I feel like people forget that Banshees don't HAVE to be used for harassment. They can provide a really good ground DPS component to a standing army. I actually prefer them to Vikings against Protoss deathball. And it's great, because they scout my 2-port Banshee production, cannon up all their mineral lines, and OOPS there's the tanks rolling up and sieging their base, with the Banshees providing vision and minor harass. When the armies finally clash, the Banshees are there taking down the Colossi and then everything else. And with their 12x2 attack, they're not horrible for taking out Immortals either.
I should really start mixing in a Raven or two, since the strong non-HT counter is mass blink Stalkers, and PDD shuts those down. (That's not including indirect counters, like mass Chargelots to just ignore the Banshees and kill everything else.)
I feel like people forget that Banshees don't HAVE to be used for harassment. They can provide a really good ground DPS component to a standing army. I actually prefer them to Vikings against Protoss deathball. And it's great, because they scout my 2-port Banshee production, cannon up all their mineral lines, and OOPS there's the tanks rolling up and sieging their base, with the Banshees providing vision and minor harass. When the armies finally clash, the Banshees are there taking down the Colossi and then everything else. And with their 12x2 attack, they're not horrible for taking out Immortals either.
I should really start mixing in a Raven or two, since the strong non-HT counter is mass blink Stalkers, and PDD shuts those down. (That's not including indirect counters, like mass Chargelots to just ignore the Banshees and kill everything else.)
i'm not sure in what world a protoss would scout 2port banshee and cannon up their mineral line
2port banshee means 2 stargates with chrono phoenix.
I feel like people forget that Banshees don't HAVE to be used for harassment. They can provide a really good ground DPS component to a standing army. I actually prefer them to Vikings against Protoss deathball. And it's great, because they scout my 2-port Banshee production, cannon up all their mineral lines, and OOPS there's the tanks rolling up and sieging their base, with the Banshees providing vision and minor harass. When the armies finally clash, the Banshees are there taking down the Colossi and then everything else. And with their 12x2 attack, they're not horrible for taking out Immortals either.
I should really start mixing in a Raven or two, since the strong non-HT counter is mass blink Stalkers, and PDD shuts those down. (That's not including indirect counters, like mass Chargelots to just ignore the Banshees and kill everything else.)
i'm not sure in what world a protoss would scout 2port banshee and cannon up their mineral line
2port banshee means 2 stargates with chrono phoenix.
That would be a much better reaction, yes. It would force switching to Viking production, otherwise the Phoenix would take out the Banshees and the Tanks.
But still, I think that most people forget that Banshees can fight in an army, not just harass.
I feel like people forget that Banshees don't HAVE to be used for harassment. They can provide a really good ground DPS component to a standing army. I actually prefer them to Vikings against Protoss deathball. And it's great, because they scout my 2-port Banshee production, cannon up all their mineral lines, and OOPS there's the tanks rolling up and sieging their base, with the Banshees providing vision and minor harass. When the armies finally clash, the Banshees are there taking down the Colossi and then everything else. And with their 12x2 attack, they're not horrible for taking out Immortals either.
I should really start mixing in a Raven or two, since the strong non-HT counter is mass blink Stalkers, and PDD shuts those down. (That's not including indirect counters, like mass Chargelots to just ignore the Banshees and kill everything else.)
i'm not sure in what world a protoss would scout 2port banshee and cannon up their mineral line
2port banshee means 2 stargates with chrono phoenix.
That would be a much better reaction, yes. It would force switching to Viking production, otherwise the Phoenix would take out the Banshees and the Tanks.
But still, I think that most people forget that Banshees can fight in an army, not just harass.
This being a reactive game, you should just cut banshees and add thors. But that's reliant on scouting the 2stargate phoenix
edit: Thors, instead of vikings, because landed vikings are turrible
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Yeah, I will agree with you there jd, 6-8 banshees is a nearly unstoppable force for Protoss, without Phoenix or Templar, and even with a large force of blink stalkers, unless there is literally no other units but the banshees, you'll still lose a bunch of stalkers.
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That would be a much better reaction, yes. It would force switching to Viking production, otherwise the Phoenix would take out the Banshees and the Tanks.
But still, I think that most people forget that Banshees can fight in an army, not just harass.
This being a reactive game, you should just cut banshees and add thors. But that's reliant on scouting the 2stargate phoenix
edit: Thors, instead of vikings, because landed vikings are turrible
I like the Thor idea better, because the production for Thors is already there for Tanks. And I do feel that at some point I'm putting out too many tanks, and that something else would probably help than another two tanks. I'll try that if I ever manage to invoke a Phoenix response.
If you guys would stream at a time that I'm not at work, I would totally harass you to no end. Even better that it's 10 seconds after you've already done whatever I'm yelling about!
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Damnit, Destiny.
FD, sigh.
And hellions are very good at killing drones.
Surprised at how bad Losira tooled MKP on Crossfire.
I should really start mixing in a Raven or two, since the strong non-HT counter is mass blink Stalkers, and PDD shuts those down. (That's not including indirect counters, like mass Chargelots to just ignore the Banshees and kill everything else.)
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Yeah WTF is that shit.
i'm not sure in what world a protoss would scout 2port banshee and cannon up their mineral line
2port banshee means 2 stargates with chrono phoenix.
That would be a much better reaction, yes. It would force switching to Viking production, otherwise the Phoenix would take out the Banshees and the Tanks.
But still, I think that most people forget that Banshees can fight in an army, not just harass.
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This being a reactive game, you should just cut banshees and add thors. But that's reliant on scouting the 2stargate phoenix
edit: Thors, instead of vikings, because landed vikings are turrible
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I like the Thor idea better, because the production for Thors is already there for Tanks. And I do feel that at some point I'm putting out too many tanks, and that something else would probably help than another two tanks. I'll try that if I ever manage to invoke a Phoenix response.
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If you guys would stream at a time that I'm not at work, I would totally harass you to no end. Even better that it's 10 seconds after you've already done whatever I'm yelling about!
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and might be good to stream some "hunks" or w/e for the SC2 ladies' viewing pleasure as well
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