BC's are a slow moving flying vehicle which is hard to repair. They can be good against certain creatures but they are by no means all-purpose.
Okay, I'll concede that actually that they aren't all purpose units. But accompanied by a couple Scient Vessels and some air-to-air units, you can accomplish a lot with them.
Carriers are not an anti-battlecruiser unit, why are you comparing them?
Whaaaat? You're weird, dude. Battlecruisers are all all purpose air unit. And I wasn't directly comparing them at all. I just happen to know with their collective rate of fire, twelve of them can easily defeat twelve Carriers. One on one though the Battlecruisers have far less chances of survival.
I found an easy method. get your group and put your cursor over the repair button. there is a hotkey assigned to repair, and you assign your team of SCV's a number. that way you can be doing other stuff, and every now and then you go to where your units are. get your group of SCV's, push hotkey, and click on the battlecruisers. The repaired ones you just right click a bit away from the damaged ones so you know which ones to repair and which not.
Yeah that seems to work pretty good. I always did put a group of SCV's in their own subgroup just for doing repairs. I just can't believe they never released a patch that made Terrans auto repair. Would probably greatly imbalance the three races though.
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I never minded BC's much, I just wasn't too fancinated with their looks.
I'm Zerg anyway, we repair auto.
I loved Battlecruisers. They were so ergonomical and functional. The Yamato gun is actually kind of pointless, but just the regular laser batteries do wonders when you have twelve Battlecruisers. I'd wager my money on twelve Battlecruisers vs. twelve Carriers any day.
Most mechanical Terran units were frustrating anyway just because the SCV's wouldn't auto repair them. A group of 12 Battlecruisers would go a long way, so you didn't need to necessarily repair them after they took damage. But sometimes it would be more cost effective to repair them anyway rather then letting them be destroyed and having to build new ones.
And to get a group of SCV's to repair them too awhile too. Just because you couldn't highlight the Battlecruiser to see if it needed repair or not. You had to click it first to see which one needed repairs, which then made you deselect your SCV's which all in all was pretty annoying.
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I loved Battlecruisers. They were so ergonomical and functional. The Yamato gun is actually kind of pointless, but just the regular laser batteries do wonders when you have twelve Battlecruisers. I'd wager my money on twelve Battlecruisers vs. twelve Carriers any day.
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And to get a group of SCV's to repair them too awhile too. Just because you couldn't highlight the Battlecruiser to see if it needed repair or not. You had to click it first to see which one needed repairs, which then made you deselect your SCV's which all in all was pretty annoying.
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