Reapers

It would be hilarious, I think that 35/25 is ideal.

 

It's prolly gonna be 50 plus some vespene gas.

 

Nuu! must be cheap! 50 plus gas for a light infantry unit? With what we know about them now I wouldnt bother making them.

 

Personally i think the Reaper is a support unit, maybe they have a certain 'ling value early game for rushing (provided they can be built early) but otherwise they're just base-harassment units who go in the backdoor while the bulk of your forces go in front. And i also think it's a little bit too early to say anything about the Reaper, or ANY unit for that matter, seeing as the narrator of the gameplay vid claimed that "nothing you see here is final."

 

fast, hard-hitting unit, that will have a strategic value on the battlefield. swift raider, attacking the back and the flanks, heavy machinery, lightining attacks vs infantry or defended positions, it would be a really special and useful.

 

unless they cant even get close to any of the previously mentioned.

 

Yeah, defense in SC seems to have no flank per say. All defenses really have 360 degrees of lethality so I would definitely say that they are are not viable for defense breaking, considering how weak they are in hp/armor.

 

flanking as in going past defenses entirely and killing off the important stuff.

 

so will it be an early game unit is my question because then terran will be very deadly. (I'm assuming that the colossus is late game due to it's size)

Do you think the reaper have the Jump ability to jump gaps like in space maps ect. like assault squads in dawn of war?

 

o m g i really hope so!!!!!!!
RAPTORS, TO THE HUNT

 

The Reaper has to be a weak unit, or at least have a short range. If a Terran player micro'd his Reapers against a group of zerglings, all he would have to do is jump up a cliff and shoot down at them. If the lings climbed up a nearby ramp to the top, the reapers could jump right back down to the bottom and shoot up. Repeat as necessary.

If they were weak, it would still make the reapers invincible against zerglings by using the cliff trick. I think making them have a short range is ideal, so that they can't fire up cliffs. Or just play against players who are smart enough to divide their lings on both sides of the cliff.

 

^ That gave me an idea!

What if Zerglings could climb up cliffs?

 

well lings do have wings now, so its possible, but it would suck to have 100+ lings just swarming up a cliff past your defences.

 

yea lings going up cliffs would make no sence. ur base would be rubble in seconds.

 

I really hope that reapers dont take the place of firebats... I loved using firebats

 

Chaos owns

 

I much didnt really care about the firebat i found it of no use and only use them if i really had too. But i am getting the idea that the reaper will replace the firebat, i dont know why but thats just the way itll seem to work out for terran.

(not much of a pyromaniac

 

the reaper is the new firebat
just an armour upgrade.

 

cough cough, weapons upgrade

 

From what we know of the Reapers, they will have dual attack mode.
As seen in the gameplay video, they had dual pistols, while in the PC gamer magazine video, they were shooting flamethrowers. But of course, this is all just pure speculation. I sure won't be missing the Firebats if the Reapers are actually replacing them because the Reapers are just soo much cooler than the Firebats.