x-X-x New Zerg Siege Unit x-X-x

Hello Zerg Fans OriginalSin Here,

My idea for a new zerg unit is quite simple it is like a reaver in one way, you must buy its ammo, this idea came to me while i was playing warcraft3 and i saw someone mass abominations and meat wagons the thing was when the battle was over the meat wagons where flinging meat whilst the abominations where poisoning everyone my idea is for something called The Ombalisk (soz no concept art), the Ombalisk is like a giant hydralisk except it moves like a slug it is very slow and it shoots out a ball of gas that does an AOE damage and then a 15 damage per second gas radius for 5 seconds (its cooldown is 10 seconds) The Ombalisk's gas bombs can be updgraded, it costs 15 vespene gas for each bomb, the Ombalisk has several differant types of bombs one type is the Gas bomb (can be upgraded for more damage) the second is a Mutagen this bomb costs quite a bit more but all that die under the effects of this become zerglings (excluding machines) the Mutagen Bomb costs 50 vespene gas and 25 minerals it has a gas affect that lasts 15 seconds and does no damage but when they die they transform into a weaker than usual zergling.

That is the basics of what i wanted to tell you all about :good:

Thankyou for readying this post, OriginalSin

PS: i will be making more unit ideas so look out for the x-X-x

 

i think the zerg do need a sige unit just look at those giant flame thrower bugs in star ship troppers they were alot like the zerg

 

We dont want a zerg unit that is a mix from the Necros the Abos and The Meat Wagons

 

wasn't the zerg luker something of a seige unit i don't know but i might be wrong

 

The Lurker was a unit that had to burrow to be able to attack, by sending spikes in a line up the surface.

 

ya but kindof a seige unit right??

 

I consider a siege unit a unit with great attack range. The Lurker lacks that.
Zerg siege unit: Guardian.

 

oh in that case im wrong sorry

 

But the guardian was quite effective against ground! With some supply it owned everything

 

hey it could be the byproduct of an infested seige tank!

 

Problem with infesting a siege tank is... Zergs don't control mechanical things. And the pilot inside the the tank would most likely just turn stupid and start running into things like most infested terrans do.

 

No. We need a giant new Zerg siege unit that throws massive Zerg turds, that hit and explode in a massive turd filled radius of destruction. Imagine slaughtering the terrans with nothing but poo? Ultimate bragging rights in any book.

 

well ty for looking at this post

"the guardian was quite effective against ground" i heard that they are axing the guardian thats why i thought up this idea because really the only good siege-ish unit they have is the ultralisk and even then its not that good against buildings

 

The guardian is the Zerg's siege unit atm in starcraft one, but then again, the ultralisk WAS designed to be the siege unit, it didn't get used that much though. The zerg units aren't like Terran, they need their other units to actually beat hte player, you can't go ultralisk and defeat a big siege. There is a way though. You get the Defiler and use the Smoke ability, this makes them invincible to Tank shots, goliaths anything except melee, which terran have absolutely none ( Well firebat is an option... )

But then again, zerg shouldn't have one big unit to take down a siege but many little units. I like it the way it is.

 

I agree with Inside Sin.

While I like your idea, the Zerg are a swarm. They rely on strength in numbers and masses upon masses of weak units to overwhelm, as opposed to a few stronger assault units with support. While the Guardian and Ultralisk sort of were siege type units in the original Starcraft, they could not measure up to the likes of the Protoss Reaver and Carrier, or the Terran Siege Tank and Battlecruiser. The Guardian and Ultralisk had to be used in greater numbers than the above units to be as effective at base sieges.

 

Yea it's a nice concept but eventually, after thought sets in and looking at the lore and racial specs the "Ombalisk" doesn't really fit in. Its kinda un-zerg-like (like the hydralisk jk)

 

Don't start that again!!! haha

 

Sorry i just couldn't resist

 

I think we're going to see a whole lot more of morphing instead of just spawning. bailings are just the beginning hydrolisks will probably have a new form with lings having another other than bails. you wont keep the unit you spawn most of the time.

 

I don't like that at all. It's a pain to have to build a unit and then upgrade it again...I mean please. It doesn't fit the swarming theme of the zerg cause you have to spend so much more time creating your units.

in response to the original question: I'm not the first to say this, but Guardian is the zerg siege unit.