Carriers

I think the MS should become a superunit again leaving the carrier as the main ship in the fleet. Thenthe carrier would be the only Protoss capital ship and the MS would be their flagship

 

The carriers will be useful as air support for any attack on enemy fortified positions, causing mass confusion for a enemy and make it hard to determine exactly how many ground units are attacking. But it still has its weaknesses. AA units can still take on carriers and the interceptors are easy to destroy with a dedicated AA defence, leaving the carrier useless

The mothership should be a super unit and there should only be one on the field at a time; their specials are just too powerful multiples of them would give u an ultimate defence. Imagine what only 3 would do:

one will activate the time bomb ability to slow all enemy units, the second one will deploy planet cracker to kill the helpless ground forces and the third one will use black hole to kill any aircraft foolish enough to stay around

There you go: 3 motherships just killed 40-50 units with minimal damage received

 

And that is why i said people should assume the Mothership is a super unit when talking about the carrier.


EDIT: ^^^ The current Motherhsip doesnt have Black Hole but im sure most people get your point.

 

So is the black hole ability show at Blizzcon edited out or has it not been finalized

It definitely was shown to the Koreans and would obviously make them too powerful to have the ultimate air and ground attack

therefor I'd be happy to have it edited out for balancing purposes

 

The Mothership didnt have the black hole at blizzcon instead it had the ability to cloak ground units and buildings.

 

Then what was the attack that sucked the enemy aircraft into a vertex when the demo for protoss was shown, where its attacked by a lot of BC and makes them all vanish from reality just before the final battle?

the cloaking ability will be very good, like an extremely powerful arbiter that won't die easily

 

That was at WWI a couple of months before blizzcon. At blizzcon Motherships didnt have Black Hole but you could make as many as you liked.

 

oh, ok cuz I saw it on utube and the titles stated they were from blizzcon 2007

I just checked the Sc2 site and yup, the black hole was removed, but now u can build more than one mothership to have multiples of them in one battle

 

They also tolk away its abilitys to fight against anti-air so now it needs other ships like the pheonix to actually defend against air. So all the flashy stuff you saw it take out 6 battlecruisers in a mater of 1 1/2 minutes is simply amazing and all gone.

 

At least it has a weakness now, maybe it won't be as expensive as I originally thought
(My quess was around 1000 mineral, 500 gas, a lot huh?)

That would make the carrier a great escort because of its AA and AG capabilities to defend the motherships when using planet cracker.