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Karune on Reapers, Marauders, and Warp Gates

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Oct 21st 2008, 8:12pm
Karune has responded to some questions on the official forums about Reapers, Marauders, Warp Gates.

Whats units are the reapers good against? Ones they totally own. Also the marauders. Is it more anti toss or anti zerg? Better as a mixed in unit or stand alone? etc

Reapers are actually one of the best units against any light units in the game. They kill Zerglings, workers, and even Zealots pretty well with a little maneuvering. Their mines also decimate stationary defenses, as well as tech buildings. They are no doubt one of the best raiders in the game right now.

Marauders on the other hand are probably better mixed, unless you are going up against an all armored ground force. Marauders work well against both Protoss and Zerg. Early game, as mentioned above, they are great for slowing Zealots while Marines do the damage. Against Zerg, they are better suited against those pesky armored Roaches with the fast regen.

Even though the Warpgate is good enough, I was wondering if the Robotics Facility and Nexus warp-in as well.

Only Gateways can be upgraded to Warp Gates. Gosh...warped in Carriers/Void Rays over an enemy base would be OP!


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Oct 21st 2008, 9:32pm
wooo

thanks a lot for posting this!

i have always wanted those answers =)

hmm...i thought they should inc reaper's attack -.-

again..im not so kool with nades...

and...yeh...that was obvio...lol warp carriers in enemy pass...GG =P

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Oct 21st 2008, 10:25pm
it might be gg unless you have to buy the inteceptors like sc1

but anyways, i really like the marauders but i think they should change names with reapers. i mean, marauders maraud where as reapers...actually kill things.
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Oct 21st 2008, 11:49pm
Tide_of_Corn said...
it might be gg unless you have to buy the inteceptors like sc1



I think it has been confirmed that carriers have interceptors upon built.

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Oct 21st 2008, 11:12pm
w000t karune and his posting spree! :)

You know what a Carrier/Void Ray warp-in is called?
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Oct 22nd 2008, 12:53am
IDK...they always say the reaper is awesome and i always doubt that fact...killing zealotss with ease...hmmm...i assume he is referring to zealots without the charge upgrade
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Oct 22nd 2008, 4:52am
@Illidan - Probably. Charge is a higher tier upgrade. All lower tier Protoss forces use zealots, often quite a few zealots. And when he says "with ease", I'd include "compared to anything else of the same price".

Keep in mind that they shoot twice, eh? And also, the reapers seem to work well in all the videos they're in. At least, the ones where they're used probably.

And they're so cool. So stop dissing them.
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Oct 22nd 2008, 5:12am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTMvz-qJQe4

Hmm... Reapers pawning zerglings? From the looks of this video I m not convince, YET

Marauders best if with mixed units. Check! those stalkers made quick work of them.

About warp in so units that are built from the gateway are the only ones that can be warp in?


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Oct 22nd 2008, 6:27am
Wow, warping in carriers and stuff would be very mean. But reapers are awesome and marauders are just cool. But I do have a question about the marauder: Where do the grenades come from? Like grenade launcher arms? Or back fired grenades. Also, D-8 charges would be great against zerg. Just somehow find out when the zerg are attacking, plant a couple in front of your base, and watch the fireworks.

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Oct 22nd 2008, 8:41am
I thought Reapers were good against Immortals since they could attack w/o activating their special shields...

From the videos they look really cool, and indeed good raiders. But I agree that they don't seem good enough to be mixing them up in all sorts of battles.

And I agree with Tide_of_Corn, a name switch between Marauders and Reapers wouldn't be such a crazy idea hehehe....

I wish Karune would post even more, but I guess the spam and usual pointless topics on bnet makes it not that motivating... or maybe he just doesn't have that much time on his hands xD....
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