Yeah, I'm playing StarCraft too (not only diablo II). So guys, wich one is your best race? best strategy? and best unit?

I don't have a favorite race I always play with random xD (but man, all the races are damn good).

I play Terran. I love the marine/medic combination, backed with siege tanks.

Man marine/medic combo is not very good, specially because you can get owned pretty quickly.

The best in when you use a siege tank is using firebats/medics, yeah you don't cover a air attack, but is much better because the firebats deal a lot of damage and can damage a lot of units at the same time, and this works awesomelly against zealots (protos), and zergs units.

Also that combo is only good for a rush (and if the other is protoss, then you are owned).

Edit: Also that combo fails if the other have ghosts =/. At the end you need a bigger combo. With terrans I preffer firebats/goliats with a group of medics (you cover a good ground attack and anti air), siege tanks for the siege and a explorer science vessel (you have a detector, a defender and you can take the shield of the protoss... all in one).

2nd one coming out on the 27th?

What, are you serious!? Marines are a staple of TvZ because they are cost effective and a skilled terran can own zerg lurkers with good micro. Infact one of the more popular Terran strats to use against Zerg (SK Terran) involves making large squads of marines and medics alongside science vessels for irradiate and defence matrix to counter defiler/lurker or ultralisk play.

In TvP your also better off going vultures, goliaths, and siege tanks. Firebats, goliaths, and medics makes no sense because your splitting your tech for no reason. You either go single factory fast expand, or pressure with double factory. Personally when I play terran I prefer to go 2 factory to spider mines and play aggressive.

I usually only use zerg at competitive level anyway and I have a chronic addiction to FE, in both SC:BW and SC2. It sometimes makes me a very vulnerable player. =(

Man, in all my match's T/Z, when I use marine/medics I have to use a lot of marines, but using a few firebats I do more damage in less time. I don't know why, but most of my matchs my marines get owned pretty quickly and firebats have become my standar unit.

But against zergs, irradiation and you win.

I usually play zerg on 1v1 maps and do a 4 pool rush. I almost always win because the other dude isnt expecting me to do such a risky tactic, it pays off though. Terrans will have like 1 marine up while im on my 3rd set of zerglings. I can't play zerg any other way though

Speaking of firebat vs marine:
Against:
-Zerg: No brainer here, firebats win all the time. Aoe, more damage, stimpackable, usually up before zerg has time to put up flight units. They just output more damage than marines 100% of the time against zergs.
-Terrans: Here it depends on what the other terran is using. Usually he'll have firebats/marines and siege tanks and medics too, so it falls to whoever kills the infantry first, which firebat is better at, since again, they have stimpacks.
-Protoss: Firebats. Marines have no chance against zealots with the movespeed upgrade, and the protoss never use airstrikes unless its carrier spam, but then if he's doing that, silly goose are you using marines for.

Basically I think Firebats>Marines. More damage at the cost of range and anti air, which isnt a bad tradeoff at all. And anyone who says stimpacked marines pwn obviously never used stimpacked firebats.

And please, no more "if he can micro" bs, microing is a skill needed by sc players. If you can't micro you're screwed no matter what you have against your opponent.

Hey....You're still here. I thought you got bored.

There is a big difference between being able to micro, and being able to micro exceptionally.

Firebats are fine against lings and such, but lurkers are going to eat them alive. Less marines also means your more susceptible to muta harass. I guess it all depends on the level you play at; if you are able to 4 pool almost every game and win, i'm sure firebats will do just fine.

I suppose I should feel insulted, but I'll let that zing pass ;P

Lurkers get pwnd by terrans because of the satelite dish detection thingy. So no. Lurkers will not eat them alive. And while we're on that subject, lurkers will kill marines just as efficiently. Face it, Firebats are better in every way besides the fact that they cant shoot airborne. But then again, whos gonna try to fend off airborne assaults with marines when u have vultures?

@Renzo: Yeah I missed this place ;) And you :o

Why someone would want marines, if they can have Firebats?

Yeah Marines can shot airborne, but who cares? the deal with terrans is not using one unit to do all the job, is mixing units. Marines with Medics sound a great combo, but is much better if you have goliats, firebats and medics working together, if you use marines to do all the job, you are going be forced to divide your troops, and marines are weak, so you are going to lose. If you have firebats (strong ground unit) doing his job, goliats doing his job and medics doing his job, you are going to have units that can work together and also can be divided for different purposes.

And yeah Satelite owns lurkers. Also firebats with stimpacks are enough faster to kill lukers before they can go underground.

Edit: Also I preffer goliats as anti airborne because: It can attack air and not air units, Most of the airborne have weak attacks against ground units and they look cool.

I should probably apologise for being so blunt, this has been a bad week for me.

See, the reason why firebats aren't as efficient at dealing with lurkers is simply because of range. Lurkers deal massive AOE damage and unless you have marines with the range upgrade, you're going to lose. The extra time it takes for firebats to reach attack range is too long, if your lucky, you might kill a couple.

Firebats also use vespene gas; vespene gas which you could be using to build tanks or tech. Also if it reaches late game, and defilers are out, you will need vespene in abundance to pump science vessels, or else you will lose the game.

I think the general consensus among most of the players I know, (some of whom play diamond league in SC2) is some firebats are good, but you don't use them as a staple.

One more thing, mixing too many different types of units is usually a bad idea. You're going to leave yourself behind in the macro game trying to keep up with weapon/armor upgrades for different types of units. For zerg this isn't so much of an issue, since upgrades are more universal, (except air) tech switching is much easier.

Naa, is not hard this combo, basically because firebats are not expensive and non of thes units have special skills, so is easy to use them.

Stimpacked Firebats can kill a revealed lurker before it can get off more than 1 hit. Lurkers aren't effective against Firebats THAT much.

Im not saying i would use firebats as 90% of my lineup, im saying i use them instead of marines. with terran I usually do a siege tank rush with firebats and goliaths and then make nukes for ghosts to explode the base.

Uh-huh.....