Starcraft 2 Thoughts: Marine Medivac endgame Transitions

Many Terrans like to use Mass Marine with Medivac support as basic game play, there are many good reasons to do this. 

Marines are cheap, and good vs most things, so if you favor aggressive play, then Marine centered Unit Comp will fit your playstyle.

Couple of problems are common with Mass Marines though, one is unless you only take one or two Gas, you will have tons of Gas, while burning all your minerals on Marines.

Marines also have problems vs some higher Tier units.

So what to do?

I have three thoughts.

First, be very aggressive with upgrades, not only double Ebay for attack and armor upgrades, but think about 3rd one for Neosteel Frame (2 more marines fit in Bunker), Hi Sec Auto Tracking (+1 range for Turrets, Auto Turret, PDD, and PF's), and maybe even Building Armor (+2 Armor for buldings, includes Auto Turret, PDD, etc).

The Neosteel Frame upgrade is really a DPS upgrade, because of stacking! 

Second, get Ghosts and Nukes!  Get all the Ghost upgrades as well.  Make several Ghost Academies, Nukes don't cost Food!  A Ghost centered army in late game is scary, but having 20+ Nukes is even scarier IMO!


Third, get Ravens!  With an upgraded Bunker, or two, holding 6 Marines each, backed up by PF and some upgraded auto Turrets, range 7 that last for 240 SC2 seconds, you don't need to worry about drops, or run bys, or small backstab attacks crippling your base before you can respond.

So you can keep being aggressive with your Army.

The Ravens also work as a combat multiplier, just like the Medivacs do, multiplying the effect of the Marines and the Ghosts.

PDD stops all kinds of attacks, keeping the fragile marines alive longer so they do more damage before dieing. 

While the detection lets you kill Obs easy, and the Seeker Missile or HSM , which can't be out run by Overseer, will easily take out Overseer if your trying to land Nukes!!!!  Though it takes two missiles to kill one Overseer, though with splash you might do better than that if the Overseers are clumped.

Same goes for killing enemy Ravens with Seeker missile, Raven can't out run it, though again it takes 2 Missiles to kill Raven.  Don't forget you can EMP Orbitals to kill Scan energy.

GL HF,

Cliff