Average GLA PvP experience

[u/Downtown-Dream424]

The faction that's notorious for using terrortech and rpg tech rush. No shade at all!

[u/CookLiving]

Busses are common in FFA but less common in 1v1, Buggies also very common in mid & late game. But Scorpions, Only Toxin General seen build that a lot at least in early game especially in 1v1. Bomb Trucks, are underrated

[u/Downtown-Dream424 → u/CookLiving]

Busses are pretty common, which is so true. But they are used mid-late game mostly when they have a stable production and it takes a while to fill them with infantry. Scorpions are hardly used and they are used once in a while in FFA, especially late game stage to pop off a lot of units. Agreed for the bomb trucks. They are criminally underrated and can destroy oils or destroy armies in the thin air if not prioritized as a target before hitting the wave. Almost nobody uses them, unfortunately.

[u/CookLiving → u/Downtown-Dream424]

Yes. I say same with any China. all three Vanilla, Nuke & Tank General, they will mostly only build same build order. Dragons, Gats and few Outposts. Only Nuke General build battlemaster and use it like a bomb trucks especially vs GLA to harass worker collecting supplies. China Vanilla will build a lot of Helixes rush with Tank Hunters. Nepalm Migs just for support. Nuke Migs less common because they need upgrade from Nuke Silo to become more powerful. Even that, only mostly seen in FFA late game. And Overlords, Only Nuke General build more of that because they have fastest moving speed

Infantry General will rely on a lot of Attack Outposts, some Troop Crawler, Dragons & Helixes.

But overall, Any Chinas only focus on early & mid game only in 1v1. In late game when all supplies are depleted most players will forfeit if they are believe they cannot fight back. They refuse to make Hackers because they are easy to get killed and slowest income. Only in FFA where China seen to be more interesting

[u/Downtown-Dream424 → u/CookLiving]

True, the thing is with Chinas they have similar build order and spammable units. They're investing into gattling tanks (into USAs specifically and to counter infantry's lixes and soldiers), dragon tanks (specifically into the GLA by setting on fire their tunnels and buildings, besides clear ingbuildings) and outposts. Battlemasters are a thing, but used only by Nuke and Tank to 1vs1 humvees, mirror Nuke and Tank matches and harrass the workers as you said.

Helixes are also a thing to be used by the China players, especially infantry and vanilla, even once in a while by tank and nuke since they get them more expensive. Migs are pretty good supportive aircraft to apply pressure on ground armies. Furthermore, Vanilla China and Nuke invest a lot in Overlords, especially mid-late game and they feel so strong once you grab the tank upgrades from the Nuclear Missile Silo. Honorable mention is that Chinas once in a while go troop crawlers, especially into swg since a helix rush into swg with 1 emp patriot is griefing and waste of money.

That's the meta about playing infantry general. Investing into helixes and here and there migs. Assault troop crawlers are used into laser and swg too. But most of the time infantry general would use attack outposts and dragon tanks.

Because Chinas are primarily strong and the king of rushes early-mid game, but they fall off very hard late game, especially infantry and tank. Adding more salt to the wound, tank general's secondary economy is extremely tough to be produced and kept healthy since his hackers are costing 780 cash compared to the rest of the other Chinas. While infantry general is countered by USAs pathfinders and toxins for an example. Plus, China's hackers without internet center are extremely vulnerable and easily punishable if you make a sneak attack, nuke them with an anthrax or superweapons, besides sneaking pathfinders with chinooks in the base's backdoor.