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Units
Banshee
Basic information
| Race: | Terran |
| Life: | 140 |
| Energy: | 200 |
| Armor: | 0 (0) |
| Movement: | Fast |
| Attributes: | Light - Mechanical |
Production
| Producer: | Starport |
| Hotkey: | E |
| Requires: | Tech Lab |
| Cost: |  150  100 |
| Supply: |  3 |
| Build time: |  60 |
Combat
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Flight Manual
- Tactical strike craft that can attack ground targets and gain the ability to cloak.
- Excellent for hit-and-run attacks against the enemy’s mineral line, or key units or structures.
- Vulnerable to air units; research Cloaking Field as soon as possible or have an air escort at all times.
- Position your Banshees above impassable obstacles or cliffs to deny the enemy the chance to retaliate.
Tech Lab Upgrades
- Cloaking Field: enables Banshees to use the cloak ability, rendering them invisible to enemy units.
Countermeasures
VS Terran
- Place Missile Turrets in your mineral line and in key spots around your base to provide detection. Also, assign a hotkey to your Orbital Command and be prepared to use the Scanner Sweep ability.
- Vikings are the best way to pick off Banshees. However, as both units move at the same speed, you’ll notice that the enemy will be able to eventually get away (not without losses however), as your Vikings must stop to fire.
- Use the Thor’s long range, splash damage, and extra damage bonus to take out Banshees.
VS Zerg
- Have Spore Crawlers in your mineral line and around your base to serve as both air defense and detection. Don’t forget to morph a few Overlords into Overseers as well.
- Mutalisks are a great option due to their fast flight speed. Be sure to have an Overseer or two with them, and beware enemy aircraft escorts.
- If you are confined to ground units, be sure to have researched Grooved Spines for your Hydralisks, and keep a group of them close to your mineral line at all times.
VS Protoss
- Build Photon Cannons at your mineral line and around your base to serve as detectors. Get Observers as soon as possible.
- Build Stalkers and research Blink; it will be very useful to catch up to retreating Banshees.
- Use the High Templar Feedback ability to drain the energy of a single Banshee and deal damage to it (if the target has 130 or more energy, it will be destroyed instantly). If the Banshees are clumped up, unleash a few Psionic Storms.
- The Phoenix is faster than the Banshee and does bonus damage against them.
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[Close]Comments (47)
and later you must send all sort of air units(except medivacs)
Please blizzard make them cost at least 1 food and 50 gas more.
When I first heared the quote I thought it was 'Power back'.
Pretty pretty good unit to have-even if the enemy has detectors.
Banshees are a great unit, can be mixed in your army to distract units from your other units, can harras even without cloak, when repaired by a mule can win a battle against queen easily
I bet you MMM every single game
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