Early game military

[loosewheel]

I'm always getting my butt kicked early in the game. If you want a strong military early on, what tech's should you research first?

 

[vyeh]

You want to get to Nonlinear Mathematics, which has two level 1 prerequisites. This gives you weapon 4. You would also want to go for Doctrine: Mobility, which is a level 1 tech. Finally, Industrial Base, a level 1 tech, gives you Synth Armor, which is armor 2. For armor 3, you would need High Energy Chemistry.

 

[loosewheel]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

 

[civac]

Planetary Networks is also an important early military tech. Getting the enemies datalinks is ernormously useful wheen fighting a war. Also you can reverse engineer the standard probe team to get rovers without Doctrine: Mobility (if you are willing to sink that far ).