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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 2260537" data-attributes="member: 17969">Obviously, I'm with you on the CR 1.  Here's what I figure:The best baseline for determining Challenge ratings of the StarCraft units is probably the Terran Marine.  He's a basic grunt in power armor with a machine gun.  That means he needs, at minimum, 4 feats: Firearms proficiency, Light Armor Proficiency, Medium Armor Proficiency, and Power Armor Proficiency.  If he takes a starting occupation that grants firearms proficiency, Then he can get the three remaining proficiencies as a CR 2 opponent:  The first two with his starting feats, and the last with either the 2nd level strong hero bonus feat, or his third level feat as an ordinary.Conviniently, StarCraft is a computer game, and awards points for unit kills.  Here's the list, broken down into characters/creatures, ground vehicles, and starships.  Most heroes simply have twice the point award of their non-hero varieties, so I've ommitted most of them.  I also included all buildings that do damage or could reasonably be statted up as a creature:Characters/Creatures:10: Civilian, Larva, Critters25: Broodling50: Zergling100: Marine, Drone, Probe200: Firebat, Overlord, Scourge, Zealot250: Medic350: Ghost, Hydralisk*400: Infested Terran450: Defiler, Observer500: Lurker, Dragoon600: Mutalisk650: Dark Templar700: High Templar800: Queen, Reaver1100: Guardian, Devourer1300: Ultralisk, Dark Archon1400: Archon4000: Infested Kerrigan* I think this is a typo on the part of the game designers, and should actually be 250.  It's build score (which is usually half of the kill scores given here) is 125, and the hunter killer has a kill score of 500 (Hero kill scores are usually twice the kill score of the regular unit)Starships:400: Shuttle600: Dropship700: Corsair800: Wraith, Valkyrie1250: Science Vessel1300: Scout1900: Carrier2050: Arbiter2400: BattlecruiserGround Vehicles:100: SCV150: Vulture400: Goliath700: Seige TankBuildings:150: Missile Turret195: Sunken Colony240: Spore Colony300: Photon Cannon2500: Cerebrate4000: Overmind Cocoon10000: OvermindThe zergling is one step below the CR 2 marine, so CR 1 seems to make sense.What was is specifically that you liked and disliked about the various zerglings?</blockquote>

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