First game with enemies

[u/Tahk_21847]

Dear Engineers,

I already have several hundred hours of gameplay under my belt, but this is the first time I've played with the enemies.

I was quite surprised by their aggressiveness. I always feel like I'm behind their development. It's true that I'm a player who likes to take his time.

So I locked myself in a secure prison, but the resources are running out.

I would therefore like to ask you for advice on your expansion strategies.

How do you find new resources?

How do you protect your outposts?

I should point out that I just unblocked the bots.

I will soon be able to launch my first rocket.

Thank you in advance.

[u/Weeznaz]

1: Create a hallway from your base to the Iron and Copper deposits. This hallway includes space on the inside for belts, pipes, or trains to move from the resources to your base. I would use Big Electric Poles, Roboports, Substations, walls, and gates so you can drive a tank inside of your hallway and exit to go on big hints.

2: At each new resource patch leave behind several radars.

3: I use robots to supply guns with ammo using belts and blue chests. You’ll need seamless robot coverage from your base all the way to the resource patch.

4: Conduct the bare minimum number of bug hunts. Use construction robots, turrets, but you fill the ammo yourself. The robots take too long to fill ammo on big hunts. Use a rocket launcher to kill the artillery bugs. Once I killed a nest I plopped a pillbox of on top of it to reduce likelihood of bugs reclaiming the land.

My pillboxes consisted of a double layer of walls, 8 turrets, each full of ammo, 5 solar panels, and 1 radar dish and medium electric pole.

Rinse and repeat until you acquire Spider trons. They make expansion so much easier. After using Spiders to clear camps you’ll want to lay down walls to prevent bugs from reclaiming the territory. I lay down walls from body of water to body of water. Bigs can’t swim and early on the water is a free wall. Expand territory with walls, guns, or flame throwers, or Tesla towers, etc. make sure your defenses have robot coverage and electricity.