The Marine Shield

If I could have a shield, made any way that I wanted and to any specification, I'd make it circular and bladed edges, around 5 feet in diameter or so. Maybe a motor in the center so that I could make it spin at a really high rpm when the zerglings got close. Blunt force trauma would not work that well in my opinion, unless you smacked it in the face, threw the shield on it, and stomped a few times...then you could pick umpteen hydralisk spines out of your face from exposing yourself so blatantly when you could have shot your gun

 

Well shields are not supposed to be weapons, they're shields. They would best be used to knock back a zergling that gets too close and stun it for a few seconds and shoot it.

 

shield bash!!
wait... thats in too many games already.

 

To be perfectly honest, if I was in a marine's shoes and I had a shield, I would throw it at the zergling hoping that it would stall it for a fraction of a second while I run the other way.

I don't want to go up against an alien creature, ever. Getting attacked by a bear or mountain lion in the woods would already be a nightmare. If SC became reality, I just hope lings would kill me quickly so I can't feel a damn thing.

 

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i changed my mind. i think the shield looks great

 

Well you could always hope that you have psionic abilities and volunteer to be a ghost.

 

yo what the hell I want to fucking play starcraft ghost now

 

i think you just want to look at nova

 

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So ?

No but seriously, I really want to be able to "interact" with zerglings up close and personal like that

 

I think the shield would be a mighty fine addition to the already venerable Marine unit. Look at it this way, In WC3, The Footman has that Defend ability to protect itself from ranged attacks. Maybe the mechanic will be similar for the Marine, defending it from long range attack while slowing it's rate of movement significantly. It also looks like it would make a pretty decent wall too!

 

the shield might not have an ability like defend, not will it reduce speed. it will likely only augment armor by muchh!

 

if the shield is like defend that would really suck. a lot.
As for throwing your shield at a zergling and running away. Why not just shoot it with that gun you would so conveniently be carrying?

 

As just confirmed by Karune in his Q/A Batch 5.

http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?ForumName=sc-general&ThreadID=199669

Marines will be getting an upgrade which gets a shield that will increase its overall HP.
If that is the case, I wonder how much HP they are going to increase.
If their HP is going to be anywhere similiar to Hydralisk, then OMG. The Marines are going to be soo damm strong in SC2. They deal normal damage and are smaller which are easier to cluster. I don't know what to say. Mass Marines I believe is going to be very very deadly.

 

Awww, I'm not too fond of the appearance of the shield but even less so if that's all it does.

 

It'll probably raise it to the Medic's HP which was... 60. Since the Medic has a shield.

 

I think 50 is the most reasonable. But 60 isn't out of the question.

 

I'd be a little upset if all the shield did was give them like 10 or 20 more HP... it better be an armor upgrade as well, it only makes sense

 

I don't think adding armor would be very fair. Unlike health, armor exempts some damage from each shot. They look similar at first, but people will almost always have medics accompanying their marines. Extra health + medics means the same number of units can kill that marine, just in a few extra shots. Extra armor, however, allows the medic to soak up much more damage than before from the marine.

 

wow. i know that adding armor maybe cheap but how will a shield give it more hp? sounds dumb.

 

well if you take that attutude how does having armour add hp. it just means that the marine can now shrug off more attacks before being killed