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How to Counter Terran Marines with Terran units – Best Starcraft 2 Terran Strategies Shokz Guide

The Terran Marine is the most fundamental and basic unit of the Terran army. A Marine is a low cost but highly effective foot soldier and as such is vital to any successful Terran strategy.Marines are generally effective against similar but more expensive units such as the Terran Marauder as Marines are more easily produced and massed, especially if you have a Terran Reactor attached to a Terran Barracks. Marines are most effective when massed together into a “bio ball” that provides the player an effective means to eliminate enemy melee units.

So before your Terran opponent can maximize the use of Terran Marines to its optimum effectiveness against you, how will you counter the Terran Marines using your own Terran units? Below are some tips found in this guide…

  • The Ghost – Using Sniper Round does just enough damage (45) to kill a single marine. For only 25 energy, go ahead make use of it, maximize it.
  • Deploy your Siege Tank – When in siege mode, a siege tank kills several marines in one shot. Plus, they severely destroy and outrage them.
  • The Terran Hellion – Using their +6 damage vs light units and their AoE damage, Hellions are great against marines, who generally are bunched up in packs.
  • The Reaper – The reapers deal 18 damage per round of attack against marines, killing them with 3 shots.

So basically those are just one of the simple strategies to beat your Terran opponent using your own Terran units. But there are more advanced and more up to date techniques found in this guide…

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