Do you still use marines in late game?

I'm just wondering, cuz I've seen videos of Terran players that still use marines a lot in late game along with siege tanks and some that fully switch to goliath/siege tank and i wondered how many people actually still use marines a lot in late game.

 

I've been known to have a few marines w/ medics in the late game. It just depends on the situation. Marines can be a great decoy in order to protect more expensive units. This topic should probably be in the original starcraft forum though.

 

if there are still some alive they tag along with the golaiths/siege tanks.

 

usually I make a bunch at start of game then a few medics and just use the survivors always have atleast a few

 

Actually if I have any bunkers left at the end of the game then I always have marines at the end cause I fill those with marines. Don't much bother with firebats, usually don't even get an academy in regular starcraft.

 

yeah, do not really use firebats either...

 

all firebats really do is slow down my ability to get tanks and goliaths.

 

they are a great distraction or a roadblock to slow down a large force

 

so are marines. and marines don't waste my vespene gas.

 

Marines are always useful no matter which stage of the game it's on. They are highly versatile, lasts longer with the help of medics. I would even use marines to take down carriers or BCs if I don't have my goliaths or wraiths prepared.

 

i normally put 1 firebat in each bunker near the chokepoint when im fighting zerg. it makes zerglings much easier to put down when theres lots of them.

 

marines are the backbones of the terrans, a good player will always have at least a couple of marines haning around, even if they are just survivors from tier 1 phase

 

At the end of one game a while ago (original starcraft) I remember having 10 marines at the very end of the game in vary degrees of poor health. But they all survived from beginning to end. I believe they were bunker marines originally that I had taken out because I didn't need them defending that base anymore.

 

xD, see? paragon must be a good player!

 

i meant marines. i wasn't referring to your firebats

 

I always use Marine/Firebat/Medic combos to the end of a game. They're fun for assaulting towered bases with Siege Tanks.

Sometimes I make 8 Marines and 4 Firebats to assault a base while my Ghost comes in to Nuke.

 

If someone lets 8 marines and 4 firebats do anything to their base or be a distraction they aren't a good player.

 

Yea, i normally make it look like a real assault, like sending in air support and a couple of expensive units.

 

in the end of the agme i not use the marines i use goliaths insdeat of marines

 

Yea I go full metal sometimes but marines are more versatile, autoheal, bunkers and more of them, focused fire can really hurt.