The Marine Shield

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all i can say marines looks good with shield. so they should keep it.

do marines point their guns up when shooting air units or enemies on cliffs? i hope they put animation of marines shooting upward. laser attacks are visible, you can see them flying up or down unlike marines attack.

 

If they want an upgrade for marines, why don't they have a grenade launcher as DKutrovsky mentioned, instead of shield. A shield is like soooo first century AD. Now shields look cool in a game like Rome Total War but come on this is Starcraft we're talking about!

Okay, I realize that Blizzard wants to change the aesthetics of the unit. And personally I don't mind the bayonet. But please not the shield! A grenade launcher does the same aesthetic effect: think about it...among the bullets pops out a shell which is accompanied by an explosion among the zerglings. Nice!

 

after what marinepower said, I thought that a previous post of mine would tie in...something the newer members may or may not have read, seeing as it is from 15 pages ago

 

about the grenade launcher, did anybody ever notis that the gause rifle that all the marines used in starcraft had grenade lauching attachements and one marine uses it in the amerigo cinematic?

 

Yeah it was too bad it didn't make it into the first game.

 

Whoa i never noticed that!
Riot Police with grenade launchers, stim packs, bayonets, power armor, and shields FTW!

 

Grenade launchers would be pretty sweet but not on marines I think. Then they would just be trying to do too much with what is really a basic unit, but it would be cool to see some sort of grenadier/rocket launcher/demolition unit for the terran. But back on the topic, shields owerup:

 

i heard marines might have a fragmentation grenade upgrade, but i'm still hoping for some smoke grenades :thumbup:


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Frags and Smoke granades??? It's an outrage!

lol, just kidding. I'd luv to see grenades in SC. But that's kind of the CoH area.

 

An infantry unit with a huge ass rocket launcher would be interesting.

"Arrgghhh~ look out, RPG~!!"

 

I love the shields. Mostly because they look freakin awesome. They remind me of Roman Legionnaires ;D. This changes marines from a bunch of ragtag hillbilly folks given a gun and sent to the front to a cohesive, trained, and motivated battle group. I really hope they keep it. Humanity is in a fight for its life people! The old ways of fighting just won't do anymore.

Also, did anyone notice that Marines seem to fight in formations in some of the screenshots/videos? If they do, that would make marines much more effective.

 

chainsaw bayonet?

 

DIE ZERGLINGS *BBBBBBBBBUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZ*
Or better yet, marines with a Hammer of Dawn

EDIT
For those of you who have never played Gears of War, the hammer of dawn is a gun that marks a target for a flying ship/satilite to fire at. It owns. Plain and simple.

 

I personally think that medics are much more useful, and that grenades are not too necessary to use.

 

give infantry grenades and it will be DoW. boo.

 

Medics with grenade launchers.

 

Why stop with Nade launchers? Give them perma cloak and 9999 damage with 255 shields and make them detectors. Oh, and they have 50K life.

 

no, dude you missed something, they should also be able to have unlimited nukes, thats wat you missed ;P

 

Hmm, the Davey Crockett for the win.