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Quick boat rover design, the world islands are very spread out so this rover could either be something like the transport probe or a separate all purpose rover.

So I have finally determined to finish the game Colony Wars and get it v1.0.0 released to all platforms in the near future. It's pretty much my #1 project at the current time and is going to be my top priority until it is finished.

I am currently developing Colony Wars as v0.5.0 Beta, which you can access from the web browser here, to check on current progress:
https://www.apewebapps.com/colony-wars/beta/

This version will be in development for some time, and will be changing on a daily basis, so check back often to see what is new and to help test. When this version is done, it will be released to the Ape Apps Launcher and to Android for final public testing and error logging. After a couple of weeks of that, a final v1.0.0 build will be polished and it will go live to all platforms, including Android, Kindle Fire, Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam, and iOS.

While this final development push is under way, I will be posting to this thread all of the more significant changes and additions I have made to the game compared to the currently live v0.4.0 release, so you can check up on the progress of the game.

Stay keep a lookout here and stay tuned for more, because Colony Wars is about to go through a lot of changes!

vikings did not make any resources Vikings were the pirates of there time more or less they spent most of there time attacking coastal villages and taking what they wanted .
the only real skill they had was boat building .
( kind of hard to be a pirate without a good boat lol .
I know alot my people being Irish and at the time Barbarians as well traded with them and some of us got our red hair from them .
Chinese could be added as they may be even older then Rome they lasted till ( well they never really totally fell .
but egyption wile it would be cool just would not fit and adding random city states would be silly

For military units, I do have some suggestions.....
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Infantry
The class of unit that forms the backbone of every military forces.

Security Forces
The most basic component for colony self-defense.

Infantry
Standard infantry with improved offensive capabilities.

Mechanized Infantry
Infantries with support of armored vehicles enhancing their strategic mobility and offensive firepower.

Heavy Infantry
Infantries equipped with heavy weapons for a more defensive approach.

Airmobile Infantry
By harnessing airborne advantage using helicopters and VTOL vehicles, it is easily the best type of assault troops.

Vehicle
The crucial component for offensive. Often has higher mobility and firepower than infantries.

Armored Car/Recon Rover
It's a quite affordable option for establishing a mechanized force, although not the most efficient.

Tank
The badass armored fighting vehicles.

MBT (Main Battle Tank)
In case diplomacy fails, bring in the 125mm caliber "liberty delivery"!

Indirect Fire Units (Artillery)
Fire support units crucial for some hard-hitting firepower.

Motorized Artillery
Simple mortars or rocket launchers mounted onto a truck, or a half-track.

Heavy Artillery
Improved artillery for bombardment of longer range.

Theatre Defense System
Artillery specially designed for obliterating aerospace units.

Ballistic Missile
One-off long range firepower that are effective against all types of units (including aerospace units).

Tactical Nuke
Nuclear launch detected

Aerospace Units
Theater defense systems can destroy aerospace units easily, but aerospace units has the advantage of operations generally not restricted by terrain.

Orbital Strike Satellite
Global defense initiated

Shuttle
Aerospace transport.

Aerospace fighter
Aerospace unit primarily for defending airspace. Can attack non-aerospace units if needed.

Naval Units
This one can be quite situational, depending on whether there is a sea on the map.

Patrol Boat
Lightly armored and lightly armed naval melee unit.

Gunboat
Patrol boat with a bigger gun capable of indirect fire.

Destroyer
Backbone for a formal navy.

Battlecruiser
Large battle vessel with powerful long range weapons.

Submarine
Ship-sinking specialist.

TDS Cruiser
Naval version of theater defense system.

Lander
Self explanatory. A naval transport.

Corvette

A reliable warship for budding colonies to build up their naval power.
Gunboat

A cutting edge boat with guns.
Patrol Boat

Spy on your citizens— wait, no, enemies, and shoot them with torpedoes.

What could possibly go wrong?

Happy Friday to everyone here, and it's time for another My Colony patch, v0.82.0! This update continues the bug fix series that I have been doing while I work on Colony Wars, but I've also added a couple of features that you will hopefully find helpful. Let's dive in and take a look.

Firstly on the bug fix front, every issue that had been tracked to the automatic bug tracker from both My Colony v0.81.0 and Antiquitas v1.22.0 has been resolved, along with a few other issues that I noticed while digging through the code.

One of the biggest issues in My Colony deals with corrupt save files. While working on this update, I noticed that ever since I implemented Regions way back in September, the game was no longer saving backup copies properly for single city maps or region overview maps. This means that besides for sub-city files, no backup saves (the *.mcb files) were being done properly.

For those who are not aware, when you save a game in My Colony, it creates the compressed (if compression is turned on) *.mcz save (that also syncs to the cloud if you have cloud sync turned on), and also an uncompressed *.mcb file that saves only to the local device. When you go to load your colony, it first tries to load the *.mcz cloud save, then the *.mcz local save, and if those do not work, it tries for the uncompressed *.mcb backup save.

What was happening in the code is that first it was saving the uncompressed backup save as a *.mcz file, and then saving over it with the final compressed *.mcz file. So there was no backup. This means if that there was an error in the compression for some reason, there was no uncompressed backup to fall back on.

It also means that if there is an old backup *.mcb file saved somewhere on your device from before the error occurred, opening a file could potentially restore that old backup and override everything you had done in the meantime.

I also noticed that a majority of the save corruptions seemed to be happening on Windows 10, Android, and Desktop. These also happen to be the three platforms where save compression was turned off by default. I had it turned off because compression can cause memory issues when saving cities that have been expanded multiple times and have millions of citizens. Since I am more moving towards Regions being the default play mode though, I decided to turn the compression on by default on all platforms to see if it helps. You can still turn it off on a per-colony basis if you want to.

Next up, I made it so that importing and exporting goods through the Mass Driver/Star Gate (etc) type buildings no longer has to be done in fixed lot sizes. Now when you go to make a trade using these buildings, you will be presented with a slider dialog that lets you make trades up to the max that the structure supports.

I still need to make improvements to the dialog, but it should make some of the buildings with the ultra-large capacities a little more useful.

Next, I have also made changes to the in-game notifications and especially that chat, which should hopefully make them more useful. First, if you are using the "Desktop" style interface (the one with all of the build options appearing in the right-side sidebar), in-game notifications will now show up in a notification area at the bottom right of the screen, instead of popping up in the bottom middle. When you have notifications there, there will be a new red x icon in the bottom right corner that lets you clear all notification messages at once.

The other change is that all chat messages now show up in the notification area. This only works when you are signed in to the chat server, but now once you sign into the chat server for a colony at least once manually, you will automatically be signed in each subsequent time that you open your colony. That way, if you are playing your colony and somebody is trying to talk to you on chat, you will know it without actually having the chat window open. You will also get livestream chat notifications, and notifications when somebody decides to watch your livestream.

On mobile (or if you are not using the "Desktop" interface), you will still get new chat notifications, but they will pop up in the same way notifications currently work, in the bottom-middle of the screen. As always, you can turn off all notifications in the engine settings menu.

Finally, the Russian language translations by Anton zlo have been expanded in this release, and a full set of French translations has now been provided by @Sobeirannovaocc and @Freedmoon ! This is great news for players using Russian and French, so please be sure to show your appreciation for their hard work and efforts.

Just a few final words before I go here. I plan on doing another episode of the My Colony Podcast soon, probably at the beginning of next week. People seem to be enjoying the show, so I will be making it a regular thing again. If you haven't checked it out yet, please do! Next, I plan to have a multiplayer beta for Colony Wars soon(ish). I wanted it to be done by the end of this month, but coding the AI is taking a bit longer than I had planned. I've got it now to where the AI will build their base, but they are still a bit too stupid at it. The beta will be coming before long though, and it is going to include the map editor, as well as multiplayer, supporting LAN/Online/ and AI skirmish. I hope to have the multiplayer matchmaking server running by the end of next week, so that I can get some people online to test the multiplayer out.

Anyway, that is all for today's My Colony update. It should be hitting all platforms throughout the weekend here. I plan on starting the next My Colony update (v0.83.0) on March 1 (I am actually half way planning things now), so get those bug reports filed before then. I know a lot of people think I do not read the reports since I do not post replies, but that is not the case. I just do not see the need to post "Ok" or "Thanks" at the end of each bug report.

Stay tuned for more, and thanks for playing the game!!

So i think I might have some analysis on the issue. It will appear next to the item it will need to build in question and then have as it's final destination the position it was just at. Then when it reaches the new point it repeats. By small increments it will position the start and endpoints closer together. I think it's somehow switching start and end points, possibly a switch in a variable where it takes the address of the final point and the starting point. Course I don't know the specific code but I hope this helps. Oh incidentally this was on PC

Blender models look better for sure. My reasoning for preferring voxel models comes down to consistency of the look of the game and the amount of time I want to spend on graphics VS development. I can guarantee that the My Colony community will produce far less content in Blender VS voxels, due to the complication of the software. I could barely even get any submissions for MC1 content using .svg format and Inkscape, which is a whole lot easier to use than Blender.

Compared to voxels, the look of which can mask the skill level of the artist a bit, the player will be more likely to recognize a difference in artistic style and skill level of a model made in Blender. I think a janky model that I am able to throw together VS one a skilled artist produces will be obvious to all.

Which leads to my last point, which is my own personal skill level. I am not a graphics artist by any stretch of the imagination, I am no Blender expert, and after spending some time with the application, it is going to take a bit of effort to get my skills to a point where I can create the content for this game. That is time diverted from making actual progress on My Colony 2, not to mention all of the apps I have to support which pay for me to be able to work on games which are less profitable. In the time it would take me to create something basic in Blender, I was able to just create the Voxel Paint app instead and then move on to other things.

And one final thing, since the suggestion always comes up when I mention graphics, so I might as well get it out of the way. I cannot count how many times I have gotten over the years: "just hire some graphics artists, more programmers, etc," which is a fine suggestion, but I have also seen many times: "OMG $5 for premium and regions aren't even free, bast is turning into EA, I wont pay $5 for this!" There is a reason why games either cost $60 or are full of nickel and dime IAPs - because that is what it costs to hire staff and support servers. This is why I generally prefer to do things on my own and within my own skill level, to keep costs little to nothing for the player.

But those are just my thoughts on Blender. I am still not opposed and nothing is final yet, so if I can be convinced that I am wrong then I am open to that too.

bastecklein said:Blender models look better for sure. My reasoning for preferring voxel models comes down to consistency of the look of the game and the amount of time I want to spend on graphics VS development. I can guarantee that the My Colony community will produce far less content in Blender VS voxels, due to the complication of the software. I could barely even get any submissions for MC1 content using .svg format and Inkscape, which is a whole lot easier to use than Blender.

Compared to voxels, the look of which can mask the skill level of the artist a bit, the player will be more likely to recognize a difference in artistic style and skill level of a model made in Blender. I think a janky model that I am able to throw together VS one a skilled artist produces will be obvious to all.

Which leads to my last point, which is my own personal skill level. I am not a graphics artist by any stretch of the imagination, I am no Blender expert, and after spending some time with the application, it is going to take a bit of effort to get my skills to a point where I can create the content for this game. That is time diverted from making actual progress on My Colony 2, not to mention all of the apps I have to support which pay for me to be able to work on games which are less profitable. In the time it would take me to create something basic in Blender, I was able to just create the Voxel Paint app instead and then move on to other things.

And one final thing, since the suggestion always comes up when I mention graphics, so I might as well get it out of the way. I cannot count how many times I have gotten over the years: "just hire some graphics artists, more programmers, etc," which is a fine suggestion, but I have also seen many times: "OMG $5 for premium and regions aren't even free, bast is turning into EA, I wont pay $5 for this!" There is a reason why games either cost $60 or are full of nickel and dime IAPs - because that is what it costs to hire staff and support servers. This is why I generally prefer to do things on my own and within my own skill level, to keep costs little to nothing for the player.

But those are just my thoughts on Blender. I am still not opposed and nothing is final yet, so if I can be convinced that I am wrong then I am open to that too.

I think we can all agree that models with high detail will take a lot of time and are not worth it, the only reason these models are high res is becuase they were simple to make and I couldnt resist making them look realistic (they were really easy to make, I spent the last hour of my day for the past 2 days using blender to make these) . Voxel models are definitely better for saving time, but they don't look as good. But I know of a way to get the best of both worlds, loy poly modeling. Low poly models can be made in minutes and look way better than voxel models, plus there are plenty of easy and short low poly tutorials for beginners. If you want to check out low poly modeling I would highly recommend checking out the Grant Abbitt channel on youtube, it has lots of blender begginer tutorials covering low poly modeling and other subjects. I would also recommend you check out the first few parts of the blender donut tutorial to get familiar with blender's hot keys, they will save you alot of time.

Here are some quick tutorials I would recommend checking out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mT4XFJYq-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlnkGCdtGEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrnSACiTJ4

Ok, so I know I just updated My Tokens a few days ago, but since I was already in "My Tokens Mode," I decided to keep at it and introduce an entire new class of Token character, the Minecraft-inspired Blockhead Token!


Available now in My Tokens v2.2.0 (which should be hitting all platforms soon), the new Blockhead Token is the second 3D modeled token class, and the first 3D modeled token to be textured. The texturing in the Blockhead Tokens is superior to that of the original two 2D token classes, as the textures are all stored as small .svg files that are downloaded from the server to the client's device and then compiled at runtime at any resolution, meaning the textures can be extremely sharp when compared to the existing My Token classes.

There are individual .svg files for each component, which the client device will layer on top of each other before creating the final scaled texture, when is then mapped onto the Token model. The token texture uses the following layout:


I am thinking of also making a way to export the final compiled layout of a Blockhead Token, or even letting people upload their own custom skins into My Tokens, although it wouldn't work with the existing Token classes. And since the Blockhead Tokens are ratio-equivalent to a Minecraft character, I was thinking I could even add an option to compile your created Token as a Minecraft skin that you could export and use in Minecraft. Of course, Minecraft skin textures are a lot lower resolution than a My Token character, so things might not look very good when scaled down like that, so we will see.


The two new 3D style of Tokens are significantly easier to maintain and create new parts for than the two original 2D versions. Of course, the Mini Voxel token is by far the easiest to create new content for, as it's just a few blocks in Voxel Paint at extremely low resolution, but the new Blockhead model is pretty easy as well. Just to show the complexity of the different types, let's look at the spacesuit overshirt model for the different Token types. Here it is for the mini-Voxel token:


Pretty basic. Here is the same Token part for the new Blockhead token:


A little more complicated, but still not bad. Now here is the sheet for the two original Token types (they are both combined into the same file):


You probably can't even see anything without downloading the file and zooming way in, but I have to draw different animation frames for each direction a Token can be facing. It takes forever.

Sadly when adding new Token parts, I still have to maintain the two original Token types. Going forward though, new games are going to be using the new 3D token models instead of the old 2D models. The first game to use a 3D token will be Token Kart, which I have been working on off-and-on over the months and will be using the Mini Voxel Tokens. I might also allow Voxel tokens to appear as colonists in some My Colony 2 maps, such as the Water World, which theoretically has an atmosphere they can breathe. As for the new Blockhead tokens, I want to create the next generation of the Death 3D engine with better performance and more capabilities, and the ability to use Blockhead tokens as characters. I am going to use the engine to create a 3D adaptation of the Deimos trilogy. I am also going to make a Gone Rogue 2, which will either use the Voxel or Blockhead tokens as characters, I haven't decided which yet.

Anyway, the new My Tokens update should be available soon on all platforms (available now on the Web or the Launcher), so check it out and let me know what you think!

#mytokens #mycolony2 #voxelpaint

I'm sure this is probably a niche one but I'd love to see an expansion of the challenges to something involving speedrunning. I absolutely love speedrunning MC1 and decided to take a crack at seeing how long it'd take me to pop alien instructions here. Popped it at around 3 days 10 hours of game play, not terrible for second reset.

Is this something other people do with the game? The different resource balances in Mc2 are a really nice new challenge. Totally different experience. Although the ramp up to the final push to get that tower is steeeeepppp haha. Like a final boss should be though!

I think it'd be cool to get leaderboards for buildings, resource levels, etc...

In the Kingdom of Far Far away many years agaio there was a big scandal involving the queen .
BuY now I am sure most of you have read about it .
What you don't know is after the Queen was banished she hid in a boat and crossed the america boarder .
Being a Queen and being use to loads of cash she went looking for a way to maintain her life style
as a Queen chemist . So she bought into some company who made electronics and Using her evil magical powers help grow the company into a world wide conglomerate becoming one of the most powerful company's on the planet .
But least you have forgotten she is Evilllllll and it was a Apple that almost killed Snow White .
So the next time you turn on your iSO and the game just keeps glitching it is all part of her evil plan to drive you totally crazy .
So please try to Remember Bast can't kiss everyone of you awake .
This story is true except every thing that is made up .
This message was not brought to you by Windows or Android.
Maybe someone should give you a lollipop to make you feel better.

Wowz, that was a good idea to draw those. I built a beach on one of my red planets and I wanted something like this. The one problem that I see is what you mentioned, people will want to put these on every type of planet, not just red planet, so like you said, they would need to be transparent.

If bast adds these, I would suggest adding things like piers, bridges, umbrella chairs, beach volleyball courts, marinas, and several buildings that could only be built on top of water pools. Then maybe bast could add a boat vehicle that could only move over water and builds things out in the middle of the water. If you could make drawings of the ideas that I mentioned and present them(if you think those things should be added), I would be very appreciative.

I love the idea im big on adding bodies of water and it would go great with some preexisting decorations. I also think a fishing boat would be a good idea to add in with this. And as far as resource costs to build shorelines I think half the amount of water and half of sand would provide a balanced and fair cost to build. And there should be a poll for this.

So? If an offer is in the middle because it's more expensive to buy, unless the purchaser wants to buy a certain amount and is willing to pay extra, there is no need for them to need to sort through the other listings.

I like Stardust's suggestion overall, but a tweak I'd ask for is to just have the listings sorted by price/100, so you can choose yourself how many you'd like to look through.

Being able to buy *part* of a listing would be EXCELLENT! It would mean I could place a standing order of 20 million of something (or whatever number floats your boat) and just not need to worry about it for a while. Or put all my aluminium on the marked in one lump instead of dividing it into bite sized chunks.


Something I would like to see on the market is the ability to cancel listings. I accidentally listed quite a lot of aluminium for about a sixth of what I intended and I really hope the contracts expire... Oh, one literally just sold then haha. Talk about timing.

In theory yes. But there are many ways to get around that. The problem isn't ppl always joining the biggest or most famous. It's about having federations that are unique. If they all are the same then ofcourse people will join the biggest most famous. So Federations need to be more different from each other, that way ppl will spread out more instead of Grouping together in the same boat federation

Hello all,

In the same boat as viewpage.php?p=4507. I'm looking to experiment and learn how to make texture packs, and need to have a reference image to work with. I followed the links for the example templates in the post, but received an invalid page for each link. I browsed through the various posts in the Suggestions and Feedback forum as well, but didn't find any of them there. After a rather thorough Google-ing and the discovery of as upload directory, I find myself empty-handed, my life in pieces. Would someone be kind enough to link me to these svg files, or point me to a naviagatable central repository where they are stored?

Any assistance is sincerely appreciated.

In the same boat as you. Unfortunately, you'll have to buy the desktop license if you want premium for your Windows client.

you dont have a way to delete that tax it was done in response to hackers
sooory to say the coins are going but thing about pixels you can always get more .
as for your old colony at 6 months off line it is nixed from online the server can not ahve millions of underplayed colony's as it would start costing a boat load .

But the game is a Builder so start a new colony its great

colbya said:you dont have a way to delete that tax it was done in response to hackers
sooory to say the coins are going but thing about pixels you can always get more .
as for your old colony at 6 months off line it is nixed from online the server can not ahve millions of underplayed colony's as it would start costing a boat load .

But the game is a Builder so start a new colony its great

But it's not a total loss is it? I am still keen for the game and have put probably hundreds of hours into it. Could I message the developer and see what he could do?

Bast alot of people who even payed for the game can be to poor to keep internet access at home .
Yea I know hard to believe isn't it . Well bast the game is $3.50 monthly internet access runs from 50 $ to 80 $ minim .

Now being old and on a Fixed income it leaves little left over for luxury ( me ) And being young and on mom and dads dime also leaves little room for luxury .

So why don't you give us who payed for the game a brake . And give us the ability to play FULL version offline . Just so you really understand its not just about what I want .

PSSS only version working on windows ten are windows ten and chrome. Your apps launcher just shows a black square with nothing in it .The other windows versions are not working as you already know .

The way it is now the windows ten version will NOT let me play payed version unless I am signed in
( Just turned off my wifi and checked . It will let me play a NON payed for game without net access .

Anyway wile many games need to be online there is no reason this has to be unless a person wants to trade with other people colony's . You realize if all ONE MILLION downloads created a account today this site would be down for a month . On top of that it would cost a boat load if even 20,000 people came here every day .

anyway think about it thanks Great games btw

pss if windows 64 bit and 32 bit worked they CAN be totally played off line as I can import the payed file from my pc then ( alest last time they worked i could .)

So my idea for this new planet is that there will be a few icebergs that you can build on. You can build floating platforms so you can build further and over water. (Should be a insane map for humans) I think that there should be resources maybe on the icebergs and floating or coming out of the water. The boat bots or flying bots for gathering and resources building. Higher atmosphere would slowly melt the atmosbergs. (Start with 2 million atmosphere) All icebergs completely gone by 10 million.
Pls comment below if you support! I think it would be fun to have a hard world like in my idea

Hey bast, just wondering if you were planning adding"ocean floor" or "lake bed" terrain tiles that turn into water after atmosphere goes beyond a certain point. This way a player can see where water will form and can build on these tiles under a certain atmosphere, but they risk their buildings getting destroyed when water forms there as atmosphere increases. I can imagine the map becoming a bit difficult to build around after atmosphere reaches 5 mil since the map would then be full of rivers/seas/islands instead of being the lifeless dry plane it once was.

Also, are you thinking of making structures that can be placed on the water or straddled between land and water like bridges, marinas, peers, aquariums, ferries, and boat bots that can build water structures? These would allow for more income, tourism, and resource production opportunities and bridges would allow for colonist and vehicle/worker movement over water.

Just a few aquatic ideas inspired by your water world.

Keep up the good work!

Amorphus said:Hey bast, just wondering if you were planning adding"ocean floor" or "lake bed" terrain tiles that turn into water after atmosphere goes beyond a certain point. This way a player can see where water will form and can build on these tiles under a certain atmosphere, but they risk their buildings getting destroyed when water forms there as atmosphere increases. I can imagine the map becoming a bit difficult to build around after atmosphere reaches 5 mil since the map would then be full of rivers/seas/islands instead of being the lifeless dry plane it once was.

Also, are you thinking of making structures that can be placed on the water or straddled between land and water like bridges, marinas, peers, aquariums, ferries, and boat bots that can build water structures? These would allow for more income, tourism, and resource production opportunities and bridges would allow for colonist and vehicle/worker movement over water.

Just a few aquatic ideas inspired by your water world.

Keep up the good work!

I am working on bridges right now. I do want water based buildings and vehicles, such as marinas and boats, it will just take a bit more work.



I do not have anything yet where water levels change based on atmosphere. It is doable, but would just take a lot more engine changes than I wanted to do in this update, since I want to get it out within a reasonable timeframe. I may make another water based map at some point that does have those features, and a higher difficulty level. I wanted this particular map to be accessible to most players.

Boats will 100% be coming at some point, as I want to be able to use My Colony engine to make a 'new world' type game next year, where you arrive on a ship, unload, destroy the natives, etc.

do the palm trees spread like the rest of trees ?
btw a good idea which you probly already have is Floating buildings .
or building that can be built by boat bots on water ONLY .
o my you have not added replaceable ore mines lol

Hello guys!

Here I'll 'dump' some ideas of 'new' (ordinary) units (and buildings).
(T-) represents tiers. Higher tier of troops requires tech centers.


. Infantries
(T2) Grenadiers - If you want something more explosive, here you're!
(T1) Rifle Infantries - Fires enemies from a longer range.
(T2) A.A. Stingers - Cheap troops against flying stuff.
(T3) Heavy Marines - Armored troops for tough battles.
(T2) Jetpack Infrantries - Attacking from above? Seems a good idea.
(T2) Flamethrower Infrantries - Let the fire penetrate and burn the foes! Burn baby burn!


. Vehicles
(T1) Kamikaze Rover - These destructive rovers will definitely blow up everything on the way.
(T2) Mortar Light Tank - A light tank mounted with a mortar instead of a turret specialized for breaking defenses.
(T3) Artillery - When enemy has got reinforced defenses you'll need it. Enormous splash damage included.
(T3) Missile Tank - Slow, weak armored, but strong long range units capable to destroy both land and air units.
(T2) Walker - Basic meches, slow but tougher than the tanks.


. Ships
(T1) Gunboat - Sutible for scouting purpose. Large quantities of them also causes trouble.
(T1) Patrol Ship - Some basic navel units mounted with machine gun.
(T1) Torpedo Boat - Trouble with defenses on the sea? The mid range torpedoes will take 'em down!
(T2) Pounder Ship - Common navel units, mounted with a twin-barrel cannon.
(T2) Battleship - Heavy navel unit, however not anti-air.
(T2) Submarine - Hides underwater, and here comes the surprise attack! (Torpedo is the weakness)
(T3) Destroyer - Super strong navel unit that will give your navel battles advantage!
(T1) Landing craft - Carries troops and tanks across the water.

. Aircrafts
(T1) Light Chopper - Weak helicopter, but has the modest strength.
(T2) Gunship - Heavy anti-land missile gunship.
(T2) Dropship - Transport jet plane.
(T2) Interceptor Drone - It is capable for taking enemy aircrafts quickly.
(T2) Jet Raider - Rapid aircraft best for rapid raids, equipped with machine guns.
(T3) Jet Fighter - Won't need me to explain?
(T3) Bomber - Take it down before it gets too close, or else...
(T3) Firefly - Super-heavy gunship, with anti-air ability. Totally sky dominator.

. Buildings
(T1) Pounder Turret - It is slower, but effective against armoured stuff.
(T2) Sentry Gun - All-round turret, attacks both land and air.
(T2) Anti-Air Missiles - Strong anti-air missiles that easily takes weak aircrafts down.
(T1) Floating pillbox - Basic offshore defense.
(T2) Artillery Battery - Counter measures against long-range attacks.
(T2) Floating Mortar Platform - Like artilley battery, but it is offshore varient.
(T3) Lazer Cannon - Destructive close range defense
(T3) Plasma Artillery - Super strong single target artillery
(T2) Floating Flak - Offshore anti-air defense
(T1) Tech Centre - Unlocks T2 units and part of the resaearch
(T2) Experimental Lab - Unlocks T3 units and advanced research
(T3) Nuke Silo - Makes nuke warheads using uranium and launches them
(T1) Shipyard
(T1) Aircraft Hanger
(T2) Lazer Drilling Pad - Provides surplus cash, with minor Uranium production

About time? I have just published Colony Wars Beta 4 (v0.4.0) which you can get right now on Android, Chrome OS, Ape Web Apps, or from the Ape Apps Launcher! This update adds some nice goodies that people have been waiting for, so let's take a look at what is new!

Navy
Yes, I have finally started adding Naval combat to the game. To accomidate this, we have two new structures and two new units. Everything starts from the new Naval Yard, which opens up construction for the Patrol Boat, and Amphibious Transport, and the Aquatic Pillbox.


Airborne Units
The engine now more fully supports airborne units, as well as the ability to have certain units be able to target either land/air/sea, or a combination thereof. To go along with these new capabilities are the brand new Jetpack Infantry units.


These guys aren't very powerful, but they can go anywhere and if you aren't careful, they can sneak right into your base. The only unit right now that can take them down is the existing Rocket Infantry, which has been upgraded with airborne targeting.

Capture Non-Player Buildings
The game now supports non-player buildings that exist in the map before the game starts, that you can capture for additional benefits. At some point, there will be buildings that you can garrison troops inside of also. But right now, there is one new non-player building, the Ore Fracking Operation.


Just throw an engineer in there and it will start bringing in a stream of income. Note, there is a bug with the engineers where sometimes they will not enter a building properly, and you have to tell them to do it a bunch of times. I'm working on it!

To better demonstrate the new features, I have put together the following demo video.


So that's it for today's Colony Wars update. Let me know what problems you have, what you think of the update, and what you want to see next! There are already a bunch of suggestions in the forum which I will start getting to once the core engine features are complete.

I think for next update I want to look into adding super weapons, and the ability to drop a nuclear bomb right in the middle of your opponents base. It should be a blast! Until next time, thanks for reading, thanks for playing, and if you haven't checked out Colony Wars yet find links for all platforms at the following website:

https://apps.ape-apps.com/colony-wars/

#colonywars

H3110 guys!

This time I think I’ll go straight into the contents.





(more ideas will come here soon! Stay tuned!)

Hello commanders.

Today I would like to introduce my ideas for expanding the base, and some ideas for buildings!

For faction identifications, I’ll use colour of the text as follows:
United Earth,
League of Independent States,
Alpha Draconians,
Zolarg Empire.




Let’s begin with base expansion.
Currently the way expanding the base in v0.4.0 relies on building buildings in a dense pack (exclude the larger construction area provided by lander and naval yard).
So if we want to expand the base in a better way, we probably need something else.

Here are my ideas.

• United Earth can still increase construction ranges by buildings, but I would like to have the range provided by buildings are larger.
• League of Independent States requires Pioneer Rover deploy into a Pioneer Outpost to expand into other areas.
• Alpha Draconians requires Command Node built within available areas, increasing the construction areas around the base.
• Zolarg Empire has no restrictions of construction area. Buildings are deployed freely by various Worker Drones. For example, Aerohive Drone is deployed into a Aerohive (the Zolarg facility that produces airforce).

Next up, the buildings.

• War Research Bureau (Tech II)
  

  The War Research Bureau brings blueprints and accesses to the high class weapons of UE armory.

  
  This UE tech building can unlock T3 contents. Model based on the Advanced Medical Research Centre.
• Rocket Bunker (T2)
  

  The Rocket Bunker is equipped with rocket launchers. It’s capable responding threats from both land and air.

  
  It’s good against air units and decent against vehicles. However it can only target one unit at a time.
• Land Fort (T3)
  

  Land Forts are heavy defense structure of United Earth. Equipped with 4 long range proton cannons it can bombard enemies in a long range.

  
  A very strong yet expensive land defense structure.
• Drone Centre (T2)
  

  Drone Centre is a facility for building battle drones for air warfare and also the place for at most 4 drones to stand by.

  
  Air battle facility of UE.
• Disruption Array (Superweapon)
  

  The Disruption Array is able to create a strange quantum phenomenon which will release a massive amount of energy, called the Disruption Burst.

  
  The primary superweapon of UE.
• Warp Node (Superweapon)
  

  One of the secret dimensional weapon develoepd by United Earth, capable to teleport a small group of troops from a place to another without the need of portals.

  
  The support superweapon of UE.
• Torpedo Platform (T2)
  

  The torpedo platform is a naval defense structure specialised for responding naval threats.

  
  The good news is, it can attack submerged units! Meanwhile the bad news is it’s neither anti-land nor anti-air.
• Sensor Array (T3)
  

  The frequent stealth attacks launched by LIS makes anti-stealth devices a neccessity on frontlines combating LIS. Besides giving extra sight, it also detects hidden units.

  
  Special support structure of UE.
• LIS Lander (Lander)
  

  “Time to give this piece of land a new meaning!” - LIS Lander deploying

  
  Resembles the UE Lander.
• Infantry Camp (T1)
  

  The Infantry Camp manages both the militias and the mercenaries of LIS forces.

  
  Infantry training facility of LIS. Will looks like a pack of tents. Upgrading it will unlock T2 infantries.
• Burner Generator (T1)
  

  The burner generator powers LIS bases by burning diesel.

  
  Basic power supply facility of LIS.
• Watchtower (T1)
  

  These watchtowers are manned by LIS gunners. Although it’s not a very sturdy defense at all, but it has a good firing range and sight.

  
  Basic anti-infantry defense.
• Garage (T1)
  

  The Garage produces LIS combat vehicles.

  
  Vehicle factory of LIS. Upgrading it will unlock T2 vehicles.
• Hangar (T1)
  

  The Hanger produces LIS aircrafts needed for supporting attacks.

  
  Aircraft factory of LIS. Upgrading it will unlock T2 aircrafts.
• Airfield (T1)
  

  An airfield can hold one LIS fighter or bomber plane.

  
  This is required in order to produce aircrafts other than Jetcopters if playing as LIS.
• Drydocks (T1)
  

  The drydocks is needed for constructing LIS naval warfare vessels.

  
  Ship factory of LIS. Upgrading it unlocks T2 naval vessels.
• Proxy Database (Tech II)
  

  The Proxy Database carries all protected military information of LIS. This facility is needed for producing T3 units.

  
  The only tech centre of LIS. Requires at least one upgraded Garage in order to build one. Unlocks T3 units like the Hacker and Solar Artillery.
• Flak Turret (T1)
  

  Flak Turrets are used by LIS to combat against airforces.

  
  Anti-air turret of LIS.
• Beam Tower (T3)
  

  The Beam Tower utilizes strong beams to destroy enemy forces effectively.

  
  Advanced defense of LIS.
• Uplink Station (Superweapon)
  

  The uplink station calls the devasting Solar Cannon Bombardments, which a rain a rain of solar beams from the space.

  
  Primary superweapon of LIS.
• Beam Projector (Superweapon)
  

  The Beam Projector creates a Beam Cage which will isolate the units inside the Cage from everything.

  
  Support superweapon of LIS.
• Floating Bunker (T2)
  

  The Floating Bunker is equipped with pounder guns and anti-air flak cannon, an all-round naval defense.

  
  Can target an naval or land unit and an aircraft at the same time.
• Pioneer Outpost
  

  This Outpost allows LIS forces to expand into further areas.

  
  Deployed by Pioneer Rovers. Adds a construction range around it.
• Engineer Bay
  

  The engineer bay supports extra constructions of LIS bases and also provides repairs to damaged troops.

  
  Special support building of LIS.
• Mother Command Module (Lander)
  

  MCM in short. This is the centre of a Alpha Draconian base.

  
  Resembles the Landers, deployed by construction probes. Upgrading this allows access to higher tier unit productions for factories within the range and new buildings.
• Microreactor (T1)
  

  A tiny reactor that is powerful enough to power up common Alpha Draconian facilities.

  
  Basic power generator of Alpha Draconians.
• Antanium Impactor (T1)
  

  Even on battlefields, this thing is still an imoortant economy building of Alpha Draconains.

  
  Act as a refinery.
• Drone Pad (T1)
  

  Alpha Draconians warps drones to the battlefield like how they teleport drones to their colonies for resource collection.

  
  Infantry (drone) training centre.
• Mecha Lab (T1)
  

  The place where Alpha Draconian mechas are produced for combats.

  
  Vehicle factory for Alpha Draconians. Also produces Draconian Orbiters (aircraft).
• Sentry Module (T1)
  

  The Sentry Module deploys and resupplies guard drones which can take down enemy infantries.

  
  Anti-infantry and anti-air structure of Alpha Draconians. One Sentry dispatches 4 guard drones that fires rapid-fire blasters.
• Ether Reactor (T2)
  

  The Ether Reactor is powered by Ether, which provides a even massie amount of energy needed by power-intensive units and buildings.

  
  Advanced power supply building. Strong explosion upon destruction.
• Tesla Node (T2)
  

  A very power intensive defensive weapon which is lethal to almost everything.

  
  Advanced defense of Alpha Draconians.
• Command Node (T1)
  

  The Command Node is required to expand a Draconian base.

  
  Provides extra construction range. Like Mother Command Module, buildings covered by the Command Node requires the Node’s upgrade to produce better units.
• Draconian War Insitute (Tech II)
  

  The Draconian War Insitute provide access for Draconain commanders to the better ways of combats.

  
  Tech building of Alpha Draconians.
• Electrosphere (Superweapon)
  

  The Electrosphere can fire a electron ball to release deadly discharges, while can also paralyse those survived and buildings.

  
  Primary superweapon of Alpha Draconians.
• Nanocube (Superweapon)
  

  The Nanocube contains nanites which allows to put a tempoary invincible armour onto any steel (actually also works with concretes) claded objects. Anything biological will be killed as the armour coating is biologically harmful.

  
  Support superweapon of Alpha Draconians.
• Shield Projector (T2)
  

  The shield projector provides a extra layer of defense to any Alpha Draconian base. If the shield is destroyed it’ll regenerate over time.

  
  Special support building of Alpha Draconians.
• Command Post (Lander)
  

  The Command Post is the core in a Zolarg warfare.

  
  Deployed by the Queen drone, it’s same concept as the lander. However it won’t do constructions, instead it’ll create various kind of worker drones which deploys into buildings.
• Sugar Burner
  

  Very ordinary power generator in any Zolarg colony and military base.

  
  Basic power generator of Zolarg.
• Antanium Furnance
  

  Basically an ore refinery.

  
  Yes, an ore refinery. What else I can tell?
• Barrack Mound (T1)
  

  There’s not much difference between a Barrack Mound and any ordinary mound in Zolarg Empire, except that there’s no Queen but officiers in Barrack Mounds.

  
  Infantry training facility of Zolarg Empire.
• Watchtower (T1)
  

  Where soldier insectoids stays on duty to keep enemies away. One of them is a Rifle-bug and another being Grenadier.

  
  Land defense structure of Zolarg Empire.
• Flak Bunker (T1)
  

  Flak bunker fires explosives mixed with ant pastes into the sky. Those aircrafts hit by these explosives not just have their hull damaged but also move slower.

• Armourcrafts (T1)
  

  The craftsbugs in Armourcrafts builds crude combat vehicles for Insectoid soldiers.

  
  Vehicle factory of Zolarg Empire.
• Aerohive (T1)
  

  The air swarms are breeded and trained here, which they are used for bombarding enemies.

  
  Aerohive is the airbase of Zolarg Empire, producing flying units.
• Brood Training Centre (Tech I)
  

  In order to get the insectoid broods ready for field service earlier and the need for better tachics and weapons, the Brood Training Centre is needed.

  
  T2 Tech centre of Zolarg.
• War College (Tech II)
  

  The War College provides full support to any Zolarg Commander who needs stronger powers.

  
  T3 Tech centre of Zolarg.
• Boat Yard (T1)
  

  If you think Insectoids are afraid of the seas, then you’re wrong. They are ready to conquer the seas.

  
  Ship factory of Zolarg Empire.
• Altar of Doom (Superweapon)
  

  The Altar of Doom is powered by the Zolarg Empire’s forbidden power - Antaura. Everyone who see it would feel like it’ll summon something that will cause a doomsday.

  
  Primary superweapon of Zolarg Empire.
• The Tower of Mind (Superweapon)
  

  Anything that has a mind will never able to escape control from this Tower of Mind.

  
  Support superweapon of Zolarg Empire.
• Shrine of Destiny (T2)
  

  The faith will keep your brothers going.

  
  Special support building of Zolarg Empire. It can boost up the training speed of units.

Hopefully you’ll like my ideas!

Hello commanders.

This post will integrate all of my previous ideas with refinement, plus some new ideas.
The ideas will be updated or added in the comments.



WARNING : EXTREMELY LONG POST



For the objects, the colour of the text represents the following factions.

• United Earth (UE)
• League of Independent States (LIS)
• Alpha Draconians (AD)
• Zolarg Empire (ZE)
• Neutral

Gameplay Suggestions

• Demolishing Buildings
  In case you don't need some of your own buildings.
• Cancel queued productions
  In the game there's not yet any ways to cancel queue, which means inflexible financial management when you're running out of credits.
• Area of effect damage
  You know currently we don't have a way to counter the swarming troopers besides producing lots of troopers. We need something explosive...
• Garrisoning
  One of the classic features of C&C style RTS that will make urban warfare better!
• Able to control buildings
  If some building is able to make research or has special actions, this is needed.
• Make training queues building specific like in My Colony
  It is a bit difficult to manage units and unit productions if trained unit just pop up in a random barracks/factory. So I think this will make troop training process better.
• Visible construction range
  This will help placing buildings without tapping somewhere else you cannot place building.
• Power meter
  As the game's power mechanism is not yet complete, this is an necessary suggestion.
• Researches
  Some research elements can change the tide of the war. This will make more amazing battles.
• Superweapons
  Why not?

Units

• United Earth
  
  • Commonwealth Infantry (T1)
    

    United Earth's proud protectors of prosperity and order. These troopers are put under 3 years of various training before they come into services. With their full loyalty and strict discipline, they are one of your reliable soldiers on the battlefields.

    
    It is just renaming the in-game infantry.
  • Commonwealth Rocket Infantry (T1)
    

    Rocket Infantry Camp is one of the divisions of United Earth's military, where newbie troopers are being trained into anti-tank specialists at the battlefronts. Carrying BOAR launchers, they take out enemy vehicles and aircrafts. Best companions of infantries.

    
    It is just renaming the in-game rocket infantry.
  • Engineer (T2)
    

    Not all soldiers fight at the battlefronts. These nerdy engineers who complete their school at military universities are one of the examples. Anything about machines and computers are not a problem for these engineers, they are even able to modify alien machines.

    
    This thing is already in the game, but why not give them some descriptions as well.
    Can repair civilian building when garrisoned into.
  • Jetpack Infantry (T2)
    

    Jetpack infantries are adopted by United Earth military, due to their high mobility and aerial advantage over most units on the ground. Besides as an effective scout on battlefields with rough terrain, they can also make effective assaults on infantries.

    
    This thing is already in the game, but why not give them some descriptions as well.
    In addition, I want to give it a stealth detection ability.
  • Space Marines (T3)
    

    Elite of the elites. Space Marines Corps represents the United Earth's iron fist power, established since 2061. Entering the Space Marines Corps is definitely one of the dreams of United Earth soldiers - given the best training, able to use the high tech gadgets, paid with highest wages, and of course, chance to become hero like Sarge! Most of them are cladded with power armours, though some commandos do not to wear them.

    
    Tier-3 shock troopers that uses plasma guns.
  • Marines Commando (T3)
    

    Experienced, outstanding marines will be promoted to commandos, which they will be put into military labs to receive another 3 years of training to master various difficult skills and have some bioengineering modifications on their body. Once they have completed the course, they are SUPERSOLDIERS.

    
    UE commando can terminate infantries quickly with their heavy machine gun, tough as a tank, and can instantly blow up enemy buildings and vehicles using dynamites upon close contact.
  • UE Harvester (T1)
    

    Supply lines that are too far away from the home world are hard to maintain. In this case, local resource extraction is the mean to make supplies cheaply. That's why these mining machines get some use on the battlefields.

    
    (•ω•)
  • ‘Hound URV-25’ Recon Rover (T1)
    

    These unmanmed vehicles are not a very new stuff to military even in the year of 2051. They can be remotely controlled, which they have greatly decreased unnecessary casualties during scouting tasks. Low cost and small size is also the reason it becomes popular. Now we can even install a machine gun on it, allowing it participating in combat tasks.

    
    I just simply give the rover a code name. BTW @bastecklein do you plan to give it stealth detectors? :)
  • ‘Ocelot’ Light Tank (T1)
    

    The ‘Ocelot’ series light tank has been inside UE arsenal for more than 10 years, as one of the standardized light tank due to their balanced combat ability and a reasonable manufacturing cost.

    
    Code name given.
  • ‘Tigerclaw’ battle Tank (T2)
    

    ‘Tigerclaw’ battle tank is the bigger cousin of ‘Ocelot’ light tanks. While shares the similar chassis design, this tank is mounted with a dual 83mm gun turret, which provided the tank with better firing efficiency and firepower. There are rumours about in the first deployment of these tanks, one tank can destroy 5 enemy tanks of similar classes by average before being destroyed.

    
    Rename the medium tank in the game and give it a code name.
  • ‘Jaguar’ Heavy Assault Tank (T3)
    

    Like its code name tells, ‘Jaguar’ heavy assault tank can quickly destroy enemies with its devastating firepower. Its 134mm plasma gun can penetrate any armour, while it has a portable regenerative shield for extra protection. They are one of the backbones in most tank formations.

    
    Heavy tank of the
  • ‘Thunderstorm’ Missile Tank (T2)
    

    ‘Thunderstorm’ is the new generation of self-propelled missile launchers in UE arsenal. This mobile missile battery has two modes. Artillery mode allows it to destroy enemy from a long range. Defender mode allows it to respond to threats from the air by launching volleys of missiles.

    
    Depends on your needs, you can switch between two modes quickly.
  • Striker UAV (T2)
    

    A full development of UAV (military drones) in recent years has successfully replaced manned aircrafts, which UAV comes in with a smaller size, lighter weight, and more capabilities in ground support missions. Striker UAVs are one of the variants developed, which carries a explosive missile for hit-and-run attacks.

    
    Light attack aircraft. Can target both land and air.
  • Attacker UAV (T2)
    

    Attacker UAV specialises heavy bombardment tasks, extra plated with sturdy armour for protection. Every liberty delivery includes 3 bombs for your foes!

    
    Bomber craft.
  • Gunner UAV (T3)
    

    Gunner UAV is a hovering heavy gunship. This heavy aircraft releases pulses of plasma shots that blasts enemies into ashes, while its heavily plated armour hull can withstand lots of punishments from anti-air weapons.

    
    Heavy aircraft that flies and fires slowly, but with a large ammunition capacity that allows continuously bombarding the enemies using the plasma gun. The plasma gun is also anti-air.
  • ‘Angler’ Patrol Boat
    

    Even though not much improvements has made on these old-fashioned speedboats, they are still effective defensive recon boats in UE arsenal. It is cheap, it is nimble, and its machine gun can respond light ship attacks.

    
    Here also gives a code name to the in-game patrol boats.
  • ‘Grizzly’ Amphibious Transport (T1)
    

    Amphibious transports has its most significant importance in beachhead landings during operations in oceanic planets.

    
    As well, give the in-game amphibious transport a code name.
  • ‘Aegis’ Escort Ship (T2)
    

    The seas can be as dangerous as on the land, ships may get attacked by aircrafts and submarines. ‘Aegis’ Escort Ships are hence built to protect the shores and the seas with flak guns and torpedo launchers.

    
    In addition, detects submarines. The big drawback of Aegis Escort Ship is it cannot attack land units.
  • ‘Tidebreaker’ Missile Cruiser (T3)
    

    Traditional battleships with large caliber guns are becoming obsolete in UE arsenal and are replaced by these more lightweight but stronger missile cruisers - the new generation backbone of the navy. Besides wielding higher accuracy than cannon artilleries, it can change firing modes for different situations, either the long range mode for hitting the enemies from a safe distance, or medium range mode for heavy firepower but at a reduced distance.

    
    Backbone warship.
• League of Independent States
  
  • Militia (T1)
    

    These militias composes the majority of LIS infantry divisions, comes from various colonies of LIS. Though they lack professional training like soldiers of , their devotion to free the colonies from United Earth (and other autocratic sovereigns) is irreplaceable. Their motto: ‘The blood of the martyrs will water the seedlings of freedom’.

    
    LIS basic infantry that uses old-fashioned rifles to fight. Cheap to train, but relatively weak on battlefields.
  • Grenadier (T1)
    

    Grenadiers are basically militias who utilises explosives, which their grenades are effective destroying combat vehicles and buildings.

    
    Anti-vehicle infantry.
  • Hacker (T2)
    

    Not all systems can be hacked and taken over remotely, in this situation you'll need field operations. That's what these hackers are hired for, they infiltrate a building, hack into its systems, and put it under LIS's control.

    
    LIS equivalent of engineer, but it cannot repair buildings.
  • Saboteur (T2)
    

    Disruption warfare is one of the tactics of LIS, aimed to bring down normal operations of the enemy. The saboteurs do the dirty job, they sneak into the enemy's base under the help of optical stealth generators, they can steal credits from enemy silos and refineries, they can turn down generators, facilities and even weapon systems.

    
    Infiltrator. Stealthed all the time. Consumed when entering enemy building.
  • Laser Trooper (T2)
    

    Laser is one of the affordable yet powerful choice of weapons. Under years of development, LIS is capable creating devices that launches a hypercharged beam of laser capable to cut through thick alloy composite armour, even in a long range. Leading to the birth of Laser Trooper Division, it further proven LIS has independent military capability to protect themselves, and set more colonies free from United Earth.

    
    Shock troopers. Has a decent reload speed. Excels taking down aircrafts and tanks.
  • Blue Cross (T3)
    

    Blue Cross are the elite marksman of LIS military. They hide in shadows where bare eyes cannot see. They can take down armoured Space Marines effortlessly. Even drivers inside the vehicles can be killed only using one shot.

    
    LIS commando unit. Stealthed if stationary. Also detects stealth. If the target is a vehicle, it may turn the vehicle into a neutral, captureable status, which a UE engineer, a LIS hacker, a Zolarg missionary or a Draconian hyjacker can capture the husk to convert it to own faction.
  • ‘Marauder’ Attack Jeep (T1)
    

    Attack jeeps are modified from old jeep designs, they have missile pods installed on the top. The high horsepower engines remains their high mobility. When they encounter the enemy, they'll unleash a volley of rockets, devastating enemy light vehicles and aircrafts. LIS usually utilizing it for a guerilla warfare.

    
    Anti-vehicle anti-air light vehicle.
  • LIS Harvester (T1)
    

    Though they are assembled using second handed components and husks from black markets and chop shops, they still work in the same way as it should be, which its standard can compete that of United Earth's version.

    
    Equivalent of UE harvesters.
  • Scorch Tank (T2)
    

    Even though in this era, flamethrowers are still very effective destroying fortified defenses. With the improved composition of fuel used by these Scorch Tanks, almost anything can be reduced to ashes. Burn baby burn!

    
    Anti-infantry anti-building tank. Clears out enemy garrisons in buildings.
  • ‘Hunter’ Cruiser Tank (T2)
    

    Like the code name tells, it hunts for preys. These tanks utilizes strong firepower and high mobility in most terrains to destroy enemy tanks quickly at their weak spots. Though its armour is not very reliable at all.

    
    Battle tank of LIS.
  • ‘Lancer’ Beam Tank (T3)
    

    Beam cannons on these experimental beam tanks are not ordinary as you expects, its beam can vaporise anything within seconds. The beam tank not only having a strong firepower, it can switch between modes - At mobile mode it is a strong battle tank. At deployed mode, it has doubled firepower and increased firing range.

    
    Heavy assault vehicle of LIS.
  • ‘Rat’ Light Self-propelled Howitzer (T2)
    

    Cheap-to-go artillery vehicle used by LIS for siege and fire support tasks. Though it is an artillery, it can mobilize quickly for quick response.

    
    LIS artillery.
  • ‘Sparrow’ Patrol Copter (T1)
    

    These patrol aircrafts are the eyes of LIS military in the air, they effectively searching for enemies, even those hidden in somewhere not noticed by others will not be able to escape from their sensors.

    
    Recon aircraft. It is armed with an anti-infantry machine gun. Detects stealth. (This aircraft does not occupy aircraft landing pads.)
  • ‘Red Hawk’ Fighter Jet (T2)
    

    Conventional aircraft for surface support operations and enemy aircraft interception. The coaxial machine gun and the missile pods would help them manage most enemies in the battlefields.

    
    All-purpose fighter jet.
  • ‘Piranha' Waterbike (T1)
    

    ‘Piranha’ waterbikes swifts like wind, specialised raiding enemy ships using rockets. A squad of these waterbikes can be unstoppable.

    
    Hit-and-run light ambush vessel.
  • ‘Salmon’ Transport Submarine (T1)
    

    These small submarines are specialized for crossing the seas secretly, carrying an assault team inside.

    
    Troops may embark on or evacuate from the submarine when the submarine is surfaced. When submerged, only anti-stealth units and torpedo weapons can detect them. Detects submarines.
  • ‘Swordfish’ Corvette (T2)
    

    These simple corvettes composes most of the naval forces of LIS. A pair of powerful ship gun will blast enemies into the skies.

    
    LIS warship.
  • ‘Stingray’ Nuclear Submarine (T3)
    

    As the backbone of LIS navy, these submarines has high combat capabilities. While sneaking in the seas, they sink the enemies without being noticed. When they surface, they launch volleys of missiles that bombards the enemies miles away.

    
    Backbone warship of LIS. Stealthed when submerged. When surfaced, the missiles can also attack air units. Detects submarines.
• Alpha Draconians
  
  • Extractor Drone (T1)
    

    Whenever you are seeing mineral fields are disappearing in an weird way, there might be stealthed Alpha Draconian mining drones digging them. Stealth device protects extractor drone in most cases.

    
    Alpha Draconian harvester unit. It is rather an ‘infantry’ more than a vehicle. Detects stealth.
  • Sentry Drone (T1)
    

    Besides on battlefields, sentry drones can be also seen in prison camps and slave camps, or in riots. The minigun equipped on them shreds the flesh of any living things.

    
    Basic ‘infantry’ of Alpha Draconians.
  • Ambusher Drone (T1)
    

    Harnessing the powerful ion beams and being stealthed when standing by, no vehicle can stand for more than few seconds when swarmed by them.

    
    Anti-vehicle 'infantry’ of Alpha Draconians. Stealthed when idle.
  • Hijacker Drone (T2)
    

    Hijacking devices on this drone are able to take over a facility within seconds, especially useful in battlefields. It also has minimal armaments for self protection against patrols.

    
    Equivalent of engineers and hackers.
  • Executioner Droid (T3)
    

    Executioner Droids are superior combat droids that their combat capabilities can be compared to a commando, only one can be assigned to one Alpha Draconian warlord. They are also the only droids given with a personnel teleporting device, which helps them bypass the defense line safely and launch sudden attack on the enemy's weakest spot, or evade from most dangerous situations.

    
    The droid can teleport itself at any explored location of the map. Armed with a beam gun that continuously damages enemy.
  • Modular Combat Hovercraft (T1)
    

    A hovering small bunker that obtains armaments from drones that it consumes. Uses anti-infantry minigun when no drones inside.

    
    Each MCH can only receive one drones for armament upgrade. Recieving a Sentry will obtain a double minigun turret. Recieving an Ambusher will change the main weapon into a stronger beam gun. Recieving a Extractor will give it a stationary stealth generator. Recieving a Hijacker will obtain an EMP emitter that unmobilizes the target enemy. Drones who have entered will not return, due to components being assimilated. Amphibious.
  • Piercer Hovertank (T2)
    

    Piercer hovertank uses a fully flexible autocannon as a weapon with two firing modes. Tank cannon mode attacks land units, while flak mode attacks air units.

    
    Anti-vehicle or anti-air battle tank. Amphibious.
  • Monitor Hovertank (T3)
    

    A new class of artillery researched by Alpha Draconian engineers, which it is installed onto a modified, stable hovertank chassis.

  • Devastator Hovertank (T2)
    

    Alpha Draconians has make use of their advantage of owning major ether reservoirs, leads to this infantry devastating weapon under use, at the cost of breaking 133 galactic military regulations.

    
    Anti-infantry vehicle. Clears out garrisons in buildings.
  • Dominator Hovermech (T3)
    

    Dominator Hovermech, the steel behemoth of the battlefield. Its beam-emitting eyes can stare anything to death.

    
    Heavy warmech.
  • Judge Gunship (T1)
    

    A nimble, light jet propelled gunship carrying proton launchers.

    
    Gunship aircraft.
  • Eliminator Saucer (T3)
    

    One of the ultimate destruction weapon of Alpha Draconians. The saucer unleashes a super powerful destruction beam when flies above enemies. Nothing will survive under its strong fire.

    
    Bomber aircraft with extremely low mobility.
• Zolarg Empire
  
  • Swarmers (T1)
    

    Unity is the power - that's the motto of the entire Insectoid race. That is especially reflected on these swarmers, make up of various insectoid workers.

    
    Melee squad. Quick and cheap to train, extremely dangerous in a group, though they generally has a weak toughness
  • Rangerbug (T1)
    

    Insectoid militias that uses a primitive hand cannon to fight against enemies, which they are common local defense forces in Zolarg Empire.

    
    Ranged anti-vehicle infantry of Zolarg Empire. Can be switched to stationary mode (flak mode) that changes their attacking target from land to air.
  • Martyr (T2)
    

    These martyrs are suicide bombers, faithed and determined fighters of the Zolarg Empire. Fires of explosion will purify everything!

    
    Suicide bomber infantry. A large group can breach heavy fortifications if given appropriate support.
  • Missionary (T1)
    

    These religious missionaries will make way for Zolarg Empire - Influence buildings through devine powers... Somehow works.

    
    Equivalent of engineer, hacker and hijacker. Can heal infantries inside the same garrisoned buildings.
  • Apostle (T2)
    

    Apostles are usually the leaders of Zolarg militias, who ‘delivers the divine message from the Emperor’, fortifying the morale of the fellow brothers. Besides boosting morale, it also provides adequate firepower, from their heavy machine gun.

    
    Heavy infantry. It rides a beetle.
  • Awakened (T3)
    

    The insectoid warriors that have awakened their power controlling energy flow surrounding their body. They can release energy blasts from their hands, or unleash deadly melee attacks.

    
    Shock troopers of Zolarg Empire. Detects stealth.
  • Redeemer (T3)
    

    The redeemers are insectoid warriors with mastered supernatural powers. Besides able to attack like awakened, it also has a ability to brainwash a small group of enemy, permanently turning them to own side.

    
    Zolarg commando. Detects stealth.
  • Attack Rollercraft
    (Notes: Insectoids call wheeled vehicles ‘rollercrafts’.)
    

    These highly mobile attack rollers are manned with a driver and a grenadier, which explosives mixed with sticky ant paste are tossed to enemies at close range for most destructive effect.

    
    Anti-infantry vehicle. Can temporarily unmobilizes enemies blasted by explosives.
  • Landship (T1)
    

    Zolarg Landships are primitive tanks, wielding high toughness from thick armour (and a decently strong main cannon). It is also a effective infantry transport on land.

    
    Anti-vehicle tank. Can carry up to 8 infantries.
  • Siege Landship (T2)
    

    A heavier version of landship. It is not just tougher, its cannon can fire more than one type of ammunition - Cannonballs focuses on countering tanks and destroying fortifications from a long distance, while napalm will set fire that scorches the infantries.

    
    Note that it does not do anything carrying infantries. Napalm can clear out garrisons in buildings.
  • Boarding Party (T1)
    

    Boarding parties of Zolarg Empire are not just terrible in the space but also equally terrible on the seas. Their ship will quickly ram onto yours and the boarding party will soon tear your ship into useless scraps.

    
    Navy melee ship. It is also a troop transport, can carry up to 8 infantries.
  • Ironclad (T2)
    

    A rather modernized warship of Zolarg Empire. Slow, but has devastating ship cannons.

    
    Ranged melee ship.
  • Bumblebee Squad (T2)
    

    A flying group of winged Insectoids, with a duty to throw bombs onto enemy army, or sometimes aircrafts.

    
    The only Insectoid airforce unit.

Buildings

• UAV Control Tower (UE aircraft factory) (4 aircraft capacity)
• Experimental Tech Centre (Tier-3 tech building)
• Flak Pillbox (UE anti-air defense)
• Torpedo Platform (UE heavy naval defense)
• Plasma Cannon (UE heavy defense)
• Propaganda Centre (UE combat support/research building)
• Space Uplink (UE superweapon)
• LIS Command Lander (LIS command centre)
• Encampment (LIS barracks)
• LIS Ore Refinery
• Burner Generator (LIS power generator)
• Garage (LIS vehicle factory)
• Seaport (LIS naval yard)
• Black Market (LIS Tier-2 tech)
• Data Bank (LIS Tier-3 tech)
• Bunker (LIS basic land defense, garrisonable)
• Gunner turret (LIS basic anti-infantry anti-air defense)
• Hacker Camp (LIS combat support/research building)
• Airfield (LIS aircraft factory) (4 aircraft slots)
• Laser Tower (LIS heavy defense)
• Sea Sentry (LIS naval defense gun platform)
• Missile Silo (LIS superweapon)
• Depot (LIS silo)
• Microreactor (AD power generator)
• Central Command Hub (AD command centre)
• Drone Pad (AD barracks)
• Raw Material Teleporter (Refinery)
• Launcher Node (AD basic defense)
• Offshore Launcher Node (AD naval defense)
• Stargate (AD vehicle & aircraft factory)
• High Frequency Node (AD Tier-2 tech)
• Conquest Center (AD Tier-3 tech)
• Secret Operation Centre (AD combat support/research building)
• Stealth Field Generator (AD special defense)
• Ether Storm Generator (AD superweapon)
• Home Mound (ZE command centre)
• Forge (ZE refinery)
• Outpost Mound (ZE barracks & basic anti-infantry defense)
• Rangerbug Burrow (ZE anti-air defense)
• Stockpile (ZE silo)
• Landship Workshop (ZE vehicle factory)
• Drydocks (ZE naval yard)
• Command Post (ZE Tier-2 tech)
• Shrine of Destiny (ZE Tier-3 tech)
• War Academy (ZE combat support/research building)
• Temple of Doom (ZE superweapon)

hm, there is the transport rover already for the purpose of transporting rovers to different places. However it would be interesting for this to possibly be a new type of colonist transportation. This way you don’t have to build bridges and worry about them not traveling to different islands to work due to how far it is.

Electrogamer1943 said:hm, there is the transport rover already for the purpose of transporting rovers to different places. However it would be interesting for this to possibly be a new type of colonist transportation. This way you don’t have to build bridges and worry about them not traveling to different islands to work due to how far it is.

Yeah, I was also thinking maybe it could be an alternative to the rover in water worlds because they are much smaller so creating connected areas would be harder.

What about an amphibious ATV type of rover on the water world, that could drive on both land and water?

bastecklein said:What about an amphibious ATV type of rover on the water world, that could drive on both land and water?

That would be pretty sick