The Marine Shield

wtf does vuluters and reapers have to do with anything

 

vultures are most likely to be replaced by a new unit....

i suppose a vulture's ability is just overshadowed by the might of a seige tank

 

Vultures are overshadowed by every other Tank, Goliath, Lurker, Ultralisk, Reaver, Dark Templar, Archon, Dragoon and Infested Terran in the game. It's just that Korea has a fetish for them...

 

Spider mines. They keep Vultures relevant late-game.

 

Vultures have a very good use also..very good early game harasser!go and watch "THE EMPEROR's" game..an see the vultures uses..

 

The marine is huge, as a huge cybernetic armor a gun that looks like a cannon and a super cool look of a "damn I'm a cool guy"; somehow I find the idea of him whealding a shield really really bad.. I mean the medic was defenseless; the shield was the only thing between them and the enemy (besides the armor of course);

I think the last thing a marine needs is a shield if they learned from the protoss technology and got new cool energy shields that's fine but not those knight shields; please =x

 

One thing that confuses me is that in the cinematic the marine holds the gun with 2 hands so how can they hold the shield ??? or is it that i'm missing something out or something....

 

i think the shields are mounted on their left shoulder... so when you shoot... you know... pretend you're holding on the a gauss rifle, when you aim the gun, your left shoulder's actually in front of you, beside your gun... so put a shield there, you're actually covered from attack... plus if you look carefully, there's a hole for looking through in the shield... that's my theory, that's how they do it for gunner zaku's in gundam seed destiny.

as for melee attacks, i've no comments.

 

The marine you saw in the cinematic is special. Maybe he has an extra big gun and doesn't need a shield. That marine will be one of the main characters in the game I think, like raynor.

 

I think its to give marnies a boost later in the game.
think about it,
zealots get a charge
zerglings can become banelings that destroy things like the colossus
and what does the marine get, a sheild he will probably also get some cool grenades, or a bayonet or something
or maybe you upgrade marines into reapers or elite marines with sheilds, who knows.

 

k thx PeterPetreli for clearing that up.

 

You're welcome ;D !
I'm trying to get to be moderator

Your name is like mylifeforauir, she is a member here, I wonder if she will mind lol.

 

even if they did they will have formations and they will be capable of making a shield wall to boost the grooups armor still i'm apposed to the shield.

 

Or maybe shields make him completely invulnerable to every projectile and melee weapon in the game.

Or they'll have that annoying Defend ability that Footmen have...

 

Ya i thought that right away wtf there just made thhem into footmen

 

Well, the entire Warcraft franchise as a whole is more popular than the one Starcraft game, so I guess they have to please the masses... Damn those masses!!!

 

i think its an upgrade for your standard marine, in the demo on youtube you dont even see them.

 

Hi everyone, first post =D

It appears that the shield is mounted on the arm, (technically a buckler.) since they are still using 2 hands on their gun in the screenshots.

It is probably an upgrade, seeing as in some screenshots, the marines dont have the shields. The shield probably gives a chance to block attacks, I figure this by watching the gameplay trailer, and the amount of hits it takes a zealot to kill the marines w/ shields is always inconsistant.
anyways, I like it!

Oh, and if you were wondering why the marine in the cinematic doesnt have a shield, it is because he will be one of the main charachters in the game. maybee his suit is special or something. We will also learn why he was in cuffs =]

 

actually that is were a grenade launcher would go and thats what i ment

 

Any one wanna tell me how to make a poll and do you think blizzard knows that we dislike the shield