This is imperative as they will switch to building nothing but mobile aa very quickly if they are any good at all. Try to take out factories wherever possible to reduce their ability to build troops (and mobile aa). Bomb mass points by splitting your bombers up and luring their aa away with one group while bombing with the second. Be aggressive with your bombers and gunships and try and go for an early victory if you can. Building bombers in the mid-late game can still be useful, as they excel in precision strikes against critical targets, such as an ACU, a nuke defense, or a Space Temple, but at first you need enough gunships to hold off any land attacks.

Switch to gunships as soon as you have them unlocked. If you scout them and they are going land instead if air, build bombers and work towards gunships asap. If they start building more air again make sure to wipe it out before it grows large enough to threaten your air (though this is unlikely to be successful as long as you continue to dump all your research into your planes. If they have substantial aa, then delay your attack and switch to building just bombers and gunships. Once you have shot down all their planes, remember to spend your research points upgrading your bombs if possible and move in on the enemy air factories if they have minimal aa. If they are accumulating planes in their base, try to lure them out using a smaller number of planes near their base, and then when they come out to kill your planes, hit them with the larger blob of planes you have and have the dogfight away from their base. You should have the leg up as even if your enemy started building fighters earlier then you, it's unlikely that they will be able to keep up with your production for very long, with 4, 5, or even 6 factories spamming planes. It is imperative for this strategy to succeed that you never allow your enemy to have more fighters then you. If they are going land, build bombers or fighter/bombers, and as soon as possible, gunships. If they are building air, then have all of your air factories spam fighters or fighter/bombers.

Don't worry about losing the fighter, you just want to know what they are building. If you do this, you will only need to build 2 power plants, allowing you to use the extra 140 mass towards other structures like a mass point, as well as giving you the equivalent of 2-3 extra mass points.Īfter you have your initial base set up and as soon as you have a fighter, use the fighter you built to scout the enemy's base. Illuminate: If you are Illuminate, it is highly advised you start by putting ALL of your research into your commander resource upgrades before researching air upgrades.

Continue to build research centers and air factories as you can afford.

Continue to expand out to as many mass points as you can with your engineers while your commander starts building these factories. As soon as you have an air factory immediately begin by building a fighter.

Commander and engineers build power plants until you have 4.

Commander builds 2 mass points, each engineer builds 1 mass point.

You aren't going for an air rush so you need to get bombers out fast without sacrificing your economic startup, especially considering the high cost of planes. This means that while you are bombing their units, they can still be attacking your base or commander. Remember, even though early land attacks may lack significant anti-air, it also can take your bombers a while at first to kill land units (due to having few upgrades and low dps). Build order is very important when going for air superiority, as getting enough planes out early enough to be able to counter any early land attacks is essential to it's success.

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