War Lab
Researches the tech tree: the doctrine you fight by, the units and abilities it unlocks, and economy upgrades. One per faction; what it learns is kept if it falls.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 1
- Cost
- 500 metal
- Build time
- 30 s
- Hit points
- 1200
- Armor
- Structure
- Vision
- 6 tiles
- Footprint
- 2×2 tiles
- Power
- −10
- Weapons
- Unarmed
- Built by
- Engineer
Engineer Boat
The War Lab researches the tech tree: the doctrine your faction fights by, the units and abilities it unlocks, and three economy upgrades any doctrine may take. Its first research is the choice of doctrine, Lightning, Hammer or Anvil, and that choice is for the whole match. The whole tree is on its own page: Tech tree and abilities.
How to use
Build it early. The doctrine is a minute-three decision, since its first bonus applies from the moment it is chosen and its first ability is a few hundred metal behind it. One per faction; it researches one node at a time from a queue of five, paid for as it goes, and a power shortage slows it like any other work. Losing it costs the node in progress and nothing that is already researched, so it does not need a wall of its own, but a base that loses it cannot finish its column until it builds another.
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