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    StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

    Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 27, 2010

    The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.

    Protoss battlecruiser help

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    #1  Edited By mowgers

    Ok, simple question, how do Protoss deal with battlecruisers? I've had some success with Stalkers, but I've lost against Terrans almost exclusively because of battlecruisers.

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    #2  Edited By commandercup

    Pheonixs? Battlecruisers got nerfed so they should be even easier

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    #3  Edited By mowgers

    Really? Every time I've used Phoenixes they've had their asses handed to them...

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    #4  Edited By shiftymagician

    Get high templars to feedback battlecruisers with full energy, then focus fire with stalkers and a few phoenixes.  If they mix with marines, mix it up with feedback and psi-storm, with some sentry shields to reduce damage.

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    #5  Edited By blaze503

    voids are your best bet, if you focus fire them they will take down the first battlecruiser eventually but once they are charged on the first kill they will eat through them

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    #6  Edited By ColMirage

    Phoenix SUCK against Battlecruisers. They do 4 damage per attack versus BCs thanks to their 3 default armor and 5x2 damage type.
     
    Void Rays are your best bet with Stalker support. High Templars to weaken them and prevent them from using their Yamato cannon is very useful as well. Remember that if the Battlecruisers are in open ground and stacked, you should micro your stalkers under the BCs; otherwise they have a positioning advantage (Air units can stack to infinite, wheras ground units cannot).
     
    If you think about it, a couple sentries with Guardian shield can help also by diminishing their damage a bit.

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    #7  Edited By Subjugation

    High Templar + Feedback should be really helpful.

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    #8  Edited By wunder_

    A lot of Terrans are now complementing their 3rax push with a BC rush. A small MM force plus a BC with SCVs repairing it is very hard to scout. Normally, BCs can be taken out easily with VRs as they do very light air damage however if you scout 2 gas real early or something that spells danger, either try to tech as fast as possible to Void Rays or pump stalkers/sentries if you don't have time and hope you make it.

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    #9  Edited By raiz265

    High Templars and Void Rays should be the way to go.

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    #10  Edited By koolaid

    I agree with the above. Void rays take out bcs and High Templars work too if you are confident with your micro. 
     
    However, I feel like there is a better strategy: Don't let them get to battlecruisers in the first place!  If you are seeing battlecrusiers at anywhere but the late late game, then you should be more aggressive, teching to battlecruisers is slow and takes a while.  
     
    Or just tech to carriers =)

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    #11  Edited By Driadon

    Get some templars to feedback that shit. Then, just about any anti-air should clean them up, be it a blob of stalkers, some void rays or even some carriers.

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    #12  Edited By csl316

    High templar are definitely helpful if you get Feedback out in time.
     
    For late game when a mass of battlecruisers can be out, I'd say get a mothership and cast Vortex to split the force in two.  Quite annoying, I must say.

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    #13  Edited By Rayeth

    High Templars using feedback on the Cruisers is a great place to start.  Void Rays will do good against them as well assuming the BC doesn't just kill the void rays first, gotta have some stalkers or something else distracting the BC while you charge up the VRs.   
     
    Really IMO the best defense is a good offense.  Just pressure the Terran player early and try and harass his minerals and gas enough so that he isn't able to afford the money/time to make BCs at all!

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    #14  Edited By sjschmidt93
    @commandercup said:

    " Pheonixs? Battlecruisers got nerfed so they should be even easier "

    No... no phoenixes. Really, BC's are just a little OP early game on 1 base with a handful of SCV's. Spunky got his ass handed to him because his opponent got 1 BC in the GSL.
     
    Get void rays, templar, blink stalkers.
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    #15  Edited By Feanor

    Feedback and Void Rays. 

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