Thor She Blows!

THOR
- Has undergone many changes (link is not up to date)
- Anti-air focused
- Has a 'second-life' mechanic, where it is immobile and can be repaired

Toastmold
It is too bad that they abandoned the original super-unit idea, where a single SCV would build it, but I can see where that would be tricky. The Thor now functions as a long range, tough anti-air unit. Its ability to have a 'second life' seems to lend itself more to defense which makes it sort of like a mobile super turret? It is hard for me to envision what the second life mechanic plays like so I guess I will have to wait and see. Maybe they can give it something to make it more interesting. Let's see.. Thor is a Germanic god associated with a hammer and lightning as demonstrated in this painting. Maybe it could have a Yamato Cannon-like, energy expensive, ability that would temporarily stun or disable a unit. Or perhaps it could do a Shockwave (a la Tauren Chieftain) that unleashes a barrage in front of him for a bit of damage. It's long cooldown, need for Thor to slowly rotate to aim (if it still does that) and propensity for friendly fire damage could make this an interesting ability.

Gavimandius
Thor? More like Bhor! No, no, more like Snhor! (Get it!?) This poor schizophrenic unit has been kicked around for a while. The Thor is like Blizzard's new son-in-law. He doesn't really fit in with the family business, but Blizzard needs to find a job for him somewhere so he doesn't let his daughter down, especially after he paid for that expensive wedding. (Uhm.. the wedding is all the effort and excitement that went into developing and promoting the Thor maybe?) He's a good learner Pa, I swear! [Oo A bit of a stretch don't you think? -T] In these tough economic times I'm sad to see Worf and his Goliath given the pink slip. If I was the King of Blizzard I'd give Worf his job back, and fire the Siege Tank instead. Let the Thor be the long range bombarding unit for Terran, as God intended, and take the Siege Tank out behind the barn to be retired, even though they look cool.


zkss5
I hardly know what I'd say that Toast's pink alter-ego didn't already. Except I wouldn't replace the Siege Tanks with the Thor, and I never thought the Thor even looked cool.
I'd tell the poor little son-in-law to look for work some place else.

Sometimes I really don't understand blizz, man. Their reasoning for turning the Goliath into the Viking was pretty spot on, and then they go and put a bigger, slower Goliath in. All this thing's going to do is waddle around slowly and shoot air units that get too close to it; it's just something to protect Siege Tanks from air units, and it's not even something interesting at that role. Given all of Cavez's blathering about being interesting I find it ridiculous that the Thor continues to exist; no plan for this unit has ever been anything other than lame.