The Advanced Aircraft Plant is a factory capable of producing Tech 2 aircraft units and can only be built on land.

The Advanced Bot Lab is a factory capable of producing Tech 2 bot units and can only be built on land.

Advanced Construction Aircraft is a unit that opens you the window to most of the T2 economy and defensive structures. In most situations when you get one, start from updating your metal extractors, geothermal powerplants and then make fusion reactors and advanced metal makers. It has a higher buildpower than its T1 version and boosts your metal and energy storage by 50. As an air constructor it has the advantage of being able to quickly access all spots on the map. Use it in packs for faster expansion in remote areas. It has a lower buildpower than land constructors.

The Advanced Construction Bot can build Tech 2 structures and opens the door to an advanced economy.

Start by building Advanced Metal Extractors and a Fusion Reactor.

It's quite slow and weak, so try to escort it with a few defensive units. Each Tech 2 constructor also increases the player's energy and metal storage capacity by 100.

Advanced Construction Sub is the T2 sea constructor. Their typical first tasks are upgrading your metal extractors, building fusion reactors and then advanced metal makers.

They have a higher build power than the T1 Construction Ship and grant a small boost to both your metal and energy storage. Guard them with other constructors or naval engineers to assist with building.

In addition to T2 economy structures, they are able to build advanced torpedo launchers and the underwater experimental gantry.

The Advanced Energy Converter converts energy into metal. Converts 600 energy into 10.3  metal per second.

Build in smaller groups to prevent explosive chain reactions if destroyed.

Later in the game, you may have excess energy that’s going to waste. So consider building multiple converters to produce more metal.

When attacking an enemy base, aim for their converts to set off an explosive chain reaction and cause damage to other nearby structures.

The Advanced Exploiter is similar to the Avanced Metal Extractor, except it's armed with dual lasers and a missile launcher.

Useful for extracting metal from potentially dangerous areas such as the frontline.

Metal extractors are primary targets, and if destroyed, they can stall an opponent's construction and give you the upper hand.

The Advanced Fusion Reactor produces energy using heat from nuclear fusion reactions. Energy production is a constant +3000.

Build them later on to power your most powerful weapons.

Defend it very well, as it is one of the most favored targets for enemy bombers. When destroyed it causes a very large explosion that will likely kill other units nearby.

The Advanced Geothermal Powerplant produces energy using steam. Geothermal energy production is a constant +1250, however, it can only be built on top of steam vents on each map.

Seize control of nearby steam vents to take advantage of reliable energy.

They’re more costly than Wind Turbines and Solar Collectors, but provide a good energy bonus when completed.

The Advanced Metal Extractor extracts more metal from metal spots on each map. Start building them on your most protected metal spots first.

Build them when you’re ready to upgrade to Tech Level 2.

Metal extractors are primary targets, and if destroyed, they can stall an opponent's construction and give you the upper hand.

The Advanced Radar Tower provides early warning of enemy units and their movements on the battlefield. It’s also cheap and quick to build.

Use it to monitor nearby units and watch for air attacks.

Radar coverage is blocked by high terrain, and can be jammed by units with radar jammers, or evaded by cloaked units.

The Advanced Shipyard is a factory capable of producing Tech 2 naval units and can only be built on the water.

The Advanced Solar Collector produces energy using the sun. Solar energy production is a constant +75 and is essential when wind speeds are low.

Can be used for backup energy when the wind is weak.

They’re more costly than Wind Turbines and Solar Collectors, however, they provide a safe and stable source of energy.

The Advanced Sonar Station is similar to the Advanced Radar Tower, except it detects sea units instead of land or air units.

Great for detecting sneaky submarines and submerged commanders.

It’s basically an upgraded Sonar Station with about four times as much range.

The Advanced Vehicle Plant is a factory capable of producing Tech 2 vehicle units and can only be built on land.

The Aggravator is a light rocket bot that's commonly used for pushing enemy defenses.

Support them with fast units like Grunts and some Graverobbers.

Thanks to its range the rocket bot can out range a Sentry and force enemy commanders to retreat. It's slower than the Rocketer, but also has more health.

The Agitator is a medium-range plasma artillery with a large area of effect (AoE).

Build it once you have your front line established to push back your enemy.

It has a low and high trajectory mode, which you can use to target units/structures directly in front of you or to target units behind obstacles.

The Air Repair Pad automatically repairs any friendly aircraft that lands on it.

Use it to repair your air units after an attack.

You can order aircraft to land on the Air Repair Pad manually or automatically when they hit a certain level of health.

The Aircraft Plant is a factory capable of producing Tech 1 aircraft units and can only be built on land.

Alligator is a medium amphibious tank. Equipped with a decent amount of hitpoints and a good plasma weapon it is the best amphibious unit cost-to-cost. Use it as the main part of your amphibious infantry. Combine with Poison Arrow and amphibious AA like Trashers to get a powerful and self-sufficient strike force.

The Amphibious Complex is a factory capable of producing amphibious units and can only be built underwater.

Angler is a torpedo bomber. It has no weapon to fight against land units. However it is able to deal massive damage to any ship/submarine/amphibious unit. Torpedoes need a long open path to drop and accelerate in water. Therefore don’t try to drop them flying from the side of the shore line as they will just get stuck in sand.

Torpedo Bombers are able to attack underwater units without support since they are equipped with sonar and increased sight range.

The Apocalypse is a nuclear missile launcher and is useful for turning enemy bases and whole armies into ashes.

Use Catalysts or Spectres to temporarily disable anti-nukes and strike uncovered areas.

Nukes can be countered by anti-nukes, but can still overwhelm them in large numbers.

The Arbiter is a long-range heavy rocket bot that fires its missiles straight up to hit enemy units from a high angle.

Use them to destroy enemy defenses from far away and to break their front line.

It doesn't have much health, but it can easily target structures and units behind walls or high cliffs.

Arrow Storm is an anti-air ship. Wielding a mighty flak cannon and light missile launcher the Arrow Storm is capable of obliterating entire waves of enemy aircraft. Light aircraft disintegrate like confetti and even heavier aircraft fall from the sky under the hail of fire from the Arrow Storm.

Include at least one of these in their fleets to help destroy the enemy even when in the skies.

The Augur is a mobile radar bot that gives you intel on enemy units within its range.

Keep it behind your army so it doesn't get taken out.

It doesn’t have any weapons and has rather low health, but having intel on your enemies whereabouts is crucial.

Banisher Is a heavy missile tank. It is equipped with a homing rocket launcher that has a pretty big range. Its missiles deal very high damage and can take down T1 units with a single shot. Its homing missiles are very efficient even against quick and mobile targets. However, they take quite some time to reload (7.5 seconds). Therefore,  they are not really designed for close-quarters combat.

Always keep them covered with other infantry units.

The Basilica is a long-range plasma cannon that can shoot targets across the map.

Build them to take out enemy structures from far away.

It becomes a priority target when built, so make sure you keep it safe. It can also be countered by Overseers, but at a high energy cost to your enemy.

The Bat is a fighter seaplane, capable of air–to–air combat. It can also submerge underwater, which is useful for escaping enemy fighters and ambushing units like the Tsunami.

Use them to protect Seaplane Bombers or your naval units from enemy aircraft.

It is fast than its ARMADA counterpart, the Cyclone, but also has less health.

The Bedbug is a crawling bomb designed for one purpose — to go kamikaze on enemy units and structures.

When used in a swarm spread them out to avoid a chain reaction.

It has a large area of effect when it explodes, which is even bigger when you self-destruct it. Thanks to their amphibious attribute they're also great for attacking and regaining sea territory.

The Behemoth is an experimental mobile heavy canon equipped with three beam lasers and a powerful disintegrator gun (DGun).

Use it to tank every shot the enemy can fire at you.

It's extremely slow but packs one hell of a punch, and has the most health out of any unit in the game.

The Beholder is a small cloaked perimeter camera. Your opponents can’t detect it while it’s cloaked, and it can provide a good line of sight for undefended areas.

Spies can be detected by the perimeter camera.

When defending your front line, place a few cameras to prevent any clocked units from getting through.

The Birdeater is a mobile anti-air hovercraft that's perfect for taking out light aircraft over the sea and land. It uses tracking missiles rather than flak, so it’s more accurate.

Combine it with other units to provide some needed air defense.

It even has built-in low-range sonar!

The Birdshot is a short-range anti-air flak gun that deals high damage with a large area of effect (AoE).

Build them around strategic points and on your front line.

It can shatter most aircraft within its range.

Black Hydra is the CORTEX flagship. They are the most powerful ships and arguably the most powerful units available. They combine awesome fire power with exceedingly long range. Construct one of these and watch as your enemy fleet pales into insignificance.

They are equipped with two plasma cannon turrets, laser turrets and even a small anti-air missile launcher. Their main cannon range exceeds even that of the missile cruisers and possess such might that plasma shields will provide only a temporary respite from the shells.

While the cannons obliterate targets from afar the lasers give the Black Hydra incredible lethality at shorter ranges too. Owing to the range and mobility a Black Hydra is able to destroy any T3 unit they clash with, as long as it doesn't get too close.

They achieve maximum damage when oriented to their targets from the broadside, so they are able to shoot all cannons and lasers at once.

While they are also equipped with medium anti-air missile launchers they are still vulnerable to heavier aircraft and possess no anti-submarine weaponry so never leave them bereft of an escort.

The Bot Lab is a factory capable of producing Tech 1 bot units and can only be built on the land.

The Brute is a medium assault tank. It has a relatively high HP so it should always be kept in the first line to sink in all damage. Useful for taking down light defenses with its sheer force. If not micro-ed well, Brutes can be easily D-Gunned, so try to keep enemy Commanders at a distance.

Combine with Lashers (rocket vehicle) or Wolverines (artillery) for a great front-line push or use large packs for raiding enemy bases.

Don't forget to bring some constructors with your assault for repairing and reclaiming wrecks.

Buccaneer is a medium assault cruiser. Positioned as an upgraded version of Destroyers and a frequent part of any T2 naval group. Wielding a medium-range plasma cannon, a pair of light laser turrets and a depth charge launcher the cruiser is a flexible vessel. They are the fastest T2 ship and useful for rushing your opponent in the initial T2 naval warfare phase. They can easily take out any T1 units while also offering protection against both hovercraft and submarines.

The Bulwark is a multi-weapon tower that packs three types of laser turrets that can aim and shoot independently.

Great at dealing with unit swarms.

It can take out most units, including Tech 3 units with enough hits, and is high enough to shoot over other defensive structures.

The Calamity is a rapid-fire long-range plasma cannon and is the ultimate weapon of mass-destruction.

It’s a primary target once built, so be ready to defend it.

It takes a lot of resources to build, but when it’s ready you’re almost guaranteed to win the match.

The Castro is a short-range radar jammer. Useful for confusing enemy targeting systems and covering nearby units.

Use them to hide your real units until they’re actually seen.

Radar jammers show several signatures on your enemy’s radar and make it hard to determine where and how many units are in the area.

The Catalyst is a tactical missile launcher that obliterates most units within its blast radius.

If you self-destruct it as a last resort, the explosion is almost as powerful as a nuclear missile.

They’re great for rendering enemy defenses useless before an assault, and for destroying advancing units while you build a quick reaction force to combat them.

The Cataphract is an experimental hovertank. Equipped with a powerful laser and significant armor.

Although it’s not very fast, the ability to hover makes it useful for attacking from the sea.

It’s not as strong as other experimental units or higher-tier ships, but can definitely hold its own in battle and is able to cross and skirmish from the water.

The Catapult is an experimental heavy rocket bot that fires a barrage of unguided heavy missiles.

Use it to rain hellfire down on your enemy.

It is extremely effective against grouped units and can clear out defensive structures.

The Cayman is a light hovercraft with a plasma cannon. It can travel over land and sea fairly well, and can even be used to reinforce a naval force.

Tanks don't fair well against bombers, even hovertanks, so bring some anti-air.

It’s has more health than its ARMADA counterpart, the Crocodile, but also costs more to build.

The Cerberus is Geothermal Powerplant that produces 450 energy using steam. The difference to the standard Geothermal Powerplant is that it has a long-range plasma cannon mounted on top.

Seize control of nearby steam vents to take advantage of reliable energy.

It can only be built on top of steam vents on each map. They’re more costly than Wind Turbines and Solar Collectors, but provide a good energy bonus when completed.

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The Decoy Commander is a fake version of your actual Cortex Commander and can build basic Tech 1 structures, including mines.

Use it to fool your enemy and for extra build power on the front line.

It serves the function of confusing your opponent and it's good so the enemy will target the fake one.

The Commando is a paratrooper bot equipped with a laser cannon and can survive falling out of a shot-down air transport.

Drop them into unprotected bases and tear them down using Medium Mines and Dragon's Maws.

It has a personal radar and radar jammer, and can build a few basic units/defenses.

Condor is a radar and sonar plane that can locate land and underwater units. It has decent radar range and speed so it's the best unit you can use for scouting. Put a few in your fighterwall to have a permanent overview of the front, even when you lose the radars on land. Always send 1 or 2 with your bombing runs to locate targets for your strikeforce.

When hunting for a commander, the radar plane can locate it even if it’s cloaked. Its sonar ability can also be used to detect submarines and amphibious units.

A Construction Aircraft is able to build basic T1 structures like the ones made by the Commander. Moreover it can build some more advanced land and air defense towers, advanced solar generators and most importantly the T2 Aircraft Plant. Due to their speed, the highest amongst constructors, it may be used for quick expansions and reclaiming in areas far from your base. It can also access the whole map, as it doesn't care about any natural obstacles. It has a very low HP, so keep away from enemy's anti air units. Due to little build power you may want to use multiple air cons at once.

Each Construction Aircraft increases the player's energy and metal storage capacity by 25.

The Construction Bot can build basic Tech 1 structures and is the cheapest construction unit.

Use multiple on a single structure to increase build power.

It's quite slow and weak, so try to escort it with a few Grunts when expanding. Each constructor also increases the player's energy and metal storage capacity by 50.

The Construction Hovercraft can build basic Tech 1 structures, like other constructors, but can also build additional naval structures.

Use multiple on a single structure to increase build power.

It has more build power than the T1 Construction Bot and T1 Construction Vehicle. Each constructor also increases the player's energy and metal storage capacity by 50.

The Construction Seaplane can build basic Tech 1 structures, like other constructors, but can also build additional naval structures. It’s great for repairing ships on the front line thanks to its speed.

Use multiple on a single structure to increase build power.

It’s similar to the T1 Construction Aircraft in that it can traverse both land and sea, however, it can also land on and submerge underwater. Each constructor also increases the player's energy and metal storage capacity by 50.

The Construction Ship is a good builder in terms of build power and speed. Even a single one of these assisting the lab almost doubles its output of units provided that you have the resources. On top of Commander’s build list they're able to produce more advanced T1 defences like the Floating Heavy Laser Turret and give access to T2 Shipyard. It adds 50 to your metal and energy storage capability

Use them for assisting the lab and quickly expanding, claiming the metal spots with underwater metal extractors.

The Construction Turret can assist and repair nearby units, and it has more build power than any other unit, excluding the Commander.

Use multiple on a single factory to increase build power.

You can also move Construction Turrets to other locations using a Hercules or Skyhook.

A construction vehicle is able to build basic T1 structures like the ones made by the Commander. Moreover it can build some more advanced land and air defense towers, advanced solar generators and most importantly the T2 Vehicle Lab. It is slightly faster and stronger than the Bot constructor, but it can not climb stepper hills, so it is effective only in expansion on relatively flat terrain.

Each Construction vehicle increases the player's energy and metal storage capacity by 50.

It is wise to use pairs of cons for expansion, so they can heal each other and build defensive structures faster. This makes them immune to light assault units like Fleas / Rover.

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The Coral is a floating heavy laser tower that can be built on water.

Build it to defend your naval base against hovercraft and light naval units.

Despite its long-range and heavy damage, it is hopeless when built alone. So remember to pair it with other defensive structures.

The Cortex Commander is the most versatile and important unit in your army. It's what you'll use to start your initial base and to build your first unit factory.

Use it to build and defend your front line when you expand.

It can produce both metal and energy, it's amphibious, equipped with a laser and powerful disintegrator gun (D-Gun), and can build Tech 1 structures.

The Cutlass is a light seaplane gunship with dual cannons.

Use in a group for fast surprise attacks on unsuspecting ships and naval bases.

It can attack both land and sea units, however, it is vulnerable to naval anti-air.

The Dam Buster is a seaplane bomber with a payload of 12 bombs. It’s designed to hit slow-moving ships and static naval structures, and execute unanticipated bombing runs on land bases.

Target grouped units to benefit from the area of effect damage.

Always scout first to identify your targets and local anti-air, and send fighters ahead of your bombers to break through the enemy’s fighter air-wall. Remember to combine them with sonar planes to target underwater units.

Death Cavalry is a stealthy resurrection submarine. They are not visible to units on the surface if your enemy doesn’t have sonar nearby. Use them as support to provide repairs, reclaiming and resurrecting wrecks. They are relatively cheap and provide essential support to your navy maneuvers, don't forget to mix them in your fleet. Don't forget however the high energy cost of building and using them.

Resurrecting requires 50% of unit's energy cost.

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The Deceiver is a mobile radar jamming bot that keeps units within its jamming range from appearing on the minimap.

Use it with cloakable units to make them totally invisible and undetectable.

It is best used to mount a surprise attack and to hide your units or structures from long-range weapons. Beware units can still be detected if the enemy has a intrusion countermeasure system.

Despot is a heavy battleship. They are equipped with a powerful long-range plasma cannon and heavy laser. They are masters of ship to ship warfare; sinking enemy ships with ease and even taking the fight to land based targets.

While their heavy armor makes them a difficult target to take down for most foes, Battle submarines are the natural enemy of the Despot as it cannot target the underwater vessel and will take significant damage from it.

The Devastator is a floating plasma and beam laser turret platform that can be built on the water.

Useful for defending naval bases against light to medium naval units.

Its extended weaponry makes it a formidable defensive structure.

Dragon a.k.a. The flying fortress it the heaviest and most dreadful of all aircrafts.

It can withstand incredible amounts of damage, making it virtually impossible to destroy without fighters or heavy AA like Mercuries or Screamers. It flies slowly, but leaves not a single living thing behind. With three independent heavy laser turrets it can obliterate whole armies of light units and deal significant damage even to T3 Mechs. Considered an endgame unit due to its super high cost.

Most often used for defending from ground units. In special cases, when your opponent has tons of ground AA, and you can’t get through with your bombers, Dragons make a good choice for a striking unit.

The Dragon’s Maw is a  flamethrower turret disguised as a fortification wall, that will pop up and fry units within its range.

Build alongside Dragon’s Teeth to surprise unsuspecting units.

It is great against unit swarms.

The Dragon’s Teeth are basic defensive walls that block most Tech 1 units and low-altitude projectiles.

Use them to funnel enemies into a choke point or to block a path.

They can also be used to help protect your laser towers and will take quite a beating before they break.

The Duck is a very fast amphibious bot equipped with a short-range laser and a light torpedo launcher.

Useful for raiding unprotected naval structures and sneaking into enemy territory from the sea.

It's also a good way to allocate a quick moving amphibious torpedo unit to aid your naval units.

The Energy Converter converts energy into metal, and can be built by the Commander or other construction units.

Build in smaller groups to prevent explosive chain reactions if destroyed.

Later in the game, you may have excess energy that’s going to waste. So consider building multiple converters to produce more metal. Converts 70 energy into 1 metal per second.

When attacking an enemy base, aim for their converts to set off an explosive chain reaction and cause damage to other nearby structures.

The Energy Storage increases your energy storage capacity by 6000.

Great for powering weapons that consume large amounts of energy.

It's also useful for storing excess energy for later use, and to reduce energy stalls when wind speed is low or if you lose your generators.

The Eradicator is a bomb-resistant anti-air missile battery that can take down most aircraft.

Build them around your base to defend it from enemy aircraft.

It’s more expensive than the Thistle and SAM, but also has the most health, range, and damage.

The Experimental Gantry is a factory capable of producing powerful experimental units.

The Experimental Gantry is a factory capable of producing powerful experimental units.

The Exploiter is similar to the Metal Extractor, except it's armed with dual lasers.

Useful for extracting metal from potentially dangerous areas such as the frontline.

The amount of metal you can extract per second is shown on each metal spot and ranges from 1.0 to 3.0.

The Fiend is a fast raider bot that's equipped with a short-range flamethrower.

Useful for raiding unprotected bases and pushing slow units.

It is one of the most effective and unpredictable units when properly controlled, however, its light armor makes it vulnerable to defensive structures.

Finch is a cheap and fast-moving air scout, that is not armed with any weapons, but a huge line of sight. It is used to gain intelligence on what your enemy is planning, and where he keeps his most important units. Information is the most valuable asset on the battlefield, knowing your opponent's plans you can prepare your counter strikes early, making his moves inefficient. In late-game a constant stream of scouts helps your artillery units, improving their aim. They can also be used as a cheap distraction swarm that takes the fire from anti-air during bombing runs.