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Well, i think that this will be interesting for somebody.
So, when different units are selected and given orders - for example marine and medic, we see the medic's pictire and hear the medic's voice - because the medic has higher rank than a marine.
I made an experiment to see the ranks of all units, incl. heroes from all races (for example, what happens, when you select a zealot, a hydralisk and a firebat).
There are some units with equal ranks - if they are selected one by one, we see the picture of the first selected unit. If you drag a rectangle around such units, a random unit is chosen.
So, the ranks are: (from lower to higher, units with equal ranks are on the same line)
1. Probe, Civilian, Larva
2. SCV, Interceptor, Lurker Egg
3. Marine, Observer, Cocoon
4. Medic, Zealot, Broodling
5. Firebat, Drone, Dragoon
6. Ghost, Zergling, Reaver
7. Vulture, Scourge, High Templar
8. Goliath, Infested Terran, Shuttle
9. Siege Tank, Overlord, Scout, Corsair
10. Dropship, Hydralisk, Archon, Dark Archon
11. Wraith, Mutalisk, Lurker, Arbiter
12. Science Vessel, Guardian, Carrier
13. Devourer, Defiler, Dark Templar, Gui Montag (FB hero), Mojo, Artanis (Scout heroes), Warbringer (Reaver), Danimoth (Arbiter)
14. Queen, Alan Schezar (Goliath), Fenix (Zealot)
15. Ultralisk, Tom Kazansky (Wraith), Fenix (Goon)
16. Battlecruiser, Magellan (Vessel) and all zerg heroes but Infested Kerrigan
17. Valkyrie, Infested Kerrigan, Tassadar (HT)
18. Jim Raynor (Marine and Vulture), Tassadar/Zeratul (Archon), Ganthritor (Carrier)
19. Sarah Kerrigan, Samir Duran (ghosts)
20. Edmund Duke (Tank)
21. Hyperion (BC)
22. Norad II (BC)
23. Alexei Stukov (Ghost)
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Cool, stukov is the supreme commander lol
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Totally random, but interesting, like you said.
and weird that Alexei Stukov is the #1 in all of SC. 
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When I first saw this thread I thought you were going to compile what should be given priority on the battlefield.
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I was always interested in the unit rankings from all three races. Thanks for sharing.
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On July 31 2009 05:15 Torenhire wrote:Totally random, but interesting, like you said. and weird that Alexei Stukov is the #1 in all of SC.
NAh its cause hes coming back in SC2 
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United States12607 Posts
Valkyrie is the highest-ranked non-hero unit?? Interesting.
Cool trivia!
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This clearly shows drones > SCVs > probes! Why are valks so high up? o_O
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On July 31 2009 05:13 Light]N[exuS wrote:
Cool, stukov is the supreme commander lol
fuck yeah
STUKOV
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
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I'm fairly sure someone already did this in another thread somewhere
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So the DT is the highest non hero Protoss unit, Interesting
actually DT and valk make sense since they got added in during BW.
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On July 31 2009 05:21 B1nary wrote:
This clearly shows drones > SCVs > probes! Why are valks so high up? o_O
Because they wanted everyone to hear that cool valk voice. Seriously though, zergling should be the highest.
(blizzard probaly just entered some kind-of-random value for the valk, they were quite lazy when they made bw, for example the bw tilesets have properties (not very obvious unless you are into mapping) that show how lazy they were)
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On July 31 2009 05:17 deathgod6 wrote:
I was always interested in the unit rankings from all three races. Thanks for sharing.
Also interesting that valk is higher than the BC
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On July 31 2009 05:27 Kentor wrote:
lol gotta read
did u even read?
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3 Lions
United States3705 Posts
Stukov of mother Russia! fuck yeah!
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Medic being below Firebat doesnt make any sense..especially since the Terran units usually go by rank pretty well (tanks being higher than vultures and what have you)
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protoss is looking pretty unimportant :o
reaver = zergling T.T
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lol i love this random shit, like the egg hatching thread.
there's so much goofy stuff in SC, kineticaaaa
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I like how the Firebat hero's name is Gui Montag ahahaha
Nice reference to Fahrenheit 451 ;D
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ZErgling= reaver hard to understand. besides the fact that the reaver is completely a robot.
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Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
O_O That's cool, but I wonder why the hierarchy is like it is.
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Haha wonderfull findings! Valkyrie and ofcourse Alexei strange findings. You would expect highest in tech the highest in rank too.
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Technically the game's list is 0-based, but this is still a nice reference material.
Not that it matters, but buildings and critters have a rank of 0, zerg eggs have a rank of 1, mutalisk cocoons have a rank of 2, and everything else (powerups, unused entries, scanner sweep, etc) all have a rank of 0 as well. (Add 1 to those values to match up with the list)
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amazing info. I never thought of this before. Go Alexei!
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Interesting, if not random. Cool!
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Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
On July 31 2009 06:32 Refrige wrote:
protoss is looking pretty unimportant :o
reaver = zergling T.T
yeah, you got a huge ass reaver with scarabs that can destroy anything in its path and a stupid zergling is ='ed to it in rank O_O
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I always thought that it was the units with the most abilities that were given the higher ranks. Guess not XD
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Booo i clicked here expecting to see some monkeys. Thread didnt deliver.
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I always loved Stukov.
Thanks for the research, very odd but interesting ^_^v
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On July 31 2009 07:49 AlTheCake wrote:
I like how the Firebat hero's name is Gui Montag ahahaha
Nice reference to Fahrenheit 451 ;D
i love blizzard's references to pop culture or other significant or popular things. I think in warcraft 3 there was a easter egg that was based on Fight Club
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All hail Alexi Stukov, supreme ruler!
I've been wondering about how this system works. Thanks for the work Nuclear.
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On July 31 2009 15:26 crazie-penguin wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2009 07:49 AlTheCake wrote:
I like how the Firebat hero's name is Gui Montag ahahaha
Nice reference to Fahrenheit 451 ;D i love blizzard's references to pop culture or other significant or popular things. I think in warcraft 3 there was a easter egg that was based on Fight Club
First mission of the undead campaign, there's two villagers with the names from the main characters of fight club, and they're shown punching each other iirc.
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Canada780 Posts
On July 31 2009 07:49 AlTheCake wrote:
I like how the Firebat hero's name is Gui Montag ahahaha
Nice reference to Fahrenheit 451 ;D
The wraith hero "Tom Kazansky" is susposed to be a reference to "Iceman" (played by Val Kilmer) in Top Gun.
Val Kilmer's character in Top Gun is Tom "Iceman" Kazanski.
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Also most of the WC3 cheats + SC cheats are famous quotes from famous movies
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On July 31 2009 05:30 Eben wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2009 05:17 deathgod6 wrote:
I was always interested in the unit rankings from all three races. Thanks for sharing. Also interesting that valk is higher than the BC
Valk came with BW while BC came out with the original. Only makes sense.
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On July 31 2009 11:12 Malongo wrote:
Booo i clicked here expecting to see some monkeys. Thread didnt deliver.
hahahaha ... gotcha
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Germany2762 Posts
lol broodling > marine
i never thought about that. nice list and nice research
not really useful but still pretty interesting.
seems like stukov always has the final say.
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sweet bit of research would be cool to add to the liquipedia
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On July 31 2009 09:08 Symmetry wrote:
Technically the game's list is 0-based, but this is still a nice reference material.
That's really the kind of thing that you point out only when you have just a bare understanding of it, enough to feel proud of your knowledge but not enough to understand its significance. Y'know, like when a child learns some clever fact and then constantly refers to it irrelevant situations because it's just so novel to him. That's you. Everyone else who reads your post is then forced into the role of the parent who has a splitting headache from the constant flaunting of idiocy but has no choice but to nod patiently and say, "That's nice, dear."
But really. That's nice.
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Thanks for the research, the cross-race rankings always got me curious.. I really thought that arbiters out-ranked carriers but maybe I'm remembering improperly.
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nice experiment thanks for the effort and time very interesting facts
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Baa?21243 Posts
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On July 31 2009 07:49 AlTheCake wrote:
I like how the Firebat hero's name is Gui Montag ahahaha
Nice reference to Fahrenheit 451 ;D
You're about 11 years late man
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What happens if you have a Devourer and a Defiler in the same group? Or any other situation of equal ranked units...
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Well, in those cases you are required to read the OP again
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I'm glad, that you are interersted in this research. I am also a a fan of such non-standard, interesting things about the game.
Terran ranks are easy - each unit's rank is written below the unit's name (except Vessels - they need to be locked ot statissed, to remove the "detector" label). The only non-terran unit with rank (or maybe this is not rank) is Ganthritor (hero Carrier) with "rank" Tassadar.
On July 31 2009 17:31 f10esqftw wrote:
What happens if you have a Devourer and a Defiler in the same group? Or any other situation of equal ranked units...
It depends of the selection order. If you select devourer and then shift+click a defiler or other unit with the same (or lower) rank, you will see the devourer's picture. If defiler is first -> you will see the defiler.
If you drag a rectangle over equal-ranked units, every unit has a chance to be first. When more equal-ranked units are selected, you see the picture/hear the voice of the top left unit in the status bar ( the place between the mini map and the unit's picture, where the unit's drawings (green drawing on blue background) are)
Now i see, that i forgot 2 units - cocoon (it's equal to marine and observer) and lurker egg. (equal to scv and interceptor).
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On July 31 2009 05:20 JWD wrote:
Valkyrie is the highest-ranked non-hero unit?? Interesting.
Cool trivia!
Nobody fucks with russian women in sunglasses
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Valkyrie > Fenix 
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On July 31 2009 16:33 armed_ wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2009 09:08 Symmetry wrote:
Technically the game's list is 0-based, but this is still a nice reference material. That's really the kind of thing that you point out only when you have just a bare understanding of it, enough to feel proud of your knowledge but not enough to understand its significance. Y'know, like when a child learns some clever fact and then constantly refers to it irrelevant situations because it's just so novel to him. That's you. Everyone else who reads your post is then forced into the role of the parent who has a splitting headache from the constant flaunting of idiocy but has no choice but to nod patiently and say, "That's nice, dear." But really. That's nice.
lol
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On July 31 2009 18:01 Essence wrote:
Well, in those cases you are required to read the OP again
Ah, yeah, I misread it the first time around.
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