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im not moaning that Zerg is OP, but ive had a real problem against Zerg since day one. i just cant handle them. i think my win rate is 27% against Zerg and 50+% against T & P.

instead of going MMM with seige tanks, is going 2 or 3 or even 4 starports from the start viable? for vikings, ravens and banshees army into a couple of BCs when you hit 3/3 upgrades with marines and medivacs for ground support and mineral dumping.

be good for cleaning up loose overlords and hitting his overlord ball, effecting his supply, great for stopping that muta harras and save your army getting wasted by banelings, maybe forcing them into mass hydra then using marines and helions and raven play to clean up those.

ive gone all air with marines on floor in lots of 3 v 3s, 200 supply army consisting of a couple of tanks to protect my expansions, about 10+ of each, Banshees, Vikings, Ravens and a ton of marines underneath with medivacs, a big ball of air and marines. everything fully upgraded 3/3, even ravens with every upgrade. doesnt seem to work against toss, unless they go voids but terran and zerg it seems to be unstoppable if you micro your air against mass marines. nobody seems to know how to counter it becuase its almost unseen

It might work if you can survive till ultra late game and get BCs and tons of ravens for PDD to soak up corrupter shots but most zergs will kill you long before you reach that point though

If you went air youd probably see many many infesters not hydra they deal with clumped air much better and you need then for lategame anyway and then youd see corrupters to deal with BCs and Muta for everything else

I've played over 2400 and most of them Terran:

This is what I use Terran air for against Zerg:

Vikings have superior range to mutalisks but can be chased down rather easily. I use them within the confines of a base or outpost and lure mutalisks into turret fire or Thors.

Use good micro to bate mutas toward you. You can also use ravens (Very good) against muta's when you use the turrets, seeker missiles and Point defense together. Ravens backed with a handful of vikings (upgrades for Ravens) are a stupidly powerful force for any mutaball to attempt to engage.

1. PDD stop firepower.
2. Seeker missles do massive AOE damage but get close. (Can be micro'd and dodged though)
3. Turrets tank damage (Muta's attack them I think in preference if "A Moved".

Finally in my experience, Mass air rarely works as Terran in lower leagues. But I have seen it done in higher leagues, mass Ravens, vikings and Banshees particularly in TvZ. I hardly ever see battlecruisers because their firepower is relatively weak in terms of costs, its armour is brilliant for tanking but there are better things to spend the resources on imo.

I believe the correct counter is, banelings, hyrda lisks and Ultralisk (To eat the turrets).

Bronze to gold, banshees kill everything in TvZ. I'd suggest tanks with stupid expansions all over the place mixed with banshees to hold map control.
Then I'd get vikings and tanks to hold the natural, main, and third base. You can't ever go pure air till you have at least 8 BC's out there. Even then, that's kind of hard just because lings are awesome.
Past that, micro against infestors, try to kill ultras as often as possible along with infestors and you'll win a lategame scenario.

2 port banshee with 1 or 2 ravens for pdd works if not scouted. I won a game with that, where he even went for a quick baneling bust. once I had 4 banshee's and a raven in his base he quit. You'll have minerals for bunkers and marines so be liberal with that. Once he goes muta's and corruptors though I doubt a late game air play will be succesfull, it's also pretty weak against mass roach.

I've tried it like 2 times (silver) and it can defenitly win and or criple but it's gimmicky. Ravens are your friend against zerg, I think banshee/viking/raven is better then banshee/viking/BC. Although it pains me to agree with whining zergs :P, pdd and seeker are probably underused eventhough ravens are slowmoving and expensive to get to

For silver gold I think banshees can work. Harass with hellion banshees at start then tech switch into thors and banshees. That should pretty much win you alot more games since thors banshees is pretty simple to controll. Pull 10 scv's as well when yuor pushing with like 4 thors and a bunch of banshees. And if the push fails just keep up the pressure and you might win anyway.