Melee Interceptors?

I don't know about that. If tempests are indeed weaker than carriers then I think people will be massing them more often. Carriers were useful in groups of 3-4, but to match that you'll have to have 5-6 tempests, if not more.

Edit: Actually, the new phrase will be Mass mass tempest = instant win. ^_^

 

^unless they have, oh i dont know, maybe...air!

 

haha if someone masses tempests i'll laugh so hard. And then obliterate them with wraiths.

 

if someone masses tempest, ill get a few pheonix and take my sweet time killing them all. i might use overload a few times just because it looks cool.

 

plus overload will probably kill every interceptor they have.

 

assuming that their interceptors can even attack air.

 

well i was thinking more along the lines of they were attacking your base and you just overload on all their interceptors killing them rather quickly.

 

oh. well that works too. i just wanna see the million explosions from overloading on mass tempests with their interceptors deployed. if there were 12 tempests and 12 interceptors each, thats 144! thats a lost of things firing from overload.

 

it's a shame we never see the tempest use its interceptors to attack. or, are they still called interceptors?

 

We have. The missile turret in the leaked vid didn't blow itself up.

 

oh. are they melee?

 

It appears that way to me, but it's really hard to tell visually.

 

Two things make it pretty clear that at least in this stage of development they are in fact melee interceptors:
1) There is no visible attack shown by them that would lead anyone to believe they were ranged
2) they spin

 

they have blade looking things on either side of of the center, and we don't know if they are called interceptors!

 

well what else are we gonna call them?
saw-ers? flowers?

 

Bat-erangs!!!!

 

Lol baterangs, and I hadn't thought of the inmense damage an overload would do to a tempest, killings its ammo lol. Paragon, nice strat with the two defensive matrix science vessels spotting ovservers.

 

well i figured one science vessel wouldn't last long enough and if there are two they might as well defense matix each other

 

Yea, did you make that one up?

 

yes. right on the spot too.