I find that Zerg requires more tech/time to obtain an equivalent protoss unit. Even that it's still slightly weaker. For example I need get spawning pool -> hive -> hydralisk den to get hydralisk. Protoss only need cybernetic core to get their stalker.

If the bases are nearby and the terran player doesn't seal his ramp with barracks yes. Once a Terran player knows how to seal his ramp, I doubt you can "outrush" him. Roach needs gas, so if you can rush out many units of roaches , your opponnent too can rush out as many mauraders/marines.

Not forgetting that they can use the reaper hit and run technique early game. As irritating as mauraders.

Many people say zerg race is suppose to mass and conquer. But how are you going to mass when an equivalent unit cost just as much as humans/protoss and the Zerg tier2 units are just equivalent to human/protoss tier 1 units?

yah and the reaper will just jump out from the cliff unharm. Without the creep it's slower for lings.
And when you're slower, they'll just use the "hit and run" technique. A group of 3 reaper can kill a group of 6 lings without getting hit. At that early game it's a big hit to your army.

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Added on August 23, 2010, 3:10 pmYou're limited by the amount of minerals and especially gas. So even if you got 20-30 larvae on standby, what's the point if you can't convert all of them to army units. You will just have as many units as the terran/protoss.


This post has been edited by Drian: Aug 23 2010, 03:10 PM