Starcraft 2 unit: Immortal

I've decided to post a bit of information about the Starcraft 2 units I am looking forward to seeing in action the most.

Today I'll start with the Starcraft 2 unit: Immortal

The Immortal is a new unit that was not included in the original starcraft. In the starcraft storyline the Protoss homeplanet of Aiur was lost to the zerg and along with that the facilities to produce dragoons.

The few remaining dragoons have now been upgraded into immortals which is quite a different unit.
The main upgrade includes twin phase disruptors and a
very useful shield.
The shield is able to absorb damage well from heavy attacks such as those suffered from a siege tank. The shields downside is that it will not work very well against lesser attacks such as those from marines. This should guarantee a lot of fun with these immortals as they seem likely to really mess up your opponents endgame units if they don't realize you are building an immortal army.
For overall use though the immortal seems to be designed as a long range support unit that will mainly be used as backup.

The immortal has been included in battle report 3 that was recently released.

The following clips show the immortal unit in action against a group of siege tanks (immortals comes into play at 0:45 in the video):


Source: www.starcraft2.com