(03/08/2010 08:44 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  

(03/08/2010 11:12 AM)Hellgiver Wrote:  The maneuverability of the vessel, along with its detection and healing was why I went with it. Raven's missile and auto turrets are cool and all, but I only really find them useful in multiplayer. The point defense drone can find some use in campaign, but I just found the vessel to appeal to my playstyle more than the raven.

Auto turrets are actually pretty good in the campaigns imo.  I generally take a few Ravens on the attack, and when assaulting heavily defended enemy bases, proceed to drop down like 10+ turrets in their base.  It's like improvised offensive towering and the turrets also help to distract the enemy and soak up a lot of the damage (they're reasonably tanky, and each Raven can drop 4).

Healing would probably be quite useful, but detection wasn't really needed in the campaigns at all.  The enemy pretty much never ever used cloaked units (the Terrans hardly ever had wraiths/banshees/ghosts, and even when they did, they didn't cloak them, and the only DTs in the game were all on your side).  And later on your command center can sweep anyway.

Healing IS the main reason I use the vessels, as Irradiate just doesn't seem as useful outside of crazy harassment in SC1's multiplayer.  I am not saying raven isn't a good choice. Not by any stretch! It just doesn't match my playstyle. I needed mass air a few too many times to not see how much healing mid-air would help me out. Now, I love the duration on auto-turrets, and dropping auto-turrets on lone tanks is always good for some lulz, but for my brutal and hard playthroughs, I felt vessels just would have been a bad idea to pass up.

Then again, this is exactly why I love SC2... it is letting you choose what pieces of army fit together best for you, and allow you to compare your setup for each mission with one another. Absolutely top notch. Makes me want to play the expansions all the more now!