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 hit points, 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, carriers, and s. Groups of siege tanks 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 army. Large formations of marines can also easily counter void rays.

Co-op Missions
In Co-op Missions, marines are exclusive to Jim Raynor. Nova gains access to the advanced elite marine, with enhanced life, damage and abilities.

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

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.