Banshee

This is my favorite new Terran unit by far. It made me recall the days of playing Nuclear Strike or similar helicopter games, not because they worked so well but because attack choppers are neat. Granted it's not exactly a chopper but the propeller things are enough. I hope they do strafing runs, would be neat to see them sweeping over head while marines clear a valley of zerglings. Plus apparently they can cloak, making for sneak bombings.

Anybody else loving this one?

 

Yeah I like it too, will be a good unit for killing miners swiftly.

 

This unit has a particular significance for me because this along with the Viking were two units that I imagined...almost exactly as a matter of fact

Can't wait to use Banshee!! It'll make me feel like I'm using a B2 Spirit ;D

 

who doesnt like banshee? it would be so fun to use banshees
get like...5 of them and go to your opponents base every 2 minutes and kill their nexus/command center/hactery and run away come back and repeat

sounds stupid but its amusing to watch your friends squirm shouting WTF@!@ STOP

 

Haha, yeah, I could see some great strat with this. Anyways, this is a bomber, right? Cuz if all it had was a machine gun or lasers, that wouldn't be so cruel as a cloaked bomber.

 

I am so not looking forward having my Drones raped by these babies. Cloaked Bombers = omgwtfhawtkkmgawd.

 

Heh that would be funny if vikings are like vaklyries.

Vikings + Banshees come, kill all the overlords and the resource hatcheries and than go back. good times...

 

I'm scared enough already, don't make it worse!

 

right now banshee is my second fave terran unit. i don't think there is anything that can overcome my favorite thor.

 

I agree, Thor is looking really shining at the moment (the fact that SCV's builds it is pretty awesome )

Just have to wait seeing it in action.

 

The bansee looks alright. i think it's the terrans making up for bad Air to ground.

 

Banshee lack of air attack, which makes they must co-work with others. Viking is good for annoy. Have you see one of screens from swidish scan? Blizzard already used Viking in slaughtering Protoss's probes.

 

It looks far too much like the Orca Fighter / Orca Bomber from C&C but the Orca series was cool, and this is too. I expect i'll enjoy the shit out of this Banshee. But I still miss my wraith :upset:

 

ahhh banshee - halo z0mgers

looks like byebye muta control. helloooo terran

 

lol oooooooo we don't know nothing about what the zerg can do! there is something prolly more insane than the banshee muahaha

 

Man, I'm drooling in anticipation of the bansee. Looks way better the wraith.

 

So I was thinking wouldn't a cool idea for an ability for the Banshee be a Cluster bomb attack? You know, like an anti-infantry or anti-weak armored units attack that is spread over a wide area. Then I thought, well, that would probably be overpowered, I mean, you could take a fleet of cloaked banshees and obliterate your enemy's entire army in one massive attack he didn't even see coming. But I mean, the idea still seems cool. Is there a way they could maybe balance an ability like this? Maybe they could make it take several seconds to hit the ground after its dropped, so they would have time to move their units. Any thoughts? What do you guys think of this idea?

 

the banshees already are bombers, and they already have an aoe, its on their normal attack.
edit: they can cloak too. forgot to mention that.

 

Yeah, thats like saying, you know what would be cool, if we make the siege tank into an artilery type of a unit, that can shoot very far for a lot of damage...But that means if you make like 20+ tanks nothing can reach them on ground within shooting range....

Sorry if its mean, but yeah, the Banshee already does that, AoE normal attacks.

 

well banshee is the terran way of reavers?? air not ground