Marine

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I heard some speculation about marines having the ability to launch grenades. but say, you can research "Smoke Grenades". The function is that of a defiler, but mechanized. You can chose the grenade type, be it explosive or smoke. The marines would only have one grenade each, so in a group of 10, 2 can launch smoke grenades in a zerg infantry group, and kill them quickly with the other explosive grenades, or their guns. And a possible side effect with the smoke grenade, perhaps it can deal damage to enemies inside the smoky area. :army:

 

...what? smoke grenades would only be used for when you're running away

 

hmmm good idea, but wouldn't it be better if it was the siege tank's ability instead? I mean there are so many marines you can make compared to tanks. This way it'll limit the smoke grenades a bit.

@Hillzagold:
I think he's thinking about more of a Dark Swarm kind of smoke grenade.

 

i think marines should be able to use them only. because, detectors would be able to see through the smoke. smoke grenades would be ideal against siege tanks in siege more. but, with a missle turret/science vessel, or overlord or observer/cannon or sunken colony, enemy units would be able to see through the smoke, and kill them marines.
besides, the smoke grenade should only last for 12 seconds tops.

 

Or you could make it where marines throw smokes than it has an aoe which you can target your tanks or whatever else with to give them added defense against ranged weapons I must admit I got the idea from dow tho lool

 

im think the explosive grenades will be more usefull to easily kill enemies.

a combination of both grenades would be deadly too.

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How about flashbangs. temporarily blind units in some area and decrease attack and movement speed.
These would have to cost a lot of energy or else they would be imbalanced. But it's weird that they don't want to take advantage of technology that we already have.

 

Smoke grenades or swarms as you compared them would be harmful to the marines themselves wouldn't it? Then that type of grenades probably would look better on firebats, after all they have easy lighting

As far as damage over time... since marines are so easy to build, it's going to be even more imba than spider mines unless there's an easy way to disarm them.

 

Smoke grenades don't damage anything. They just make smoke. and dont need to be lit...

 

yes smoke grenades incinerate at an extremely high temperature. hence the smoke.

 

yes but that isn't in a large area.

 

it doesn't have to be. you can have multiple marines fire smoke grenades to cover a large area, then wipe out the enemies within.

 

no i mean the heat doesn't travel far.

 

The flash bang idea reminds me how blind sucked in SC. I wish blindness worked differently, having surrounding units provide vision completely defeats the purpose.

They should keep all the original effects of blindness from SC1(sight range and detection loss), but also make blind units have an attack range of 1. This shouldn't be permanent though, but it will still make blinding more useful.

Another idea is to make blind units miss like hell, sort of like blind in RPGs I guess. But I dislike having % chance elements in SC. Even considering impact on gameplay balance, attack range reduction would be a far better idea than % miss.

 

Blind was okay vs Detectors. But i agree fully with your suggestion. Having a severe range penalty when blinded is better than the % chance, and i believe Marines could still shoot stuff in close range when blinded.

 

I liked blinding observers because that makes them completely useless.

 

Even better with overlords.

 

I hardly ever even research optic flare.