Time for ranting! B) 8:50 I do not suggest to ring any T1 nor T2 radars. Why? - Bc they're at front aka. in a greater danger and they make a much more juicy target for random bombers which you're unlikely to stop if more things are going on. Just keep the PGs in the base 12:50 Not a huuuge fan of the template bc of one reason: Energy storages cost a shit ton of mass (250 mass per storage aka nearly 5 tanks). If you queue up these templates, you're most likely building storages when you do not even need them, so I'd recommend doing a PG only grid and add it manually once you need it. (Will you forget it from time to time? Yes. Do I forget it a lot of times? Yes. This point prob comes down to preference and the ranking we're talking about, it's just my PoV so always take it with a grain of salt) 20:15 Put the scout first, it's useful not only for scouting the base early but if you send it over a side you can spot either engis you can raid or other raid parties coming towards your own engis. I'd also recommend a lower ratio such as 4:1 (or even 3:1 early on if we're talking about larger maps) 22:00 There's an option so you do not have to do this anymore. If engis assist a mex, it automatically upgrades&pauses at the same time, so you can just support every mex you want with engis and it'll do its thing on its own 23:50 Infinite engis except on very small maps with barely reclaim* (e.g. Theta Passage) 28:50 was about to add this as it happened to myself way too often xd Other than that, great stuff! Thanks for putting this together!

Ah man thank you for this haha. My group of friends and I play every week and I've been stressing build orders to them to help them not get flattened out

Was just about to get back in to FAF and wondered if my old build orders were still good, then this pops up, nice.

hey man, the start was always my weakest and my friends would just jump out of the gates and so many games I lost just because I couldn't keep up, your vids have helped so much maybe I can start winning more consistently, tysm man!

Your "lost engineer" on the 1st air factory was actually assigned to the Com (6:00) and he hadn't made it there yet when you were blaming an engineer. Right at that moment, (7:00) the Com was working on the PGs next in the queue. LOL. Very good video. I'm about 5 hours in to the game and 20+ hours tutorial videos in, but this as helpful as any. Thanks. Subbed.

There reason or explanation why you want to make power generators 1rst is that 650 starting mass is a lot of mass, while 4000 starting power is not a lot of power and power will run out very quick if you don't make power generators early

Thank you! I know your niche is small, but you make really incredible content! It's so hard to find up to date FAF stuff/guides.

Great info as always!

Recommend mentioning to not queue up more than 5-10 orders on your initial engineers coming off the line--especially if they're building on the front line and without an escort. Just wasted clicks and wasted time queueing up orders if that unit gets destroyed early, which is likely.

Its the aeon t1 tank that shoots way further than its visual range. You want to mix in artillery with your tanks as those really benefit from recon and deal huge damage. However for scouting/early raids use the light attack bots or gamble on a bomber. Light attack bots are super fast for hitting extractors or engis. A bomber costs more power and needs a different build order.

When sending engis far out to build mexes, whats the least brain taxing method of defending them againt enemy tank+scout (or bomber) harassment? Or is it not worth the effort?

By misclick you send that engineer to support your second land factory ;-).

how do u have the hotkeys on the building icons?

how on earth did you quickly surround the radar with energy at 8:45?

I usually built one factory and one mass extractor before sending com, has the meta changed?

Priceless advices

Im stoned playing sc its like being in middle school again except ive got uber eats and no parents