Poll: Which race will you play as your main in SC2?

It's as if the poll had nothing to do with the original post ;D
Protoss all the way, and I don't care if the Zerg get some infesting abilities or the Terran some satellite lazorz.

 

I play all three races. But as of now, the protoss are my favorite for sc2, and I will play them first. Colossus and phoenix are my favorite protoss units. Hopefully the phoenix won't get scrapped for the new protoss air unit that Blizzard is working on.

 

i cant say i especially like the pheonix
in fact i like all the protoss units except for it lol
actually i love all the current toss units except for the pheonix, which i hate lol
it just doesnt do it for me....

 

How can you hate it. I think it's more usefull than either than scout or the corsair. The carrier is the only air unit I really used in sc, besides the corsair in PvZ battles.

Also, I think its unit design looks better than the scout's was.

I see it as the ultimate light air superiority fighter.

 

The Phoenix looks freaking awesome and it suits Protoss so well. The only things that Zerg would get to counter it would be a Ground-to-Air attacker because any Zerg air units are going to get torn out of the sky by these things.

 

doubt it
but my point is that its just not special
every unit is unique in its own way
this unit just flies and shoots stuff
nothin speacial about it except it "shoot even more stuff" capability

 

How is it not special?

It's definately better than the scout ever was. The overload ability is awesome and makes it the best AA fighter for the protoss and looks a lot beter than the corsair.

In my opinion, if you don't like the phoenix, you probably hated the scout and corsair since the phoenix is both units but into one.

Funny, I had the feeling that all air units are like this. Isn't that the main point of air units, to fly and shoot things?

 

Haha! Can't expect them to do much more. Also, -Behemoth said 'nothing special about it except it "shoot even more stuff" capability. Dude... That's what makes it special. It's able to unleash an absolute tonne of firepower in a relatively short time.
Saying that the Phoenix is nothing special except for Overcharge is like saying the Siege Tank is nothing special except for Siege Mode which allows it to drastically increase its damage and range or Dark Templar are nothing special except for their permanent cloak and powerful attack.
The Phoenix is the ultimate unit for combating swarms of air units, and seeing as Zerg are based on numbers they're only going to be able to combat it from the ground.

 

Oh man, I just thought, imagine the tears in the zerg players face when his group of overlords gets overloaded. It would be like the corsairs in sc1 all over again, but almost guaranteeing a GG from them instantly.

 

The one thing that the Zerg have going for them is that the Phoenix doesn't have a Disruption Web type ability. However unless the Phoenix is really fragile, I doubt any turrets will do that much to them. Overlords will either have to be faster, more durable, less expensive or give more supply each (or all of the above) to try and balance out Phoenix raids.

 

Well first of all your right, i hated the scout. And say what you will but i just don't see that much in this unit. Also, it is just about the only air unit that does this. The wraith is very similar ill admit, but it could still cloak. Muta's could hit more than one unit, and the rest all had their own special ability, in the traditional blizzard fashion.

 

Zerg all the way! No one besides a true Zerg player realizes the potential of a well stocked Zerg Swarm.


- My life for the Swarm!

 

I'm pretty sure the those who have played against the zerg also have realized the full potential of the zerg swarm.

 

had to think about this, but I'll probably gravatate towards Protoss

 

@-Behemoth. I'm not going to type out the same rant again, so just read my post in this topic.
http://www.starcraft2forum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=47&topic=4281.msg148063#msg148063
It's pretty much my complete rant about how people think the Phoenix is crap, when, in all actuality, it's freaking ownage ('freaking ownage' being the technical term for it).

 

lol no doubt its gonna be powerful
its just not unique

 

Every unit is unique in some way, and I would like to say that the Overload ability makes the Phoenix quite unique actually.

 

and thats where we differ
maybe you think that it looks cool or w/e (granted it does look pretty sweet)
but the gist of it is that it just add more fire power
not "freeze your enemy" or "light it on fire for a while" or "steal energy" etc.
now on the other hand they could always give it the arbiters recall abliity and that would kill my argument right there
but they haven't

 

By what you say, the seige mode for the tank doesn't make it unique, since all it does is give the terran's more fire power.

Of course it makes the tank immobile, which can add some uniqueness to it, but it is a bad side effect. The phoeinix is the same way, it also becomes immobile after using overload.

 

Not only that but it also adds splash
plus the tank is a tank after all
on top of that, the tank was the first with the up power ability, and it is original to it