How do Terran counter mass Zerg Air?

The most important thing is to not allow him to contain you with his mutalisks, you don't need vikings stim marines also work before they reach a critical match it is very situational.

adding on to what i sad last time shouldnt this be in the strategy section of the forums

Vikings die faster that mutas in a normal dogfight to take on mutas as terran u really need to really on ground support imo either that or PDDs

mutas are a rare sight later in the game, they do win vs vikings, but mutas short range make them hard to use, since its hard tfor them to do their thing while not being obliterated by thor/marine

Moved to strat forum.

My friend. I have had this situation before, thors will work but you just need to keep them clean and well repaired with a slew of scvs . Or , if that is not an option and you have a butt load of rimes and vacs , just attack his base and go after the tech tree , because if you are getting hit as hard as you say you are , his base is open for a mr clean scrape m shine, meanwhile, keep your scvs repairing whatever is getting attacked by bls at your base . In any event
the corruptors are in capable of doing much because not much air is being used on your end . It seems to me that the bls biggest weakness is the scv . It's just how you implement it . Don't forget that if you have those scvs repairing that Thor ( in the
defensive case ) those critters have to work through your scvs to get to the Thor . So bl is actually
being counter productive and you are being proactive . Lete know if this helps . Cause it helped
me !

I'm a zerg player, I suggest marines and hellions, hellions burn the broodlings, and the marines focus on the BroodLords.
Either that or battlecruisers. Yamato everything.

Thors fight vs Broodlords not bad only I once barely survived a 10 BL v 10 Thor test, of course I had to focus fire, and the BL wasn't Micro'ed but it earns thors a bit of merit

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Originally Posted by Nottoway

I've played a couple of games where Brood Lords/Corruptors come into play and once they do, I am completely lost on how to handle it. Vikings just seem to die in a matter of seconds to Corruptors and whatever ground army you have will only attempt(not handle) to deal with the BLs. The fact they create broodlings on the ground further complicates matters for GtA units. Even if I am able to destroy the corruptors, the fact that the vikings and Thors seem to do pathetic damage vs Massive doesn't help the situation. Granted BLs move extremely slow, the low damage vikings (& Thors) do vs them doesn't mean they will properly serve their purpose.

I'm not going to scream imbalance, but I'd like a reasonable explanation on how Terran is suppose to deal with it.

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If you ask specifically for ONLY Brood+Corruptor mix, there are many counter:

1. Mass rines with stim!! You can easily stim thru broodling, and then destroy the broodlord since they are really slow. With that given, wouldnt corruptor be useless?

2. Thor Viking with proper micro!! Vikings do have further range than corruptor. When corruptor are being micro, they do then to clump together just like muta. 3 - 4 thor can clean that up. the rest is up to viking to deal with brood. However in this case, make sure u keep microing ur viking. Move them forward to hit the brood, then back to hide behind the thor. And make sure ur thor are not firing those stupid broodling when the corruptor are in range. Tell them to hit the corruptor!

3. You can mass either raven or ghost as well!!! mass ghost cloak and snipe down the brood. Or mass raven, you can just missile seeker that, a bunch of them will die. Any left over should be clean up turret and pdd.


Again, scouting is the key. Knowing what they have and what they planning to go for to make the counter is the key. Against zerg, it comes down more to whether u have enough resources to make the right counter, since most zerg player like going heavy econ to make sure they can pump out as many unit as they can. Get ur timing for ur fast expo, or put early pressure on them. Most game dont end up having broodlordon the field since they take so long to get and soo gas intensive. So if you just stick to ur basic and play it smarter u can beat zerg w/o worrying about brood/corrutor mix. U will only see brood-corr once in a while. When it comes to that, thats ur chance to practice all these suggestions that we gave u. Theory is always theory, practice it urself and find out wats missing from ur composition unit. Gluck!

Source: Ima zerg player

necromancy detected.

Imo stupid necromancers always necromancing the oldest skeletons.

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If I was zerg and I went for broodlords I would love if the terran player had marines.
My zerglings would eat them for dinner with broodlord support (or well it's broodlords with zerglings support)

The 'shutting them down before they get there' argument is not really helpful... even in pro games, people reach broodlords.

Anyway, your simple answer is vikings. Just get loads of them. They are relatively cheap and they actually do beat corruptors quite easily. The problem is mutas.... but that's what your Thors are for. Having said that, in a fight, don't engage the corruptors first.... focus on all their Broodlords with your 9 range. Doesn't matter if you lose all your vikings, coz after that, your ground army should dominate with no broodlords in the field. BC's are not the answer as corruptors take them out quite quickly, and by the time they actually move up in battle to engage the BL's, your army is already half dead from broodlings, and the BC's would also be in range of their hydras.


Edit - oh... necro thread... damn

shouldnt this be locked?

thread and most posts are dating back to beta...