On January 24 2005 20:53 evanthebouncy wrote:
I hope this post will clear everything up about D swarm and burrowed units, i post it as a FAQ format.
k gandalf, lets think about it...
Q 1 -what exactly does a d swarm protect you against?
any unit under dark swarm only take splash damage and melee but take no missile damage, right? that means a marine(missile dmg) no matter what, will not harm anything under a swarm, while a spidermine(splash), a firebat(splash) or archon(splash) zealot(melee) will.
Q 2 -what kind of damage does a tank dealt?
tank do both missile and splash damage. A tank fires, and the unit been hit take full missile damage, while all the units around it with in a small radius, take some splash damage.
Q 3 -why is zergling under swarm damaged by tanks?
units under darkswarm take splash damage from tank but not the missile damage. which means, if two lings standing side by side, and a tank fires at ling A, ling A will not take damage because it is missile, while ling B will take damage because it is splash.
Q 4 -what will happen if a tank fire at two closely burrowed units?
burrowed units do not radiate splash damage from tanks. So if the ling A and ling B are burrowed side by side with no swarm on them, tank fires at ling A, it will die while ling B take no damage from the splash because no splash is radiated from ling A.
Q 5 -why is burrowed lurk underswarm unharmed by tanks?
two burrowed lings under swarm, tank fires at ling A and ling B is close by, because ling A is under swarm, it does not take missile damage, and because ling A is burrowed, it does not radiate splash dmg, so neither is harmed
Q 6 -so how do you kill a burrowed lurker with tank?
move a super duper medic with D matrix on it as a bait, move medic right on top of the lurker under a swarm. Focus fire all your tanks at the medic. Medic will radiate splash damage because she is above ground, and the burrowed lurker will take the splash damage because D swarm does not protect them from it. as a result, your medic dies with a lurker, how lovely...
hope that helps.
cheers :beer:
Edit, question #5 is bang out of order, after i saw a replay, burrowed units DO radiate splash, so if two lings burrowed side by side, one tank hit will dmg both.
So question #6 is wrong too, lurkers burrowed sidebyside underswarm WILL take splash dmg, ur right cyric.
thx to the replay(who ever did it

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