Typical game progression

This is a guide explaining how a typical game progresses, after a typical opening. The game can be thought of as being organically split up into a few phases, each with a characteristic set of units and goals.

• Note that these are general scenarios - depending on the map and factory match-up the game can play very differently!
• From a 1v1 perspective

Raider phase

The raider phase is the first phase in a typical game. It is defined by a few characteristics:

• Most of the map is untaken by either player.
• No defenses covering most areas.

Due to this, the mobility that raiders have tends to make them the dominant unit class.

Why not other unit classes?

Riots

It may seem intuitive to make riot units in this phase of the game. They are good against raiders aren't they?

Any other class

Skirmishers, artillery, assaults - all of these do very badly against raiders, so are not worth building at this point.

Midgame phase

In this phase, strategic diversity opens up significantly. Players typically transition out of raiders into some of the following.

Late-late game

In this phase you will see striders and some of the more exotic tools available to the player.