What research to take and what to pass up?

[Panfilo]

The campaign tech tree is huge and since I know you can't unlock everything, what would you recommend a new player take?

[Vambran]

Hunting and fishing you can skip. Even if you don't have farms yet they just are not worth it. And once you have farms you will never build more then 4-5 of them per game.

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I got farm, ballista, Lucifer

[scoorh]

if you want any horde mission to be trivial go straight into :
- experts workshop
- advanced construction
- advanced machinery
- mechanical engineering

next i went into these to speed up map clearing with soldiers and population maxing
- assault rifle
- cereal farming
- chemistry

next , these to ease up clearing large final waves
- concrete
- logistics
- mechanized storage (need this to build warehouse that increases gold capacity, executor turret tech cost 3k to research)
- radar
- combat artillery

next i went into these to boost soldiers even more
- high technology
- advanced ammunition


i'm at 42% nightmare and got 820 points to spend , not sure on what :o
* i guess i might go next
- commerce
- currency
- optics
- advanced lenses
- telescopic sight

some say that 'iron transportation' is nice to have as iron tends to be blocked even more on later maps

[Crukih]

Soldiers, lucifers, warehouses, concrete walls, shocking towers then upgrades. As much as I like snipers it’s more efficient to tech into supping up soldiers as they will be the mainstay of your forced