Goliath (StarCraft)

"Go ahead, tac-com."

- Terran goliath^(src)

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Goliath
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Unit
Race	Terran
Role	Combat Walker
Armament	Autocannon Hellfire AA-scatter missiles
Properties
Size	Large
Transport slots	2
Sight	8
Production
Minerals	100
Gas	50
Supply	2
Build time	40
Produced from	Factory
Requires	Armory
Hotkey	G
Movement
Speed	4.7
Protection
Hit points	125
Armor	1
Combat
Ground attack	12
Air attack	10 (x2 attacks)
Cooldown	22
Attack range	6 (ground) 5 (8 with Charon Boosters) (air)

The goliath is a terran unit in StarCraft.

Overview

Goliaths are best suited for an anti-air role, especially against large-sized air units. In StarCraft: Brood War, Charon Boosters allows it to outrange even guardians. The goliath's ground attack is less impressive for its cost; compared to two or three marines that deal more damage, the goliath trades firepower for staying power. Goliaths are large, but only take up two slots in a dropship or other transport vessel. It is also suitable for medium ground support with marines and firebats against larger units. Goliaths with Charon Boosters can be used as mobile missile turrets in bases.

Groups of goliaths are used by terran players when the opponent focuses heavily on aerial units. Given their role as anti-air units, goliaths are effective against virtually all air units save for small-sized air units such as mutalisks, scourges, and observers, but when paired with marines, this becomes less of a problem. Goliaths are ideal for backing down capital ship fleets if in significant numbers.

Upgrades

Vehicle Plating

• +1 bonus to armor for goliaths, siege tanks, and vultures.

Acquisition
Purchased from Armory Hotkey P Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Level 2 Cost 175 175 300 Required Science facility Level 3 Cost 250 250 333 Required Science facility

Vehicle Weapons

• +1 bonus to goliath ground attack per level
• +4 to goliath air attack per level (+2 per missile)
• +2 to vulture attack per level
• +3 to siege tank tank mode attack per level
• +5 for siege tank siege mode attack per level

Acquisition
Purchased from Armory Hotkey W Level 1Level 1 Cost 100 100 267 Level 2 Cost 175 175 300 Required Science facility Level 3 Cost 250 250 333 Required Science facility

Charon Boosters

• Increases goliath anti-air attack range by 3 (to 8).

Acquisition
Purchased from Machine shop Hotkey C Cost 100 100 133

Quotations

See: StarCraft Goliath Quotations

Development

"The new Goliath the team came up with—it’s so awesome, it makes me feel bad, because I made the original one. I was like, 'Oh my God, did you see how much detail they put into this thing?'"

- Brian Sousa^(src)

The concept of the goliath had its origins in the canceled Blizzard game Shattered Nations. The game featured walkers which were relabeled as "goliaths" for StarCraft.

During the late StarCraft alpha however, they had a different appearance than in the later stages of development. They were capable of using their machine guns, a flame thrower and missiles against ground targets. It was decided that this was too much of an arsenal for one unit, so the flamethrower was developed into its own unit, the firebat.

Goliaths appeared and functioned much the same in the StarCraft beta as they did in StarCraft proper. However, their weaponry consisted of chainguns and scatter missiles instead of autocannons and Hellfire missiles.

The goliath was designed by Brian Sousa. A 3D model was made for the walker when Blizzard began experimenting with 3D modelling—it was actually the first model modeled as such. According to Samwise Didier, "it just looked kind of doink, from the game view. It was muddy, and when you rendered it out, everything looked like it was one or two pixels thick."

Images

A pair of goliaths during the StarCraft alpha

Unit wireframe

References

Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft/Brood War v • e

Infantry SCV Marine Firebat Medic (BW) Ghost Ground vehicles Vulture Goliath Siege tank Air units Wraith Dropship Valkyrie (BW) Science vessel Battlecruiser 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 Other Nuclear missile Spider mine Scrapped units Cargo ship Merc biker Mercenary gunship Raider Spysat Scrapped buildings Cantina Dry docks Power station Repair bay Star base