As said on MSN the other day, nice again

Gotta love those buildings (With zerg, I sometimes attacked zerg opponents by moving an overlord near their base and creating the end of a nydus canal, then sending my army in there. Now with SC2 we can make overlord generate creep so you can put the nydus canal somewhere else where the enemy won't notice.

Yeah, sometimes Terran will also build a barrack inside the enemy base while the enemy is guarding the entrance

I like the Javlin idea, especially the cloaking. Seems like it will be a powerful structure

Oh it will be possible to attack cloaked units/buildings? That's cool. I was kinda annoyed at SC how we couldn't attack invisible units

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.

NATUILUS

Role: Anti-Unit


The Natuilus is a very strange Anti-Unit vessel, similar in some ways to the Science Vessel from the game Starcraft.  It's major weapon is a phase cannon that cannot attack buildings.  However, the Natuilus is provided with a few tricks up its sleeves to make its task easier.  First, the Natuilus is a detector, and thus can see cloaked units.  The Natuilus can also use a "Gas Combustion" weapon to do damage to the enemy equal to the amount of sephrane gas he has, at the cost of 25% of the damage being done to the Natuilus.  Finally, the Natuilus can use "Oxygen Combustion" to damage a Tosonian group of ships by the amount of oxygen they cost, once again causing 25% damage to the Natuilus itself.

By the way, the Natuilus has a weak attack that will attack ALL enemy units in a group at once.  Thus, the Natuilus is best used against groups of enemy units.

(Just a friendly reminder that some of this stuff may change during testing)

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.

YAY nukes!

Also nice work again. I like how your ships and units look like