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Microwave/Ore/Armor
This strategy gives you a large army of Microwave lynxes with advanced armor. The key researches in this strategy are:
- Heat Dissipation Systems - Upgrading
the damage of your Microwave weapon's.
- Smelter Postprocessing - Giving you
higher ore income from your common ore mines.
- Advanced Armouring Systems - Upgrading
the armor on Lynx battle units.
Using this research order you will only have microwaves until you have done all of the research in this strategy. You will not be able to attack an opponent if they have an army of EMP's and RPG's, if you do attack you will most likely come out worse off than them, and lose the game. However if they tech up slowly and don't have many EMP's or RPG's, or they just go for microwave's mainly by the time you are ready to attack you should be able to overpower them. The advantage of using this strategy is that you will have a lot of microwaves and advanced armor.
Building Order
| Order | Structure |
| 1st | University |
| 2nd | Vehicle Factory |
| 3rd | Advanced Lab |
| 4th | Common Ore Smelter |
| 5th | Common Ore Smelter |
| 6th | Tokamok |
| 7th | Vechicle Factory |
| 8th | Nursery |
| 9th | Robot Command Center |
| 10th | Agridome |
You should build all theses structures one after another except from the Agridome, you only need to build that once you are getting low on food in storage. If your attack succeeds you wont need the Agridome at all.
Research Order
| Order | Standard Lab | Advanced Lab |
| 1st | Metalogeny | |
| 2nd | Hypnopedia | |
| 3rd | Focused Microwave Projection | |
| 4th | Metals Reclamation | |
| 5th | Recycler Postprocessing | |
| 6th | Mobile Weapons Platform | |
| 7th | Dissipating Adhesives | High Temperature Superconductivity |
| 8th | Scout-class Drive Train Refit | Independent Turret Power Systems |
| 9th | Advanced Vehicle Power Plant | Heat Dissipation Systems |
| 10th | Rare Ore Processing | |
| 11th | Enhanced Defensive Fortifications | Smelter Postprocessing |
| 12th | Advanced Combat Chassis | |
| 13th | Advanced Armouring Systems |
When scientist training completes put the new scientists on the research (select the lab and click A and A to assign the new scientists to the research). You need to manage you scientists so that Enhanced Defensive Fortifications and Advanced Combat Chassis finish about the same time so you can get Advanced Armor without having to wait. Also idle your Structure Factory when it is not in use and put more scientist's on research.
Research List
| Number | Standard Lab | Advanced Lab |
| 1 | Metalogeny | Mobile Weapons Platform |
| 2 | Hypnopedia | High Temperature Superconductivity |
| 3 | Focused Microwave Projection | Independent Turret Power Systems |
| 4 | Metals Reclamation | Heat Dissipation Systems |
| 5 | Recycler Postprocessing | Rare Ore Processing |
| 6 | Dissipating Adhesives | Smelter Postprocessing |
| 7 | Scout-class Drive Train Refit | Advanced Combat Chassis |
| 8 | Advanced Vehicle Power Plant | Advanced Armouring Systems |
| 9 | Enhanced Defensive Fortifications |
Vehicle Building Order
Once your first Vehicle Factory is done build 2 Cargo Trucks, as each one is done move to towards your mine. You then save ore (2000) for the second Vehicle Factory, once this starts building at your Structure Factory and you have 800 ore you can get a 3rd Cargo Truck at your Vehicle Factory. You need to set 2 Cargo Trucks on each of your smelters. After the 3rd truck you should then wait for your Stickyfoam research (Dissipating Adhesives) to be complete, once done, build a Stickyfoam lynx. After that keep producing Microwave's and a few Stickyfoam's.
| Order | Vehicle |
| 1st | Cargo Truck |
| 2nd | Cargo Truck |
| 3rd | (Wait for 2nd VF to start at SF) Cargo Truck |
| 4th | Lynx/Stickyfoam |
| 5th | Lynx/Microwave |
| 6th | Lynx/Microwave |
| 7th | Lynx/Microwave |
| 8th | Lynx/Stickyfoam |
| 9th | Just
keep building Microwave's and extra Stickyfoam's if the ones youhave die. |
Justification
| Research | Justification | |||
| Metalogeny 1st | This improves ore yield so it means that
every truck load of ore you get has more ore in it. You get it first
so that your first truck load has more ore than normal. All loads
after will have more. |
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| Hypnopedia 2nd | This decreases the time scientists take to
train. This is 2nd important because you want to train yourscientist as fast as possible. |
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Focused Microwave Projection
3rd |
This is required to open up Weapons Platform research | |||
Metals Reclamation
4th |
At this stage you have time to use the
standard lab before the advanced lab is complete. You want to getbest ore income the fastest and this is required for that. |
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| Recycler Postprocessing 5th | Required to open up Smelter Postprocessing research which gives you best ore income. | |||
Mobile Weapons Platform
6th |
More important than power upgrade (High Temperature Superconductivity) because it opens up Dissipating Adhesives at standard lab. | |||
Dissipating Adhesives
& High Temperature Superconductivity 7th |
Stickyfoam lynx are required to stop early
attacks and to hold ground. High Temperature is needed because ofpower shortage. |
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Scout-class Drive Train Refit
& Independent Turret Power Systems 8th |
To move out with your units you will want
them to move faster. This also gives you more moveably of your
units. The advanced lab research is required to carry on with
the required research. |
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Advanced Vehicle Power Plant & Heat Dissipation Systems
9th |
You require the standard lab
research
to get Advanced Combat Chassis.
You should get the Microwave research now if you doing any combat
with your units, this will make sure your units are at full
strength. It us likely if your battling that your enemy is geting
this research also. |
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Rare Ore Processing
10th |
This is required research to progress. | |||
Enhanced Defensive Fortifications & Smelter Postprocessing
11th |
Make sure you have as many scientists on Smelter Postprocessing as this is most important.
Once this is done you can put more scientists on Enhanced Defensive Fortificationsand start Advanced Combat Chassis. |
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| Advanced Combat Chassis 12th | This and Enhanced Defensive Fortifications
need to finish around the same time so your are not waiting for one
of them to finish before you can move on. Manage your scientists
between the researches. |
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| Advanced Armouring Systems 13th | This is what you are waiting for before you can or should attack. |
| Buliding
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Justification | |||
University
1st |
This is first so that you can
train 10 scientists once it is complete. More scientists means youcan research faster. |
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Vehicle
Factory 2nd |
There is time to load this
before the advanced lab is done. Its important to get this fast sothat you can get more trucks before you start lynx production. |
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Advanced Lab
3rd |
Once you have done the 4 researches
in the Standard lab you need to start advanced research. To do thisyou need this build fast. |
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Common Ore Smelter
4th |
Next you need to get more income, to do this you add more smelters to your current mine. | |||
Common Ore Smelter
5th |
Once completed in the structure factory load this. | |||
Tokamok
6th |
After Smelters are loaded you can get your power. | |||
Vehicle
Factory 7th |
Now you have more income you can support more unit production. | |||
Nursery
8th |
Your important structures are now built so you now have the chance to get the colony/other structures. | |||
Robot Command Center
9th |
First chance to get this. All structures before are more important. |
| Vehicle | Justification | |||
Cargo
Truck 1st & 2nd |
You need more trucks for your new smelters. | |||
Cargo
Truck 3rd |
After
the first two trucks wait for your ore for 2nd VF, then get thistruck. |
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Lynx/Stickyfoam
4th |
Stickyfoam
more important than Microwave because you can take ground with it byholding back enemy units and stop them advancing. |
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Lynx/Microwave
5-7th |
Now you can start producing you army of Microwave's. | |||
Lynx/Stickyfoam
8th |
Another Stickyfoam is useful to make sure enemy cant break through. | |||
Lynx/Microwave
Onwards |
This strategy is about lots of units so get them. |
