Comments on: StarCraft 2 – Banshee Unit Official Page Added

By: StarcraftII

StarcraftII — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:40:11 +0000

Banshees are cool, but their loss of Area of Effect Rockets are really disappointing. They’re just metal guardians now… just without the range that made the Guardians themselves feared.

By: Guilherme

Guilherme — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:23:40 +0000

Hey guys

the banshee is really a bad guy, but someone that have an account to the official forum could give a sugestion:

tell the guys to change the banshee helices
in CONCEPT ART it is much more agressive than this with two helices
what do u think?

i just don´t do it myself ´cause i lost my cd-key
well it´s just a sugestion

thank you guys

By: Starcraft 2

Starcraft 2 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:08:43 +0000

Starcraft 2 is reminding me of Command & Conquer more so every day. First with the minerals, i thought that was just a coincidence then with the mothership, banshee…

By: ben

ben — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:34:11 +0000

i was talking more about the fact that it can cloak and then hit the outskirts of the base and then go away again, not the fact that they can’t escape very fast. It would be more for mid-game then end game, i would have thought, sort of like goliath was in the first one, good for taking down wraiths etc, but not too good for bigger ships like carriers.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:58:23 +0000

WhiteKnight, they’re always over a planet within a planet’s atmosphere, so there is air. I do think the fan looks a little strange, though.

By: WhiteKnight

WhiteKnight — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:42:28 +0000

Why fan ?

is there any air in space for Fan like machine to hover?

By: deezie

deezie — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:25:17 +0000

Phoenix definitely seems like the anti-Banshee unit. I imagine the Phoenix’s OVERLOAD ability will damage even cloaked Banshees.

By: Bunny

Bunny — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:20:08 +0000

Woah
Ken’s got some insightful stuff about the naming

But either way…
Wraith was most of a very fast anti-air and light ground jet. This is bombing helicopter…

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:35:22 +0000

Actually, WRAITH and BANSHEE, acdg. to mythology are synonymous. Means a spiritual entity or specter. So is with GHOST. That’s because they CLOAK. If they remove the cloaking ability of the BANSHEE, It wouldn’t be much of a “banshee” (in myth) anymore.

Notice that VIKING and VALKYRIE also come from the same area, from Norse Mythology.

The COBRA, the unit that replaced the VULTURE, are also synonymous because they got animal “predator” names.. hey, there goes another new terran unit, the PREDATOR. which is the carnivorous counterpart of the REAPER. hehe.. this is fun!

By: ben

ben — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:21:53 +0000

i reckon these will be great. some guys i know use a fleet of wraiths (cloaked). these banshee’s will be so much better, and more powerful. i don’t reckon they’ll keep the cloaking, it would be too powerful. have u guys noticed how much they using mythical creatures for names of the terran ships?