Cannon Rush

Definition: Your Protoss opponent tries to kill your building Natural (mostly Hatch first) with Photon Cannons.

Detection: Send your second Overlord over your building second Hatchery and make sure to spot everything around it, especially behind the mineral patches. You can easily accomplish that by queueing up several move commands with this Overlord in order to cover as much space as possible. Also, keep an eye on his scouting Probe and be especially watchful everytime this Probe disappears in the fog of war. Detecting this Cheese immediately is by far more than half the way to go!

Reaction: The point is to never let a Cannon finish. If you have executed the Detection part right you are set to come out ahead, if you are reacting accordingly. And again, I have to stress that the Detection part is the most vital thing here! Since you Hatch firsted your Zerglings will not be anywhere near completion, meaning that you need to pull Drones off the mineral line. The correct amount decides if you come out ahead. Send too little and your Natural dies, send too many and he plays the canceling game and you will lose too much mining time for almost nothing. I recommend setting 1 Drone to attack the Probe and 3-5 to attack the building Pylons and Photon Cannons.

Procedure:

- Upon scouting the Cannon Rush send out the right amount of Drones immediately

- Build a Spawning Pool as soon as possible

- keep building Drones until the Spawning Pool finishes

- clear the remaining/building Pylons/Cannons with Zergling support if the Drones did not manage it yet

- macro like a mad man