How do you terrans feel about variations of the reactor hellion banshee opener in TvP? I've tried my own build and it's working very well.. hellions are very underrated tvp.

The build goes:
13 gas
barracks
reactor after 1 marine
factory
expansion
double hellions

eventually you can get 4 rax + starport early on with 2 bases. seems very strong - atleast at low masters. what do you guys think?

Im a gold terran but it looks good to me lol. I like having earlier marauders with concussive, just my play style though.

Need to do quite a bit of damage with the hellions otherwise toss has a faster 2 bases if they play standard, with infrastructure up to defend against your first attack too.

Hellions are terrible against stalkers. You either need to hit before they get stalkers (lol) or after they get their 2nd base and have the stalkers/sentries on the low ground (so you can actually get to the probes). Hellions are great against zealots, though.
/e
I don't really like it, in conclusion.

This post was edited by BardOfXiix on Oct 27 2012 02:29am

Maybe some hellion drops in mineral lines while rines/hellion harass front door?

this is the most commen tvz build excluding the banshes?

i feel.

I don't see the point of helions.

I prefer 2 rax or 1 fe into 4 rax combat shield +1 weapons pressure.

if you're gonna do that you might as well do the real build and make 2 marines - factory - reactor - cc - supply - hellions

that or you can go 1 rax fe into double gas (pretty sure liquid sea does something like this quite often vs toss)

Other cool things about this build is:
-hellions = map control, possibility of hellion drop or runby if they attack you
-raven = detection from dts, pdd, can bring raven for banshee harass + pdd = much better
-very early expansion. as soon as you make your factory, you have enough $ to expand.