Viking

I have a feeling that the viking may not be enough to keep the skies clear on its own. I dont see his big ship killing capability like say the warp ray.
Maybe we'll see one more terran air ship?
Thoughts?

 

viking is the counter to pheonix and mutalisk. Warprays and tempest will be taken out by battlecruisers.
i agree thers probably 1-2 more air units for terrans that have not been revealed yet

 

yeah. id laugh if they freeze up like valks lol. i hope their unrevealed air unit is an aa barrage chopper even though that doesnt make any sense

OT: why cant it fire its missiles on the ground? and vice versa with its guns =(

 

i think theres problems with translation. A different source says that viking will attack ground and air in mech form, and when it transforms it will only be AA

 

I believe so too.

But still we dont have a air fighter to counter tempests or other big ships as we are right now.
The Air Viking is most likely going to be valkyrie.

We all know how valkyries do vs bigger ships...

And battlecruisers are too expensive to be considered a counter, even then vs warp rays and tempests i dont see how the terran is going to do right now...

 

I don't think Vikings will be the counter to the Phoenix. Remember, the Phoenix can overlord, which would most likely take out most of the Vikings. Vikings will be more of a counter to the Tempests and Warp Rays since Vikings are probably a lot easier to mass while Tempests aren't very good vs air units and Warp Rays aren't that good against smaller units.

 

Do we know the supply for the Viking? Im guessing 2?

I guess you could mass those to kill warp rays and tempests.

And than figure out a way to kill phoenix(BC maybe? ugh...) and zerg we dont know anything about besides the muta

 

viking > warprays, tempests, mutas, colossi
BC > tempests, pheonix, colossi
Banshee > everything on the ground

i think that the terran air is set, all they need is their aerial caster, and we know that dropships are back. that would make 5 terran air units. SC1 had 5 terran air units.

 

I'm guessing Terran still have about 5 more units that need to revealed and I'd guess one would either be another air unit or an anti-air unit.

 

I hope the viking is not like the valkyrie, though I guess that is a possibility. I guess whether or not the terrans get another air unit depends upon just how much of an upgrade in terms of strength the viking gets when it transforms into air, which if I had to guess I'd say it'll be pretty strong. I mean, there really won't be any point transforming into air for the viking except to get places faster if they don't make it stronger as an air unit.

 

Well of course it'd be like that. According to the Korean and German mags, Viking will either only be able to attack air in fighter mode or be able to attack air in ground mode but be a lot more vulnerable to them.

If I had to put my trust on one of them though, I'd guess the Korean one. You can't tell though.

 

Will the Viking be able to transform back-and-forth between the ground version and the air version? or is it a permanent transformation to air?

 

it can switch like a seige tank.

 

why would it be permanent?

 

Vikings can transform back and forth whenever they want. If they couldn't, they would probably be the most useless unit in the game.

 

Agreed, it should be a cool animation transforming imo. Cant wait for blizzcon ;P

 

Maybe it'll get another upgrade in the expansion that makes it half air half ground. Like, it keeps the feet, but can fly (for a limited amount of time).

 

^why would they do that when it could fly for as long as it wants in its fighter form?

 

I JUST WANT TO SEE THE NEW SIEGE TANK ALREADY!

 

Air to Ground: Slowly descends to the ground while pieces are shifting.

Ground to Air: Boosts into the sky and hovers there until reconstruction is complete.