Protoss Mothership!

That would be me.

I'd assume that the Dark Templar are pretty much the same as they were assuming they are still there which they should be.

 

well there back, thread closed

 

mabye its just me but i dont feel like spending all my minerals and gas on the mothership when it could be easily killed useing lockdown, emp, feedbak, nuke, etc

I dont like having to rely on 1 unit :-\

 

wow u just totally killed the MOTHERSHIP RULES moment T_T

 

You bring up an interesting point. Players will have to make a choice as to whether it is worth the risk of losing.

 

I don't think Blizzard will let those conventional cheap tricks work on it.

 

i bet the mothership would be able to inflict serious damage to enemy zerg bases.

 

not if the mothership gets ensared, plagued, and has about 10 scourges crash into it

im pretty sure the black hole will not act quick enough to catch scourge

 

Conventional tricks taking out the biggest enemies is what starcraft is famous for.

The mothership will be easily countered, or this wont be starcraft 2 =P

 

Sure, but they wouldn't make a unit that costs so much and is easier to counter than a normal attack force worth the same amount of resources.

But of course it could be taken down with proper measures.

 

People who just build a mothership are stupid, see it as a big support unit, so defend it with your life

 

ya, dont just fly in a mother ship and go "k... kill stuff" fly in a hundred other units with it and go "K... rape the crap out his base"

 

i wonder if u can cloak the mothership with a arb ^.^ that would totally rape

 

Hmm. IF there is an Arbitor still... id say No. Mothership to me seems more like a Building than a Unit, and u cant cloak buildings

 

well u can get cloaked buildings but u cant cloak one

 

the mothership is the figure head of an army, not a stand alone unit. it would only be useful by itself in campaign.

 

If you are referring to the cloaking zerg trick from starcraft 1, I tested it, and once the building is finished it becomes uncloaked.

 

Conventional tactics brought down the motherships in Independence Day so why not here. Sure its a big target but you gotta have a large force around it to protect it and make sure it doesn't get hurt and you get all its amazing abilities.
I don't know if anyone has played Homeworld 2 but there is a Battleship/Battlecruiser for each of the two races. These ships are really big and really hard to kill with pretty much anything except lots and lots of smaller ships or another ship like it. Generally in team games, one person would tech straight to this vessel because it was God on the battlefield, much better than the Protoss Mothership. However, once both sides had one, the other players always needed to protect the Battleship because it was the primary target of the enemy fleet (or they would just hyperspace in and destroy your mothership within seconds but generally people got inhibitors to prevent this). So, it needs a big fleet around it.

 

oh homeworld2 is awesome... BC in hw2 is ridiculous and unlike mothership in starcraft2 you can have 3 of them in default setting.. and ya, that beast is not designed to be a lone wolf, you need a WHOLE fleet of varies ships to protect it.