We could also make a "Siege Worm", an underground building destroyer. In game turns, moves while burrowed and gets powerful bonus damage against buildings for an otherwise anemic single target, Lurker-esque attack.
Blue Swarm (Mass Effect/Starcraft Swarm Control Quest)
- Thread starter Planetary Tennis
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- mass effect starcraft zerg
- Location
- USA
[X] Plan: Defensive tactics...for now...
- Location
- California
[X] Plan: Defensive tactics...for now...
First of all I don't know much about Zerg beyond Hive Zerg, Primal Zerg, and Tyranids are Zerg on steroids. Oh and Mecha Zerg are a thing, somehow...
Anyway I was referring to how Thresher Maws take on metal content of the area around where they grow to become tougher. Spit acid, don't need to breathe, and launch their young thru space. And with Zerg growth rates and ability to tweak genetics? Fun!
We can make a Thresher Maw, perhaps of a new breed, sets up and nobody who comes across the area which buys time. Not too mrn
This is pretty much "Zerg" in a nutshell to be honest, seeing as we are mining to produce units, have units that spit acid, possess void capable strains, and will get interstellar travel at some point.
What does Thresher Maws have that Zerg don't?
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
not much to be honest, but they could be a suprise somewhere in their genetics, and may lead to nydus worms that can attack and establish a breach-head for our zerg to swarm out of them.
Sooooo other than a fake TM form to fool others into staying away from an area while we build it up there's no value to studying the thing?
Not at all. While the Zerg have an extensive library of genes, the Thresher Maw is adapted for local conditions. Plus, who knows what you might get from combining traits or pushing the hyperevolutionary button?
Though to be sure being able to throw some Thresher Maw acid on something is certainly a way to shift blame while we remain hidden.
[X] Plan: Defensive tactics...for now...
- Location
- Wherever I feel like being
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- He/Him
Also it's more that we had an extensive library of genes. Whatever happened has severely degraded that catalogue and left us having to patch holes in the most basic of structures and units. We need every possible boost to recouping that loss as possible.
- Location
- Reno
If we can get Creep to generate Biomass passively through Photosynthesis then that alone is worth the effort to grab the TM
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
Man, I hope my plan works out this turn, cause we're going to need allot of work to get the Zerg fully kitted out with tarantulas and hydralisks for us to not worry about much stuff, as well as have a way to wreck the worms and the outpost…probably need a defiler and infestor prototyped soon enough to see how they would work here.
Plague+infestor spores will do wonders.
Plague+infestor spores will do wonders.
With our low rate of Vespene I'd rather put it into building up Lairs in order to try and move from spreadsheet building and more into an action economy.
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
Yeah I get you…but when we start colonizing the other spaces we will be getting more Vespine gas production.
Not THAT much more, we are already on the volcanic zone that should be the richest source.
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
We still have several places to put hive clusters in, along with all the defenses they require…I figure with enough spore cannons (4 for each site besides underground), our area will become a no fly zone.
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- He/Him
We could maybe think of the name? Or maybe we do that on the next turn.
- Location
- California
Alternate genetics with which the Zerg may compare for blue-sky research.
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
That's for later my good sir, a name is basically flavor for us, right now we need to focus on survival first and foremost before we can start other paths.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I can agree with that, we need to work on better units, especially Queens and the upgrade to them will be useful and much quicker to do than adaptation chamber