Starcraft II Analysis - Marauder vs Marine

What's better, A Marauder or a Marine?

If they had to fight each other, it would be the Marauder.

But that's not Starcraft II is played. So we shall look at it from a different scenarios.


Marauder, 100 minerals, 25 gas 2 supply. Has 125 hit points. deals 10 damage to units, and 20 damage to armored units. 1 armor and has attack range of 6. It can only attack land however, making it weak versus air. Its attack has 50% movement speed slow on hit target, quite useful for chasing down running zealots and other units.

Marine, 50 minerals, 0 gas, 1 supply. Has 45 hit points, deals 6 damage, 5 attack range, 1 armor. it attacks faster than Marauders. Marines can attack ground and air, making it a good all around unit.

Both units are able to use stimpack ability, giving a temporary movement and attack speed boost at the cost of 10 health for Marines, and 20 health for Marauders.

Stuff not shown on the stats chart but need to be mentioned are:
- both of these units have 0 regeneration rate.
- marine has a fairly small collision size, where as marauders have a slightly bigger collisoin size
- marines attack projectiles are instant hit, where as marauder attack projectiles take time to hit, it has to fly like a missle.