Mech Armada Beginner’s General Tips and Guide

Just some subjective observations about the game. This guide was written in June 2022, just after release, so gameplay will likely change in later patches.

Ресурсы

Mech Armada has three resources: Энергия, Credits and Meta Energy. Energy and Credits are for purchasing mech parts and research, соответственно. Meta-Energy allows you to purchase upgrades for your next run. Only Energy and Meta Energy are available for pick-up during battles.

Энергия is arguably the most important of the three resources. I generally find it best to prioritize energy ahead of the other two.

• Energy can be collected from points on the map during a battle. You collect three per turn, and also earn a bonus at the end of the battle if you have a mech on the collection point.
• Во время боя, it’s important to prioritize gathering as much energy as possible. If you need to prolong a battle to do so, it’s often worth it. There will be a few tips in the mechs section relating to gathering energy.
• It’s generally best to save energy to build new mechs, rather than transforming ones that have damage on them in the early game. Once you have healing items or buffs, it’s generally better to try to keep the mechs you already have.

Кредиты are used for upgrades and engineering.

• The cost of engineering increases with every item generated. I recommend using this sparingly, roll each torso/transport/weapon once, possibly twice if you need something. You can generally find items as you progress through the game.
• Upgrading is crucial. В частности, torso upgrades are often very useful. You will need to upgrade your weapons in order to keep up damage-wise for late game, but upgrading them too early may be wasteful (since you won’t need the damage)
• Once you’ve gathered enough Meta-Energy, you will be able to select which items to start with on your runs. This is a good idea to do as soon as possible as it cuts down on rolling engineering.

Meta Energy is used for increasing attributes that affect all runs.

• Generally one meta energy will drop per game. It’s generally a good idea to gather this as soon as it is safe to do so, as an enemy moving over it will remove it.
• See the later section for how to spend meta energy. Как правило, increasing your energy generation and starting energy is a good thing to buff first.

Mech Builds

В этом разделе, we’ll go over some mech builds that may be useful to you. Be sure to experiment with this, as it is one of the most rewarding part of the game.

Early Game Generalist – 8🔋

• Транспорт: Mini Tracks, Mini Walker
• Тело: Tuple, Двойной, or Basic if you haven’t unlocked those.
• Оружие: Double Double x 2

A cheap option that will be a strong staple for the whole run. Will cost around 8 Энергия.

The Double Double, в данный момент, is the best energy-to-damage weapon in the game. As you upgrade it, it stays very relevant. Packing two of them onto a single mech will provide plenty of reliable power for cheap.

Cheap Mech for Spawning – 2🔋

• Транспорт: Mini Tracks
• Тело: Базовый
• Оружие: Пулемет

I always keep this in my mechs list. It has two main uses: To spawn onto a gathering point to just sit and gather, or to drop in front of a more expensive mech to soak up damage. В чрезвычайной ситуации, you can afford to drop this onto a gathering point even if it will die next turn, as it will still generate one energy. I usually like to keep one mech slot open in case I need to drop one of these as a blocker to save a more expensive mech.

Resource Grabber – 5🔋

• Транспорт: Roller
• Тело: Базовый
• Оружие: Пулемет

The Roller is a weird transport. You can’t shoot after you’ve moved, meaning that you’ll need to choose one or the other. The one use I’ve found for it is that it’s _really fast_, while being relatively cheap.

Sniper Turret – 13🔋

• Транспорт: румянец
• Тело: Рейнджер
• Оружие: Снайпер

The turret surprised me. It can move, and quite usefully it will fly over tiles. This mech build will need a couple of upgrades to reach it’s potential, однако. Upgrading Ranger will give you a second weapon slot, which will be hugely beneficial. Upgrading turret will increase it’s movement ability. The turret is decent for standing on points, but can be annoying to position if you don’t have it upgraded. I usually do Turret level 3, Ranger level 2 and Sniper level 3.

Damage Turret – 20+🔋

• Транспорт: румянец
• Тело: Maximus
• Оружие: Anything you find that will deal damage. Gatling/Minigun is good, Mini Missiles too.

I use this turret to make use of a weapon that I don’t want to prioritize upgrading, as the Maximus body gives +1 Уровень. Often I will find myself transforming this mech quite a bit.

Build Tips

В этом разделе, I’ll go over some building tips that I’ve noticed. One general thing I’ve noticed about Mech Armada is that builds I expected to be good weren’t always good, while builds I didn’t expect to be good were.

Общий

• Мобильность is king. Avoiding damage, grabbing objectives, etc is crucial to winning.
• Броня doesn’t seem to be particularly useful at the moment in general. It is very costly, and only subtracts from the total damage taken.

Транспорт

• румянец as noted in the mech builds section, is surprisingly good. It can move! I find that I actually am using this more than other transports.
• Tracks/Mini Tracks tend to be inexpensive, however they lose a lot of speed when not on a road. Имейте это в виду.
• Walkers tend to have lower health than tracks at the same price point, however the ability to walk on rubble will be important for gathering meta-energy. I generally keep one mech on my team with a walker transport of some sort.
• Jets tend to be very low health, and I find that they don’t move as quickly as I had expected them to. I tend to avoid these.
• Trike/Buggy higher cost than tracks with similar drawbacks. I haven’t found a niche for these yet and tend to avoid them.

Тело

• Базовый тела (Базовый, Tuple and Triple) are extremely energy effective. Basic I almost exclusively use for mechs that need to be cheap and expendable. Tuple is a go to, cheapest way to get two weapon slots. Triple is better late game, as you can add unused weapons to the third slot.

• Aura Effects (Бустер, Орлиный глаз, и т. д.) don’t appear to be very good at the moment. Positioning is very difficult in Mech Armada, and it’s unlikely that you will be giving the buff to more than one mech after the first turn. These also tend to be very costly. One exception is the mechanic, which can pair nicely with a roller for a fast moving healer.
• Most of the specialized bodies don’t seem worth it, cost-wise. A few notable exceptions are listed.
• Missile Head is a triple with a free mini-missile that doesn’t take up a slot.
• Рейнджер при обновлении, has two weapon slots and buffs range. This is very useful in almost any situation.
• Maximus upgrades your weapons for free.

Оружие

• Double Double appears to be the best energy-to-damage in the game.
• Mini Missile is a close second.
• Mine Launcher is surprisingly effective, as it will stop an enemy’s movement if it does half of their health in damage. The enemies are fairly easy to predict in this game, so this is a must-take in most situations.
• Снайпер is fantastic damage, and will deal with armor that an unupgraded double-double cannot deal with.
• Gatling Gun/Minigun are expensive, but can be fantastic later on in the game. I prefer the double-double early game, as you generally don’t need the single target damage output that these have until the second map.
• Air Strike doesn’t feel much more effective than the sniper, with the added drawback that you have to wait a turn for it to go off. It can be useful against bosses, однако, or on mechs that have the ability to move after shooting.
• Missile Pod (and other proximity based weapons) don’t do it for me. It’s hard to predict when enemies will cluster, and generally if you’re close enough to a cluster of enemies to use this, you are likely in trouble already.
• Пушка (and other debuff weapons) don’t feel worth it. Favor damage output over effects.