The Marine Shield

For all your information there were other marines with out shield not just Findlay. Also most marines are convicts and if you have the sc1 booklet it explains that the terrans were criminals rounded up by the UED and sent into space most died some made it. I know some of you will say well they made babies and still some marines are criminals and have aggression abhibiters same goes for most terrrans.

 

i like it, but i think they should make it look more like a riot sheild.
and i think theres still alot there going to change, did anyone see warcraft 3 pre alpha stages?
its on the back of the box lol

 

It's all going to be NO, NO, sucks... If it serves no strategic function then it does suck, and I won't settle for a Footman style Defend. I want bayonet *whack* then shield *smite*, and blood all over the place!!!

 

Don't tripple-post, Singuris. The "Modify" button is your friend. Marines with shields aren't!

 

When the Medic got a shield, it seemed odd to me that they wouldn't give the marine a shield. Compared to the rest of the suit, it would be cheap to build, it's just a hunk of metal, and it would be good for blocking both melee and ranged attacks.

 

I think most people are voting on looks. They think the shield makes the Marine less sexually attractive.

 

lol

 

Didn't Rambo run around without a shirt? Surely a Marine's full body armor takes away from it's Rambo-like reputation as well? A shield is a drop in the bucket.

 

The old marine's armor looks just find, the new shield sort of over-exaggerate their body....

 

what shield? i didnt see one exept on medics!

 

what shield?

 

http://eu.starcraft2.com/screenshot.xml?5

On right side marines u can see it best

 

I don't like it, it looks too Warcrafty, and plus... Marines are supposed to last only a few minutes (without a Medic), it seems giving them a shield would be a waste of money for the UED.


Also, they look dumb wit the bayonet and a shield with a symbol that looks oddly like a Chaos Undivided symbol in Warhammer 40k. (pic)

 

On warcraft 3 or Starcraft 2? starcraft 1? ??? ???

 

My friend, you are obviously confused, so I'll explain. ;D

In Starcraft 1 the Marine had only his machine gun. In the Warcraft games the Footman had a shield. Now, as it seems in the gameplay video, Blizzard have added a Footman-like shield to the Marines, which they carry on their left hand as some kind of buckler.

Now, many of us don't fancy it that much because we feel that it won't serve any strategic purpose except the Defend ability of the Footmen in Warcraft 3. Many of us also think that Blizzard will only be including it to attract Warcraft players to Starcraft 2 so that they could sell more copies of the game. However, some of us like the shield, but we won't surely know if it's really planned to be included in the finished game yet, so all we can do is debate.

Hope that helped.

 

Ahhhh. Thanks. I like it alot!

 

It doesn't look like it helps the unit out at all, he still falls over dead pretty quick...

 

i think the marines sheild should be like the protoss one, unlike the protoss one it only protects them for a short amount of time. and to use it the have to stay still. and there hsould be a cool animation where they get down on one knee

maybe instead of the sheild they should have a more accurate firing mode, where they cant move but there damage or range goes up.

 

It be cool if a gun was equiped to the sheild. Then they'd be alsome

 

I think having shields make the marines look even more like toys, Lego soldiers or something. And the shield itself look somewhat medieval, reminds me of a crusader for some reason, might be the crest in red.

I think marines looked fine without shields, but if they must, at least something more than a big piece of flat material. A small round transparent-yellow(or any color really) energy shield or something. But all in all, I still prefer shield-less.