TL Terran Unit Comp. - Voting!

On March 23 2015 20:12 ejozl wrote:
Name: Exterminator
Made from Barracks (Tech Lab)
Stats are roughly:
100 min/125 gas/ 3 supply/ 40 sec
attack: 1 range, 1.8 cd, 30 dmg
160 HP, 1 Armour, 2.75 movespeed
Tags: - Bio - Light - ground

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On March 24 2015 04:50 IeZaeL wrote:
Custom mockup model : http://i.imgur.com/uZZMyMb.jpg

Melee terran units that gives refuge and help to other terran units with its big armor and shield. Synergies with all ground units , making it a powerful tool in the terran race.

Stats:
- Unit Cost : 150M/250V/35s
- Available at : Barracks and reactor
- Stats : 200hp , 2armor , no energy
- DPS : 5damage /melee( this is very low as the main purpose of the unit is not to deal damage)
- Movement speed: 2.15 ( slightly slower than marine)
- Supply : 4

Passive ability :In autocast mode,If the unit takes damage from an enemy unit , it automatically transforms and uses its shield to cover itself and unit near it , effectively modifying the map terrain and pathings. The unit cant move while having the shields up , but can still attack. If the Guardian dies , the barricade gets destroyed.If there are no enemies , the unit automatically returns to the moving state. Morph time is approx. 1 real-time second. Cooldown to morph again to moving-state is 30second. Can be activated manually.

Closeup shields up : http://i.imgur.com/SyDUFwb.png
Ingame mockup : http://i.imgur.com/MCrfkzX.jpg
Example on real map 1 : http://i.imgur.com/MhxPTgv.jpg
Example on real map 2 : http://i.imgur.com/ozCza5U.jpg

Advantages of having a unit like this in the game :
- It fulfills the role blizzard wanted "combat construction type of unit that travels with your army and constructs useful things mid-field to support your bio army"
- Modifies terrain and map pathing indirectly , with a huge number of "abusable" spots that could be discovered in every map.
- Creates exciting positional play
- Its a terran melee units!!
- Has synergy with both barracks and factory units , tanking for them to deal the maximum amount of damage possible and reducing the surround surface
- Introduces new mechanics
- Enemy can use it at its advantage with proper planning ahead.

On March 29 2015 21:36 threnickelsandadime wrote:
Jackal
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The Jackal is a highly mobile infantry-support unit built from the Barracks, requiring both an ghost academy and tech-lab.

Specifications

Look: Bionic/Ecotoskeleton-suit/psionic/agile
Required Tech: Barracks—>Tech-Lab—>Ghost Academy
Cost: 200-minerals/150-Gas/40-Seconds/2-Supply
Attributes: Biological, Psionic
Attack: None
Speed: 3.75
Health: 125
Upgrades: An standard energy upgrade at the Ghost Academy would probably be a good idea. Ability upgrades for balance as needed.
(Note1: All specifications and/or values are rough estimates and placeholders set in order to flesh out an economic and strategic standing of the unit.
Note2: The Jackal should be nothing less than very fast. The unit has no offensive capability to exploit its mobility. It is purely a support unit and an expensive one at that, such speed is warranted)

Abilities:

Kinetic Shield- Creates an barrier on a single target biological unit for 7 Seconds, which negates all incoming damage dealt to the target from it’s front facing side. All damage dealt from the rear or flank sides of the unit are unaffected by Kinetic Shield. Range 9. 75 Energy

Place Shift- Instantly swaps positions with another friendly unit. Range 11. 25 Energy.

Lockdown- Stuns target mechanical unit for 5 seconds. Affected unit can be attacked, repaired and targeted by other abilities. Range 7. 100 Energy.

The Jackal’s role in every matchup is to increase late game Bio-army viability in direct engagements through micro intensive abilities. The goal with the Jackal is not to disincentives the harassment potential of Bio-armies, but to allow more compelling and challenging late-game engagements for players on each side of the match-up. The Jackals interactions with ling/bang/muta/ultra, Marine/Tank, Pure Mech, Sky-Terran, Protoss death-ball and Sky-toss will stimulate both greater micro and multitasking engagements. I will be going through each ability in regards to the matchup (and each associated composition) vs the Bio/Jackal army in order to depict a more comprehensive understanding of the unit.

At first look, It may seem off-putting that both Kinetic Shield and Lockdown are very similar, or in the latter’s case nearly identical, to their predecessor’s equivalent, but it is critical to understand how different each respective game is. In Starcraft 2 where maxed out armies of hyper cost-effective units, such as Colossi, dominate competitive play, Lockdown will be invaluable and will allow Terran to be less reliant on the Viking in the Bio vs Deathball. Jackal’s will be attempting to flank said army, avoiding feedback, Lockingdown Colossi, while the MMM Kites the zealots. If done successfully the Terran player will be able to dissect the Protoss by splitting the gateway units from the Colossi. Overall, Lockdown would spread out the entire Bio vs Deathball engagement, while requiring more multitasking from the Terran (multitasking both bio/ghost and Jackal) as well as the Protoss (Colossi position, Templar spread for effective storms and defensive feedbacks.. Further, Lockdown would greatly impact both Air-Air and Ground-Air engagements in all three of the Protoss/Terran matchups. Air-Air combat is sadly some of the most uninteresting, and frankly boring, engagements in all of Starcraft 2 and that doesn't look like it will change in LotV. So by having a ground unit that would strengthen viability of non-viking units, to combat Air forces would increase unit diversity and complexity substantially. Lockdown would also create an interesting back and forth relationship with the coming Disruptor. Lockdown(range: 7) would seem to soft counter nicely the Disruptor if cast prior to it’s activation. This could add positive complexity. Sadly, more speculation would be weak with our current understanding of LotV and how this unit will affect the Deathball composition.


The Place Shift ability grants additional mobility to the Jackal in hopes to create more synergy with its other abilities and army compositions. It is relatively simple, swapping the Jackals place with another friendly unit, and will likely be most valuable in the TvT and TvP matchups vs mechanical units when coupled with Lockdown. The ability would allow Jackals (with near full energy) to Kinetic Shield themselves, close the rather short range required for Lockdown, disable the unit and Place Shift out. This would allow Jackals to be cost effective, when microed correctly, even when engaging very defensive positions (Tanks, Lurkers, Deathball). In the scenario stated, feedback would be the most obvious counter and vulnerability to this tactic. Overall, Place Shift is a little less cost efficient then blink, in both resources and energy (something will likely die in its place), but could add up to more creativity (TLO back to Terran?) with the unit and fulfill the Jackal’s inherent need to be agile.


Kinetic Shield (KS) is likely the most game affecting ability from the Jackal. In all matchups Bio’s late game direct engagement potential is stunted by its own virtue of being a glass cannon. This low health high damage/mobility and apparent vulnerability to AOE has created arguably the most compelling gameplay in Starcraft 2’s history, with players needing to utilize micro (splits, drops, etc) to overcome the compositions weakness. That understood, KS is not an attempt to change this composition design in the slightest, but supplement it so greater army control can yield more value. The ability’s design to be only frontal damage prevention creates an dynamic that both players must utilize. In TvZ, for example, KS would increase the value the role the marauder plays in current meta. Small creep clearing pushes turn into full scale army engagements with the marines splitting behind the marauders and the Zerg attempting to detonate his Banglings on the marines. KS would be cast on the forces in front at the start of the engagements and incentivize Zerg players to flank and be more conscious of their detonation or they could be lost on an single unit. KS would also be invaluable for taking aggressive engagements into defensive positions of Lurkers in LotV. Similar to how KS would be used against Tank lines vs Mech, units protected would be able to aggro the AOE long enough for their army to engage. Of course an top Zerg would have opportunities to pick off these shielded units with Mutas from the rear or sides before they engaged or target fired with Lurkers. Vs Ultras Kinetic Shield would greatly increase positioning and terrain advantages in tight closed off areas by bottle-necking with shielded units. In open areas, Ultras would have to be microed in order to not derp wasting attacks on shielded units. KS in TvP, as with Lockdown, would spread out the engagements. KS would be cast on units in the front line to tank Chareglot/Archon/Colossi, while the rest of the Bio army would stutter step retreat. This would add difficulty for the Terran player for each unit shielded would have to be separated from their control group. If the shielded unit were to stutter step and leave their back vulnerable, they would die quickly. It is important to note at this point that both KS and the Jackal are expensive, neither should be thrown away lightly. If controlled correctly shielded units would be able to tank enormous amounts damage from a poorly controlled Deathball. Therefore, storm would increase in value, by being able to damage shielded units, while Colossi would decrease. Obviously, if Colossi were target firing skillfully their value would be maintained, but either way KS would increase micromanagement and Bio-late game engagement viability. KS in TvT would be hugely innovative in all three Bio vs Mech Bio vs Marine/Tank and Marine/Tank vs Marine/Tank matchups. KS would allow one marine to tank multiple volleys of unmicroed Tank lines. This would allow for far more aggressive engagements and FAR LESS incentive for Turtle Mech. Bio would finally be able to harass in multiple areas, then take a favorable engagement when the Terran player is unawares targeting an KS. Overall, the strength of KS in terms of design is its ability to make one unit indirectly valuable. Design often focuses on how quickly X unit defeats X unit or how many units will X damage X, but by giving a single or few units, unsubstantial by themselves, the ability to, not destroy, but distract a miscontrolled army gives depth to gameplay and allows for new play styles and continual innovation. When a ability/composition/strategy is both strong and vulnerable it creates an obstacle that must be overcome by both players simultaneously. That is competition worth watching.

On March 23 2015 13:26 ElMeanYo wrote:
The Javelin:
A long-range mobile missile crawler built from a factory with a techlab.

Stats:
Supply: 4
Cost: 200 min, 200 gas
Damage: 200 single target with splash (see below).
Range: 18 (upgrade to 24)
Speed: 1.8
Cargo Space: 8

Basic Usage:
- A mobile missile crawler with no regular attack.
- It uses resources to construct missiles in it's silo (think interceptors), up to 4 may be constructed and each costs 75 mins, 50 gas, and 10 seconds to build.
- Missiles are launched and targeted on a spot on the ground manually by the player, at a max range of 18 and min range of 5.
- Missiles may be fired into fog of war.
- Firing animation is about two seconds, where the unit can not be moved or re-targeted as the missile launches. Missile does not launch if the unit dies during that time.
- After firing the unit can move, but a cooldown of about 5 seconds exists before the next missile can be fired.
- Once in the air the missile takes 3 seconds to reach its target.
- The place where the missile will land is clearly marked to all players allowing for some opportunity to avoid the target area.
- Any unit/structure hit directly by the missile suffers 200 damage. Does not affect air units in any way.
- All other units and structures within a fairly large radius take splash damage.
- Size of this unit is slightly larger than that of an un-sieged tank.
- The cost of any missiles in the silo plus any that are currently being constructed is lost if the unit dies.

Upgrades:
- Benefits from standard armor/attack upgrades, with attack at + 20 each level.
- Upgrade at the fusion core that increases range to 24.

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On March 23 2015 15:19 Gretorp wrote:
I built the unit on stream and have notes on it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NUjOjdG46MdMAeIigFpuTEwu-vpaMlq-256a9vmMT9g/edit#gid=0

Here are the highlights:

Air units
Speed 4/5
Requires Tech lab.

Is a support AOE air to air damage dealer with ability utility to help out ground.
It does bonus damage to armored.

Abilities
Disabling Field: Units that are inside or walk inside this field are unable to attack or cast.
Grenade: shoots a grenade charge that slows and reduces armor of all units inside.

Here's the reason why it should exist.

TvZ: seeing muta ling bling the whole game makes the matchup very linear. We want it to move past tier 2 units for zerg while maintaining their viability. If terran techs up to this unit we can force them to lay off the mass mutas, else this AOE unit will be able to eventually be amassed in larger numbers, and it can deal with the heavy muta counts in larger numbers with the grenade + light AOE dmg.

Lurker ling/bling seems unreasonable to attack into. This allows bio to be viable.

TvP Bio needs help in late game. Not in early game. This unit can be a helping solution to the constant problem of HT/Collo. That combination is so good at end game stages. With this unit, zoning sides and not having to worry about them against hts makes the match a lot more interesting

TvT Nobody likes raven/viking. It's random. It's silly at times, and it's a very unrewarding feeling when you're playing it/playing against it/watching it. because of its burst AOE against armored units, I hope to remove the capacity for the raven to be the go to AOE air unit. Thereby giving a more expected result when we see these armies collide.

In summation, we have a utility spell casting unit that's a splice of the valkyrie/queen/corsair/Devouruer from BW that is tier 2.5ish and can live in mid game to late game. It forces other races not to just defend, else they'll get
punished with the disabling field, while still being expensive enough to be of high opportunity cost. It forces zerg to end game compositions, strays the TvTaway from RNG wins, and gives bio a potential way to deal with HTs and blink stalkers killing all our vikings and our units.

On March 24 2015 01:25 Cricketer12 wrote:
Cattlebruiser

Building: scv/battlecruiser

Health 350
speed: 2.21
Atk: none

Upgraded by using scv to build on a battlecruiser somewhat like msc to mothership. The cattlebruiser will shout Mooo...when created both players hear it. It can mind control a unit preferably an ultralisk. When it mind controls a unit, the scv that built it becomes the other players scv as compensation. Go bruise some cattle and shit.

On March 24 2015 04:44 Superouman wrote:
Unit name : Dustin Browder

HP : 100
Attack : none
Speed : 2.0
cost : 75/75

Ability : Turns the unit into destructible rocks. The process cannot be reversed.

On March 23 2015 22:35 Supersamu wrote:
The Hobo

Unit Type: Light, Biological
Production Facility: Barracks with Techlab
Requirement: Armory
Cost: 25 Minerals, 75 Gas
Attack: None
Health: 60
Movement speed: 2

Passive Ability: Hobophobia

All biological Units instantly move away in a 90 degree angle relative to the Hobo's direction of movement (from the perspective of the biological unit!!) and then act as if they were given the hold position command, as soon as they enter a 1.5 radius of the Hobo, because of the smell and the social stigma.

Banelings are still able to suicide on the Hobo, but they have to be given a manual command (right-click/a-click directly on the hobo before entering the 1.5 radius) to do so.

Dropships are not allowed to contain a Hobo and a biological unit, the same is true for a bunker.

The hobo can be used by terran players intelligently in different fashions:

- They can be used to control ramps against zerglings.
- They can be dropped on top of a MM ball for quick splitting
- They can be used against Terran as protection for Tanks
- They can be used against Protoss to prevent clumping of units.

The exact numbers may need tweaking

On March 23 2015 23:22 excitedBear wrote:
MegaMonk

Can cast a time-shift spell on units:
=> Transforms all units within the area to ancient/medieval units

Marine -> Swordsman
Zealot -> Pikeman
Zergling -> Wolf
Hydralisk -> Centaur
Phoenix -> Pegasus
Ghost -> Crossbowman
Marauder -> Elf
Archon -> Ogre
Stalker -> Horse archer
Ultralisk -> Gnome
Tank -> Trebuchet
...

On March 24 2015 03:16 Superouman wrote:
Name: MERC
Produced at: Barracks
Supply Cost: 2
Mineral Cost: 125
Gas Cost: 50
Movement Speed): 2.75
Damage : 30
Cooldown : 1.8
Range : 1
Defense: 160 Hp, Armor: 1, Biological, Light
Collision Size : Same as Marauder
Cargo Size: 2

Description: It has a special ability called grapple which allow the MERC to jump onto an other unit (ally or enemy or rocks) It will enable a lot of creative plays.