Planetary Fortress

Planetary Fortress

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Cost:	150 (550) 150 (150) 50 (150)
Defense:	1500 3 (+2) (Armored, Mechanical)
Ground Attack:	40 (Splash)
Ground DPS:	20
Range:	6 (+1) (Hi-Sec Auto Tracking)
Cooldown:	2
Hotkey:	P
Requirements:	Command Center Engineering Bay

Description

The Planetary Fortress is a static defense upgrade to the Command Center that requires an Engineering Bay to construct. The Planetary Fortress is defense oriented upgrade that has none of the Orbital Command abilities and cannot lift off. The Planetary Fortress is affected by the Hi-Sec Auto Tracking upgrade. Hi-Sec Auto Tracking increases the range of Missile Turrets, Auto-Turrets, Point Defense Drone and the Planetary Fortress by +1.

Although the Planetary Fortress is commonly used on distant expansions to prevent against harassment from units such as Hellions or Zerglings, the Planetary Fortress Rush has also been employed in some cheese strategies, such as in DiggitySCs' wildly famous 1000th commentary video . TheLittleOne often used Planetary Fortresses as static defenses towards the end of his games when he was high on resources. This was before he switched to Zerg in October of 2010.

The Planetary Fortress has three splash radius. From the target, units until a distance of .5 are dealt 40 damage, units at a distance of .5 to .8 are dealt 30 damage, and units at a distance of .8 to 1.25 are dealt 15 damage.

Unlike Siege Tanks, splash damage from a Planetary Fortress does not harm friendly units. Thus, it is not possible to kill SCVs simply by parking a unit in the mineral line of a Planetary Fortress.

Abilities

Load

Range: 6 Hotkey: O Enables the Terran player to load SCV's into a Command Center or Planetary Fortress.

Upgrades

Hi-Sec Auto Tracking

100      100      80 Hotkey: H Researched from: Engineering Bay Increases the attack range of Missile Turrets, Auto-Turrets, Point Defense Drones, and Planetary Fortresses by 1.

Neosteel Frame

100      100      110 Hotkey: N Researched from: Engineering Bay Increases the cargo space of a Bunker by 2 and the load space of a Command Center or Planetary Fortress by 5.

Building Armor

150      150      140 Hotkey: B Researched from: Engineering Bay Increases the armor of the Point Defense Drone, Auto-Turret, Missile Turret, Planetary Fortress, and all other Terran buildings.

Patch Changes

Patch 11 (version 0.13.0.15250)
The splash damage now originates from the center of the target, rather than the impact location near the unit in order to maintain more reliable splash damage.