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Mothership-Unit Description - Game - StarCraft II
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UNITS
MOTHERSHIP
During the golden age of
Protoss expansion,
Motherships led vast armadas
throughout deep space. In the
centuries since, these primary
command ships had departed
the field of battle and become
holy shrines, venerated by
mystics and historians. But the
loss of Aiur has convinced the Protoss to resurrect
their oldest and most powerful weapons. All
Motherships hold a huge khaydarin crystal infused with
enough psionic energy to distort the very fabric of time
and space. When wielding this force, these vessels
can instantly destroy squadrons of enemy ships or
even entire planets.
UNIT STATISTICS
Psionic - Massive
GENERAL STRATEGY
buildings invisible.
Can open up a Vortex that swallows all air and ground units in the
target area. The affected units will be invulnerable and unable to act for Viking Corruptor Void Ray
the duration.
Its Mass Recall ability allows you bring friendly units to the Mothership’s
location, either to summon forces immediately to defend against an
enemy threat or to assault your opponent’s fortified positions.
Combine with Carriers, Phoenixes, and Void Rays to form a powerful
COUNTERMEASURES
VS Terran
Launch Vikings to neutralize it. Their long firing range will prove ideal for
this.
Use the Ghost’s EMP round to drain the Mothership’s energy and also deal
damage to its shields.
Assemble a large force of Marines, with Stimpacks and Combat Shields, and
preferably with Medivac support.
VS Zerg
VS Protoss
Build Void Rays, as they should be able to take it out quickly. Watch for
enemy units supporting the Mothership.
Use the High Templar’s Feedback ability to drain its energy and deal
damage.
Assemble a large force of Stalkers, preferably with Blink, and make sure
you focus fire.
Phoenix Void Ray High Templar Dark Templar Archon Carrier Mothership
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I say screw the mother ship and bring back the arbiter or give it a damn collossus beam. nothing is more annoying than seeing this
Not many people care for motherships because they don't have the "flying dreadnaught" quality that the Alpha build had. Planet cracker...
ftw... on a side note, it would be hilarious if a single ht took out a mothership who wasnt paying attention by using feedback xD
@cam: Not me and people say they think they can do battlecruiser or carrier rush especially when there is zergling rushes.
the mothership is so awesome it only Shows What It is weak aganst like Siege Tanks.
Blizzard should allow it to use the vortex ability from anywhere in the map just like mass recall; that way you would be able to pull off
Seeing as to how vulnerable this unit is and how many disadvantages there are to it, this would be a good trade off.
@StargazerLos: How about harassing witch a bunch of blink stalker and pull them out of danger with mass recall? I've seen
As a protoss player i dont think the mothership is a bad idea... Mass recall will help with heavy units.... Thors Collusi, and ultralisks. If
you are not playing v protoss or v terran i dont think that mothership is a bad idea. As with the cloaking ability bronze silver and gold
"The ultimate protoss vessel" as they call it. This thing sucks.slow.slow attack.only good for cloaking units and delaying their death.
@MASTERCHIEF: if you know half a protoss strat then it is realy good to put into any army it can turn the tide of any battle
its also good for harrasment if you time it right. P.S. the mothership is not slow it just take a bit till it gos at max speed
amd its attack isnt so slow it has 6 waves of damage per attack so its attack is strong and its not only good for cloaking
units(but that is a really strong aspect of the mothership) overall it is "the ultimate protoss vessel" if you know half a thing
about protoss.
I killed this with 20 marines while carriers were killing me so motherships are so bad an scv could kill it ;)
B.S.! go try to fool someone else, unless you had the marines quad stimmed with full health and a medivac on each, its
Okay here is one thing I have to say: WHY THERE'S NO PORTRAIT OF A MOTHERSHIP LIKE NO PORTRAIT OF AN OBSERVER?!! THE
CARRIER AND BATTLECRUISERS HAVE AN UNLOCKABLE PORTRAIT IF PLAYERS WIN 750 TIMES AS TERRAN AND THE TOSS but instead of
a mothership portrait WHY'S THERE'S A PORTRAIT OF A TOSS THAT KILLED THE FIRST OVERMIND INSTEAD OF A MOTHERSHIP ONE?!!
@JetfirePrime: Would you have a portrait of what looks to be a pylon or a protoss with a mystic energy surrounding him?
Precisely.
@chickenman: Hey theres a portrait of Artanis and thats a mothership unit and besides the Brood lord, Battlecruiser, Carrier
they need planet cracker and to make it not OP they could have it so you have to recharge to use it again and while recharging it wold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEuXYlgD1s
I just use it as a very expensive building. I make it sit around in the base and mass recall everyone to death. Useful for late-game FFAs I
guess.
The Mothership has it's uses, and is a Must Have for late game Protoss. Yes this unit is expensive, but that cost is an unbelievably small
investment if your able to perform the any number of maneuvers it allows you to pull off. Does the 2 other races have the ability to push
through and snipe high priority structures and then teleport to a safe location with virtually no losses and little micro... No they dont.
Does the 2 other races have the ability to lock down half your 200/200 army and destroy it with a 6 units(Archon Toilet), while all you
can do is attempt to take on their max army with your 100 supply army...No! It is true Terran have the Nuke but i mean lets get real, I
giant Red Dot and a screaming warning telling you to move your main army... Very very easy to avoid. Vortex on the other hand is an
instant removal of a mass quantity of your army that cannot be microed out of. And lastly the Mothership's idea of a hero unit, meaning
your only aloud to have 1 out at a time, is unique to this race. Yea Bliz will most likely add in a Hero unit for Zerg and Terran both in the
@Willowsage: I would like to refer Blizzard to this post as a reason to nerf protoss as soon as possible. Possibly change
Terran Nukes so that they're more difficult to avoid, even if just slightly. Terran's most effective strat is MMM, and that's
easily taken care of by either race. Players are constantly complaining about how Terran is OP and needs to be nerfed more.
Come on. 4 Patches later and Terran hasn't been thrown a bone, pay attention.
@Willowsage: I know this has nothing to do with it but... HOW DID YOU GET THE GRUNTY PORTRAIT?!?!?!
SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY! In the beta it looked like it did some damage and had some awesome abilities but not anymore.
@Dylan: Have you seen all the pro-Protoss using this lately? It's definitely not a waste. This thing ends games.
Is it me, or is this basically just the SC1 Arbiter, only 10 times slower, and you could build more than 1 Arbiter?
Sigh... when will blizzard learn! Instead of totally nerfing a unit because they think it's OP, they should simply increase the power levels
of other units. That way, the unit not only keeps it's original awesome value, but everything else gets a little more epic, too.
Most nerfed unit ever! If they let it have the attacks and the abilities it had in development, then it would be worth its costs. This ship
should destroy at least five workers in one or two hits! I could just picture other people going on a rant about this unit.
@bubble: Oh Gawwwwwd. 5 Workers in 2 hits? What do you think this is? An extremely expensive Siege Tank that flies and
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