Marine (StarCraft II)

"The only thing you should feel when you shoot someone... is the recoil."

- Terran Marine

The marine is the basic infantry unit of terran forces.

Game Unit
The marine's ballistic alloy combat shield grants more HP, giving them more survivability against high-damage units. As long as the marine can survive a hit, a medivac dropship can quickly heal it.

Marines excel against immortals, given their vulnerability to low-damage units. However, they are weak against the colossi, due to splash damage from their thermal lances and the 's area-of-effect psionic storm. Marines are also ineffective in small numbers against heavily armored units such as thors, s, s, and s. Groups of s in siege mode can also easily wipe out large numbers of marines far from the latter's range.

They are a crucial component of the MMM strategy, which is particularly effective against protoss /stalker combo and massive zerg roach, ravager army. Large formations of marines can also easily counter void rays.

Versus

 * Upgrades and Abilities

Wings of Liberty

 * Upgrades and Abilities

Co-op Missions
In Co-op Missions, marines are used by Jim Raynor. Nova gains access to the advanced elite marine, with enhanced life, damage and abilities. And Stukov gains access the infested marine, with timed life.
 * Raynor Upgrades

Nova Covert Ops
In Nova Covert Ops, marines can equip one of various provided upgrades and abilities for each mission.
 * Upgrades and Abilities

Quotations

 * See: StarCraft II Marine Quotations

Development
At BlizzCon 2007, marines had a bayonet attached to their rifles but these disappeared from later versions of their model.

Trivia
In the StarCraft II Map Editor one can find a marine with 3 different dances like the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" and the moonwalk.

It is voiced by Chris Metzen.

A mercenary skin is available in multiplayer and can be unlocked by reaching level 30 with terran.