Marauder

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Marauder
Unit
Race	Terran
Role	Heavy Infantry Support Unit
Properties
Hit points	125[1]
Type	Biological[2][3]
Armor type	Armored[3][2]
Transport slots	2[4]
Production
Minerals	100[1]
Gas	25[1]
Supply	2[3][5]
Build time	30 seconds[3]
Produced at	Barracks[5][6][3]
Requires	Tech Lab[6][5]
Hot key	D[3]
Combat
Ground attack	6 + 6 vs armored (x2 attacks)[7]
Air attack	N/A
Armor	1[3]
Attack range	6[3][8][3]

The marauder is a terran infantry unit in StarCraft II. It replaces the firebat from earlier development builds.^[9]

Contents 1 Game Unit 1.1 Upgrades 1.2 Abilities 1.3 Wings of Liberty Upgrades 2 Development 3 Trivia 4 Images 5 References

[edit] Game Unit

The marauder is equipped with dual missile or grenade launchers that are effective against armored targets and slow the speed of enemy units. Slowed units are briefly covered in purple light.^[10] The marauder can only slow one opponent at a time.^[11]

The marauder is considered an early support unit, designed to pick off early game units. It is useful for slowing down fast melee units.^[6] Marauders are better off facing mixed (light/armored) enemy forces, but are especially useful against the armored roach.^[12] They are also powerful against stalkers, immortals and, to a lesser extent, siege tanks and thors.^[13] As of April 2009 they could bypass an immortal's hardened shields.^[14] Marauders can destroy buildings very quickly. The marauder is vulnerable to zealots.^[10] As a general rule, a player battling zerg should build fewer marauders than usual, while against the protoss, marauders are effective, though work well with medivac dropships as a "commando force" when battling the former.^[15]

Marauders take up double space in a bunker^[16] and in a Medivac dropship.^[4]

[edit] Upgrades

Infantry Weapons[17]
Researched at	Engineering bay[18]
Hotkey	W[17]
Properties
Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 100[19] 175[17] 250[17] Gas 100[19] 175[17] 250[17] Research time 170[19] 200[19] 230[19] Required Ghost academy[17] Ghost academy[17]
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Infantry Armor
Researched at	Engineering bay[18]
Properties
Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Minerals 100[19] 175[19] 250[19] Gas 100[19] 175[19] 250[19] Research time 170[19] 200[19] 230[19]
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[edit] Abilities

StimPack
Cost $35,000[20]
Acquisition Minerals 100[19] Gas 100[19] Research time 110[19] Researched at Merc compound[16][21]	Usage Hit points 10[22][23] Hotkey T[22]
Notes
Enables affected infantry to attack and move more quickly by 50%.[23]
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The marauder had stimpacks as of July 2009.^[24]

[edit] Wings of Liberty Upgrades

Jackhammer Concussion Grenades[25]
Campaign	Wings of Liberty
Notes
Slowing grenades affect area around target[25] due to gravitic lensing to magnify the energy release.[20]
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Juggernaut Plating[25]
Campaign	Wings of Liberty
Notes
Armor +2[25] as the suits protect weak points.[20]
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[edit] Development

The marauder was originally equipped with dual concussion-grenade launchers which reduce a biological unit's speed immediately by a set percentage. A charging zealot would still move quickly after being struck by a grenade.^[26]

[edit] Trivia

The name "marauder" is most likely a reference to the novel Starship Troopers, wherein the heavy powered armor suit for soldiers was called a marauder.

In pre-release versions of StarCraft I, the marine was known as the "marauder".^[27]

[edit] Images

Development model.

Portrait.

[edit] References

Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft II
Infantry	SCV · Marine · Reaper · Marauder · Ghost
Land Vehicles	MULE · Hellion · Siege tank · Thor
Air Units	Viking · Medivac dropship · Banshee · Raven · Battlecruiser
Basic Buildings	Command center · Refinery · Supply depot · Barracks · Engineering bay
Automated Defenses and Explosives	Auto-turret · Defensive drone · D-8 charges · Missile turret
Support Buildings	Orbital command · Planetary fortress · Sensor tower · Bunker
Add-ons	Tech lab · Nuclear reactor
Advanced Buildings	Merc compound · Ghost academy · Factory · Armory · Starport · Fusion core
Other	Drop pod · Nuclear missile
Campaign-Exclusive Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft II	Infantry	Firebat · Medic · Rebel · Spectre
	Mercenaries	(Kel-Morian Mercenaries — Elite marines) · (Devil Dogs — Elite firebats) · (Hammer Securities — Elite marauders)
	Land Vehicles	Cobra · Diamondback tank · Goliath · Transport truck · Vulture
	Air Units	Hercules dropship · Wraith
	Automated defenses	Perdition turret · Shrike turret
Scrapped	Removed Units	Mine drone · Predator · Spider mines · Targeting drone
	Removed Buildings	Munitions depot · Radar tower · Shadow ops · Star base