Yes. Buy a few after you have 8 cyclones and use them defensively. Then try to hit a 12 minute max’d out push with +1 attack/+2 armor. (You always start with one armory and get armor first if you’re playing bmech. Lock on is ability damage and blue flame is much better than +1 attack.) sprinkle in 2 mines and some libs on the retreat path back to your tanks for this push.
Hellion mode if you plan on disengaging. Hellbat if not.
The battle mech phase ends the second the first fungals hit you, or when hive tech arrives. Sometimes it ends earlier if you can scout out that the zerg is going roach flood you and drop queens on 3 bases. You have to switch to tanks in this scenario.
Edit: you shouldn’t wait for hive tech to already be out before you start transitioning away from battle mech. By the time you have like 150-160 supply you should be thinking about filling the rest of your supply cap up with quality units like tanks and thors.
By 12 minutes in the game, you should already be on 8 factories, 1 (maybe 2) starports and 4ccs. Bmech allows you to expand pretty quickly and you should start building your 4th by around 8 minutes at the latest. You buy the 3 extra factories after you add your second armory and you’ve purchased your 4th.
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Edit: you shouldn’t wait for hive tech to already be out before you start transitioning away from battle mech. By the time you have like 150-160 supply you should be thinking about filling the rest of your supply cap up with quality units like tanks and thors.
By 12 minutes in the game, you should already be on 8 factories, 1 (maybe 2) starports and 4ccs. Bmech allows you to expand pretty quickly and you should start building your 4th by around 8 minutes at the latest. You buy the 3 extra factories after you add your second armory and you’ve purchased your 4th.