More Bane For Your Buck?

BANELING
- A new morph option for zerglings
- Unit built only for aoe suicide damage
- Able to burrow
- A ready supply of Mountain Dew

Toastmold
Ok, first I have to say this unit is really cute. It waddles around with its acid-filled body bulging and swaying like an eager-to-please participant on The Biggest Loser. And when the player researches the speed upgrade it starts rolling around like a rogue tire at a NASCAR event. I think a lot of times this unit will either do nothing, or totally thrash an army. Banelings might be at their best when you ambush from a burrowed position. Ultimately there is a lot of potential kersplutination to be had with the Baneling. But like the Reaper, it might take a while to get the balance right.

Gavimandius
I will never, ever make a Baneling. Why you ask with that stupid incredulous look on your face? If ever a Zergling under my command dies, it will be on the field of battle, madly gnawing at my enemies, not commiting organismal suicide to make some obese piñata beast. Japanese Daimyo: Hey these samurai are awesome and all that, but lets drown them in this pool so roll their bloated corpses at our enemies. Bottom line, it just isn't right to ask a beast so pure and noble as the Zergling to subvert itself into becoming something else.

zkss5
I don't have a lot to say about the Baneling. I like them, though I'm also concerned about the line between doing too much and too little with all-or-nothing units like this. The way we've been seeing them demonstrated/used so far is probably skewing this somewhat though, since they can also just be thrown into normal melee group attacks for some extra bang, rather than the attempts to use them alone. They don't appear to be as easy to waste as Scourge, so they won't demand as much attention as those did, which is a great way to go about it, since they can still be very devastating if that attention is given.