In Starcraft 2 about how many Terran marines can a Protoss zealot take on?

Question

all of this is assuming that neither of the units has been upgraded and neither is being healed. Also assuming that all of the marines attack at once and it is a fight to the death.

Answer

So the problem with this equation is that Marine DPS increases proportional to the number of marines. However, Zealot DPS increases proportional to the surface area of the Marine "ball." So while 1 Zealot can take down 2-3 Marines, 200 Marines will crush 100 Zealots.

If you can find yourself a nice enough choke, you can probably handle 100 Zealots with 150 Marines.

So there is no good rule of thumb here for ratios of Zealots to Marines.

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