Pros and Cons of the zerg race?

[fallenwarrior64]

Pros and Cons

What do you think is are the pros and cons of the Zerg race? The pro is that you can mass an army quick and they have some excptional ground units. The con is that they lack in the air fighters department, they just dont measure up to the Terran or Protoss. Tell me what you think.

 

[TaZeR]

Zerg are good at throwing lots and lots of units upon the enemy, to overwhelm him and eventually, kill him. In my opinion, they lack power for individual units.

 

[Original Raccoon]

Hmm - Air Offence Units
Terran: Wraith, BattleCruiser, Valkryie - 3
Protoss: Scout, Carrier, Corsair - 3
Zerg: Scourge, Mutalisk, Gaurdian, Devourer - 4

Zerg air is strongest.

 

[AKA-47]

Zerg definitely has the best air. Mutas can be used in all MUs and scourges are the best anti air. Guardians are also very effective vs Terran, and devourers are good for unit support (they also rape corsairs)

 

[Jay_P]

Scourges are decent but most of the time they are terrible against bc's because they die before they get to the bcs. but yes zerg has a pretty strong air attacks

 

[AKA-47]

Yes, scourges are wasted against BCs. However, devourers and plague are quite effective for countering BCs.

 

[Jay_P]

Yeah i would have to agree with u on that. Plague and Devours are great against bcs

 

[Original Raccoon]

Mix Dark Swarm into the mix when your ground forces are being fired upon by BattleCruisers also.

Zerg Hatchery - 1000th post w00t

 

[Renzokuken]

Congrats on the 1000th post! But i reckon Plague works better. Deals 300dmg?? And use hydras or Devs. But i never really get devourers.

 

[Zmoney]

zerg is really very weak compared to others but there cheap ness compinstates for that

 

[BobTheBuilder]

Zerg are great because they heal. You can attack-pull back-recover-repeat. Devourers don't devour anything until you have a dozen of them. they have a refractory period when they're useless and vulnerable.

 

[AKA-47]

Devourers are backup units. Except that they waste corsairs...

 

[Slick]

2 SimplePlanROCKS:
I don't think they're very cheap, maybe little bit cheaper, but yes, they are much weaker, but compared with the price&damage ratio they are better so they rule in early game. But in mid game and especialy in late game (unless zerg has more bases) zerg looses because for example ling does 5 damage and hits very fast but when oponent has armor zerg attack becomes much weaker. For exampe marine(0 armor) vs ling: ling need 8 hits to kill marine. now marine(3 armor) vs ling: ling need 20 hits to kill marine. now other example: tank(0 armor) vs tank: tank need 5 hits to destroy other tank. now tank(3 armor) vs tank: tank need 6 hits to destroy tank. see, IT iS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO UPGRADE UNITS WHICH DOES SMALL DAMAGE BUT FAST.
...another example: Carrier, if i remember interceptor does 8 damage and BC has 4 default armor so carrier need 500/4= 125 hits to kill BC, now what if BC is upgraded in armor (7 armor). now carrier need 500/1 =500 hits to kill BC big defrence huh?

 

[Original Raccoon]

That does put things into perscpective doesn't it? Anyway... BattleCruisers have a base armor of 3.

 

[Renzokuken]

The thing i like about Zerg, is that you can make about 36 hydras in 30 seconds. If your under attack. Continue to make new units to reinforce your defence.

 

[coRtALoS]

Zerg have the unique ability to allow for completely changing your strategy. Since all units are created from the same building (essentially), you just have to make one to get a whole new unit type ready for mass production.

 

[AKA-47]

Zerg is not weaker than the other races. They have units like lurkers, ultras and defilers to even out the weakness. SC original was all about massing units, so zerg was very overpowered, but in BW u have more micro and timing, which evens it out. Zerg units are still weaker than terran and toss units, but the fact that zerg can expand and defend expansions easier than the other races makes macroing a lot easier for zerg. A good zerg player WILL have more bases than a terran or toss player in late game, no matter if the terran or toss player is just as good as the zerg player.

 

[Valkarius]

I'd have to agree that, individually, Zerg units are the weakest of the 3 races. Th fact that one can produce them in huge numbers while being cheap in terms of cost balances this out. The Zerg, however, can easily outmatch any airforce, if one knows how to micromanage them during a battle.