Battle Tactics

Harvester Sacrifice:

It's very usefull when playing tech level 1 and for killing sonic tanks too. It consists of throwing one, or more harvesters ahead of your attacking groups to distract the enemy fire. You will lose your harvesters but your units will take less damage and probably most of them will suvive the confront. Works better in tech 1 where the units have lower attack power and the harvester can absorb more shoots.

To kill sonic tanks, drive or airlift harvesters between them to make them shoot each other. While they try to kill the harvesters, you strike them with tanks.

Refinary Block:

To block a refinary, you must stop a stealth rider right by the entrance of it. If the opponent doesn't find out soon, he will get short on money. Make sure there is no infantry near the refinary's entrance, or they will see your stealth unit.

To kill a stealth unit you can't see but you know it is there, select your units, hold down CTRL and click on the place you think the stealth unit is. This command is known as the forced fire.

Harvesters Block:

To block enemy harvesters, you must stop a stealth rider on the darker areas of the spice fields. These are preferencial harvesting areas and the harvesters always go for it. With only 1 stealth rider you can block a lot of harvesters and, when the opponent find out, it may be too late because he will be out of cash.

To kill stealth units blocking your harvesters use the forced fire on them.

Sonic Tank Extra Range:

The normal range of sonic tanks is 1 square shorter then missile tanks' range. However,  sonic tanks cause damage 2 squares beyond their range. If you use forced fire with sonic tanks (select sonic tank and press CTRL + click in the direction of the enemy units), you can harm even stopped missile tanks, from a long distance,  without being shot back.

Airlift Into Enemy Base:

If you capture one structure inside enemy base, or some how you can build inside it,, you will be able to airlift units into it. To do so, build one repair pad in the enemy territorry, select a group of units (not infantry) and send them to that repair pad. Your carrials will do the work for you.

To build inside enemy base:

1. Use engineer to capture enemy structure and build concrete there immediately.

2. Sneak inside the enemy base with one MCV (very hard to do it).

3. When the enemy takes a territory where you have been building before.

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