Learn the basics of the Grell
Grell Basics
The Grell are an insectoid alien species that live in symbiosis with the Koru, and intelligent alien plant species, which form a planet-wide plant based consciousness. The Koru nourish, enhance, and empower the Grell, while the Grell help the Koru terraform planets by spreading their lush, grassy Biomass across a planet.
Bloomwell & Seedling: Grell's Mining Base Structure & Builder/Scout Unit
The Bloomwell is the Grell faction's main base unit. Like all bases, it provides an extractor unit, the Feeder Vine, which mines Hexite.
The Bloomwell generates a Seedling every 15 seconds, up to a max of six seedlings per base.
Unlike other factions, which have an autonomous build drone and a separate scout unit, the Grell's Seedling unit serves as both a builder unit for building structures, and when infused, becomes a fast flying scout unit and also a flexible proxy builder, especially when combined with a Gatherer.
Biomass & Cultivator
All Grell buildings, and some Grell units, spread Biomass (colloquially called grass). The Bloomwell and Cultivator spread biomass in a radius of 15, while most other buildings spread 7.5 range, and the Gatherer and Thresher spread 3.75 biomass. (See Biomass Provider)
Biomass also provides passive healing to all allied Grell units (Healing does not work on enemy-generated biomass, unless you also have a biomass-generating structure in range) and decreases the vision of enemy units standing within it.
The cultivator's primary purpose is to spread biomass across the map, but it can be upgraded to a defensive turret with its Cultivator Defender ability.
Gatherer: Grell's flux harvester and proxy helper
The Gatherer is the Grell's Flux harvester. Aside from gathering flux, the harvester has two important abilities:
Biomass Spread spreads biomass while it is not moving, whether because it is actively harvesting, or it has been given the
Hold Position (hotkey: H)command.Spawn Cultivator, which creates a Cultivator for free on nearby biomass.
Because of these two abilities, the Gatherer is capable of:
defending itself; by planting a cultivator and then upgrading it, the gatherer gains a protective turret to help it mine in safety
enable proxies; both its temporary biomass spread and the biomass provided by the cultivators it can create, it gives infused seedlings fertile ground to place proxy production structures far from home grass
provides Vynthra a place to teleport to using her Root Passage ability, which can target any location with both biomass and vision on the entire map