Vulture (StarCraft)

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"All right, bring it on!"

- Terran vulture^(src)

Vulture
Unit
Race	Terran
Role	Light Recon Vehicle
Armament	AGP-2 "Thumper" grenade launcher
Properties
Size	Medium
Sight	8
Production
Minerals	75
Supply	2
Build time	30
Produced from	Factory
Hotkey	V
Movement
Speed	6.67 (10 with Ion Thrusters)
Protection
Hit points	80
Armor	0
Combat
Ground attack	20
Cooldown	30
Attack range	5

The vulture is a terran skirmish unit in StarCraft. It was voiced by Bill Roper.

Overview

Vultures are ideal for scouting and dealing with small-sized ground units such as zerglings, zealots, marines and firebats. Given that vultures are not very durable, they are most effective when using hit-and-run attacks to harass the enemy and are not recommended for large scale attacks. Vultures are also effective hunters against units such as high templars, defilers and other ground-based spellcaster units and can get rid of an expansion base's workers in little time.

In terran vs protoss matches, vultures are vital with their mines which can severely injure high-hit point protoss units and for delaying an attack. Spider mines also fill a harassment role very well against both zerg and protoss.

Vultures become available in to the player in the campaign with the mission "Desperate Alliance" in Episode 1 and in "First Strike" in Episode V.

Abilities

Spider Mine

Gives each vulture three spider mines. Vultures cannot replenish their supply of mines once expended. New mines may only be created with new vultures.

Mines burrow where deployed and are not player-controllable. Each mine causes 125 damage and has 20 hit points. Mines do not benefit from any upgrades. Air and hovering ground units do not activate mines. Mines can sense and attack nearby cloaked ground units such as ghosts or dark templar even without the aid of a detector. They will not, however, reveal cloaked enemy units. It is possible for ranged units to pick out the mines before being hit.

Usage
Hotkey I Range 3

Acquisition
Purchased from Machine shop Hotkey M Cost 100 100 80

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Upgrades

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

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

Ion Thrusters

• Increase vulture movement speed.

Acquisition
Purchased from Machine shop Hotkey I Cost 100 100 80

Vulture Heroes

• Jim Raynor

Quotations

See: StarCraft Vulture Quotations

Development

Merc biker profile

StarEdit files reveal a number of "Merc biker" units— the concept seems to be similar to that of the vulture.

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