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
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.
Anecdotes
The US Army's engineers have carried the motto Essayons — “let us try” — since the 1800s. It is the right motto for the only unit on the field that builds everything and can defend none of it.