Definitions
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- verb slang, video games To
attack anopponent with a largeswarm ofunits before they have been able to build sufficientdefences .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So when you fight 3 or more other 'average' size alliances, you get outnumbered pretty quickly and the label zerg comes into play, mostly because the lack of organization that can exist in large battles when you have multiple teams playing a single side using different voice channels for communication, etc.
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“Rule number one for running an empire, son: When the zerg are a topic of conversation, the niceties go out the airlock.”
Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007
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The critical feature underlying the difference seems to me is: "PvP for the sake of PvP" - the assumption here is then the zerg is a convenient vehicle by which to further an activity which most players want to engage and *can*.
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Feel betrayed by the rushed Digital Economy Bill, undebatedly voted for in what seasoned gamers would call a zerg attack?
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A zerg defense is simply putting the 'zerg' between the attacker and the fixed objective, and constantly throwing the people in front of the attacker like you would throw women and children in front of a spear charge.
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A body of players or army involved in a zerg is collectively referred to as a "zerg", while a player who participates in zerging is part of the zerg is often called a Zergling…
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Galrahn Ya they were disorganized, had no tactical plan, and tactically "zerg" describes exactly the tactic they deployed, but the most important element of the battle wasn't the tactical aspect of the fight from their perspective, it was strategical value holding that castle had for the zerg.
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Ya they were disorganized, had no tactical plan, and tactically "zerg" describes exactly the tactic they deployed, but the most important element of the battle wasn't the tactical aspect of the fight from their perspective, it was strategical value holding that castle had for the zerg.
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When a zerg is labeled to a large PvP guild, often the element overlooked by a smacktalking PvP group making the accusation is that supposed 'zerg' PvP guild is extreamly organized and often structured to fit more playstyles than typical PvP 'hardcore' style guilds, which allows the 'zerg' to outgrow other PvP guilds.
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I personally have found that the 'zerg' tactic is more common in defense than in attack, pretty much everywhere except in Starcraft where the term came from.
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