Zerg Capital Ship...The New Devourer!

I just had an idea for a Capital ship...the Zerg Devourer in a new form that allows it to actually DEVOUR an entire capital ship by getting close and using an energy ability. Each devourer could only swallow one capital ship at a time and it retains its spore attack form Broodwar. (This would function similarly to the swallow power from creeps in WCIII).

 

So this... thing.... eats other capital ships.... interesting.... however would there be some form of a drawback to this attack (other than loss of energy) since this may become somewhat imbalanced.....

 

Yea the drawback is that the spell can only be intiated at melee range...and takes half a second to execute. It would be a very interesting Zerg unit...imagine the anticipation of an air force that has to target all the Devourers first while the Scourge and Mutas swoop in? This would also give the the devourer the ability to evolve into either an "Infested Battlecruiser" or an "Infested Carrier" depending on which ship it consumes (as a cost of mineral and gas...). The abilities of each infested capital ship would be different than their "normal" versions.

EDIT: I also posted this in the wrong forum...sorry!

 

How about loss of life from easing such a large ship?

Also I think the idea of eating capital ships is too powerful. Perhaps it could only eat the smaller, earlier tier ship. Either way, you are coming up with ideas no one else has, keep it up ;D

 

Devour ability has been discussed several times I believe plus Zerg will not get (should not, rather) a capital unit except for the Ultra simply because it's a massing race... it just doesn't fit their profile.

 

Are you kidding? The devourer was in Broodwar...I don't understand what your commenting on, unless you don't agree with their new ability, or did not read the post.

 

He's talking about your idea, something that swallows other ships doesn't seem too zergish to me, perhaps something that would place spells over enemy ships to slow them down or make them unable to attack.

 

Nobody wondered why this is in, the Protoss section?

 

He misplaced it.

 

It is, Woah!, how'd it get here without the mods knowing?

wonder if it was put here on accident, or on purpose.

 

On purpose? That sounds really evil

Anyways he explained himself in his second post.

 

Oops I didn't read the edit he had on his second post, sorry for any misunderstandings...

I still say the idea is interesting, but one that I highly doubt will be put into use in sc2.

 

Prodigal, reading is your friend.

 

I was thinking about saying that, but it's better if it's inventor gets to say it

 

I think you are underestimating the shear size and power of a battlecruiser or carrier. These are not small ships we are talking about. Not to mention that merely being swallowed isn't going to prevent a ship from firing weapons. A yamato blast from the outside is bad enough, from the inside would be a vit much.

Imagine something trying to swallow a battleship or aircraft carrier.

Besides, I'm opposed to the zerg getting a capital ship of any kind. Zerg are not about powerful units, they are about numbers. There is a reason why the phrase zerging has come to mean swarming a powerful enemy with many weaker enemies.

 

I just want to jump into the discussion here for a second to say that the whole "Zergs are about massive numbers, not strong units" doesn't have to be used as sacred SC scripture. They can deviate from it.

After all, half the original Zerg campaign was about obtaining a ridiculously powerful single unit. E.G. Kerrigan.


As for the actual topic, I'm inclined to agree with Quanta. Carriers are massive. Something that can just straight up eat a Carrier would have to be the size of a small moon.

 

Thats not necessarily the case...Guardians for example can be very effective in small numbers (especially in Starcraft original). Or ultras as a supplement unit...they are normally only massed on money maps. Regardless...the Zerg have been veiled in secret, whereas Toss and Terran have been largely revealed. It would not be to ofar fetched to assume that the Zerg have in some instances, been radically altered.

Why would it be absurd for the Zerg to have a flying behemoth of a Capital Ship devourer? I mean when you have a game with vicious bat/seagull monsters that shriek and barf acid and have #$%*s for tongues...I mean really now the sky is the limit!


Whats the forum opine about enormous Zerg units? How about a Zerg Mammothsaur which is a giant dinosaur Zerg that screams profanity in a weird alien language and kicks over buildings with his massive feet? Just kidding on that one


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Sorry Gas, I'm used to forums that don't have "edit" options. I will consolidate in the future.

 

For something to swallow a battlecruiser like it was mentioned before, has to be the size of a small moon, even then a yamato gun or plasma torpedos in its stomach will kill the unit anyway lol.

I dont mind having a big zerg capitol ship, just not one that eat other ones. I can see the ultralisk having an ability to eat zealots or marines but thats about it.

 

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