EPTOn February 05 2012 18:23 Angel_ wrote:
Off the top of my head in TvZ i think opening a single Viking (or even a double viking) with marines into a Raven with 2 or three more vikings then adding banshees might be an interesting idea, if you can be really active and useful with the vikings.
I think the reason most people open banshee first however is that they're immediately useful.
Sure with a Viking you CAN scout, and you CAN snipe overlords, but if you get attacked by say early roaches...a viking isn't actually going to help you not be dead. Similarly, the Raven will at best have the energy to drop a turret maybe, but probably not an actual PDD yet. A banshee however, comes out, and even without cloak is ready to do extreme pain to anything at your wall.
Off the top of my head in TvZ i think opening a single Viking (or even a double viking) with marines into a Raven with 2 or three more vikings then adding banshees might be an interesting idea, if you can be really active and useful with the vikings.
I think the reason most people open banshee first however is that they're immediately useful.
Sure with a Viking you CAN scout, and you CAN snipe overlords, but if you get attacked by say early roaches...a viking isn't actually going to help you not be dead. Similarly, the Raven will at best have the energy to drop a turret maybe, but probably not an actual PDD yet. A banshee however, comes out, and even without cloak is ready to do extreme pain to anything at your wall.
um... except this is a TvP topic not a TvZ one? oO
On February 05 2012 15:59 TBone- wrote:
Anyone have any openings besides a banshee opening? To make this viable every time in a boX series I feel like we need more than one opener.
Anyone have any openings besides a banshee opening? To make this viable every time in a boX series I feel like we need more than one opener.
the op has reactor hellion and reaper openings, not banshee though oO
