How to defend base?

[SpeV|BJHook]

Hi everyone!

This game is a lot of fun to me, yet I keep getting attacked, and I don't know how to defend. Any hints?

[JeanDeaux]

I like to place my generators in a room by the stairs and stack (up to 6) soldiers right by the doors to the generator room. The aliens seem to have to pass directly in front of the guards for them to take notice. Be sure your door opening to the generator is also 2 wide, a single wide door bugs to allow the aliens to merge into the wall and avoid being shot at the first generator.

[resonance]

For your main power concerns, build actual generator rooms far away from the gate. However, also put some level 1 decoy generators above and to the sides of the gate. This will make the squarbs split up when they come through. Then have your guards all at the the top corner near the gate waiting. As the squarbs move to the top to get the generators they will split up further as they p[ass more generators leaving only one or two that get close to your soldiers. You soldiers will pick them off easy one at a time after that.

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So to use this pic as a guide: blue single space areas are generators. green area is where i put the soldiers. bugs split up left and right when they exit and then the ones that go right split up again as the go up. soldiers only have to fight a small number and kill easy then pick off remaining one at a time. The double blue area is just hallway. You can put the gun racks there and a couple more soldiers when more advanced attacks happen.

[Black_Fox]

Get 2 high salary soldiers for the start and add up another 1 if necessary later on. Sending them on mining or ! missions to level up doesn't hurt either

Build your generator room as far away as possible from the gate, place your soldiers right infront of it and make sure to leave a walk way between each 6x2 generator block. That way your units can clear the room faster and less generators blow up

[[GWJ] Puce Moose]

I've had good luck with staggering the soldiers. I have my generator room as far away from the gate as possible (near the stairs), and the hallway from the gate to the generator room has four sets of two guard posts, with each group about six tiles apart from each other. This seems to result in a two soldiers on one bug situation, which is good for soldier survivability.

If you get to the point of making exosuits, putting some of your soldiers in exosuits (even light ones) seems to help them survive.

I also tend to keep several rows of "trash" (level 1) generators near the entrance, and sprinkled around the bigger generators, to lessen the chance a bug sets its sights on the more expensive generators.