Guides & Information

Author rating: B

• Solid Range DPS. Ramps up with Veterancy and Upgrades

• Can use Jetpack like Aster

• Fragile; utilize tanks or Striders to complement

• Synergies: Strider, Titan

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Author rating: B

The resulting Jetpack cooldown is 5 seconds. Range increase is not displayed by the effect's range display circle

• Does NOT affect the Titan Jetpack ability Helps with mobility, good for tactical repositioning Worth getting even without Commando production to buff Aster No benefits for Commandos if you use them in Striders

Author rating: A

The resulting range is 11, or roughly 15 with Strider buffs. Affects Aster. Reliable. Helps keep Commandos out of danger without Striders. Also great when using Strider Not strictly necessary however, as units inside Striders already have enough range. Utility is highly dependent on micro for Commando-Titan builds as Commandos end up at the frontline

Author rating: A+

Extremely useful with Striders. Does NOT affect Aster

• Best Use: Strider-focused builds

Author rating: B-

Ramps up heavily with Veterancy (up to 36dps per Commando) Affects Aster. No benefits if utilizing Commandos in Striders Jetpack can be cast over the same location as the unit to get the buff without repositioning Sounds cool, Commando HP & Range crutches its utility.

• Does NOT affect the Titan Jetpack ability

• Best use: Commando-Titan Builds

Author rating: A

• Reliable, Affordable, Straight-forward Tank (at lvl4) with powerful AoE

• Can only hit Ground

• Can achieve 1000+hp with Veterancy and Health Upgrade

• Unlike other flamethrower units, the Bastion has one slower, powerful attack instead of many smaller attacks per second; this keeps it relevant against durable foes

• Excellent in Striders due to Range Increase

• Synergies: Strider + Every other unit due to its tanking potential

Author rating: B

Excellent when not utilizing Striders. Worthless if utilizing Striders

Author rating: A+

Good all-purpose upgrade

Author rating: B

• Outside of Combat = Not taking damage, nor attacking

• Roughly 6 Seconds to reapply after exiting combat Worthless when garrisoned inside Striders ; Can still help with Reinforcing.

Author rating: C+

• Gimmicky Anti-Heavy Burst Specialist.

• Out-dps'd by Commandos

• Anti-Air Heavy damage is subpar compared to Titans

• Requires a Research Lab

• Can only hit Ground without an upgrade

• Synergies: Bastion, Strider

Author rating: A

The resulting range is 16, or more than 18 in Striders.

Author rating: C+

There are significantly more cost-effective options for Anti-Air.

Author rating: B

This brings the total bonus against Heavy to +200%. Excellent if you already have Anti-Air covered.

Author rating: A

• Deceptively powerful unit. Basically a Super-charged Commando

• Easy to mass ; Spawns in Pairs and is cheap

• Clunky to mix with other ground units

• Great Veterancy Buffs (Every Predator a Heal Drone)

• Very vulnerable to crowd control and AoE (like the Hat'un)

• +50% damage against Medium

• Cannot target air

• Synergies: Ironwing & Griffin

• Can chase structures

• Can count for unit-death effects such as Tempest Core and Emperor summoning

Author rating: S

Author rating: A

The shield regenerates automatically.

Shield increases with veterancy.

Shields do not benefit from Armor or bonus HP regeneration.

Author rating: A

• Powerful, Mobile, Affordable. All-Purpose AND it's durable

• Excellent AoE Anti-Air ; Weak to Swarms and Armored targets

• Relatively covers its own weaknesses with Drone Strike

• Bonus Damage against Medium

• Synergies: Griffin

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• The drone moves manually to the target; after it arrives, there is an additional one-second delay before its ramping damage begins

• Best aimed at stationary targets or choke points

• Multiple drones can hit the same target

• Reliant on having multiple Titans

• Can hit air

Author rating: B

Titan Jetpack does not receive any of the Commando-specific benefits.

Author rating: A

Author rating: B

Useful for backline support

Author rating: C+

• Poor performance as a tank, good performance as an Anti-Massive weapon

• Otherwise out-performed by Sentinels and Bastions

• Not expensive, but has a very long training time and meh DPS

• +100% against Massive (Bosses, Striders, Monoliths, Terror Tanks)

• Best utilized on Siege to quickly munch through the mechs. Vet3 Juggernauts deal 500 damage against Massive per hit

• Can be quite useful on Iron Shield, melting waves as they spawn while assaulting the Portals

• Can only hit Ground

• Synergies: Commando(Shred), Griffin

• Does not stack, so its maximum damage is 300

• Can recharge itself if it kills enough units

• Striders and other units can push a Juggernaut forward while it channels

• Deals damage to structures

• Clunky against the predominantly ranged enemies in co-op

• Do not walk your tank into the enemy solely to use this ability

Author rating: C

Still inefficient to utilize it. This should have been integrated into the base unit

Author rating: B+

Quite Handy ; Still clunky

Author rating: S

• Mobile Bunker that provides extra range to garrisoned units

• Can garrison 8 Commandos, 5 Bastions or 5 Sentinels; mix and match for a total of 16 supply

• Can garrison a plethora of other infantry units

• Basic rule of thumb for Garrisoning: No Heavy Armor, Not Floating, Not Flying, Is Infantry

• Cannot garrison Heroes

• Requires Mechanical Research Lab

• Garrisoned units can fire while the Strider is moving

• Garrisoned units are healed while inside

• Garrisoned units can still gain Veterancy

• Garrisoned units do NOT benefit from AoE buff effects like Rally

• Not Trained, but constructed on the battlefield

• Expensive but very durable

• Has a hidden supply cost of 6

• Features a Support Weapon. Can only target ground with it.

• Synergies: Commando, Bastion, Sentinel, Ironwing & Griffin

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Author rating: S

God-tier all-round upgrade

Author rating: S

Long but relatively small cone of fire Roughly 1.3 seconds to change angle of fire Melts enemies. Good tool to rush for.

Author rating: B+

• Solid DPS, HP and Range

• Can clump up, requires a frontline tank

• Affordable

• Synergies: Strider & Griffin

• Slow projectiles are prone to overkill

• Missiles do not track their targets and will miss moving targets

• Missiles deal bonus damage against Large enemies

Author rating: A

Fixes the Ironwing's durability issues

Not needed if utilizing it alongside Striders

Shields increase with Veterancy.

Shields do not benefit from Armor or bonus HP regeneration.

Author rating: A

Very useful when you have a unit to tank for the Ironwing

Author rating: C-

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Author rating: A-

• Expensive Support Unit ; Can Heal Mechanical Units

• Can heal while moving

• Great Heal DPS (50 at Vet3)

• Only one Healing Beam (any source) can heal an unit at a time (Buildings can be targeted by multiple)

• Fragile & Poor DPS

• Requires a Mechanical Research Lab

• Synergies: Every unit

• With good army micro, this can trivialize attack waves

Author rating: A

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Author rating: D

EMP is a far-better ability and Aster's frontline benefits more from being Mechanical Griffin Heal Drone (Vet3) can still heal Biological ; Deprecates Upgrade More useful for your allies than yourself Keep in mind healing Biological units also means there will be more targets that can distract a Griffin's healing

Author rating: S

Must-get upgrade