collosus fog

[rustic fog]

Ive got 2 ideas of a version of this (both versions alien vision can see through the fog just fine:
1: the collosus can excrete fog as a huge cloud around itself in order to hide and make itself harder to hit (when the eye glows humans can see it but other than that it’s hidden)

2: the collosus can excrete a large area of smoke beneath itself which completely hides other aliens which are moving under it, this fog not only visually hides aliens but also hides them on the map by temporarily removing los in that area.
This would mean that when humans finally kill collosus they would suddenly discover a swarm or goliaths or all kinds of aliens underneath it which have crept up to their front lines in the fog.

Could also make it so the fog doesn’t work when it’s near certain human buildings so it’s not too op

Another part of all this would be that human ai would be unable to target enemies within the fog, so that could potentially be a bit op too

[gritty moss]

Tbh I really like this bc it could let colossi work as siege units without having to fix their AI or balance their attacks. Just make it… idk have an AA attack or something. Whenever you see a colossus you have to kill it ASAP bc it could be hiding a ton of goliaths and hunters and shit and until it’s down, your weapons can’t damage the army. And you don’t want to bring your bombers in to carpetbomb everything around it bc it’s a giant mobile AA tower that will absolutely fuck up any air units nearby. It buys time for slow melee units to make it to the front where their dps can be effective and protects them from missile and air attacks without actually contributing meaningful DPS of its own.

It would also serve as an effective counter to mass railtanks and mass siegetanks bc their best weapon is their range. If the aliens can close the range they can get the goliaths and firebugs and shit into play.

Basically, the colossus would be a unit designed to force the enemy to play on the alien’s terms, which would explain why the aliens don’t have much in the way of ranged weapons: their armies don’t need them. The colossus negates the range advantage.

[rustic fog]

Collosus could also then be used to protect cortex from gunship snipe.

[gritty moss]

Nah. Build more dragonflies. Alien always can have aa before human has air

The point of aliens is to build cheap units and send murderballs of them at the enemy