Know what to build, what to capture and what to keep away from danger. All faction units and independent camp allies, one role at a time.
A living worker that harvests minerals, grows structures and repairs damaged buildings.
Ground unitUnarmed
Keep mineral deliveries moving. A Cultivator merges into a growing structure and returns when it completes or is cancelled.
Unarmed and lightly protected. Destroying a growing building also kills its embedded Cultivator; repairs cost minerals.
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A heavily plated organism that holds the frontline with short-range mandible attacks.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Shield your Spitters and support organisms while closing the distance to a vulnerable enemy.
Short reach makes it vulnerable to ranged pressure. Armor specialists can cut through its shell.
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A fast, lightly armored predator with anti-light claws that can mark the scent of one visible enemy.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Scout routes, pursue exposed workers and provide vision for your slower fighting organisms.
Needs to get close to attack. Armor, concentrated fire and defended entrances punish it.
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A ranged acid specialist whose projectiles corrode armor and inflict limited damage over time.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Keep it behind Ridgebacks and focus its acid projectiles on expensive armored enemies.
Its light body needs protection. Fast attackers can close the gap, and it cannot target aircraft.
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A living siege organism that roots in place to create persistent spore fields after marked, delayed impacts.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Bring forward vision and a protective screen when breaking a defended ground position.
Requires deployment and Specialized Production. Enemies can leave the marked impact or rush inside its minimum range.
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A support organism that restores nearby friendly ground creatures after both leave combat.
Ground unitUnarmed
Withdraw with a Mender and recover inside living territory, where its recovery is stronger.
An attack or damage interrupts recovery. It cannot heal aircraft or save a unit under focused fire.
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An unarmed spore organism that creates a temporary field slowing enemy ground movement.
Ground unitUnarmed
Help your short-range frontline make contact or make it harder to leave a Sporecaster impact.
The mist deals no damage. Enemies can leave the field, spread out or cleanse it.
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A living ground transport that slowly restores the health of passengers in its four-slot brood pouch.
Ground unitUnarmed
Evacuate survivors along a protected route. Each passenger recovers 6 HP/s, or a base 9 HP/s in connected living territory.
Heavy units use more slots. Slower than the Colonist transport; destruction kills its passengers. Unloading needs clear ground and stationary preparation.
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A specialist that prepares a short local transfer of nearby ground allies within living territory.
Ground unitUnarmed
Spend 25 minerals and two seconds of preparation to reposition a small group for an assault or retreat.
Both ends must be in your active living area, with free landing space. Four cargo slots limit the group; it creates no permanent tunnel mouths.
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A combat organism that briefly holds a visible enemy ground unit in place with its tentacles.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Hold an enemy inside acid or spores while the rest of the brood attacks.
The target can still fight. Moving, damage to the Grappler, lost vision or cleansing interrupts the hold.
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An unarmed specialist that infects one combat unit, revealing it and weakening direct weapon damage by 30% for eight seconds.
Ground unitUnarmed
Weaken a dangerous damage dealer while the infection adds limited damage over time.
Cannot target workers. Cleansing removes the infection and weakness; it does not spread or stack, and already-fired ammunition keeps its damage.
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A support organism that transfers 16 of its own HP per second to one wounded ally within range.
Ground unitUnarmed
Keep a healthy Symbiont near a valuable survivor to transfer health during a maintained channel.
Creates no new health and stops at one HP. Movement, damage to the donor or a broken connection interrupts the transfer.
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A swift flying organism that intercepts hostile aircraft with biological darts.
Air unitAttacks: Air only
Escort Blightwings and protect your army from enemy air raids.
Attacks air only. Ground anti-air and anti-air towers can engage it without taking return fire.
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An armored flying organism that attacks ground targets with concentrated spore fire.
Air unitAttacks: Ground only
Fly over terrain and buildings to threaten exposed armor from another approach.
Cannot attack aircraft. Escort it with Stingers and avoid mobile or stationary anti-air.
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A ground organism that launches long-range spines at aircraft, available without advanced research.
Ground unitAttacks: Air only
Add air defense to your army directly from the War Hatchery while your air branch is still locked.
Targets aircraft only. Keep ground attackers away with Ridgebacks and other fighting organisms.
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A fragile bombardier that launches three delayed acid blasts into clustered ground enemies while sheltered behind your brood.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Protect it with Ridgebacks and sustain pressure near your living network. Mistweavers help keep enemies inside the marked impacts; no siege deployment is required.
Enemies can move out of each marked blast. Low health, zero armor, slow movement and pauses during the salvo make a flank dangerous. Cannot attack aircraft and deals little damage to buildings.
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A living carrier that prepares up to three paid, temporary brood creatures in the living network.
Ground unitUnarmed
Prepare a brood inside connected living ground before pressuring nearby territory.
Preparation can be interrupted. Area attacks and pressure on the mother punish the brood investment.
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A biological fighter that transforms into a rooted firing form on living ground.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Prepare a defended firing position within the connected network.
Transformation takes time and can be interrupted. Rooting does not restore health and leaves it open to flanks.
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A paid, temporary creature prepared by a Brood Mother, outside ordinary production queues.
Ground unitAttacks: Ground only
Spend a prepared brood on a timed attack from living territory.
It reserves supply, expires and provides no recyclable value. Grouped creatures are vulnerable to area damage.
Full dossierCamp allies are independent, temporary and autonomous: capture their camp instead of training them. Aircraft and camp allies cannot capture control points. Weapon target layers determine which units can attack aircraft.
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