Builderboy, keep up the good work!

Hi, guys,

I don't have the kind of money to buy Starcraft 2, but I wanted to know about the continuing story.  So I read the Wikipedia article of the game to find the storyline.  I have some questions:

1. What happens to Arcturus Mengsk after the message revealing his actions on Tarsonis was sent?  Does he still rule the dominion?  Is he overthrown?  Do people start respecting Jim Raynor afterwards?
2. When Zeratul says that Kerrigan is the key to saving the universe, does the game reveal whether he means Kerrigan in her "Queen of Blades" form or her human form?
3. I can only assume that Kerrigan is happy to be restored, but is that really the case?

Ok. This will be my Axe Parser contest entry. As linking is relatively new, I will not chance it for the contest and will enter a single player version in the contest.

Cool!  Can't wait for screenies!  This will be such a great game!

INFILTRATOR

My inspiration for this unit came from  "Dark Templar Drops" and "Siege Tanks."

When making a cloaked assault, Protar are the best for ground-to-ground attacks, and Balkstones are the best air-to-ground (or air-to-air in the case of Tosonian buildings and flying units).  The Infiltrator is used for special cloaked assaults, and thus must be used with care.

Infiltrators have 3 modes, two of which must be researched.  The first mode is "flying mode," which must be researched.  In this mode, Infiltrators move at high speeds but are unable to attack.  They are also visible.

In the second mode, Siege Mode, Infiltrators have a powerful attack that can destroy a building in a single shot.  Every shot costs the destruction of one Infiltrator, meaning that a player can destroy up to 10 buildings with 10 Infiltrators.  Infiltrators are permanently cloaked in siege mode, and are also very slow.

The third mode is Sniper Mode, which must be researched.  In Sniper Mode, Infiltrators are once again permanently cloaked and very slow.  While their attack is somewhat weaker than most weapons, they have a range of 4, outranging anything except Universal Defense Systems.  In Sniper Mode, Infiltrators can attack both air and ground units.





BALKSTONE

Since the Ptaloids were the inventor of the Balkstone, it is only fitting that they have this ship available to them.  The cloaking device / booster engines must be researched, and the abilities require sephrane gas.  While the Ptaloid Balkstone is more powerful than the human version, it can only fire forward, leaving Galbonians as a valuable alternative of air-to-ground.




PTERODACTYL

Pterodactyls are hovering ground units, though they can attack both air and ground.  They are the "capital ship" of the Ptaloids, and can be equipped with Plasma Torpedoes.

NUCANA


The only nuclear weapon in S.A.D. (The manual will say that it's developed and used by the Protar)  A player can use only one Nucana at a time, meaning the player can't use a whole group of Nucanas.

A nuclear weapon is purchased as a refillable upgrade (and does not need to be researched.)  A Nucana can only hold one nuclear missile at a time, and it cannot move while the weapon is being produced.  Nuclear missiles can be destroyed by AA.

Good work everyone who did this!

What are wrinkles? Do you mean how the screen gets distorted slightly where they are, like in Starcraft 1 and 2? And yeah I agree it's more realistic.

Wrinkles will show up as the wrinkles you see in clothing that hasn't been ironed.  After all, the camofludge provided by Protar comes from the cloaks they where.  Wrinkling is the same principle as how the screen gets distorted where a cloaked unit is, just different "looks".  The wrinkles give the player a little bit more of an idea of where the protar is than a distroted screen does.

However, most cloaked units won't show up at all without detectors, meaning there won't even be a distorted screen or "wrinkles."  In that case, a player can only tell where the unit is by watching the weapons that are fired.  This is not hard if the cloaked unit that is just "sitting there" attacking, but a person who cloaks and attacks manually will be able to move in various directions while attacking, making it hard for the other player to find and target him.