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A pair of missile turrets

The missile turret is a terran defense building designed to destroy air units and detect invisible and burrowed units.

Overview

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Nova by a missile turret

Missile turrets are inexpensive structures that fire the Longbolt missile. The system may be computer controlled to automatically engage aerial targets. A secondary manual control mode allows the system to fire at ground targets as well[1] (by the Second Great War, manual control was apparently the de facto method of operation).[2] Turrets are also equipped with a tracking scanner[1] that allows powerful sensors capable of detecting cloaked vessels to center in on an identified target.[3] Running on a set of power cells, a missile turret is able to operate independently for at least forty years.[1]

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Longbolt missiles

The characteristic diffusion of information between the terran factions, frequently through clandestine or illicit methods, made the missile turret a standard defense system in the Koprulu Sector. Refinements to the system continued to be disseminated in a similar fashion.[3]

By the Second Great War, Enlightened Dynamics had developed a new titanium housing for missile turrets, allowing turrets to absorb more damage before failing. By this stage, Hellstorm batteries could also be fitted to turrets, each battery firing waves of short-range missiles for a saturation effect.[4]

Game Unit

StarCraft

The missile turret is a detector and has no ground attack. Unlike the photon cannon and spore colony that deal normal damage, missile turrets deal explosive damage making them less effective against small targets like mutalisks.

In the early game, missile turrets are a cheap and effective means of air defense. In the late game their lack of upgrades makes upgraded goliaths more attractive. Upgraded goliaths deal damage faster and, most importantly of all, have the mobility to concentrate against enemy air fleets.

Missile turrets are only a serious threat against a determined air attack if built in clusters. Otherwise their immobility means they can be destroyed piecemeal.

Abilities

This unit may detect cloaked and burrowed enemies.

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Development

In the StarCraft beta, missile turrets fired two missiles simultaneously, three times in rapid succession, during each volley.[5]

StarCraft: Ghost

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Nova using a missile turret

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In StarCraft: Ghost, Nova was able to manually operate missile turrets in singleplayer.[6]

StarCraft II

The missile turret may strike protoss colossi.

Abilities

This unit or structure can detect cloaked, burrowed, duplicated and hallucination enemies.

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Upgrades

Increases the attack range of automated defenses: missile turrets, auto-turrets, point defense drones, and the planetary fortress by +1.

Acquisition
Purchased from Engineering bay
Hotkey H
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 57seconds
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Acquisition
Purchased from Engineering bay
Hotkey B
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 100seconds
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Wings of Liberty

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Titanium Housing

Missile turrets gain +75 hit points.

Enlightened Dynamics has developed a new titanium housing for the missile turret. Early adopters have found this housing to be noticeably tougher than the original, allowing missile turrets to absorb more punishment before falling.[4]

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Complete 6 missions.
Acquired from Hyperion armory for $50,000
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Missile turrets gain Hellstorm Battery secondary attack. Hellstorm batteries fire 8 missiles that each deals 1 point of splash damage.

Hellstorm Bateries are an additional weapon set that can be fitted to your missile turrets. Each battery fires several small missiles that accompany the standard missile attack and saturate the target area on impact. Hellstorm Batteries are a great way to welcome swarms of enemy flyers to your base. Don't disappoint!

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Complete 6 missions.
Acquired from Hyperion armory for $80,000
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All structures repair themselves to 50% life. All structure fires are automatically put out.

This all-in-one safety system automatically dispatches robotic drones to put out any fires and perform basic repairs on damaged structures. Although these drones are effective at doing basic repairs, they do not have a strong enough AI to perform the more delicate repairs needed to restore a structure past half life.[4]

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Complete 12 missions.
Acquired from Hyperion armory for $90,000
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Heart of the Swarm

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This article or section contains information from StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.
The content may change substantially over time.

An "anti-air turret" file can be found in the Heart of the Swarm beta.[7]

Development

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mesta, Gabriel. StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel'Naga. Pocket Books, 2001. ISBN 0-671-04149-5.
  2. 2010, Starcraft 2: Terran Hellion. Accessed on 2011-07-20
  3. 3.0 3.1 Underwood, Peter, Bill Roper, Chris Metzen and Jeffrey Vaughn. StarCraft (Manual). Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, 1998.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Armory upgrades (in English). 2010. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "SC2-WoL_StoryArmoryUpgrd" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "SC2-WoL_StoryArmoryUpgrd" defined multiple times with different content
  5. 인우 전. 2012-06-23. StarCraft 1 beta -old Terran campaign 2. Youtube. Accessed 2012-11-08.
  6. StarCraft: Ghost Screenshots. Gamespot. Accessed on 2009-05-14
  7. Blizzard Entertainment. Heart of the Swarm beta Map Editor. (Activision Blizzard) (in English). September 4, 2012
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