So last night I was fighting a Zerg player that was massing Roaches and Speedling to counter my constant flow of Marines and Marauders at his base. Sense this wasn't working I decided I'd throw up a hellmary and build banchees. I made about 6, teched cloak and came into the back of their base and destroyed the whole thing. As I predicted, his army had grown much larger then mine, but without a detector I was easly able to win. I got luck. But i did learn how distructive a few well placed banchees can be and want to experiment with them more. I didnt have mine out till the 20 minute make. So was wonder if you guess could help be with a good build order for banchees. Thanks!
Well, you need a rax, factory and then the Starport with tech lab, so, I would get a rax and build some marines just in case, put the factory asap quickly followed by the starport, and get the lab.
You want to waste as little gas as possible until you get your first shee. Here's your basic build order for fast banshees. Wasn't playing against the best player though, so you have to play very smart and scout when doing the build. Have fun
fast starport, build tech lab at factory or barracks (i prefer the tech lab at the factory since my barracks blocks, so I dont want to lift it.) once the starport finishes, lift it and land it at the factory tech lab and crank out the banshees.
Thats the great thing about the Terran's ability to adapt various counters fast. You can easily swap your production buidlings around to take advantage of a reactor or Tech lab as you need to.
fastest way (not safest). -9 scvs build gas and put 3 scvs on it -9 scvs build barracks -10 scvs build factory -11 scvs comm upgrade -11 scvs starport -11 scvs supply depot somewhere in there build a tech lab on a factory or barracks and switch it out with the starport. A banshee will be ready by about 6 minutes..... ww
Hmm, mate, i dont know if you can get banshees fast in this build but damn trust me ill never make this build because basically its a risky ****. You basically train like 3 scvs before you get your refinery? 11 starport!?!?!?!? 10 Factory? Lol, no offence but i doubt this builld will do ****. The fastest and safest way to tech to banshees is 1/1/1 build. 10 Depot 12 Rax 13 Refinery 15 OC 16 Depot 18 factory 20 OR 21 refinery 23 starport
He did say that it's not the safest, just the fastest It's actually an 1-1-1 build but gimping economy early on to get that first banshee out asap, if the rush fails you're in deep crap, but it is actually faster the way windowwasher said
Against Zerg it can be pulled off. A banshee can fight off a queen without cloak. Of course in the lower leagues this would be great way to get up the ladder. Just hide the starport from any pesky scouts and things should go as planned.
