Melee Interceptors?

Ive noticed in the new PC Gamer scans the tempest's interceptor's have what seems to be blades on their sides, they look like the batman symbol :thumbup:

I also noticed that in the entire screenie they seem not to be shooting anything so this popped into my head, what if the tempests interceptors are flying melee units that can attack both the land and the air.

In my opinion that is AWSOME, this means that the Tempest is definately a dark templar ship, no DT unit in SC1 is ranged wither (with exeptions of the dark archons spells).

Any thoughts?

 

hey i think they discussed this in the tempest thread but yeah in one of the articles someone linked a scan of it says that they have disc fighters, and that it has no air shields but shields that are activated when shot from the ground

it's gonna look sick tearing through massed hydralisks, cutting them in half

 

That's a pretty interesting concept.

 

there not melee, if you loook realy closely you can see them atacking with a blue pulse thingy, its realy hard to tell it apart from its sheilds

 

Put up a picture so we can see. Either the lazer or when it melee

 

Hehe melee would be totally cool just love that thought

 

Man, I was and am hoping for disc-fighters. That would be totally awsome.

 

I think the blue "buble" is a shield
and the thing is atacking by simply cuting the target in 2

 

cant get the image to upload here....
http://gallery.filefront.com/guimontag//618374/#
the blue line looks like a laser attack, its almost unnoticable when watching the video

 

hmm well judging by how they are disk like aircraft and seem to have blades on each side of the craft (could be wings though) I think its a good guess to say its a melee craft :good:

 

excellent finding. but, the stalker is ranged, but those interceptors are gonna be super slick

 

I hope they get the sound down right. A good buzzing and slashing noise. I love it.

 

Can only be lazer, only appears where Intercepters are.

 

hey guys i read that the tempest cant attack air, it reminded me of the guardian like that

 

Where did you read that?
If it's true it would be really dumb.

Protoss1: Hey guys, since Aiur is in Zerg hands, lets just not remake the big shipyards we had so we can more easily take back our homeworld with carriers, lets instead make these smaller Dark Templar carrier-like vessels that have no defense against air and can't even attack air.
Protoss2: You're dumb.
Protoss3: What are you talking about Protoss2, thats a great idea Protoss1.
Protoss2: They'll just be flying around and ALWAYS need support from Warp Rays and Tempests thus causing an even bigger financial strain because they'll just get ass raped by any air that comes by.
Protoss1: Haha Protoss2 thats the dumbest thing I've heard and I'm 700 years old. Tempests will just evade them.
Protoss2: I slept with your wife.
Protoss1: You WHAT?!
Protoss3: Damn.

 

your art rocks! i watched some of the movie and i read the article on the page here.

 

lol funny but i serisouly hate the tempest....
SInce the protoss is an ancient race they decided they want to go backwards...invent the tempest who sucks to everything compare to carriers and have the gayest shield that "activates only v ground" like serisouly is it that hard to make on that goes around the whole ship?? they did it with carriers but i guess the engineers is suffering from memory loss and decided to make a dumber version of the mighty carrier... and they even take out the damn arbiter,,,what are they thinking .... lets not forget they abondoned the anti building ability for the corasiers which was a really good thinking... lets invent something and dont use it later

 

Page five homes.

"It will have no defense whatsoever against air attacks"

Means no shields, no way to take 'em down.

 

Since when are Interceptors defense? Anyways, Tempests CAN attack air. You can see one attack a Battlecruiser in the last scene of the leaked video. Look for green sparks - Those appear whenever a Melee Interceptor strikes a target.

 

No defense means no defense. Offense is a defense.