Thor Drop

I can't see an animation done for this, getting 4 dropships and using them to transport thor. The thor itself is as big as a barracks, and i doubt anything can lift an entire building. On a side note, what happens if the dropships do manage to lift their cargo, then one of em is shot down by a few scourages.
It would be nice, but they are so slow and heavy that loading them would take forever.

 

The Dropship can´t possibly be responsible for the Thors aerial transport. just think about it. its to big to be constructed in a freakin factory! why would it fit in something even smaller?!
The only logical thing for the Thor (since it is constructed by scv´s just like buildings)
is that it has the Lift off ability.

 

It would be more realistic if some sort of helicopter looking unit like a bigger Banshee came and could pick it up, but would move very slowly during transport -- It could use some sort of a cable; Maybe too many sudden movements back and forth would drop it, breaking it into pieces! But an SCV could come and rebuild it!

This ability could be researched for 500min/250gas.

 

But this isn't an FPS.

 

what!? thats 100 more minerals than a MS and 50 more gas than an ultra! if it cost that much no one would get it.

 

Wow... I agree. The should have the walk up and down cliffs thing like the colosus. Only except instead of cliffs, water.. It's just like some guy earlier said that the thor could walk across the Pacific Ocean and back. Either that or it could be hualed by cables from like 4 drop ships. And like some other guy said, if you couldn't build a thor from a factory what makes you think it will fit in something smaller.

 

Damn right you are!

 

Not me the guy that said it the first time.

 

i think the legs are too small for it to go up and down cliffs.

 

Not cliffs, watter.

 

but if the map is a space platform? No water there. then the Thor would once again suck in mobility

 

Good point, the drop ship then lol. How do you think the colosus would work though? They can't be hualed by cables like thors. And robotics suport bays would not have the teleport ability like the gate ways. Only they can teleport stuff I think.

 

I think there should be at least one way to transport the existing units, maybe the colosuses can enter some kind of wrap gate? If there is no method, how can protoss do some frogleap attack island by island?
As blizzard has replaced Tempest with Carrier, Protoss has no air unit specialized in anti ground. How can protoss deal with massive ground defensive islands?

 

well, I think the Carriers would still be the best choice. just look back to starcraft bw. The carrier was exactly out of range from immobile base defences.

 

Oh yeah, I just thought of something. If colosuses can be warped from other places to your battlefield than they can just teleport them into the front ranks just like with the infantry.

 

I'm thinking that only way to have a "Thor" transported would be to transport the SCV that builds it. Given the build time shown in the videos, and the fact that a CC can pick up 'n drop the SCVs, I think that's perfectly feasible. If you try to drop ship a Thor, u'll probably just get a message saying "Unable to life structure" message, or whatever.

Also, think about this lil tactic. CC drop SCVS protected by a handful of units into an enemy base. Utilize the units to cover the CC while it turns into a planetary fortress while SCVs do their Thor thing. That base is gone...

 

i think build times were greatly shortened for the demo. i mean, we saw the other guy cheating, so why not both of them?

 

I thought they were the same person... Lol.
Guy: Oops. I guese that didn't go as I thought... Well..
*Starts cheating*
Guy: There. Then again we might need a little more...
*Starts cheating more and sicks his battle cruiser/ thor army on them*

 

Build times must have been shortened for the demo. No one would have wanted to wait around for five minutes watching the Thor get built. I dunno about you, but I wouldn't like that.

 

If it's as big as a factory, it will probably take as much time as a factory to build, maybe even a little longer. The biggest problem is that the Thor would than be stuck on an island. So you would be building something expensive and takes pop-cap, only to able to use it once. If your lucky.

That really won't do. Lift off or dropship, but it needs to move somehow.