch.
2:40 am yep just me and my nice old hamster and my psychopath bird Who throws all of her food out of her bowl and tries biting me to death no matter what
Finally another video that I can rewatch over and over with the others :D
I remember this from the archives channel, great run!
Watching this half a year later, I gotta say that the swarmling sounds like a much better choice than Grant painted it out to be. If you're mining out the map and coming up short of bodies constantly, maybe getting 33% of your max supply for free is a good deal. At least until maps are so long that you'd get more units from Zergling reconstitution, anyway
I believe the issue is they die too quickly to bust bases, plus no cliff jumping makes a couple of the stealthy attacks impossible
I believe Raptors are much better than Swarmlings ( expect the case of Banelings but it's not this run). Most of the units have good armor and upgrades (from the beginning of a mission). So non-upgraded Swarmlings will take only 2 damage if unit has armor 3. Raptor will take 4 damage against the same unit. So it's twice as more against well armored(3+) units ( which are the most challenging ones in most cases). + Raptors can jump to target which increases chances to hit before die. Absolute win for this run.
@@asvitin sir, this comment is over a year old
Already liked it before seeing it. I know it's going to be epic
Extremely hyped for another vid
o no the lennies
GGG: Will steer the zerglings into a collision course with Mengsk's Palace!
So, Horner, when are you going to steer the Hyperion into a collision course with Mira's Marauders?
@@scienceviking4490 probably after the divorce settlement
Honestly, looking at all this swarmlings may have been a decent strain to use. You talked a lot about how you didn't have the resources to maintain more than 2 maybe 3 armies on some maps. However, the 3rd zergling would've cut down the price of each army a bit, so on missions where you could only supply 2 armies you could've had 3 with swarmlings.
I am happy to see this. Always had the idea in the back of my mind
Keep the challenges coming !
Ayo, zergling best unit
And here I was, thinking I was going to be productive at work
Greay video! I never get bored or tired of your narration. Keep it up!
the vods were so funny. Great content keep it up
13:50 "The Crucible is an incredibly easy mission" Uhm, that's not how I remember it going... 14:35 That's more like it
Yep I was like "Did the timeline change again?"
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YEEEEEEEEEAH Do you think that Devouring Ones(hero lings) would be more useful than Kerri and/or any allies you get?
I know I'm late, but I really like these mostly because you have to think differently and use tactics you wouldn't normally need to use. It's sooo fun to watch! :D
Great video! Would love to see you do starcraft 1 campaign challenges too. A deathless one for sure
The swarmlings were like a coupon, buy 2 armies get the third free, might have been more helpful in cases where you mined out the map.