The Marine Shield

I think the shield doesn't really belong. Beyond breaking the classic image of just a marine in a suit with a really big rifle, as it has been for a while now, a better idea could be made to stop melee attackers. I would think a more futuristic idea would be to have special spots all over the marine's suit that, when a melee unit gets too close, protrudes two foot metallic spikes. And when they aren't necessary the spikes retract.

Not that is the best replacement but the point being that there are much better ideas than a hand-held riot shields that we currently have.

 

i agree the shield duznt match...but spikes? i would rather have the shield! spikes? thank goodness blizzard didnt add those.

 

If you hate the shield so much, never upgrade it and you won't see it on your guys.

 

Capital idea! I think I'll forget the upgrade exists.... unless it turns out to be extremely useful, in which case I'll scoff a lot and use it to win.

 

yay, topic over

 

YA well to any extent the shield dosent do shit because if you whatch closely during the tutorial video you can see marines being sliced in half strait down the middle and having their heads cut right off buy the zealot!

 

but the enemy would still use them and it would break the look.

 

i'm sure we can live with that

 

yea, its the enemys choice to look like crap. i prefer to die in style!

 

But now the Marines can use their Gauss Rifles in one hand.
Badamn.

 

seriously. this sheild is pwnage. how can u not love it?

 

There is too much team color on it.

 

Out of a story-based point of view, could it not be possible that the Marines were equipped with shields to cope with Zerglings/Zealots? (Although the latter would seem just as likely to just cut through the shields anyways...) I mean, the 'lings are small and it's easier to kill them while not getting wounded by having a barrier between you and it. Or something like that.

 

Yeah the anti-zergling thing makes the most sense.

 

whats with 14 pages of this topic O_O

 

I think it be kool if they made it where you can have your marines get into a defensive formation like the one shown on project revolution

 

I think they just lined up and faced the zerglings that were running towards them. Nothing really special about it.

 

yeah they need to change the color scheme

 

how can a marine hold a gauss rifle with one hand?

 

they probably have been shrunken down for convienence, or they might not even have gauss rifles anymore.