Viking

ground to air: jumps in the air, does a backflip, and when the flip is done its fully transformed, the boosts away.

air to ground: flys under a bridge, transforms, grabs the bridge and flips on top.

 

Just for fun, the Viking should do a barrel roll.

 

yeah they should!

and really, they should be renamed 'starscream' just for the cherry on top.

 

Does anyone else name their units? I had a habit of naming all my overlords, as well as the battle cruisers and medics.

 

...what? do you mean give them induvidual names?

 

How would you know which one is which?

 

Oo

 

Ctrl+1 is overlord freddy, ctrl+2 is overlord steve... so on and so forth lol

 

I guess you could name the mothership..

I would name 16s of zerglings

"All zerglings in ctrl1 is named Steve, all hydras in ctrl2 is named Jon"

 

Dxun's right for the battle cruisers. For the overlords, I know just from their locations. I build almost all my bases semi-uniform,so I can tell just from where they are located. Named overlords never have to do anything, they are to special. If you kill one, your dead.
Edit:
their names are:

Blimpy
Gimpy
Grumpalampacans
Theodora
Daisy

 

what if you get more than 5 overlords?

 

He probably always loose before he can get more

No offense

 

i think the blizzard ppl say transformers when they made viking..

 

Having 16 of those babies...

You have 16 goliaths or 16 valkyries.

If you cant find a job for them, just make em into ships, go into the enemy resource line, robot form, pew pew, fly away.

Very nice indeed.

Fighting zerg? Go overlord hunting 24/7 than go back when the big battle starts. Or just keep killing their supply line.

I think i'll play around with that unit a lot...

 

It might actually be an upgrade to transform to ground fighter or vice versa because the you need to buy upgrade to get in seige mode with the tank.

 

it is an upgrade for the viking to switch from ground form to air form (you build the viking in ground form). blizzard confirmed that.

 

idk i think they will make it so there is some weakness so you dont do exactly that, becuase that would be alittle cheep

 

They don't start out as being able to transform and you have to research an upgrade for them to get the ability to transform into the air unit. I'm sure there are gonna be other things to balance it out as well.

Thats why I want the Terran to have another air fighter unit because the Viking seems more like a multi purpose unit. If they don't they won't have an initial air fighter either. The Banshee is more like a tactial stealth bomber than a fighter or anti air unit.

 

I'm willing to bet that there is some sort of time delay for the Vikings to transform. Otherwise, I think the Vikings transform ability could easily be abused. For example, Phoenix vs Vikings. If Phoenix uses overload, it would basically mean the end for the Vikings. But if the Vikings can transform into mech instantly, then it could then turn back into air form right after Phoenix finishes its overload ability. That, I believe wouldn't be very fair.

So I think that the Vikings will probably take 2 seconds for it to transform into different modes. (Kind of like the Siege Tanks).

 

Another possibility is that the Viking will count as both an air and a ground unit whilte it is transforming so that it could still be hit a few more times by an air/ground only attack before it escaped.