Typical game progression
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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
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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.
Expansion
Raider Usage
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.
Skirmishers
Air switch
Lategame
Eco
Heavies
Late-late game
In this phase you will see striders and some of the more exotic tools available to the player.
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