Arbiter's attack

[Caiman]

Why do Arbiter's have an attack? It isn't very good, it's exactly like the dragoon and photon cannon's, and you can lure an Arbiter away with it instead of the other way around (i like how sci vessels run away when they are attacked, saved my ass plenty).

The only reason I can think of is to give the Arbiter personality, like the broodlings themselves in the 'spawn broodling' spell or how a missle from a missle turret spins around for a minute if the unit is directly above the missle turret.

edit: made things a bit clearer

 

[TrongaMonga]

Yea, I wonder that sometimes too

The Queen, the Defiler and the High Templar also had an atack in the earlier versions, and they removed it so that they would run away.

As for Arbiter, I don't know, perhaps it's because Protoss do need plenty of micro, and so that's one other thing to micro.

 

[Caiman]

the origional version was great

remember the commodor going to the toilet? Good stuff.

 

[Arwhy]

Arbiters attacking is probably for UMS. Just to make another Air Attack unit. I find it useful when making weirdly random map. Or maybe it's just an extra adition because of it's high cost.

 

[Wing Zero]

Originally posted by TrongaMonga
The Queen, the Defiler and the High Templar also had an atack in the earlier versions, and they removed it so that they would run away.

the defiler didnt come out till the final realese

 

[Damouse]

thas tru, and the arb is useful for decoy purposes, becuz u can just park it next to a hervesting op, and ppl will think, HOLY SHIT!!! RECALL!!! and you can slip in a gigantic force in through the front door.

 

[TrongaMonga]

Originally posted by Wing Zero
the defiler didnt come out till the final realese

Yes, but the first release was a little different that the first one. If you check the updates changes file in the StarCraft folder, you'll see stuff such as the removal of the upgrade that would allow wraiths to atack ground. They were initially an AA unit, and they had an upgrade.

As for the zerg, the Queen had the mutalisk atack, the muta had the hydra atack (that's why in SC original, the Protoss final movie, when mutas are atacking the carrier, they spit some acid instead of those things). And the defiler had an atack as well.