STRATIGIES

Water Units Strategies
Offense Based Strategies
Build a shipyard. When the shipyard is constructed, build a scout ship and explore the map to find your opponent. When you found him, make a construction ship and start building some torpedo launchers near his base. Be careful not to put them near enough for enemy guardian to kill them. Then select your construction ship and make a adv. shipyard. When the shipyard is done, make one millennium ship. When this millennium is ready place it near your torpedo launchers. After that you are defended well enough. By that time the enemy should have built 2 or 3 guardians. You can't just go and kill them with a millennium without suffering great damage or even being destroyed. So now, you must build a conqueror. The conqueror is the ship with the biggest range of all the units. So when your conqueror is completed, put it behind your torpedo launcher. Now, you must sit there for awhile, because your next task is to build a kbot lab and an advanced kbot lab. When you have done these two buildings, select your advanced kbot lab. Start building a construction kbot. When it is complete, select it and make a advanced radar tower to cover almost all map. When the radar is done, Select your conqueror (its better to have 2 or 3 by then) and start targeting enemies on your minimap for better accuracy. The main target for now is his shipyard and his ships to stop him from doing ships and to prevent him from attacking you. If you cannot cannot reach certain places of his base, make a vehicle plant. Build a construction vehicle and wait 'till its done. Select your construction vehicle and build an advanced vehicle plant. When it is completed, make 5 to 10 amphibious tanks at your will. Stop fragging with your conquerors when defense is down. Select your amphibious tanks and send them in to finish him off.

Defense Based Strategies
Build a kbot lab. When it is done, build a construction kbot by selecting your kbot lab. While your kbot is being constructed, make an airstrip with your commander. When your construction kbot is finished, select it and make at least 1 guardian per screen on the coast. While your kbot builds the guardians, select your commander and make a shipyard. When the shipyard has been constructed, make 2 scout ships for a little defense. Then, build a construction ship and make some torpedo launchers with it. You should make a circle of it not to near your shipyards to avoid your ships to stay in shipyard when they have been built. Now make tidal generator with your construction ships and observe if they give you energy or not. If they do, build 4 or 5 more of them. Select your commander and help the kbot make the guardians. When all guardians have been done, select your kbot and make an advanced kbot lab. When this building is finished, make 2 or 4 roaches. Select your airstrip and make as much atlas as you did roaches. Load roaches in your atlas and send em in the enemy base. You should try to touch commander with each of them. It takes 3 roaches to kill a commander, so you must hurry before he moves into the water. Now that half his base is dead, make an advanced shipyard with your construction ship. Make 2 millenniums with it. Select your shipyard to make 4 lurkers and 5 scout ships. When these are complete, send your lurkers in to kill enemy subs. Then select your millenniums and scout ships and send them in to kill enemy ships. Be sure that your scout ships stay in front and that your millennium stay not too far behind. The scout ships will provide anti-air for you millenniums. Kill enemy ships with millenniums and start fragging his base. If you can't reach all his buildings, you should build some bombers with your airstrip and then bomb the rest of his building until he dies.

Map Strategies
Tips for Water Maps
You should build at least 2 guardians on coasts to kill incoming enemies. Always build alot of missile towers to take down airplanes. Make some subs to prevent enemy from rushing with his commander under water. Build some laser towers near the coast and in your base to kill a commander that will come to surface on the coast. Send constant scout ships to see what your opponent is up to. NEVER STOP MOVING WHILE YOU ARE KILLING ANOTHER SHIP! This will reduce the damage received by at least 75%. Remember to watch your metal oftenly and to have construction units standing by to repair damaged buildings or units after you have been attacked. Do not send them in while you are attacking or he will surely target it. You should expand your base so that if he nukes u or if his commander explodes in your base you still have another base to work with. Never leave your commander out at the open. You should keep him behind in your base or some place well protected.

Basics for All Kind of Maps
When you start, always make metal extractors on all the metal you see in 2 screen wide. Then you must build power. A good ratio power for a start is 125 power output. You must build at least one radar in your base to detect incoming enemies. The radar tower you build should be placed in altitude, if possible, for a greater range. If you don't have a metal increase of at least 8.0, you should build more power and then some metal makers. Be sure to see if the map has a good wind ratio. If playing skirmish or multiplayer you can't see that anywhere, but you can see in the map's specs if it says this map has strong winds or not. If playing single player missions, you see this while getting your briefing at top right of the screen. A good wind ratio would be 1500 and more.

Tips for Ground Units Based Maps
Always build at least one sentinel at weak spots in your base. Be sure to build at least 2 missile towers per sentinel you build to avoid those aircraft rushes. Make sure your commander is always out of danger. For example don't put him in the first attack line... He should be far from primary defense lines or near very well protected spots of your base. Never forget to move while you are attacking another unit. For example, you could set waypoints around an immobile unit or structure to kill it without suffering any damage or only getting a few hits. You should be sure that all your base is ready to receive a tank rush or aircraft attack by checking every entry point, seeing if it is protected or not. Another great tip is to always build towards your enemy. This will block him access to some metal and you will have more land than him by doing so.

Ground Unit Strategies

Offense Based Strategies
Basic Kbot Attack Level 1
This strategy is one of the most effective ones. Start by making a kbot lab by selecting your commander. When this facility is finished, make 5 peewees with it. When your peewees are done, select 2 of them and start exploring the map if the fog of war is on. When you found your enemy, send you commander to make a LLT and a radar near the opponent's base. Be sure you build it just far enough to take resources or to see his base with radar if you don't see any resources far enough for guardians not to be able to kill you. Then you should build a kbot lab at this location. When it is completed, you should make a construction kbot. Select it when it is done and build a sentinel with it. Be sure to make some missile towers too to avoid early air rushes. Start making alot of peewees. When you have 10, send one to scout his base in case there is a sentinel already built. If there are none, send your 9 kbots in the base. Destroy the defenses first and then kill his commander with them. When the commander dies, he will kill a shitload of his buildings. Make 5 artillery kbots and 5 peewees. Send them in his base and finish him off. If the enemy has sentinels before you kill his commander, you should make some rocket launcher kbots and kill them with your kbots. Then, continue as said above.

Advanced Kbot Attack Level 1
You should build a Kbot lab with your commander. When the kbot lab is done, you should build 5 hammers. While doing so, Build a second Kbot lab with your commander. When your 2nd kbot lab is done make 5 rockos with it. When your hammers have been built, build one peewee and send him to explore and find your enemy. Now that your peewee is exploring, build 5 rockos with the unused kbot lab. by that time, the 5 rockos you were building with the first Kbot Lab should be done. Select this kbot lab and make 5 jethros. When one of the kbot lab has finished doing units, select it and make 5 more hammers. When all these units have been done, select them and attack the enemy base at the weakest spot you can find. While sending your troops into battle, select a kbot lab and make 5 hammers. Select the other one and make 5 rockos. You should make those because if your first attack can't kill him completely, you will have a 2nd strike ready. Be sure to create at least one construction kbot early in the game to set up basic defenses.

Basic Kbot Attack Level 2
Make a Kbot lab with your commander. When it is done, build 2 construction kbots with it. Make the commander help building them. When the first one is done, build an advanced kbot lab. While doing so, your second construction kbot should be ready. Select your kbot lab and build 2 or 3 peewees. Select them and scout the map to find your opponent. Select the 2nd construction kbot you built and build sentinels and missile towers to protect your base. When your advanced kbot lab is done, select it and build 10 fidos and 5 zippers. Make your commander help to speed up the process. When they are done, start making a 2nd batch of them. Select your fidos and zippers and send them in the enemy’s base. Your main targets should be sentinels, guardians, missile towers or the commander. Your attack will most probably be countered. Select the second batch you made and go back in the enemy’s base. Remember to always have another batch ready to avoid him from doing defences between your attacks. It should take 3 or 4 attacks like that to annihilate him.

Basic Tank Attack Level 1
First, build a vehicle plant. When it is complete, make 2 flashes and 2 fast assault tanks. Then, make a construction vehicle. Send one flash around the map to scout for the enemy. When you found him, make a radar tower near his base to see his ever moves. If you can, try securing as most metal as you can near his base so that he won’t be able to pick up enough metal. If you decide to do this (securing metal), be sure you make some sentinels near it to assure protection. Now make at least 5 flashes and fast assault vehicles. Send them in his base and take out as much as you can. Be ready to have a 2nd batch ready when your attack is over. You should always target defenses of the base first and then go hunting for the commander. When you kill commander, it will blow up almost all of his base and you can send in a last batch of tanks to finish him off. Be sure never to let your defense down, because he could easily make an air strike or even a commander rush. So be sure you have the appropriate defense. This strategy will only work if the enemy has light defense, if he has 1 or no sentinels. If he does have sentinels, try finding the weak point of his base. For example attack between 2 cliffs so that all the enemy shots wont get to you. Another valid tactic is it attack from a place where he has almost no defense. That should provide a good kill/death ratio.

Advanced Tank Attack Level 1
Select your commander and build a vehicle factory. When it is done, select it and build 10 samsons. Select your commander and build a 2nd vehicle factory. Select it and build 10 stumpies with it. When your 10 samsons are done, select the vehicle factory and build 2 flash tanks. Select them and scout the map to find your opponent. Start making 10 more stumpies with the 1st factory you built. When your stumpies are ready, select them and your samsons and attack your enemy. While sending your troops in, build 5 samsons with the 2nd vehicle factory. When your attack has been countered, send in the units you just built. You should repeat this 2 or 3 times to annihilated your enemy. Remember to always have 5 stumpies ready in your base so that you can quickly attack your enemy preventing him from building more defenses in his base. When you send in your stumpies and samsons, remember that you should always target sentinels first, missile towers second and guardians third. When these are down, hunt for the enemy commander. He will destroy half of his base exploding helping you destroy it faster.

Basic Tank Attack Level 2
Build a vehicle plant. Then, build 2 medium assault tanks and scout the map to find your enemy. When these are complete, start making a construction vehicle. Select this vehicle and build an advanced vehicle plant. Send your commander in to help it do the building. Now is the tricky part. The enemy can rush you at any point right now. So your main objective is to build defense with your construction vehicle and with your commander. You should make 1 guardian for each 3 sentinels you make. This should provide adequate defense for most kinds of attacks. You should also do some missile towers to kill those incoming airplanes While your defense is building up, you should make some bulldog tanks to prepare your attack. When you have about 10, you should send them in his base. While you are sending your attacks, prepare 10 more bulldogs for a second attack. The faster you attack, the less defense he can build between your attacks. Remember to always send your tanks to the less protected part of his base. If you can’t get passed the enemy's commander, it's time you hunt for power so that he can’t use his d-gun. When he doesn't have enough power, go in to kill it fast with 4 or 5 bulldogs to minimize your losses. When the commander is out of the game, it’s time to get more serious and send all your tanks in. Destroy his base, get the win and be a good sport, share the strategy.

Basic Kbot and Tank Attack Level 1
Build a kbot lab. Then, build a vehicle plant. Make a construction kbot while making some flash vehicles. Start scouting the map with one of them. Your construction kbot should be finished by the time you find your enemy. Now make some defense around your base. Be sure to cover all weak spots like between hills or higher altitude places that are unprotected. Now make alot of peewees. When you have about 15 units, send them in the enemy base. You should target his defenses first and then concentrate on his Comdr. When your attack has been countered, be sure to have a 2nd batch of peewees and flash tanks ready to get into the action. The lowest delay between attacks means the less defense he can build. You shouldn't wait more than 5 minutes before attacking again. If however it does take you more than 5 minutes to attack, you should send another 15 units in. Now repeat your attacks until you have annihilated him. You shouldn't use your commander to support your attacks. This tactic is considered lame and is a cheap way to finish it off when you can use strategy to kill your opponent with kbots, tanks or air units.

Basic Kbot and Tank Attack Level 2
First, you must build a kbot lab. Then make a construction kbot with it. While this is building, select your commander and start building a vehicle plant. When the factory is done, start building a construction vehicle. Your construction should be finished soon. When it is, select it and build one sentinel to prevent early rushes. Send your commander there to help build the sentinel. While this is building, your construction vehicle should be ready. Select it and build an advanced vehicle plant. When your sentinel is built, select your construction kbot and build an advanced kbot lab. Select your commander and make him help build either the vehicle plant or the kbot lab. Let's pretend you helped doing the kbot lab. Now you should build at least 4 fidos and 5 zeus. While that is building, you should have finished the construction of the advanced vehicle plant. Make ±5 bulldogs and 2 mobile radar jammers. Now that you are building your attack forces, you should thing about defense in case the enemy tries to rush you. Select either your construction kbot or your construction vehicle and make sentinels around your base for protection. You should build at least 1 guardian at each elevated place you can see. When your tanks and kbots are ready, select them. Now close in the enemy base. While going there, select your advanced vehicle factory and build 5 bulldogs. When these will be ready send them in enemy base to finish off the remains of his base. Now select your attacking units. They should be near or in sight of enemy territory. Your advantage in this situation is that the enemy won't see your attack coming because you have radar jammers. This will provide a great advantage, the element of surprise. The enemy won't be able to see you coming, meaning that he will not deploy his troops to that location. Now try to kill all defense. When you are done, hunt for the commander with your remaining forces. If you are successful destroying it, you should destroy half or more of his base. Now, send in the 5 bulldogs that should be near enough by now as I mentioned earlier. Finish off the remains of his base. Win the game and thank this strategy page for it.

Defense Based Strategies
Build a kbot lab. Make a construction kbot with it when it is finished. When your kbot has been built, select it and make sentinels and guardians around your base. Remember to leave enough space for you to build buildings and units and for them to move freely (units of course). Now comes the tricky part. While having a good defense, the enemy will make a good defense. This means that you can't just use any tactic to conquer your enemy. Be sure you built missile towers so that your enemy won't try to bomb your base. Now, to have a good offense you must take alot of things in consideration:

1. Does the enemy have good defense?
2. Is this defense situated in one place or is it rather good everywhere in his base?
3. Are his units placed everywhere around his base or is there a weak spot I can use?
4. Will I kill more people or lose more units if I attack to this specific place?
These must all be taken seriously into consideration. If at one question you answer, no, he doesn't have that. Then that is the place you should attack. So you should see if you will suffer alot of casualties at that place. If you tell yourself that you are only gonna lose casualties because the enemy has too much tanks and can kill you in a few hits because of shells, you should build faster units like fast assault tanks or flash tanks. You can also make some peewees if your prime objective is to kill commander first. If you want a more direct attack and kill the enemy tanks, your best unit would be artillery kbots. However, these units are slow, so if commanders comes to pay you a visit... Let's just say you won't get out of there with alot of kills and in one piece. Remember that always attacking to a same spot will cause a disadvantage for you. He will put up more defense there causing you alot of unnecessary casualties. On the other hand, attacking 2 or 3 times to a same location will cause him to divert all defense to that location. On that case what will be good for you is that you can attack from a point he isn't expecting you to attack from. That will create the element of surprise for you. That's how to have a great defense and also have a good offense.

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