Player Library: Step-by-step Guide to Early OwNage

From Guide

Basically when you start you have 500 metal, oil 5 energy and 200 workers. set yourself somewhere that backs onto a edge/inaccessible structure location like ice or water. here are the steps for easy OwNage at the start of an era, it has worked for me on 4 different worlds now.

Step 1) start of by building all of the Level 1 structures for oil, metal, energy.

step 2) build the training center.

Step 3) upgrade your resources to Lvl 3 in order of food/metal/oil/energy and upgrade military buildings by vehicles, workshops I and II for beam and explosive weapons. you can do workshop III if you want. Upgrade the last line of buildings which is your radar. also build UAV control so you can counter enemy defenses.

Step 4) find a colony not in protection that looks like your own and click on it, then click the "eye"

Step 5) click military scan and then click commence. a new event will pop up in the "events" tab in the top left corner, it should tell you the scan results for the colony. this trick can be used on your own colony if being attacked except you click on your own colony and pick "incoming scan".

CAUTION: all scans aren't 100% accurate. normal military scans show 50% - 75% of defending units. so you take precautions to double the scan results if any troops show up. then you will be prepared for any surprises. with an incoming scan, check how man squads are inbound to you. each squad has 10 units in it. so if a scan says 12 units and there is one squad there is obviously 10 units but if there are more squads the scan can sometimes be right but it is ALWAYS better to have extra.

Step 6) after a successful scan use the info in the military section of the guide here: http://guide.battledawn.com/index.php/Military_Unit_Types to best counter enemy defenses.

If you have conquered a colony, it should have a star on it in the top left corner of the colony.

Step 7) once you have conquered a colony, you will receive taxation from the conquered colony which can support construction troops and other things.

see this link for more details: [[http://guide.battledawn.com/index.php/Taxation%2C_Tribute_%26_Rebellion ]]

Step 8) 1 conquer won't give you an edge try to get 3 or 4 at the start and build your defenses up but make sure you have enough food to support you colony. when you conquer colonies your "power rating will rise and powerful players and alliances will want you on their side.

That's all you need to get started and if you get conquered, all of your conquered colonies will be liberated by your conqueror.

Good Luck with BD and remember: Don't get conquered, Find an alliance, Win the round.