SplinterFaction's ground rosters follow a consistent shape at each tech tier, which makes them easy to learn: a raider, a main battle tank, and an artillery piece — with the artillery frequently doubling as anti-air. A mixed army beats a pure army. Any single unit type has an answer.
| Role | Job | Federation of Kala | Loz Alliance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scout | Fast, cheap, sees far, often unarmed. Information, not damage. Build them early and keep building them. | Gnat (air) | Flea, Gnat (air) |
| Raider | Fast, cheap, hits hard, dies fast. Gets behind the line to kill constructors, converters and supply depots. Never in a head-on fight. | A.K. | Diamondback |
| Main battle tank / assault | The backbone. Durable, solid damage, moderate cost. Most of your army. | Storm → Bear → Goliath | Roach → Reaper → Mammoth |
| Skirmisher | Fire, reposition, fire again rather than standing still and trading. At Tier 1 the main battle tanks fill this role themselves. | Storm | Roach, Flashpoint |
| Skirmish support | Stacks disruption so the units around it can kill. Don't field it alone; don't judge it by kill count. | Equalizer | — |
| Artillery | Long range, slow, devastating, helpless up close. Must be screened. | Thud, Avalanche | Scorpion, Luger, Emperor Scorpion |
| Anti-air | Dedicated AA generally cannot shoot ground. Some artillery doubles as AA — the Scorpion engages ground, air and naval alike. | Crasher, Phalanx | Pulverizer, Scorpion |
| Air | Interceptors kill only aircraft. Strike fighters handle both. Bombers hit ground hard and need escort. | Sparrow, Hawk, Crow, Falcon (nuclear) | Wasp, Hornet, Bumblebee, Locust |
| Transport | Gunships that carry units, not transports that happen to have a gun. Put an army where it cannot be expected. | Condor, Eagle | Dragonfly (unarmed), Crane, Titan |
| Naval | A full parallel roster from Sea Factories in deep water. On a water map, sea control is economy control. | Piranha, Crusader, Conqueror, Colossus, Harbinger | Snake, Enforcer, Executioner, Warlord, Leviathan |
| Support | The units that don't shoot but decide fights. Fragile, and worth more than the units they protect. | Deleter (area cloak) | Protector (area shield) |
| Defence structures | Light anti-ground stops raider swarms. Anti-air ladders from cheap to long-reaching. Heavy turrets punish anything that holds still. | Menlo, Stinger, Immolator, Javelin, Guardian | Jericho, Razor, Inferno, Rattlesnake, Annihilator, Earthquake Mine |
Six weapon systems simultaneously: a rapid-fire particle cannon, two heavy plasma cannons, twin guided cluster rocket launchers, and a vertically launched missile system. Committing a Juggernaut to a front is a statement that the front is about to cease to exist.
An Endbringer-class mobile target evaporator: a sustained heavy beam railgun, a rapid-fire secondary railgun, and a forward microwave beam. A convergence of firepower that most armies are simply not built to answer.
They can be killed. They take a lot of killing. If your opponent fields one and you have no answer prepared, the game is probably over — and if you field one, understand that you've committed a very large fraction of your economy to a single target that must not be caught alone or unsupported. Both factions' Tier 3 turrets — the Guardian and the Annihilator — exist specifically to answer MASSIVE-category targets like these.
Tanks in front, artillery behind, AA along, support tucked in the middle — that composition has no clean counter. There is no damage-type counter web to memorise; there is only what you brought.
In an enemy army, the constructors and artillery are worth ten times the assault units. Set Target on them before you arrive and let your army do the focus-firing for you.
Ground and air. That's the whole roster, and they share the Commander's build list. There is no advanced builder tier and no structure only the Commander can place — so never risk the Commander to build something.
Dead units drop parts worth a high percentage of their cost. After a large engagement the ground is a bank. Whoever holds the field afterwards collects it — put constructors on patrol and they'll do it hands-free.
