Early on in the game. Vikings are the best air units to produce. They are quick. With defense upgrade and weapon upgrade, they are brutal in packs of 10 you can transform to ground unit once the air is cleared. truly genius unit a.k.a my fav
My problem with them is that the transformation takes time, and they can only attack one type of target. Having a group ambushed by Stalkers/Hydralisks is extremely bad.
by one type of unit, you mean air or defense right? best is to pair them up with medivacs that drop marines right below them...stimpack em
I respectfully disagree about them being the best air unit. I concede that they are a very effective anti-air unit, but their inadequacy on the ground coupled with their limitation of being ground only or air only makes them less than stellar when compared to other units out there in the game. I think that they are excellent at stopping other air units and providing slight harassment. My personal favorite air unit in the game is probably the observer (those little guys rock! invisible, flying and, a detector!) But my personal favorite Terran air unit is the banshee, cloaked or uncloaked they do good damage, can be produced fairly early, and they mesh well with other Terran units. Plus they can harass better than Vikings since they do not have a long time consuming animation. Although, I will also concede that in many longer games, vikings do become necessary at one time or another
Vikings are only good as an air unit/harass unit. I owe these guys a lot for sniping out Colossi and managing to sneak a few in a person's mineral lines then flying away at the first sight of retaliation. With these in the air and tanks with marauders on the ground, you own the battlefield.
your right about that they are amasing when used for harassment (i know everything about that i hate getting harassed by them )
a mixture of vikings/banshees cloaked gets you rid of those siege tanks and vikings take care of air units around. The only issues is if opponent does an orbital scan in the area.....
agreed most of the time if you got banshees the inexperienced player wont even know you can orbital scan...... btw this is hilarious: "4v4 : Platinum lol. I dunno how that happened."
Banshees work very well, especially with there cloak, usually i will have MM to create a diversion attack at the front of base then use banshees to sneak behind them and obliterate there econ. I only use vikings to protect the banshees from opponent air units
Rofl, Yea, bronze in the rest but platinum for 4v4? Does not make sense to me Im usually in the middle skill it seems when I play with those platinum peeps though.
I think a lot also comes down to who you get paired with.. during my placement matches, 2 out of the 5 matches I had people drop before they even started playing really... then won 2 out of the three where I had 4. Honestly though, some people are just idiots... For example, I was playing last night in a 4v4, and one of our opponents dropped right away, so they only had three. I warned my team mates though to be prepared for a rush attack, but what did they do... nothing! They rushed, and two of my allies literally had no forces whatsoever... (I was already up to building siege tanks by that point)
Vikings are powerful and a combination of vikings and marines often does the trick against battlecruisers. Other Terran air units such as Banshee are better overall units though, IMO.
I have found that as a harassment unit, Vikings are second to none. With as little as 5 vikings, you can fly behind the enemy base, drop down, and kill half his workers before he can do anything sensible. In fact, against Zerg, I make few things but vikings. They are excellent at overlord hunting, and en masse, I have found that they rip through most zerg ground units. Now bear in mind that I am only in gold league, and I recognize that this probably wouldn't work at a higher level of play.
