Queen spell idea

Asexual Reproduction:

caster: Queen, researched at lair
targets: friedly zerg ground units (not queens)
cost: 25 energy + as many supplies the targeted unit requires to be morphed
time: as much time the targeted unit requires to be morphed
channeling: queen can't move (can attack though) and doesn't regen energy during the process
requisites: targeted unit must have at least 50% total hp
effect: targeted unit morphs back into an egg, after the morphing is complete 2 of the same units come out from the egg with 50% total hp

and now a couple of different ideas

Swarm Curtain:

caster: Infestor (preferably, but since it already has a lot of spells, overseer or curroptor could do as well)
target: ground
cost: 50 energy
effect: creates a swarm curtain in front of the caster, lasting 20 seconds. The curtain is a sight blocker in the same way of the tall grass and is created perpendicularly to the caster's line of sight, like the colossus attack, but wider.
why?: I think sight blockers are an interesting addition, but not too useful due to their staticity. The ability to place them can lead to some good tactic.

Sunken crawler:

tech: requires hive
cost: 50 minerals, 100 vespene
build time: 50 sec
effect: spine crawler ability that morphs a spine crawler into a sunken crawler. When rooted, the sunken crawler is burrowed and attacks targets in a line. Damage, rate and radius are unaltered.
why?: basically it's a lurker on creep, and probably the closest thing to a lurker that sc2 could have.

This is actually an intreresting concept. After having watched a few videos however I've begun actually using transfusion a ton. I'm no longer convinced my sweetie needs another ability.

One of the only abilities I'e heard someone come up with that is actually feasable*sp*. Good creativity!

Maybe the energy should be based of the actaully cost of the unit? Using this on ultralisk's seems a bit... you know :P

I like Playing something not TZ vs TZ in 2v2s.
In a normal game you´d get a hilariously strong economic multiplier for Zerg. Maybe if it only worked on drones.

It's an interesting idea, but i think it would have the problem of everything that gives you something without paying for it. I can imagine people spamming Queens, then converting one ultra into 2, then 4, then 8, you get the idea. Remember, even the auto-turrets used to be permanent, but that didn't made it, because you can then spam the things.

Creative idea. "Queen Day" builds would certainly get buffed, but perhaps too powerful. Set it at 30-35% and I think we've got something.

I already got owned by like 8 queens or so in a game.... man I feel ashamed... I saw mass roaches so I went mutas, then I got pawned by 8 queens with 200 energy and transfusion.

So we are already seeing "queen builds". And since it's fairly early of the game I didn't have time to tech into ultras.

What would the cooldown be?
Az Norfindel said, it could be realy abusive if not calibrated properly ^ ^
And why only ground units? It could probably exclude T3 units ....

Dunno! Sounds interesting :p

Thanks everybody for your replies.
Obviously numbers can be tweaked for the purpouse of balance, so if 50 energy is too little maybe 75-100 could be alright. Maybe something like 25 * supply cost could make this less exploitable.

Also I think the problem with the exponential reproduction can be resolved this way:
effect: targeted unit morphs back into an egg, after the morphing is complete 2 of the same units come out from the egg with 1/2 actual hp of the targeted unit

So, you have to use X energy (reproduction) + wait 70 sec + 200 energy (4 times trasnfusion) and preclude spawning larvae for that time, for 1 free ultra. Now if you want to repeat the process whit both newborn ultras, you will have to dedicate 2 queens to the job.