Warhound Model Poll

[Alar]

Give me something with HOVER JETS! Come on, Blizz!

[drakolobo]

Gatling gun, flamethrower... say, does the Warhound look like a really bad ripoff of a Warhammer 40K Dreadnought to anyone else??

I think they just wanted to answer a question. because they never gave a military application to big SCV

[Alex06]

Give me something with HOVER JETS! Come on, Blizz!

Agreed.

DemoSquid summarizes my view on the subject perfectly. I'm totally with him on this.

Also, this needs to appear on Blizzard's official SC2 forums, methinks.

[Hamshank]

don't forget this is anti-mech,

which has better readability: Diamondback versus Stalker.
Warhound versus Stalker

obviously the latter

although the shield is retarded

[Alex06]

don't forget this is anti-mech,

which has better readability: Diamondback versus Stalker.
Warhound versus Stalker

obviously the latter

although the shield is retarded

Why should something that is anti-mech look like a mech? That's TERRIBLE readability. Plus, the rule of rock-paper-scissor is that everything has to counter something and be countered by something. How stupid is it if scissor beats scissor? An anti-mech unit should not be a mech. The opposite (like we have now, with the Warhound) is just incredibly stupid.

An anti-ground bomber craft shouldn't look like a squad of infantry because that's what it counters...That's retarded.

[JackhammerIV]

Well don't Anti-tank Vehicles kinda look like tanks but with different weapons....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_destroyer

That kind of truth makes an anti-mech unit that looks like a mech believable.

But seriously if it's walking then might as well make it jump to avoid tank fire. And if it has a shield...might as well make it a huge shield so it's believable as something to defend it. Then might as well give it a huge ass gun and a sword as backup. Then it'll look like those crazy futuristic Japanese anime robots that in the stories demolished tanks. It'd even fit in with Transformers which Blizzard seems to love.





This section is pretty much b****ing on the warhound as a unit overall. Completely offtopic so i'll hide it. Blizzard could somehow make it a viable replacement for the thor by adjusting the stats but overall for me the possible supply cost and factory build time seem to make warhound worse than the thor:

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And in terms of being anti-mech or anti-mutalisk....I don't see how the warhound is an improvement over the thor. Might be better to just adjust the thor model to make it smaller overall so it has better pathfinding. Then maybe consider adjusting the stats after getting a few months of data on how the smaller model is affecting matchups.

The thor has 60 ground attack with 7 range and 24 (+24 to light) anti-air with 10 range and 0.5 splash and it costs 6 supply taking up 60 seconds build time. The thor functioned by having a few of them mixed into the army to make it stronger. Help break siege lines and protect positions from mutas with marine support. The warhound seems to be pushing towards instead of having 1 thor do its job you now need 3+ warhounds to do it. Taking up more factory time that could be spent on siege tanks. So mutalisk harass and the terran responding with warhounds means a weaker ground army due to fewer tanks. Makes the mutalisk harass more worth it to force warhounds.

And i question Blizzard's need to try and fix the problems of thor pathfinding when they don't even question the HT's lack of movement speed compared to the other spellcasters. They accepted that warp prism micro carrying HTs is a viable way to deal with it. Why not accept that Thors need medivac micro instead of basically replacing it with an inferior unit.

[Hamshank]

Alex, a stalker looks very similar to a diamondback. A Warhound doesn't

[phazonjunkie]

As I mentioned in another thread I like the concept: a goliath that can doesn't suck against ground targets, but the model has to go. It looks not only unappealing (not necessarily a bad thing) but unintimidating, uninspired, and just plain silly.

I personally would've preferred something along these lines:



Something that not only looks cool but also looks at least remotely feasible/practical

[flabortast]

Maybe more military version of this:

[sandwich_bird]

I want it as a gritty bipedal mech but the current version is just fugly.