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We have ofcourse already seen the pre order town hall skins for the Nexus, Command Centre and Hatchery/Lair/Hive.
It looks like Blizzard is going to start adding unit skins next, starting with our favourite unit, the reaver.
The announcement only mentions the reaver at the moment, but the hint suggests the siege tank and lurker will also get a skin announced in the next few days.
Atleast I assume that its the lurker, they might be referring to the guardian though I guess.
Inspiration for the Reaver Skin:
When a reaver takes a certain amount of damage it can end up being multi coloured. This lead to the coining of the term reggae reaver; examples below.
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The art team used this to come up with the high definition skin. It will go live with the next patch:
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This reaver variant is designed as a support unit. In casual mode it can deploy a smoke screen which can be used tactically in many ways, eg to aid a retreat or to launch an assault vs long ranged units like siege tanks. The unit also provides a passive speed buff to nearby friendly units by playing music from its large speaker located in its mouth. As a result it can no longer shoot scarabs. But by including 2 reggae reavers into your unit composition, they are able to provide the speed buff to each other. So it is possible to make a very strong death star squad of standard reavers supported by a pair of reggae reavers (or more than 2 for redundancy incase 1 gets sniped). This utility more than makes up for the lack of offensive capabilities on the reggae reaver. She is certainly a unit to be feared. She dont wear no fancy makeup. She dont wear no fancy dress. She is a natural natural beauty. Her heart is pure and clean.
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And for Terran and Zerg who will be facing her:
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Please dont judge me too harshly. Well, do it in measurement:
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