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KD's Comprehensive Co-op Aster Guide

Overview

Overview

Fundamentals

  • Powerful, relatively expensive roster: Macro is very important

  • His units become significantly stronger over time (+150% damage; +50% Health + Healing) due to Veterancy: Unit Retention is very important

    • Veterancy XP Costs are unit dependent

    • Lvl3 Veterancy Provides Mechanical Units with a Healing Drone (Can heal Biological)

  • Due to this, it is useful to delay clearing some starting camps until you can get your intended army composition going with Reinforcements

  • Wide Roster, many possible compositions

  • His Top Bar is centered around Battlefield Control: Stun, DPS, Reinforcement, Nuke

  • Most stun abilities out of all the Commanders

    • Stun Effects do not stack; they overwrite each other

  • Easy to get supply-blocked, build proactively

  • Low Mobility, reliance on Call-downs for Cross-Map coverage

  • Poor Static Defense

Unit Classifications

  • Classifications preceded by "+" are obtained via Upgrades

  • General:

  1. Melee = This unit deals damage at a close range (2=<)

  2. Ranged = This unit deals damage at a medium to long range (2-16)

  3. Artillery = This unit deals damage at very long range (17=>)

  • Specializations:

  1. Anti-Light = This unit excels at dealing with Light-Armored units

  2. Anti-Medium = This unit excels at dealing with Medium-Armored units

  3. Anti-Heavy = This unit excels at dealing with Heavy-Armored units

  4. Crowd Control = This unit excels at dealing with larger groups of enemies

  5. Anti-Air = This unit excels at dealing with flying enemies

  • Roster Roles:

  1. Tank = This unit's primary role is to take damage

  2. DPS = This unit's primary role is to deal damage with a fast firing rate

  3. Burst = This unit's primary role is to deal damage with a slow firing rate

  4. Support = This unit's primary role is to support allies

  • Additional: 1 Healer = This unit heals allies

  1. Caster = This unit has an ability as a key component

  2. Detector = This unit detects cloaked enemy units

  3. Flying = This unit flies and cannot be attacked by ground-only weapons

  4. Fodder = This unit is individually weak and reliant on numbers

  5. Hexite Dump = This unit is a good way to invest excess Hexite

  6. Transport = This unit can garrison certain ground units

  7. One-Use-Attack = This unit will die after making one attack

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Rank Classifications

  • Based on the performance and cost-effectiveness of an unit at its specified classifications, it will be given a rank

S = This unit is reliable, cost-effective and (almost) flawless (Ex: A Tank that is very Durable, Armored, Self-Heals and reliably gets to the front-line)

A = This unit performs its Roles reliably and is cost-effective, but has small limitations (Ex: a Slow, Tanky unit)

B = This unit is not always reliable/cost-effective and/or otherwise has noticeable limitations; yet still performs okay

C = This unit is not reliable/cost-effective and often mediocre at its roles

D = This unit is always mediocre, never cost-effective and is not worth producing outside of memey army compositions