Total Annihilation/Tactics and strategies: Difference between revisions

Early in the game the player should seek out metal located on the map and build metal extractors in these locations. Locations close by should be built using either construction vehicles or kbots while locations further away should be built using construction aircraft.

Once the battle has escalated into a longer game (i.e. rush-period is over) on a normal map, the main way of gaining resources is by using Fusion Reactors and Moho Metal Makers to convert excess energy into metal, this technique is highly superior at this stage in the game. Normal metal extractors simply produce too little metal and have to be scattered across the map in order to function in the first place - making them difficult to protect. Moho metal extractors produce more metal, but suffer from the same (the latter) problem as the normal metal extractors. The player should however not limit the metal production to merely metal makers, a combination of the two can be utilitzed to some degree.

On pure metal maps, e.g. "Seven Islands" metal extractors (either normal or moho) is the technique of choice as they can be built anywhere and still extract maximum metal, thus making them able to be grouped tightly together so they become more easy to build and protect.