Fun/good unit designs

[ete]

Lets post good unit designs, or just those we enjoy using. Try to keep them interesting, and give a little explanation of their use.

I'll start us off.

Drop Tank Probe team.

Secondary ability could be grav struts or algorithmic enhancement. Used it on a stupidly huge map where it had been 250+ years and I had not reached the outer edges of my main foe, the drones. Orbital insertion into fungus some way from a base (Xenoempathy Dome required, or you are at great risk of being killed before you get to a base since drop probes lose lose their move when being air dropped), then run up to a base for tech steal or mind control. Probably comes a bit late to be much use in multiplayer, but could help assure a win on a big enough map, forcing them to invest in many more probes for odd bases to fend you off. And great for messing with the computer.

 

[Petek]

NeedleJet or Chopper Colony Pods. On extremely large maps. After I get drop pods (but before orbital insertion) I can use these to build a string of bases eight tiles apart stretching from my bases to whichever faction I want to conquer. I then use the bases to ferry choppers (to kill enemy base defenders) and drop garrisons (to capture and occupy the bases), plus drop probes for probe defense in case I don't have the HSA. Takes some time to set up, but very effective once it gets going.

 

[vyeh]

Personally, I like land transports. A hovercraft chassis and maximum armor carrying a maximum weapon infantry can be very potent for base assaults.

I also like a land transport on an infantry chassis in a seabase that is adjacent to land. It permits land units to enter and exit the seabase without amphibious ability.

 

[Kilkakon]

I think that Soporific Gas Pods is a good idea for any PSI unit!

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Clean Super Formers

boring but incredibly useful.

 

[sendos]

Wave blink choppers - well, that's an obvious one. Bypass defences, annihilate everyone with little resistance. At least have blink.

Clean AAA battleships - Mass producing ships without concern for mineral costs. Defence against air units is paramount.

Grav blink hovertanks - Fast and deadly! No need to worry about terrain slowing you down.

Resonance gun hovertank + trance + empath + resonance 3 armour (+ neural amplifier + Dream Twister + ). Highly useful near the end of the game fungus blooms out of control with about 10 native lifeform units in each fungus square bloom.

 

[StJude1]

Gravship Formers (Super,Fungicide) and gravship colony pods (Nanocells, Radar), although they won't form sea colonies for some reason. Granted it's pretty late in the game, but I really enjoy the late game. Especially on huge Planets, where the range of the above units really helps.

 

[G Viceroy]

Drop formers. Good for building an airbase between continents. Fairly situational, but still helpful.