[faithHunter]

I've been wondering why Carriers aren't that much used compared to back then in BW, I mean, they're more or less the same right? In fact, SC2 Carriers come out with 4 Interceptors by default and they can also be upgraded with the Interceptor Speed upgrade, so they should be better compared to their BW counterpart right?

I think the main reason why Carriers are so underused, or rather, isn't viable is because they are too easily countered by other units (e.g. Focus Firing Vikings, Voids, Corruptors...Marines?). But I don't play Protoss so I'm not so sure.

Might I add, inControl said in SOTG that the Carriers are, in his opinion, much weaker in SC2 than BW because you can't attack and focus fire on a target with Interceptors and make the Carrier retreat while the interceptors keep on firing even though the Carrier is out of attack range, since in SC2 if the Carrier goes out of range of the Interceptors, the Interceptors will fly back to the Carriers.

Thoughts?