Viking

Terrans are becoming too punchy. They even rival the protoss firepower now.

 

Yeah, the sound of a gatlinggun... Since its groundattack seems to kick infantries asses EXTRA much, you should either get them very fast when everybody is still makin marines, zels (agains the smallish zerg they would be efficiant against all the time I guess) or just use them to quickly make enemy workers die horribly.

 

I wish they made the viking's gatling guns fire near continuously. Just very fast but low damage. Burst fire just isn't what gatling gun is about.

 

i dont think those are gatling guns at all. in the concept art(three barrel canons) and starcraft 2 .com their weapons are called canons not gatling guns. im not sure tho.

 

The concept's different from the actual in-game model. Definitely gatling guns.
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they took out the AA attack in ground form. shucks.

 

did we ever have a reliable source that said it had a ground AA?

 

that would be way imba and make the need to switch to air a lot less usefull.

 

i know. i wanted it anyways.

@Gui, it was in one of the magazines.

 

It took like 5 seconds to kill a SCV when there were like 4 Vikings shooting at it. This unit is only going to be usefull for covering dropships, raiding weak bases/hit and run tactic, rush in early games, or killing tiny units like zerglings. Gatling guns weren't as fast as I thought but atleast there is no time for transforming into fighter/walker.

 

did you not see them completly destroy the marines?

 

But there were other things, not purely vikings.

 

when it first showed the vikings and they flew into the base, they destroyed everything there.

 

Are you talking about the one on the official Starcraft II website or something? Because it showed like six vikings going into a terran base one was lost in an attemp to get in. When they landed, two SCVs were trying to build some more missle turrents and everything. They were both killed in like 10 seconds with 5 vikings. Then they all concentrated on a single turrent that did not even catch on fire in the first 5 seconds.

 

no in the terran demo they had yeterday. there was like 16 vikings that flew into a base and pwnd everything. until the tanks showed up.

 

ok so in mech form they can only attack ground and in fighter form they can only attack air?

 

yes. and they move about the same speed in both forms.

 

nice. so the viking is ur best bet for taking out colosuss

 

exactly. and tempests before they went.

anyone watch the part of the demo that had the single player mission where they had to get the artifact? what that guy should have done was stay air form for the colossi, then go ground form to take out the immortal and phase cannons, because the cannons were the only thing that could hit them in air. The cheating was pretty sweet though.

 

It looks dodgy, what are your thoughts?