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Best unit to mass in Starcraft?

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zerglings.... but if the terrans have bunkers with firebats and marines in them....

ownage...

onza
 
Originally posted by: onza
hehe

zerglings.... but if the terrans have bunkers with firebats and marines in them....

ownage...

onza
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Not quite the ownage if you have them fully upgraded. And that must be the only thing you mass. And you must make them quickly.
 
I think people underestimate firebats. Upgraded firebats combined with good micro-management (Make sure you use stimpak!) will tear up on just about anything. They will definitely rape zerglings. Some kind of air support is definitely useful though.
 
Originally posted by: NEVERwinter
i'd prefer upgraded hydralisks, zergling can't attack air units man...
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Yup, at the early and mid stages, mass hydralisks are enough. At the end of the game, add 12 guardians to that death squad. 😎


🙂atwl
 
I like hydras. Should they have tanks and such for ground defense, then I go with guards and defilers. Never massed zerglings cause it's so hard to get them to attack all at once. There's so many of them!!! :Q
 
Carriers of course. Even just six fully upgraded carriers can decimate an entire base and its supporting troops in a very short time. About the only thing that can bring them down is a masses and masses of scourge or a very powerful airforce.

Archons are excellent as well and pretty much their only weakness is an EMP blast from a Science Vessel. Twelve Archons, while expensive, can rip through just about anything including a strong airforce.

Zerglings aren't the best except perhaps for a very early Zergling rush. Later on Archons and Zealots backed by shield batteries can mow down Zerglings indefinitely, as can Siege Tanks backed by bunkered Marines/Firebats with SCVs for repair.
 
Marines, fully upgraded, with marines and stimpacks nothing in the air is a problem and they waste ground units. throw in a few firebats and medics and ownage... can win the game without building a unit that isnt made in the barracks

and carriers can easily be brought down by golaiths, or a small group of ghosts so they arent that great, cloaked wraiths also screw over carriers.
archons are ok cept smp wrecks them and by the time you8 get enough of them the other side has a sizable army as well.
 
Relying completely on any single powerful unit is very foolish, as they can all be countered in one way or the other.
You can lockdown large vessels, Archon's have a major weakness aside from the danger of EMP's, Conc/Expl/Normal damage doesn't come into play against that shield, Ultralisks have no air or ranged capabilities, etc.

If you just have to swarm, do it the way it should be done, lots of small units, a few big ones is far too easy to out-micromanage.
 
mass i'd have to say the 6 starting units.. SCV, DRONES, or Probes

the bomb digggty boooooooomb
 
ghosts and nukes 😀

or science vessels, they are so powerful if you have a mass of them. you can own on zerg hard because you can irradiate everything and anything including other science vessels. here's a trick, take two science vessels, have them irradiate each other then mvoe them both over the zerg oppenents mineral line so they cover the whole thing. wait about 6 seconds and boom bam, all drones dead
 
Relying completely on any single powerful unit is very foolish, as they can all be countered in one way or the other.
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Agreed but if I had to mass a group of units I'd like to have Carriers or Archons.

If you just have to swarm, do it the way it should be done, lots of small units,
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Small units get annihilated too. In fact if you make one little mistake you can lose half of your army.

A row of Siege Tanks will easily wipe out twelve Zergling with one barrage of fire and a Reaver can kill six Zerglings with just one shot.

cloaked wraiths also screw over carriers.
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Obvously it's implied that you'll take detector units with you, no matter what kind of attack you launch. Even when attacking with Zerglings it pays to take some Overlords with them, otherwise they'll get butchered by Dark Templar and any other unit cloaked by Arbiters.

werent science vessels expensive ?
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Yes, not to mention that they'll get ripped to shreds by Spore Colonies and Hydralisks of you try that trick on the Zerg.
 
Agreed but if I had to mass a group of units I'd like to have Carriers or Archons.
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Yeah, of course any swarm consisting of just one unit will be easially defeated by anyone who's decently skilled, but at least a 300 Zergling rush is cool and worth being called a mass or swarm 😉
 
A bunch of properly-placed Templars can kill a zergling rush of any size unless your base is completely open with no choke points. 😎


🙂atwl
 
Zerg - Hydras
Terran - Goliaths
Protoss - Dragoons or scouts

Range units are the only way to go.

Why am I replying to this thread:|
 
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