Starcraft II Races

I don't own and have never played Starcraft II, but I do like watching it and will buy it eventually. I'm just confused about the specific play styles of the different races. What are they? Seems like zerg is grow, expand, kick ass; protoss are tech heavy; and terran are jack-of-all-trades. Am I wrong?

Well no you're not wrong.

Zerg relies on corruption, fast expanding as you said. Unchecked they'll be able to get to an OP point quicker than any of the other races.

Terran relies on harassment and good unit composition. The thing I dislike most about Terran is the way you play Protoss and Zerg is completely different.

Protoss needs to stave off as much as they can to get to the late game. Late game, if given the opportunity to go unchecked and tech up they're pretty much invincible coining the term "death ball."

Stopping a Protoss death ball though is a tall order. Even if they do have creap spread throughout the entire map and brood lords and ultras qued up, it can only take you so far if you keep getting smashed as the Protoss makes its way to your main.

Forcefields, with stalkers and colossus are just deadly.

You're forgetting void rays, the air element of the protoss death ball, which has weaknesses btw. The stalkers and sentries rest under the collosi. The voids fly above. This creates an extremely cramped army susceptible to splash damage. It also isn't mobile, as they have to be together to retain their strength. Any part of that army alone is much, much weaker.

As day9 put it, the best counter to a Protoss death ball is to just go fucking kill them. Don't let them sit back and get a maxed out army.

maxed out zerglings do the trick.

What about the terran? I gather that for none of you they are you're first choice.

So their like a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none kind of deal.

I play Terran, and you can play standard and beat a big scary Protoss army. The most important thing is to have a lot of goddamn vikings.

I play Zerg with Aggresive style of play with Nydus worms, Which are look down upon.
Also use Baneling bombers.

None of that 5 base zerg macro for me

i usaly play starcraft 2 at a friends house but i just had my humanitarian confirmation and got a shit ton of money so im thinking of buying it but im not sure if i'll be able to run it on my pc :?

Its low detail for you!

does that effect the expeience? i've only played on high-ultra my friend has an alienware pc ... lucky bastard

Alienware is way overpriced. Just build your own comp.

It does look like SC1 in low detail.. Lol

Most pros play in low detail. Less shiny things to distract them.

an alien ware stationary costs about 58,000 kr which is like 10,000 usd whiilst the laptop only costs 20,000 kr which is about. 3,500 usd. building youre own beast of a machine will probaly cost ca. 5,000 usd. its so expensive here