Protoss Air Power
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Protoss Scout      Unit Type: Airborne Fighter Unit Size: Large Cost: 300 150 Build Time: 80 Control: 2 Buildings Required: Stargate Shields/Hit Points: 90/130 Attack Types: Ground and Air Range: 4 Rate of Fire: 48 attacks per minute Damage Types: Missiles: Explosive Machine Guns: Normal Attack Power: 24 for missiles (upgrade factor: +2) 8 for ground (upgrade factor: +1) Base Armor Rating: 1 (upgrade factor: +1)

The Scout is the best anti-air unit in the game. The air attack is 24 damage at a very fast rate and masses of scouts decimate the air. The Scout is also fast enough to evade overwhelming forces. They cost quite a bundle though, so don't start mass producing them until you're rich.

Protoss Carrier      Unit Type: Aircraft Carrier Unit Size: Large Cost: 350 300 Build Time: 140 Control: 8  Buildings Required: Stargate Fleet Beacon Shields/Hit Points: 150/250 Attack Type: Ground and Air Range: 8 Rate of Fire: 224 attacks per minute (for 8       interceptors) Damage Type: Concussive Attack Power 5 (upgrade factor +1) Base Armor Rating: 4 (upgrade factor: +1)  Like the Scarab, the Carrier manufactures and stores small Interceptors that engage into combat instead of the Carrier itself fighting.

The Carrier is the top-of-the-tech-tree unit for the Protoss. They have massive amounts of hit points and armor making them one of the hardest things to kill. Don't let their low attack decieve you. They have 8 little Interceptors that fly out and attack, so actually if all 8 interceptors attack at the same time, that would actually make it do 40 damage per shot. so 12 carriers can take out a Command Center in one or 2 shots. But they are not invincible. If you don't have propor support, Wraiths tear up Carriers. So do Scouts and masses of Mutalisks, Devourers, or Hydralsisks.

Protoss Arbiter      Unit Type: Air Strategic Vessel Cost: 25 300 Build Time: 160 Control: 4 Buildings Required: Stargate Templar Archives Arbiter Tribunal Shields/Hit Points: 150/200 Attack Type: Ground and Air Range: 5 Rate of Fire: 24 attacks per minute Damage Type: Explosive Attack Power: 10 (upgrade factor: +1) Base Armor Rating: 1 (upgrade factor: +1) Stasis Field is like a big blob of invincible glue that surrounds anything it touches. It makes a clear polyhedron around a group of units that prevents it from moving, attacking, using any spells, or being attacked. It is only temporary but it can be a serious pain if your opponent has 2 or 3 Arbiters and constantly Stasis everything you throw at him, even if it doesn't hurt your units directly Recal is one of my favorite spells. It warps a group of units from anywhere on the map that belong to you to where the Arbiter is. So you can Hallucenatie an Arbiter several times and do Recal with the real one right into the middle of their base while they frantically try to shoot the right one.

The Arbiter is a unit that has an attack, but really doesn't need it. The Arbiter has the ability to cloak all friendly units around it, as well as do some really cool spells. They used to cost a fortune in gas, but they decreased it by 200 gas in Version 1.04. Arbiters cannot be cloaked by another Arbiter. One major drawback of the Arbiter is when everything is cloaked underneath it, your enemy tries to kil the Arbiter as fast as they can, so you better keep it on the move to keep it alive.

Protoss Corsair      Unit Type: Light Air Fighter Unit Size: Medium Cost: 100 150 Build Time: 60 Control: 3 Buildings Required: Stargate Fleet Beacon Shields/Hit Points: 100/80 Attack Type: Air Only Range: 5 Rate of Fire: 105 attacks per minute Damage Type: Explosive Attack Power: 5 (upgrade factor: +1) Base Armor Rating: 1 (upgrade factor: +1) Disruption Web is an extremely useful spell for the turtling overdefending type. It renders all units in the field unable to attack. Disruption Web only affects ground units, and whatever is inside the Web can move out of it at any time. If your units get in the Web, they will be unable to attack also. Its a great spell against Turrets, Bunkers, Tanks, and other stationary defense.

The Corsair has the weakest attack of any Protoss unit other than the Probe and units that don't attack at all. They have very little life and don't have very much range. Why make them you say? Lets say this, Their attack is extremely fast, they do splash damage (which surprised me), they cost very little, they take little comtrol, they build very fast, and hoards of them beat the crap out of air units for the same price. And the Disruption Web makes it evern more useful.