Engineer
Constructs and repairs buildings. The backbone of any base.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 1
- Cost
- 90 metal
- Build time
- 8 s
- Hit points
- 200
- Armor
- Light
- Speed
- 2.2 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 1
- Vision
- 7 tiles
- Build rate
- 30 HP/s
- Weapons
- Unarmed
Production and tech
Counters
Overview
The Engineer is the only unit that can construct buildings, and the Headquarters is the only place that makes it. Everything you own on the map started as an Engineer driving to a site.
How to use
Keep at least two working from the first minute: one claiming metal deposits, one adding power and a factory. Queue several build sites with Shift so an engineer moves down the list on its own. Engineers also repair damaged buildings and units, so park one behind a turret line. It is unarmed and thin-skinned; escort it whenever it leaves the base.
Counters
Anything with a gun kills it, and a Recon Buggy raid on your engineers is the classic early harassment. Its own answer is to stay out of sight and let turrets and tanks do the fighting.