Starcraft – How to use the Queen in the StarCraft 1 single player campaign

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I am playing the single player campaign of StarCraft (StarCraft 1) on a Windows PC. I am about midway through the Zerg campaign where the game allows you to morph Queens. I don't understand how to use Queens though. What can I do with a Queen?

I mean, is a Queen an attacking unit? Or a defensive unit? Or a scouting unit? There is one map where the game gives me two Queens at the outset, but I don't use them for anything.

Best Answer

Queens are mainly casters with 4 main skills:

  • It has the built in parasite spell that enables you to see the same things the host with the parasite can. (This can be removed only by the medic's restoration)
  • It can Ensnare a group of units slowing them. This can be used to either prevent them from escaping or slowing their advance.
  • Spawn Broodlings can also be researched to turn any ground unit into two broodlings, instantly killing the unit in the process. I don't know what mission your playing, but if that's the first mission in brood war, then you're supposed to use spawn broodlings on the ultralisks your about to come across, effectively rendering them useless. Alternately you can ensnare them and have your hunter killers have a go at them.
  • Last but not least, they can infest a terran command center which turns said command center into a terrorist-training academy for suicidal infested terrans.