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Medivac Dropship
From The StarCraft 2 Wiki
The Medivac Dropship is the new Terran Transport unit in StarCraft II, replacing both the Dropship and Medic.
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Background
| StarCraft II Unit [e] | |
|---|---|
| |
| Medivac Dropship | |
| Race: | Terran, Tier 2 |
| Role: | Transportation |
| Unit Statistics | |
| Size: | Large |
| Type: | Flying Mechanical |
| Speed: | x |
| Transport Slots: | 8 |
| Hit Points: | 150 |
| Plasma Shields: | N/A |
| Energy Points: | 200 |
| Offence | |
| Armament: | N/A |
| Ground Attack: | N/A |
| Air Attack: | N/A |
| Range: | N/A |
| Defence | |
| Armor: | 1 |
| Sight: | x |
| Cooldown: | N/A |
| Special Abilities | |
| Healing Heals biological friendly units Transport This unit can carry other units in/under it. | |
| Production | |
| Hotkey: | D |
| Supply: |  2
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| Resources: |  100  100
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| Build Time: | 42 |
| Produced by: | Starport |
| Prerequisite: | Starport |
The Medivac Dropship is the primary transportation unit in the Terran fleet, and has the added role of healing friendly biological units.
Game Unit
StarCraft II Unit
Similar to the Dropship, the Medivac Dropship's primary purpose is to transport units from one location to another. To do this, the Medivac has the limited capacity of 8 slots with each Terran units taking 1, 2 or 4 slots accordingly. Any combination of units can be loaded as long as they do not equal more then the 8 count limit. The breakdown of each unit is as follows:
- SCV - 1 slot, max 8 SCVs
- Marine - 1 slot, max 8 Marines
- Marauder - 2 slots, max 4 Marauders
- Ghost - 2 slots, max 4 Ghosts
- Hellion - 2 slots, max 4 Hellions
- Reaper - 1 slots, max 8 Reapers
- Siege Tank - 4 slots, max 2 Siege Tanks
- Thor - 8 slots, max 1 Thor
- Viking - 2 slots, max 4 Vikings
Notes: The Viking can be transportable in Assault Mode. The Cobra, Jackal, Firebat and Medic were removed before beta.
The Medivac Dropship will also be capable of healing friendly biological units. The speed at which the Medivac heals will change frequently during the development process, but it has been noted to currently be faster then the Medic's heal in Brood War. It heals 3 health per 1 energy.
If a Medivac Dropship is carrying units and becomes corrupted by a Zerg Corruptor, then all units that are being carried will be destroyed.
Abilities
Upgrades
- Ship Plating 1-3
- Caduceus Reactor (+25 to starting energy)
Related Terran Vessels
- Dropship
- Medivac Dropship
Development
In early March '08 the Medivac Dropship has replaced both the Dropship and Medic for the Terrans, and will now fulfill both roles of transportation and the Combat Physician.
Trivia
- It was revealed as part of the Q&A Batch 34 that the Medivac Dropship may deploy medical drones when healing friendly biological units.
- The switch away from the Medic to the Medivac Dropship was to increase the mobility of the Terran healer to be more suitable with the agile Reapers. During the testing stage, the developers found that players had preferred the standard Marine and Medic combo because the original Medics were unable to keep up with the new Reapers.
- There were also concerns that the Medic would be hard to kill, due to their relatively small size. The Medivac Dropship is aimed at fixing this by providing a larger unit for the enemy to target.
Gallery
- General StarCraft II Shots
The Medivac Dropship's model for StarCraft II. |
 Two Medivac Dropships with an attack on the Zerg. |
 Battle for the high ground. |
 TvZ battle with a few Medivac Dropships. |
| Terran Units (StarCraft II) [e] | |
|---|---|
| Ground Units: | SCV | Marine | Marauder | Ghost | Reaper | Hellion | Siege Tank | Thor |
| Air Units: | Viking | Medivac Dropship | Raven | Banshee | Battlecruiser |
| Basic Buildings: | Command Center | Supply Depot | Refinery | Barracks | Bunker | Engineering Bay | Missile Turret | Planetary Fortress | Sensor Tower |
| Advanced Buildings: | Ghost Academy | Factory | Merc Haven | Orbital Command | Armory | Starport | Fusion Core |
| Support Buildings: | Tech Lab | Reactor |
| Hero ground units: | Jim Raynor | Tychus Findlay |
| Cancelled Units: | Cobra/Diamondback - Firebat - Predator - Medic - Dropship |
| Cancelled Buildings: | Munitions Depot - Starbase - Shadow Ops |
| Terran Units (StarCraft I & Brood War) [e] | |
|---|---|
| Ground Units: | SCV | Marine | Firebat | Medic | Vulture | Goliath | Siege Tank | Ghost |
| Air Units: | Dropship | Wraith | Valkyrie | Battlecruiser | Science Vessel | |
| Basic Buildings: | Command Center (ComSat Station & Nuclear Silo) | Supply Depot | Engineering Bay | Barracks | Refinery | Missile Turret | Academy | Bunker |
| Advanced Buildings: | Factory | Machine Shop | Armory | Starport (Control Tower) | Science Facility (Physics Lab & Covert Ops) |
| Hero ground units: | Gui Montag (fb) | Terran Civilian | Sarah Kerrigan (g) | Samir Duran (g) | Alexei Stukov (g) | Alan Schezar (gol) | Jim Raynor (vul, mrn) | Edmund Duke (st) |
| Hero air units: | Tom Kazansky (wrt) | Magallan (sv) | Hyperion (bc) | Norad II (bc) |
| (fb) = Firebat -- (g) = Ghost -- (gol) = Goliath -- (v) = Vulture -- (m) = Marine -- (st) = Siege Tank -- (wrt) = Wraith -- (sv) = Science Vessel -- (bc) = Battlecruiser | |
