Blinding cloud reduces attack range of anything under the cloud to "melee".
Since sieged tanks have a minimum range, does this disable them completely?
Starcraft – Does blinding cloud completely disable siege tanks in siege mode
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So your understanding of Sight and Line of Sight is correct, without any unit up there there is no way he can see or target your stalkers (even if you attack him, which was not true in SC1), unless he:
- Scans
- Has an Air Unit in the area
- Moves a unit to the High Ground
- Has a Xel Naga Watch tower
- Your units move down a ramp
- Your units are air units
Looking over the replay he does scan you at 14:08 to attack your stalkers at the high ground. At 12:16 he gains vision of your Colossus because it counts as an Air unit for purposes of vision.
They use the ranged upgrade.
If you open up the galaxy editor and look at the Hydralisk/Roach you'll notice that they have two different weapons: one for range, one for melee. You'll notice that both of these attacks have the same upgrade specified.
Here we see the relationship between Zerg Missile Attacks and Hydralisk Melee
If select Zerg Missile Attacks and select Upgrade Effects+ we can see where the association is set
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Best Answer
As per the teamliquid wiki:
While it says they must un-siege in order to move out of the cloud, this does not mean they cannot siege. But yes, they are completely unable to attack in siege mode.