The Vanguard is easily my most favorite faction in planetfall. + Many unit summons (from units and operations) + Excellent mid-range and long-range performance Finally, the Vanguard does struggle with status debuffs, since they have no reliable way to remove them apart from a small tactical operation that only affects a single unit. This means psionic damage can be quite annoying to the Vanguard if they boosted the armor on their units.
The Vanguard is also entirely relying on strong armor and has almost no shielded units. That makes the Syndicate and the Assembly a troublesome enemy on the battlefield, since they have a lot of arc damage. They are VERY reliant on machines after the early game, their only non-machine base units are the Trooper and the Engineer. Of course, the Vanguard does have it´s weaknesses too. The long-term bonus of the Vanguard which grants +1 rank on produced units furtherĮmphasizes the mass production capabilities of this faction, since you can build prime rank units with a level 5 innovation center. Since your units are quite good unmodded, you have quite powerful garrisons in your cities as the Vanguard. With this said, Vanguard units work perfectly fine if left unmodded, which allows you to go crazy with mass production late game - especially if you have a military innovation center or an engineering guild. No matter if you go for more firepower, special abilities or raw survivalbility: The racial and weapon technologies of the Vanguard will have your needs covered.
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Those mods are even more important for the Drone Carrier: Drones already deal a lot of damage unmodded - with mods you really unlock their true potential! Finally, slapping the final laser mod on your Assault Bikes allows them to have an AoE attack that has a chance to instantly kill low tier units.įrankly there really isn´t a single Vanguard unit that doesn´t have a good mod potential. The few units of the Vanguard that profit from the thermal weapons tree do so greatly, so don´t forget about it entirely! Laser Tanks are a versatile and sturdy tank so upgrading its weapons can go a long way. Especially the kinetic weapons tree is going to be pretty important, since literally all of your kinetic damage units can profit greatly from mods like "rail accelerators" and "fireburst ammunition". The damage channels of the Vanguard are kinetic and laser weapons, which allows for very effective modding of all your units. Apart from all the units you can build in your cities, you also have access to a ton of units you can summon with tactical operations or deploy with the help of other units.
You´ll quickly come to enjoy the plethora of different units the Vanguard has to offer you and most of their units are pretty straight forward to use. The Vanguards victory strategy is technological superiority and a ranged focused military. The Vanguard is also the closest thing you get for normal, civilized humans in Planetfall. The Vanguard were the expeditionary forces of the old Star Union and I like to think that they give you an idea of how the old Star Union used to look like. The Vanguard is likley the first faction you´ve made contact with in Planetfall, since it´s the Vanguard you play during the basic tutorial mission when starting up the campaign.
Want to read about the NPC and wildlife units as well? I´ve made a guide about them as well, you can find it here: With all that out of the way, let´s dive right into it! If you think I´ve overlooked something important, didn´t set the right focus or just have suggestions regarding tactics and mods make sure to say so in the comments below. I very much welcome constructive feedback and suggestions in the comments of this guide. One important thing: The stats of the guide are that of the base unit without ranks or mods. In there, I will take note of special abilities of that unit, will give a comment on how effective I think the unit is (in comparison with equivalent units of other factions) and sometimes I´ve also included some tactic advice in the description.
Here, you can find an overview of the stats of each unit (for example HP, armor rating and cost) as well as a description of the unit. Hello everyone! This is a guide about the units for each of Planetfalls different playable factions. (Update: April 26th 2021) New NPC guide has gone live!
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