Viking Fighter's name sux, let's find it a new one!

And I am DEATH PONYYYYY.

I wouldn't be surprised seeing the Viking taking down All Protoss ground but Colossus (unless in air form), Archon, and Reaver.

 

I really like Leviathan for the Thor. Not a big fan of Thor.

That's a really interesting point, Major Willy. Do what you gotta do to take out most ground units in Viking walk form and then lift when you're up against the Colossus. God, all these possibilities/units make the Colossus seem so weak...

 

When your Vikings liftoff into air form bring in some Cobras to clean up what's left of the army protecting the Colossals.

 

Warp Rays I think wouldn't do that well VS Vikings since they seem like a medium class unit.

 

I don't think we know about the cost of colossus or any of the Terran units.

Colossus and warpray combo is far from unstoppable. Some mutas will make short work of both, just take out the warprays first. Then you can say phoenix for muta counter, yada yada. Then you should soon realize that you are bringing in more and more units into the picture, and how a balanced mix of units will be the best everything has a counter. No one or two unit types are really unstoppable.

 

I think the thing with Viking is that you can't use it to its full advantage unless you know how to micro. With these two abilities, it seems unstoppable, but in the end it comes down to the player. If someone who didn't know how to micro was using Viking, I'm sure a descent force of Mutas could take them down easily or maybe even say 3 to 4 archons.

 

*Assuming MC is still in*

MC an SCV, then build a Thor and a Mothership. I'm thinking that'll be nigh unstoppable barring Lockdown and a Nuke.



For all we know, the Viking could have crap HP, say 120.

 

yeah theres no real solid answers until we know all the units HPs, shields, damages and abilities

even the THOR as others have said, it could be really slow or have long cooldowns for its weapons

its all speculation

 

Just feint an attack with all ground units against vikings so they go to ground mode and if it has a cooldown pull your ground out and bring in air to wipe them up while the cooldown is still in effect.

Oh an Raptor is still the best name for it. It's a land dinosaur and a bird of prey (falcons, hawks, eagles, etc...) Land AND Air... ZOMG.

 

haha paragon i like your idea

 

Call it the Transformatron 2050 version 3.0 now compatible with Windows 4000

 

Lets call it ZiiDriX because its so good. Sorry.

 

Paragon thats the best name ive seen so far,Raptor ftw owerup:


Unless of course Zerg already have a Raptorling, Raptorlisk

 

raptors sounds great but if you want to change the name of viking into raptors then the model should also be change. raptors doesn't fit the look of the current model, it should look sharp on the edges and narrow or slim, and not bulky and large.

 

I like Raptor. I still like Sentinel and Praetorian though.

Or MIG 78!!!!!!

 

They should call it the Maverick and have all the quotes be spoofed from Top Gun

 

Haha, I would get a kick out of that TED

 

Terran Matt Damon

And no matter what you do, click, move, attack, hold position, it's always, "MAAATT DAAMOON."

 

the problem with that is according to the new article, vikings have an air and ground attack in mech form. the air attack is probably relativly weak in mech though

 

Hoplite. expl: It's a heavily armored anti-ground unit that can be redeployed to other area of battle via flight, similar to the heavily armored anti-infantry Hoplite that was frequently redeployed to different areas as the battle required.

Knight. expl: Against healty armored anti-ground unit that can be redeployed via air, a Knight would ride his horse into combat then dismount and make battle.

Cataphract. expl: Similar to the knight with the exclusion of dismounting

Phalanx. expl: The dual chainguns remind me of the Anti-Air / Anti-Missile Defense System on Carriers called the Phalanx. One could surmise that the dual chainguns could be used through a formation as a means of holding an enemy back.

Arch Angel. expl: Warriors of Heaven. They fly, and they fight, they land and they fight, fairly simple.

I'd say Wolverine, but that'd be too much like the Wolverine from Tiberian Sun which bears a striking resemblance to this unit. And thats all I can think of right now.