Latcher bug unit

[rugged heron]

I think a bug air unit that can carry another bug for quick transport would be neat. Dropping said bug its carrying from the sky since they dont take fall damage.
Also allowing it to carry enemy humans, making them fall to their death. Would be neat since some birds already do such in nature.

[crimson moss]

No bug in any setting anywhere in fantasy would evolve a mindset to be some kind of transport.

[stiff moon]

There are plenty of opportunities for a fictional setting with a hive faction to develop some means of transportation.
In fact claiming it to not be so is contrary to the novels defining the genre. Not counting the primordial soup of H. P. Lovecraft, it still deserves a mention. Let's go to H. G Wells, who describes the attacking aliens who came to Earth from Mars as octopus like. And R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, which popularised the concept of alien hive minds, also gives us whole space ships made by the pseudo-arachnids.

So any intelligent bug in any setting anywhere in science fiction could figure out a way to solve a problem, like getting your bugs out there fighting faster, if the author allows it.
And another thing is... the transporter bug doesn't even have to have a say in this. Just like a camel didn't evolve a mindset to carry your sh!t through the desert and the ox didn't choose to have his gonads damaged and pull a plough through the field.
Even wilder... the bug doesn't have to have thoughts of its own at all. With biological tech that the aliens seem to have, like building a damn quantum computer, it shouldn't be too wild to think they could grow some sort of glider projectile to launch their crabs with or mutate a flying bug to carry them.

And there's an even simpler solution, just have the crabs grab onto a flying unit and go. So in the end I do agree that a flying bug with the sole purpose of transporting units is not a good idea. The flying bugs having spots where small units can chill while they fly around? Yes, definitely.

[ivory vessel]

Already de confirmed by the Dev No carrier unit for the bugs

[shut zodiac]

I don't think the bugs need a carrier, but an example that comes to mind would be a mother spider and her babies all on her.

[neat prawn]

How about we just have crabs that evolved to fly

skip the middleman

[stiff moon]

nah. I like the idea of transporting the bugs somehow. If not by flight, then by launchers or some other way. Maybe the transport tunnels Dram mentioned will solve this issue entirely.
More so than a fast transporting unit, I'd like a unit that protects crabs for a little bit. Like the wolf spider concept.

[fast hornet]

The bugs can go over any terrain why do they need a flying transport

[runic owl]

https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Transport_Bug

https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Overlord_(StarCraft)

Not saying the latcher idea is good or bad but there are and can definitely be bug transport units

[full ore]

I am imagining a wasp that carpet bombs enemy tanks with payloads of crabs. I am so down for this lmao

[mighty arch]

I think it'd be more fitting to have a tunnel network, sort of like the tunnel network GLA had in C&C generals, accommodating lesser units and allowing them to spawn in the frontend. Humans have the teleport after all, allowing for easy flanking

[stiff moon]

Dram mentioned this as a possible option, but the bugs are supposed to get a forward base close to the humans, spread across the map, all that stuff, so it might be just a player convenience.

[rugged heron]

exactly my thoughts