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I com expand (Thus battle com) and send my first con back to base to assist, which is often my second unit after a scout (rather than making a full raiding party or anything before con). Shadowfury talks about it as the '20 metal hump', when your initial BP from your comm and factory isn't enough to spend your resources. This is why (Other than it just being a solid strat) a lot of players chose to stop their coms in the middle of the map and set up a nest: It's spending their buildpower, and potentially setting up a second fac there, which they can't do if they're walking.
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I com expand (Thus battle com) and send my first con back to base to assist, which is often my second unit after a scout (rather than making a full raiding party or anything before con). Shadowfury talks about it as the '20 metal hump', when your initial BP from your comm and factory isn't enough to spend your resources. This is why (Other than it just being a solid strat) a lot of players chose to stop their coms in the middle of the map and set up a nest: It's spending their buildpower, and potentially setting up a second fac there, which they can't do if they're walking.
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Of course I'm kind of notoriously useless at the 20 metal hump and excess like a MOFO and end up morphing my comm to suck up the excess which is rarely good. If you find yourself doing this, nanolathes on your comm help (if you ever panic and have to morph your comm because you're excessing, you're morphing it into extra BP which will let you get your eco under control). And I mean, I'm an advocate of the '1 con 5 units repeat' thing, and I use fight orders from my factory so they all assist by default, and I still excess.
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Of course I'm kind of notoriously useless at the 20 metal hump and excess like a MOFO and end up morphing my comm to suck up the excess which is rarely good. If you find yourself doing this, nanolathes on your comm help (if you ever panic and have to morph your comm because you're excessing, you're morphing it into extra BP which will let you get your eco under control). And I mean, I'm an advocate of the '1 con 5 units repeat' thing, and I use fight orders from my factory so they all assist by default, and I still excess.
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But yeah there is no one strategy. A lot of it is just being familiar enough with the way you play that you're always spending your metal and rarely losing your units and making fewer mistakes.
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Seeking Advice on Early Game Pitfalls