Cobra

its not over. season 5 just ended i think.

 

didnt they stop at ep 100, then move to shadowrun?
on topic, cobra is fine

 

hmm. last episode i saw was 99, and it was cliff hanger-esque, and i thought it was the last episode of season 5. im gonna watch 100 now.

 

I think Cobra is way too C&C'ish

 

i dont.

@Gui and Ship, haha episode 100 was great. i guess red vs blue is over though. o well.

 

Ya RvB is over and so is Shadowrun. I dunno what they are doing now. Maybe taking a break.

 

name it stinger or scorpion.

 

Its rather slow to be a counter for zealots or zerglings even when shooting while moving, we dont know the stats or at least i dont know them to see if its better to mass than vikings, even though it can shoot air units which is cool. Do you think one cobra will kill one stalker ?

Im somewhat confused with the Cobra and its role right now, it didnt seem to run circles around the Thor as i thought it would. The Thor still managed to shoot most of the time, and 6 cobras barely killed 1 thor +4-5 marines.

 

its an anti tank unit, also in one of the blizzcon vids it shows a cobra taking down about 1 stalker and then being killed by another stalker soon afterwards.

FROM BLIZZCON:
130 HP
10 Damage +25 vs armoured
5 range
normal weapon speed

 

So how do you know whats armoured whats not?

So nothing from the barracks, zealots,dark templar,high templar. Everything else will take a serious beating....35 damage..Ouch...

What about zerg lol ? Is this unit going to be completely useless vs Zerg?

 

i think armoured just means mechanical.

 

So zerg is completely out then

 

It's the mixture of siege-tanks (normal mode) + vultures. I remember that siege-tanks and goliaths could be used to lure zergs and attack them while running because of their "shoot while moving" hability. Cobras can do the same, and are hovering units. I suppose they will take the place of land hit-and-run techniques, since vultures had to stop to shoot, and now that they can shoot while moving, and can overcome armored units like the STs higher dmg, they should have been slowed down anyway to make up for it.

 

except that it does only 10 damage to light armroed troops. To sum it up, the cobra is a mobile anti-armor.

 

yes, it's a mobile anti-slow-armored units. But Ultras are armored aswell. They were very tough in the first, and they should count amongst these in the second. ^^

 

Well Cobras poison slow units

 

I'm sure that'll be the case as is all heavyily armored whether it'd be biological or mechanical.

 

Well, from what I am reading I'd use the Cobra for support fire, now that I know what a couple of cobras can do to a Thor I will be keeping cobras around my thor, not only marines.

 

units are going to have different armor types like in wc3, in sc1, the armor types were small, medium, large. this will definitely change.

so armored will be one of the new armor types

 

They probably mean armored as in Large. But as we can see from the new screenies the SCV is Fleshy-Mechanical, so there will defently be new armor/unit types.