v • e Engineers Tech 1 Engineer                 Tech 2 Engineer                 Tech 3 Engineer                 Tech 1 Engineering Drone     Tech 2 Engineering Station         Tech 3 Engineering Station     Other

T1 T2 T3 Cybran T2 Engineering Station: The Hive f • s • e   Automatically repairs, reclaims, assists or captures any unit within its operational radius. Build Costs -2250 -450 900 Build Rate 15/s Max Health 500 Intel (Radius) Vision: 15 Cybran T2 Engineering Station: The Hive f • s • e   Automatically repairs, reclaims, assists or captures any unit within its operational radius. Build Costs -1600 -240 1200 Build Rate 30 or 25 in 3603/s Max Health 1250 Intel (Radius) Vision: 15 Cybran T2 Engineering Station: The Hive f • s • e   Automatically repairs, reclaims, assists or captures any unit within its operational radius. Build Costs -1600 -240 2400 Build Rate 45 or 35 in 3603/s Max Health 2750 Intel (Radius) Vision: 15

C-D2 "Rover-2" T2 Kennel T3 Kennel UEF T1 Engineering Drone: C-D2 "Rover-2" f • s • e Build Costs -500 or 2500 in 3603 -50 or 250 in 3603 150 or 750 in 3603 Build Rate 25 or 15 in 3603/s Max Health 6 Speed 4 (Air) Intel (Radius) Vision: 12 Weapon: Air Crash Death Damage Damage radius 10 1 UEF T2 Engineering Station: The Kennel f • s • e   Automatically repairs, reclaims, assists or captures any unit within its operational radius. Build Costs -2750 -550 1100 Build Rate 20/s Max Health 1000 Intel (Radius) Vision: 15 UEF T3 Engineering Station: The Kennel f • s • e   Automatically repairs, reclaims, assists or captures any unit within its operational radius. Build Costs -2500 -500 2000 Build Rate 20/s Max Health 3000 Intel (Radius) Vision: 15

There are two Tech 2 Engineering Stations in the game, the Cybran T2 Engineering Station, nicknamed The Hive and the UEF T2 Engineering Station, nicknamed The Kennel. While both are different in use, they both serve to "Get work done", as they both have very fast build speeds when compared to traditional engineers, especially after upgraded. When fully upgraded, The Hive is cheaper and has a faster build rate, but the Kennel's engineers (Rovers) can roam around, outside of their buildings' assist radius, making it a far more versatile building. The Rover's ability to roam around and reclaim or capture land units without fear of reprisal is considered an exploit by some.

Take care when building them near T3 Strategic Missile Launchers or T3 strategic missile defenses as they will often end up assisting them - usually to very little gain.

Factional DifferencesEdit

Unlike The Kennel, The Hive doesn't have any mobile mechanics that can be destroyed, resulting in having to waste your economy and time to rebuild them. The Hive also has two upgrades, as opposed to The Kennel, which has only one. On the other hand, The Kennel drone rebuild time and resources are quite low. Furthermore, if needed, The Kennel drones can work outside of their automatic operational range, albeit this can only be done manually. The Kennel drones can also perform other tasks while the original Kennel is upgrading, while The Hive cannot.

One disadvantage of the kennel is the fact that its drones fly and enemy asfs will target them. When the drones are under shields the asfs will attack the shields and take them out very quickly. This can leave vital structures open to attack from bombers or gunships. Players will usualy send a cloud of asfs first and then patrol them around the base to distract aa while bommbers do the damage on sniped or large scale air attacks, so these drones can actually help your enemy by giving them a way to take down the shields.