Military Unit Types

Infantry

Cheap and easy to build, are very easily killed but can be effective in large numbers. Soldiers deal 25% bonus damage to vehicles with all weapons and do regular damage to other infantry & tanks.

Mobility is a soldiers only advantage on the modern battlefield and recruits are intensively trained to exploit that to the fullest.

Vehicles

A balanced choice between price and damage, vehicles are the best value for money as far as production costs. They deal 25% bonus damage to tanks with all weapons and deals regular damage to infantry and other vehicles.

The vehicle type covers a broad range of land based military craft. From modified pickup trucks to buggys and armored monsters that could almost be called tanks.

Generally however Vehicles are fast and nimble, able to cover ground quickly and strike at the enemy where it hurts the most. This prevents them from carrying the heavier beam weapons with their bulky power units and limits the ammunition that can be carried for missile systems.

On the other hand concussion or ballistic weapons have been refined over the decades to pack a considerable amount of damage into a relatively lightweight package.

A vehicle's light armor provides adequate protection from small arms fire while their high speed makes them extremely difficult targets for rocket systems.

Vehicles need to make up most of your army, but DO NOT turn your whole army into vehicles, then even infantry with beam weapons can break your entire army.

[50% damage taken from concussive weaponry, 25% damage taken from explosive weaponry]

Armored Vehicles

Very expensive to build, tanks (Or "Mechs", in Mars) have the best armor and firepower. They deal normal damage with all weapons to all Unit types.

Armored vehicles trade high speed for protection and raw firepower. They carry the heaviest available mobile weapons systems, including long range self-propelled howitzers, incendiary weapons, the latest in guided missile technology and twin vulcan cannons into battle, not to mention the highly destructive beam cannons which are still a relatively new technology and tend to be large and cumbersome.

As a word of advice, the mistake most every player makes is to try to fill their army with tanks. Vehicles loaded with damage-enhanced explosive weaponry will tear tanks to pieces.

Heavy electronic shielding helps to reduce damage from beam weapons while thick armor makes them immune to most concussive armaments.

[50% damage taken from Beam weapons, 25% damage taken from concussive weapons]

Concussive Damage

Traditional ballistic weapons that use a variety of methods to propel a solid bullet at high speeds.

Beam Damage

Relatively new technology developed during the last world war that ended in a nuclear holocaust. Covers a broad range of directed energy weapons that typically induce extremes of heat that can slag armor and machinery, and/or massive electric charges and EM fields which play havoc with even heavily shielded electronics.

Explosive Damage

Includes all types of missile systems and high explosive cannon shells.

Armour

Units carry extra armor giving it 33% more health points then others. This means they can take more damage and survive longer. (+1 HP for soldiers, +2 HP for vehicles, +3 HP for tanks)

E1,E6 and M3: These units have more armor than any other sort of upgrade: 8 for infantry, 16 for vehicles and 24 for tanks/mechs.

But this same sdvantage has it's drawbacks. Enemies can tell when you are wearing extra armor, and they will tend to attack you first. Actually, they are told to attack you first.

Damage

These sort of unit has more powerful weapons, and as a consequence deals 50% more damage.

In E1, E6 and M3: The damage is triplicated, they strike before, but they have 25% less hit points than their armor-upgraded equivalent.

Range

These units have developed weapons to strike from farther: they fire two rounds before armor-upgraded units, and one round before damage-upgraded units.

E1, E6 and M3: