Cobra

As we all know the Vulture will most likely be replaced with a new, hovering land unit called Cobra. It is stated that Cobra can move while it's firing enemy units. This makes it really good at killing slow moving melee units without getting even hit by them.

What interests me the most about Cobra is that in the screenshot there appears to be four blade - like parts on its' sides.
Would this open the possibility to simply slice small enemy units into pieces by just driving over them? Don't know wether its balanced or not but is it possible?

take a look at it yourself.

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/gallery/4_20_07_07_2_30_08.jpg

( My first topic :deal: )

 

Those look like some sort of hovering technology things, not blades.
Would still be funny tho XD

PS> say hello to the new vulture.

 

too bad they dont lay mines

 

We've got reapers to lay the mines now and they can just jump off a cliff to save themselves if they get caught ;D

 

Will it even go as fast as vultures did?

 

It'll go faster dude... or if not, just as fast. this thing's supposed to go really fast.

 

damn, the vultures have always been the most annoying units (well, when used against you)

but man, i'd love to go slicing units around >.< lol

 

If this is the upgrade/replacement of the Vulture we know this thing will be freakishly fast and useful against smaller units along with a possible ability obtained through research.

 

This looks to be the perfect counter unit for Thor in a terran v terran.

 

Poor little zerglings or other meele suckers...u are in troubles if i get one of these ;D

 

And the Cobra has been confirmed to attack air units.

Might take the role of ground AA from the Goliath.

 

The Cobra and the Stalkers are going to seperate the men and the boys for SC2.

Sending them in and attack moving, and you would get an useless Cobra/Stalker.
But with careful micromanagement, it is going to yield some satisfying results.

I can't wait to see the pros in tournments using these 2 units in action.

 

Don't count Zerglings out just yet markus, and besides hydras will eat cobras all day long

 

and thors will step on the hydras all day long.

i think they should change the look of the cobras. they need more details.

 

yeah I don't like the look, notice its colour is very different to the other units in the image.. looks more like protoss dark tech

 

yes i agree. it's sort of pinkish... and bad. I wonder if the team colors will just be that.

 

I don't really know if I even like the model itself that much

it pales in comparison to the Banshee <3 <3

but maybe I like it more because I have seen it in the cinematic, who knows

 

Are you all thinking what i'm thinking?

COOOOOOBBBBBBRRAAAAAA!!!!

 

GLOBOGYM!

 

I strongly suspect the Cobra's going to be SC2's harassment unit nr1.