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Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Video Demos Included)
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I think the banshee is WAY to rare to find in Match Making.

  • 12.12.2009 12:42 PM PDT

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Number One Ranked Banshee

  • 12.24.2009 8:23 AM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Videos Mostly Back Up)

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I R -COKELOL

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  • 12.25.2009 9:05 PM PDT
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I am the Bane of Banshees

In a Splocket match, my team was on 90, I got 1 rocket kill and 40 Splaser kills, to bad there wasn't any Banshees :D

  • 12.30.2009 7:21 PM PDT

Killing time, killng people

on a valhalla or sandtrap, you can boost towards the towers, do a barrel roll to one side, to the othe side dodging you around the tower and causing the missiles to hit the tower.

on sandtrap heavy, i killed a scorpion with turret gunner in the banshee. i flew close in so i was scrapin pain and just kept on firing plama while circling around the main turret.
do not use bombs due to splashback damage nailing you.
the main turrt cannot track fast enough and you pass too quickly over the field of fire for it to get you while the mg turret can't turn back enough to shoot you. if your team can stop you being lasered it is a good way of killing the scrpion while tying it u preventing it killing your team.

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  • 12.31.2009 3:39 PM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Videos Currently Down)

Killing time, killng people

ive just noticed that the symbol your symbol flickers to is one of the gate markers from halo wars.

ALL HAIL THE BANSHEE KING

  • 12.31.2009 3:48 PM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Video Demos Included)

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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Aerial Dogfights

As I stated in my original Banshee thread -- avoid "dogfights" unless they are absolutely unavoidable. Dogfights may seem cool, right until you get lasered or gunned out of the sky by someone on the ground who's been watching you orbit the battlefield in one place. Keep the Banshee low and fast at all times, and let your teammates handle the other air vehicles.

That said, in some cases, a dogfight is either too tempting to resist (see the easy Banshee kill in Video 1 at 2:57-3:03) or completely unavoidable. In these cases, STAY LOW. For those of you familiar with real-life dogfighting techniques or combat flight simulators (where height gives the attacker the advantage), this may be counter-intuitive. Unlike those situations, however, the Banshee travels at equal speed in all directions when in full boost, and its maximum pitch angle is MUCH higher when flying upward than downward. If you are above an enemy, you may find that he or she is shooting you and you are unable to even establish an angle to reach him or her with your guns. Additionally, staying low is good due to how easy it is to lose an aerial target.

Video 8 shows a dogfight between a Banshee and a Hornet. Note that the dogfight is pretty much unavoidable due to the Hornet's position and the nature of the map. The Banshee uses left- and right-rolls to avoid the Hornet's gunfire until it can get directly underneath it. The Banshee then drops power to get low, falling all the way to the ground. Having lost sight of the Banshee, the Hornet panics and turns around, running out to the edge of the map. With the Hornet's back turned, the Banshee pops up and opens fire. The dogfight ends when the Hornet's pilot gives up and ejects.

Dogfights like these put the normally fast-and-low Banshee in a slow, high, and vulnerable position, making it not only an easy target, but a desirable one as the enemy air vehicle's teammates attempt to rescue their teammate. You should use teamwork and communication to ensure that your team controls anti-vehicle weapons before engaging in aerial battles.

Being Skyjacked

There are lots of rumored techniques out there to prevent skyjackings. The only truly reliable way is to stay fast. You cannot be skyjacked while in full boost. Techniques such as trying to "scrape" opponents off the Banshee using a wall, flips and rolls, or ejecting early from the Banshee are unlikely to work.

If you are skyjacked, the technique that I've found that works best is to jam the Banshee into a tight space. In Video 9, the Banshee misses a kill on Valhalla and gets skyjacked. The Banshee quickly jams itself into the downed Pelican, stopping the Banshee, slowing the skyjacker's escape, and allowing the Banshee to be immediately recaptured. Even this technique is not reliable if the enemy skyjacker is a skilled and experienced Banshee pilot, so as always, the best strategy is to avoid skyjackings entirely.


Conclusion

The Banshee is an awesome tool and my favorite weapon in the game. I encourage everybody out there to pick it up once in awhile and see what you can do after reading the techniques and strategies in this thread and the original Banshee tips and tricks thread. Please add to this thread with your own techniques, strategies, tips, and demonstrations.

Happy flying!


happy flying to you too

  • 01.01.2010 5:55 PM PDT
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My real Gtag is: (The Sacramentum) or (DoctorG26)
Generation 26: The first time you see this, add it to your sig, but add 1 to the number. Call it a social experiment.

This was very helpful. I used it's tips today on Valhala. I pooped on those people becuase of you. Although i'll admit i did know most of this stuff, other then the dogfighting tips, I was completly wrong on those. lol

  • 01.01.2010 7:57 PM PDT

HALO WAR MACHINES all the way

these are hella-good tips. i got an invincible(30 kills without dieing) in the banshee. alas no perfection due to lazers =( i went +33 with 36 kills and lost!!! CTF!

  • 01.06.2010 3:31 PM PDT

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You jelly?

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I don't understand why people keep asking other people if they are a sugary substance used to spread on bagels and toast.

Thanks for the tips.

  • 01.06.2010 6:06 PM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Video Demos Included)

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  • 01.06.2010 9:53 PM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Videos Mostly Back Up)

Banshees?

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Oh, nuff said..

  • 01.06.2010 10:19 PM PDT
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Drum n Bass from outer space.

Master Theory
Vehicle whore.

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  • 01.06.2010 11:04 PM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Video Demos Included)

Howdy, Gamertags Just Jarryd, Australian mate.

I'm pretty sure i read all of that.. It's a mind full.

  • 01.07.2010 12:18 AM PDT
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Your horrible banshee "skills" will not help you at high level Squad. Your videos are all against nubs in SBTB, you fkn suck Foman, get carried to your 50.

  • 01.07.2010 1:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mabian
If you get a chance to talk to K-Mart, tell him Mabian misses him...

He won't remember me, but it's always nice to let a complete stranger on the internet know that you care.


Posted by: Exile78
Sir I can't help but get the sense that you don't want to really talk about this, you want to "nail" me.

Posted by: oh ANGeL
Your horrible banshee "skills" will not help you at high level Squad. Your videos are all against nubs in SBTB, you fkn suck Foman, get carried to your 50.


Dear God, is that all you care about?

  • 01.07.2010 2:43 AM PDT

I reckon, after this massive thread, i would still beat him at the only thing he's good at, Banshees, sigh. :-\

  • 01.07.2010 9:13 PM PDT

~It's called the clam slam"~

And here I was thinking I should stay up stupidly high......

  • 01.07.2010 9:25 PM PDT

I went 41-0 lol.

  • 01.08.2010 7:16 PM PDT

I don't know if this has been said since it's a 19 page long thread, but I've been pulling a pretty sucessful re-jack move. If some host pulls a ridiculous skyjack on your banshee, instead of trying to crash into a cliff and blow it up, if there's a teammate near, try to steer right next to them and let them pull the rejack. This has worked pretty well for me. Cheers.

  • 01.13.2010 7:38 AM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Video Demos Included)

We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically

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Will you repost videos please. Most of them are 404.

  • 01.13.2010 10:18 AM PDT
Subject: Air Superiority: Advanced Banshee Techniques (Videos Mostly Back Up)
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Thanks for this guide. In about five games my amount of kills with the Banshee has gone from twenty to seventy. Now I just enjoy watching enemy pilots rush and get blown to bits by a Splaser.

  • 01.17.2010 1:25 AM PDT