¡¡Save a Zerg breed!!

If we're talking Sci Fi, Mechs > Tanks. Sure they're not fuel efficient and whatever, but you're seriously going to compare a tank, that's limited to being a ground unit, to a sci fi mech, which has been portrayed as being in use on practically any medium, whether it be ground, space or beyond. The appeal of mechs is that they are somewhat humanoid in shape, and it represents the ability to do anything humans can do. A tank can go forward, turn, and fire.

It's just not as appealing seeing a tank with thrusters strafing and taking off into space.

SC mixes it well with tanks being the machines with greatest firepower, and mechs being mobile and having greater utility. SC uses more Battletech style mechs, but it would always be nice to see some other style mechs in the universe. There should be an asian super company pumping out vehicles of war somewhere in Starcraft.

I still don't believe the: "you've seen one mecha, you've seen them all" There are many, many creative mechanical designers out there who can produce many interesting and original mech designs. The mech designer of SC2 seems to be good. I'm not talking about Samwise concept art but the one's we see in single player in-between missions like the Viking.

Currently my fave mech designers are Josh Nizzi and Ebikawa of the recent Gundam 00(just when I though gundam designs were getting stale due to having the same mechanical designer all the time). And the one doing the Iron Man movie mech designs.

Also, no one is arguing the use of mecha in real life, just in fiction. Also mecha may still play a role in future armies, just not the traditional front liner scifi likes to portray them.

Mix of tanks, buggys, hovercraft and mechs > just mechs

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Just because Zerg didn't have active abilities in SC1 doesn't mean they can't have them in SC2.

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And yet there is not one non-burrow active ability on a non-spellcaster in SC2. They have had many opportunities to add them, but they haven't. There are two conclusions that we can draw from this.

1: Given 7 chances of adding an active ability to the Zerg race post SC1, Blizzard decided 7 times not to.

2: Blizzard has made a conscious decision not to give Zerg units active abilities.

For me, it's the 7 chances that makes #1 unlikely. I just don't buy that, after having 7 opportunities to add active abilities to the Zerg, they just happen to have never taken it up. This looks much more like deliberate intent than coincidence.

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Patterns are not the same as rules.

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True, but patterns indicate the presence of rules. That's how Science works; you see patterns, you see them repeated often enough, and you therefore conclude that there is a rule behind those patterns.

If you see a pattern repeated often enough for long enough, it is perfectly legitimate to say that there is a rule causing that pattern.

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Basically, the mechs go from skinny to fat, from top to bottom. That's from an established universe (Battletech) and the only reason I didn't use examples from Gundam is because that site doesn't have a comprehensive archive of mech thumbnails.

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And yet, I can tell the difference between a Battletech 'Mech, a Japanese-loaned Battletech 'Mech, and an Earthsiege 'Mech, all based solely on their design.

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Originally Posted by Nicol Bolas

True, but patterns indicate the presence of rules.

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Not always.

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Originally Posted by Nicol Bolas

And yet there is not one non-burrow active ability on a non-spellcaster in SC2. They have had many opportunities to add them, but they haven't. There are two conclusions that we can draw from this.

1: Given 7 chances of adding an active ability to the Zerg race post SC1, Blizzard decided 7 times not to.

2: Blizzard has made a conscious decision not to give Zerg units active abilities.

For me, it's the 7 chances that makes #1 unlikely. I just don't buy that, after having 7 opportunities to add active abilities to the Zerg, they just happen to have never taken it up. This looks much more like deliberate intent than coincidence.

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The coincidence is that the basic Zerg units don't need active abilities to fill their role or niche. Instead, they do simple, passive things like regenerate quickly or apply a corruption debuff with each shot.

Most units don't need active abilities. The Thor sure as hell doesn't need its Barrage ability, but they put it on the stupid thing just so they'd have an excuse to keep its back-cannons. Units get active abilities to create chances for skilled use, or to supplement a weak point in their design. Zerg are designed to fight in large numbers of weak units, and the best way to preserve those numbers is for Zerg to have a way to avoid damage. The best way to do that is, unsurprisingly, Burrow. There is no conspiracy or rules against Zerg having active abilities, and if there was, you have no proof, just opinion. Zerg simply don't have as many active abilities as Terran or Protoss because they cannot make as good use of them.

As I said before, yes, Marines get Stim. But that Stim gets negated by Medic and Medevac heal, and micro ability by the Marines. Zerglings would have no use for a Stim-like mechanic, instead they get permanent passive upgrades. Its the nature of their racial diversity, not some unwritten bullshit rule you invented out of thin air.