have a unit attack it one time that deals exactly 10 damage and to heal, you use a medic
With triggers though you couldn't.
I was thinking about using something like that for some spells once. Having a dark templar deal actual damage and using a few computers so taht I could use a different players dt to have different upgrades, so the spell did more damage.
And I usually use switches instead of death counters. As long as the triggers work it really don't matter if I use switches or death counters, they basically have the same affect.