The Marine Shield

Or maybe the Firebat would get a shield of it's own when the upgrade is researched?

 

As I said earlier I doubt it since they have fuel tanks on their backs and the sprayers on their forearms taking up space where a shield might go. They just wouldn't have anywhere to put it other than in their hands but that would interfere with their flamethrowers.

 

like i said before if what your fighting has weapons that can already get through foot thick armor a few extra inches ain't going to do anything

 

Or the few inch's can make all the differance.

 

Or might decrease melee dmg taken?

 

well if they are standing next to each other in either situation one of them is not being used to their full potential.

if the zerg are up close, then the marines aren't making use of their guns. if they are farther away, the firebats are going to be sitting there waiting for a spine to puncture their helmet

 

I don't see what all the fuss is about cus the shields look fine to me. I mean if I was a marine in sc1 and noticed that the guy on my right just got stabbed in the chest with a psiconic blade, the guy on my left just got tackled and clawed by a huge zergling and the guy in front of me just got pumped full of spines by a hydralisk I'd probably b**** slap the medic next to me and take her shield for myself.After all a lot of the combat that marines saw in the early stages of any sc battle was hand to hand so a bayonet and a shield is just a classic example of humans adapting to the battlefield Who cares about looks when you're fighting for your life.

 

oo jeezuz, what is this...
he got enough armor! yes, the shield may have some advantages, but its not marinish. they should just make it be as it was. which terran government cares enuff about their marines to give them shields.

 

firebats are no more. reapers are taking it's palce

 

CASE MOTHERF***KING CLOSED

THANK YOU ELEMENTT

 

If you want more armor instead of a shield why not add it directly to the suit.

 

I think we should just agree to disagree and let this topic end. We'll just have to wait and see what Blizz decides.

 

sounds deliciously awesome, good idea

 

wow I'm surprised my topic reached this many posts. I think it has the most posts at this point.

 

poll made by me! ok, this topic shud be closed. we had good enuff hyphotises (spelling )

 

:thumbup: Thanks again I'm closing it tomorrow. Thank you all again. :thumbup:

 

who is marine? i think shields help them defend, right?

 

please don't close it its an opinion poll.
to clear some stuff up i'm using SWAT as an arguement to not have sheilds not for them.
the marines are ex-cons why would the Dominion give them sheilds?

 

Even if they are ex-cons, the Dominion recruited them into the army, so they would try to make sure their soldiers aren't going to get killed right off the bat. I like the idea of giving the marines a shield: they're giving boosts to the other races basic units, i think shields and bayonets make sense for the terran as far as the story goes. I mean, the Dominion are pretty much a bunch of bastards, they aren't going to do anything fancy, just give the marines shields and bayonets for cheap so they don't get killed as fast. They could do some cool attack animations with theses too. Who wouldn't want to see a marine bash a zergling with his shield and then stab him? But yeah, i think if they changed the graphic to a riot shield instead of these knight ones everyone would be a little happier.

 

Omg...didn't we lock this topic a while back?