Thanks to the magic of photography, we have our first look at some of the new units in StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.
On the Zerg side, we have the Viper and Swarm Host. The viper is a “flying unit with support abilities. It can grant detection to units, create a cloud to hinder ranged attacks and abilities, and quickly pull units to safety (friendly) or their doom (enemy).” It sounds like this “cloud” will act as a smoke screen/poison bomb.
The second Zergunit is the Swarm Host. It can “gradually spawn endless waves of attackers while burrowed to overwhelm your enemy.” Sounds to me like this unit will become a favored unit among cheesers. The third unit isn’t pictured, though we will be sure to update this post when it is officially revealed.
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For the Terrans, we have the Warhound, Battle Hellion, and Shredder. The warhound is a “versatile factory unit that is great against mechanical units and can dish out anti air aoe attacks.” It sounds like this will be an anti air version of the Thor. Next we have the Battle Hellion which is a “new transformation mode” for the hellion, which has no relation to this song. This form will be a more durable, albeit slower, version of the hellion that’s useful for fighting “mixed forces.” The final unit for the Terrans is the Shredder which is able to “deploy a whirlwind of death which will be disabled when used near friendly units.” I don’t know about you, but “whirlwind of death” seems nice to me.
The Protoss have some intriguing new units. First on the list is the replicator, which “fuse itself to copy a target non-massive unit.” It’s essentially the Protoss equivalent of the Changeling, but it is also able to copy the unit’s abilities like cloak. Next up, we have the Oracle which seems like the dictionary definition of “cheap as as all hell” to me. It’s a flying unit that can “disrupt the enemy economy by temporarily disrupting building construction and resource harvesting.” Finally, we have the Tempest, a flying unit that “dominates the skies with massive aoe attacks against light units, and a strong beam attack for ground units.”
All of these units seem very interesting, and I’m hoping we will get to see a live demonstration of them at some point during BlizzCon. Stay tuned to the site as we will be sure to keep you up to date with any further BlizzCon news.
Anti air version of the thor? The thor IS anti air. Hahaha.
Yeahh EXACTLY What I tought , A anti air version of the thor XD!!!!!
a closer look of the units http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBnE1SCHeRY
Waiiit..soo in the zerg dlc the terran and protoss both get 3 units but the zerg only get 2?
OK let me Put this clear… Protoss and terran are getting anti air units For protoss its a ship that does ALLOT of mass air damage on low armored units… OK How Many air units are rated as low armor agan?… Ermmm 2 I gues They would Be … Overlords and Mutalisk… And muta are allready getting blowed up by archons and thors… WTF Is That About?? Aren’t they weak enough? poor little muta! And What The heck about giving a second ground anti air to the terrans? thors… and now warhounds? I guess thors are out of date… Zerglings were not trully usefull against a terran army and what They Do? They Bring back Solid armored flame throwers!. OK Bye Bye Lingz in TvZ . Yeah zergs also have new units That Looks Great Seriously. But yet I am looking at this and i am wondering… is this a expantion for zergs or is it a expantion against zergs? Ohh and They only have 2 units revealled … Ermmm More PLease?? like something to hold on to early marines? or just something for early attak that dont explode in half a sec in a fight. anny way this expantion is gona Be GREAT even tho I am complaining a bit.
thors will NOT be anti air ne more
if mutas are so weak, I don’t know why almost all the progamers(zerg) uses muta so much? cus of the f*cking harrassment! archon and thor are both slow as f*ck
and you can make 1 thor at a time, it became like a mothership but more hitpoints and damage and no airattacks