~Glory to the Evolved Intelligence! Combined army overview and tactica~

I thought it would help all the new players by doing a series of tactics and overview threads to help ya pick your first (or seventeenth) army!

THE COMBINED ARMY: HUNT FOR TRANSCENDANCE

The combined army is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a combination of multiple races working together for a single goal. The Combined are the principle villains of the Infinity universe. They are in the process of invading the human sphere for a number of years, the frontlines being the world of Paradiso. The combined have been bottlednecked to a single wormhole gate, which has forced the EI to only invade with a small scouting section of its massive armada (which is why humanity isnt space-paste).

The EI (evolved intelligence) is a supremely ancient alien artificial intelligence. It has searched for millions of years for art of transcendance; to become a god, basically, to leave this mortal plane behind. Sadly for the universe at large, the EI is a flawed creation, unable to transcend because of the mortal implications of its creation by the Ur Rationalists. It has continued its fruitless search for transcendance ever since, and has its sights dead set at humanity's ALEPH, a possible clue to its elevation!

There are 5 major races in the combined army (that you can use) and many more slave races:

1. Shasvastii continuum: A race of dogged survivors, the shasvastii have engineered themselves to survive any catastrophe. All shas are bisexual, and can reproduce with ease. A amphibean-like race, they excel in wetwork and infiltration missions.



2. Morat Supremacy: Big, hairy, red faced simian Klingons! The Morat are actually around the same technical level as humanity, but make up for it in badassery and muscles. Huge, bash your face in, armor and balls style.



3. Ur Rationalists: this is actually a dead race that created the Evolved Intelligence, the thing that rules the combined empire. UR units refer to the EI platforms and bots the EI uses to take part in its empire and in battles. These are a lot of light tags, lots of super high tech shizz (plasma rifles) dirty AI tricks (sepsitor, a nano-virus that can take over minds) and disgusting power (the Avatar, the UR's most powerful construct. Think massive Geth constructs from Mass Effect).



4. Exrah Concordat: Space bug merchants. The exrah love wealth and trade, and jumped on the EI bandwagon for all the free trade opportunities! Not a whole lot of units, but all have flight or jump of some kind. Mostly glass cannon units!



5. The Hungries: the xenomorphs from Aliens mixed with Hormagaunts. Fast, retarded dumb, and insanely dangerous in numbers. I love these little idiot hunting beasts.



Next, Unit Breakdowns!

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