Brood lord

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Brood Lord

Unit
Race	Zerg
Role	Flying heavy assault unit
Armament	Broodling Strike
Properties
Sight range	12
Production
Minerals	150
Gas	150
Control	4
Build time	34
Evolves from	Corruptor
Requires	Greater spire
Hotkey	B
Movement
Speed	1.4062
Acceleration	1.063
Lateral acceleration	0
Deceleration	0
Collision radius	1
Protection
Hit points	225
Hit point regen/second	0.2734
Armor	1
Type	Air Biological Massive
Armor type	Armored
Broodling Strike
Damage	20 per broodling (unleashes 1-2 broodlings per strike)
Targets	Ground
Cooldown	2.5
Range	9.5
Upgrade/level	+2
Meta
Target priority	20
Kill score	275
Production score	550

The brood lord is a powerful zerg flying unit derived from the corruptor.

1 Overview
2 Game Unit
3 References

OverviewEdit

Brood lords are massive manta-like flying creatures that serve as aerial siege units for the Swarm. Only seen in the largest of conflicts, the brood lord has the ability to spit out biological symbiotes that function as living ammunition. This attack makes brood lords extremely dangerous to opposing installations. However, despite their impressive offensive abilities, brood lords are not very durable, and they make easy targets for most aerial-strike combatants.^[1]

Game UnitEdit

Brood lords replace the guardian as the zerg aerial bomber, retaining the guardian's ability to attack from outside most ground-based defense ranges. It is strong against any ground unit but has absolutely no defense to aerial attacking units. Despite their strong attack against ground units, massed formations of anti-air ground units still pose a large threat - marines backed with medivac dropships and stalkers with sentries as well as hydralisks can easily overcome brood lords. Brood lords should always be provided with a heavy escort before attacking.

AbilitiesEdit

Brood lords are accompanied by a small number of broodlings. Its attack consists of throwing broodlings at the enemy, doing damage, at which point the two broodling emerging can wreak havoc on the ground. The attack then goes down to one broodling, but if the brood lord does not attack for a while, a second one will be launched on the next attack.

Swarm Seeds
Notes
The Brood Lord shoots Broodlings at its target. A Broodling is a small creature that can attack ground units.
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UpgradesEdit

Flyer Attacks

Evolved at

Properties

Level	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Minerals	100	175	250
Gas	100	175	250
Evolution time	160	190	220
Required		Lair	Hive

Notes

Increases attack damage of mutalisks, corruptors, and brood lords.

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Flyer Carapace

Evolved at

Properties

Level	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Minerals	150	225	300
Gas	150	225	300
Evolution time	160	190	220
Required		Lair	Hive

Notes

+1 bonus to armor per level for zerg air units.

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Brood lords are the only unit to gain an attack bonus from both Flyer Attacks and Melee Attacks upgrades. This is received indirectly through the broodlings being upgraded by Melee Attacks.

DevelopmentEdit

The following section contains information from a previous version of StarCraft II which is no longer valid.

During the development of StarCraft II, it replaced the swarm guardian.^[2]

The combat role of the brood lord fluctuated for a very long time. Many variations of the guardian were presented but the intention was always clear that the development team wanted more out of this new flyer. Finally out of the blue, Samwise Didier concepted the brood lord like a bolt of lightning and thus the design team created the 3D art in accordance to his concept. The head design was lifted from the scrapped morphalisk.^[3]

ReferencesEdit

↑ Brood Lord, accessed on 2011-01-18
↑ Dustin Browder, Lipton, Karune. 2009-04-22. The Official STARFEEDER Starcraft 2 Q&A. Starfeeder. Accessed 2009-04-22.
↑ 2010, Starcraft 2: Zerg Broodlord. Deviantart, accessed on 2011-07-20